Remote Technical Advisor - Cash & Markets

CRS; United States; Remote; USD 71,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a senior professional to advance Cash & Market Based Programming across country programs and partners. The role focuses on technical design, capacity building, and ensuring program quality in emergency food security and livelihoods, using donor guidelines and CRS standards.

The position supports capacity strengthening, field-based implementation, and cross-functional collaboration within the HRD team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in humanitarian assistance, social policy, economics or related field required.
• Minimum of five-eight years relevant work experience with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of two years relevant emergency response and field-based experience in cash and market-based programming.
• Experienced trainer in CVA Programming with knowledge of cash and market-based programming principles.
• Experience designing CVA Programs, MPCA or related cash programming for US Government funding.
• Experience in market assessments and response analysis for programming decisions.
• Experience with proposal development and donor engagement.

Responsibilities

• Support development and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in Cash and Market Based Programming.
• Provide technical solutions to CP teams for strategic planning and how to apply standards and M&E.
• Contribute to design of proposals and assist in preparing concepts and full proposals.
• Develop learning strategies and conduct trainings and coaching for staff and partners.
• Collect and analyze program data, share lessons learned and drive improvements.
• Maintain relationships with donors and partners and participate in relevant forums.

Skills

Relationship management

Strategic thinking

Analytical thinking

Technical writing

Presentation & training

Proactive & resourceful

Education

Bachelor's Degree in humanitarian assistance / related field

Tools

MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Data analytics

Power BI

Job description

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a senior professional to advance Cash & Market Based Programming across country programs and partners. The role focuses on technical design, capacity building, and ensuring program quality in emergency food security and livelihoods, using donor guidelines and CRS standards.

The position supports capacity strengthening, field-based implementation, and cross-functional collaboration within the HRD team.