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Job Summary

Job Title:
Cash Team Leader
Employer:
Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Location:
Kampala
Country:
Uganda
Contract Type:
Full-time
Job Category:
Number of Positions:
Deadline:
Wednesday, 18 March 2026

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The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a leading international humanitarian organization committed to supporting, protecting, and advocating for the rights and well-being of refugees, internally displaced persons, and vulnerable communities affected by conflict and displacement. With a mission to ensure a dignified life for all people forced to flee, DRC has earned global recognition for its comprehensive, rights-based approach and impact-driven programs in over 40 countries worldwide. The organization fosters a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven work culture that values resilience, innovation, and staff well-being, offering meaningful job opportunities, career growth, and flexible work arrangements tailored to humanitarian contexts. Founded in 1956 in Denmark, DRC has grown into one of the world’s foremost refugee-focused NGOs, evolving its operational capacity to respond rapidly to crises while also supporting long-term solutions for displacement. Its innovative business model combines emergency aid, protection services, livelihood programs, and policy advocacy, ensuring holistic and sustainable impact. Guided by core values of humanity, inclusion, independence, neutrality, and accountability, DRC also prioritizes corporate social responsibility by championing ethical partnerships, environmental sustainability, and local community empowerment. For more information, visit www.drc.ngo.

Full-time

Deadline: 

18 Mar 2026

Cash Team Leader Job at Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

Job Description

DRC Uganda is currently looking for a highly qualified and motivated individual to join our dynamic team as a Cash Team Leader.

The overall purpose of the role: The Cash Team Leader will lead DRC’s field-based implementation teams and will be responsible for the effective delivery and day-to-day management of cash assistance activities within the area of operation. This role will ensure strong technical oversight of cash programming, adherence to established standards and operational proceedures, and the delivery of high-quality, accountable assistance. He/she will ensure that activities are effectively planned, implemented, and adapted based on ongoing monitoring, learning and community feedback. He/she will also contribute to reporting processes, support the review and revision of project documentation, and actively engage in coordination with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure effective programme implementation.

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Supervision:

  • Overall responsibility for and technical supervision of field-based Cash and Voucher Assistance Officers, Referral Officers, and Shelter Assistants, while ensuring positive and collaborative working relationships in line with DRC’s Code of Conduct and assessing staff capacity to identify training or coaching needs.
  • Coordinate activities and lead field-level implementation of project tasks in line with contract objectives, ensuring the project achieves agreed targets while supporting annual planning and budgeting processes with full accountability to DRC and OCHA
  • Support the project manager to ensure that technical, financial, and operational activities, including reporting, are carried out according to OCHA and DRC’s policies and procedures.
  • Represent the OCHA project at the site level, including working groups, coordination fora with other agencies, and providing a direct link in communications between the respective field office and respective project teams.

Programme and Technical Oversight:

  • Provide technical oversight in the assigned field location, ensuring activities meet targets, are implemented on time, budgets are managed responsibly, and operations comply with core protection principles, best practices, and DRC and donor regulations.
  • Co-design, organize and facilitate cash and market-related assessments, price monitoring and post-distribution monitoring exercises.
  • Lead the assigned field team in undertaking targeting and verification exercises with regular coordination with key stakeholders including the Office of the Prime Minister, UNHCR and refugee committees.
  • Organize and facilitate cash transfers by ensuring all logistical arrangements are in place for cash recipients and the distributing financial service provider, coordinating with key stakeholders such as the Office of the Prime Minister, UNHCR, and WFP, and ensuring help desk and monitoring functions in place and responsive
  • Support monitoring, evaluation and learning exercises agreed upon by the DRC MEAL teams.
  • Collaborate with the Country Protection Manager to design and roll-out trainings targeting DRC cash staff.
  • Lead the development of and provide quality control of field-level inputs for internal and external reporting.

Support Services:

  • Coordinate with the Area Manager and relevant Support Services functions to support financial and operational management of the project according to OCHA and DRC standards for compliance.
  • Support the establishment of efficient and effective systems and procedures to monitor and demonstrate Value for Money.


Qualifications, Education and Competencies

See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 18th March 2026

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