Cash and Markets Project Manager Ukraine Dnipro

The Cash and Markets Project Manager is responsible for leading the implementation of NRC East Area Office cash intervention projects, ensuring alignment with NRC strategies and standards. The role includes project cycle management, capacity development, partnership management, and ensuring safe and equitable delivery of cash assistance to vulnerable households in Ukraine.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate, and oversee the implementation of cash programming and emergency response projects, ensuring activities, budgets, procurement, partnerships, and documentation are delivered in line with approved plans, donor requirements, and NRC strategies, policies and standards.
• Contribute to country, area, and sector strategies; identify new programming opportunities, partnerships, and synergies; support assessments and beneficiary analysis; and provide technical input into proposal and concept development processes.
• Ensure adherence to NRC policies, procedures, MEAL requirements, Safe and Inclusive Programming principles, PSEA standards, and data management protocols, while maintaining high-quality cash assistance delivery and targeting the most vulnerable populations.
• Build and maintain effective collaboration with local authorities, partners, coordination forums, cash working groups, and internal NRC departments to strengthen project implementation, advocacy efforts, and partner performance.
• Monitor project progress and budgets, provide timely reports and recommendations, manage project documentation, support staff recruitment and capacity development, and promote continuous learning, innovation, and technical excellence within cash and market programming.

Requirements

• Minimum three years’ experience in the field, including project development management, experience with Project Cycle Management, Risk Management, Staff Development, Partner Management and Grants and Budget management.
• Knowledge of cash programming and experience in implementing humanitarian cash transfers programme is strongly desirable.
• Experience of working in complex and volatile contexts with knowledge of the context in Ukraine.
• Experience in operational environment with a proven track record interfacing with multiple stakeholders (internal and external) and successful project completion.
• Strong budget development and budget tracking experience.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills, good command in English, both written and verbal, fluency in Ukrainian and/or Russian language is required.
• Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Ukraine; NRC is unable to provide work permits or visa sponsorships for this position.

Skills

• Project Cycle Management
• Risk Management
• Staff Development
• Partner Management
• Grants Management
• Budget Management
• Cash Programming
• Humanitarian Cash Transfer
• Operational Stakeholder Engagement
• Budget Development
• Financial Tracking
• Project Implementation
• Reporting Skills
• Ukrainian Context Knowledge
• English Communication Skills
• Ukrainian Language
• Russian Language

Languages

English, Ukrainian, Russian