Job Description

Job Title: Finance Specialist

Contract: 1-year, with possibility of extension

Reports to: Director of Program Quality and Impact

Indirect Report: Managers/Specialists of projects that include the cash transfer modality and Senior Cash Transfer Officer

Location: Lima, Perú

Travelling: In-country; occasional international travel, likely no more than once a year, to attend global or regional conferences or meetings.

Start date: As soon as possible

DevelopmentAid Recruitment Solutions (DRS) is looking for a Finance Specialist who will use his or her deep contextual knowledge, technical expertise, and relationship-building skills to provide a critical link between global, regional, and national technical work, strengthening technical offerings at the national level.

Job Purpose: The Finance Specialist will leverage deep contextual knowledge, technical expertise, and strong relationship-building skills to strengthen the organization's technical offerings at the national level. This role will serve as a critical link between global, regional, and national technical work, primarily focusing on cash and voucher assistance (CVA) to meet urgent economic needs in both emergency and development situations, with a special emphasis on child poverty reduction.

Key Areas of Focus:

• Integrate CVA to address economic vulnerabilities of children and vulnerable populations in alignment with food security, livelihoods, health, nutrition, and protection projects.
• Strengthen national social protection systems with a child-sensitive approach, ensuring comprehensive links with essential services such as education, health, early childhood development, and care services.
• Support the development of resilient livelihoods, particularly focusing on adolescent skills and competencies to ensure a successful transition to adulthood through economic empowerment.
• Ensure programming quality, demonstrate a positive impact on children, and expand the organization's leadership in addressing child poverty, particularly in climate and humanitarian crises.

Key Areas of Accountability:

Technical Leadership:

• Develop and integrate cash assistance or vouchers as tools to reduce economic vulnerabilities while incorporating child-centric, gender-sensitive, and rights-based approaches.
• Apply extensive knowledge of social protection policies to reduce child poverty, working closely with public actors and partners.
• Build capacity, mentor technical staff, and identify learning opportunities within the organization, fostering knowledge-sharing across the region.
• Ensure that global technical standards are adapted and contextualized to local needs, enhancing the impact of cash transfers and poverty reduction efforts.
• Support the development of innovative cash transfer programs, promoting sustainability through market systems strengthening and partnerships with governments and local actors.

Program Quality:

• Collaborate on the design of key strategic programs and ensure high-quality delivery, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Explore trends and innovations in cash programming and poverty reduction, particularly with a focus on gender, disability, and resilience.
• Support preparedness and response efforts during humanitarian emergencies, providing technical and in-country support as needed.
• Ensure that child rights are central to program design and implementation, emphasizing children's participation.

External Engagement:

• Collaborate with the business development team to build partnerships and engage with donors to strengthen cash, livelihoods, and poverty reduction programs.
• Actively participate in national and regional working groups, influencing poverty reduction policies and ensuring that children’s needs are addressed.

Coordination and Support:

• Work closely with program, operations, and support teams to ensure the effective development and implementation of projects.
• Provide guidance and feedback to staff managing humanitarian and development programs, enhancing capacity in cash transfers and poverty reduction.
• Foster a high-performance, accountable, and innovative organizational culture focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for children.

Requirements:

Education:

• University degree in Social Sciences, Development, Public Policy, Economics, or related fields.

Experience:

• More than 5 years of experience in fields related to cash transfer or cash assistance mechanisms.
• Hands-on field experience designing and implementing projects in various regions of Peru or similar geographic contexts.
• Experience with MEAL systems (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning), ensuring high-quality evaluations and reporting.
• Proven expertise in the full project management cycle, from proposal design and development to implementation and adaptation based on field insights.
• Experience with proposal development and an understanding of international cooperation and donor engagement.
• Demonstrated experience in training and capacity building, specifically in developing and conducting training for junior and mid-level staff.
• Experience working with USAID, BHA, and BPRM projects is desirable but not mandatory.
• Experience with human rights, poverty alleviation, and livelihoods, or child poverty, is preferred.

Skills:

• Fluency in written and spoken Spanish is a must, along with proficiency in English, especially for reading and writing.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders, including donors, partner organizations, and public institutions.
• Flexible and organized approach to managing a variable workload, with a strong results-oriented mindset.
• Ability to innovate and adapt global methodologies to the local context.
• Comfortable with making presentations to donors and providing high-quality monthly or quarterly reports on cash transfer projects.

HOW TO APPLY

Please provide an application including the following:

1. CV;
2. Your financial expectations in gross per annum (in PEN currency);
3. Availability.