Cash Transfer Payments Specialist, P4

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 21 October 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00-Central European Time (Rome)

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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of extreme weather shocks. At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves. To learn more about WFP, visit our website: https://www.wfp.org and follow us on social media to keep up with our latest news: YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.

WHY JOIN WFP?

WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment. WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities. A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

We offer
an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

ABOUT CASH TRANSFER PAYMENTS SPECIALIST AT WFP

The position is based in Rome, Italy and reports to the Global Cash Coordinator. The role is to design and implement an adaptive and cost-efficient approach to financial products and services aligned to WFP's excellence in cash transfers and G2P service provision with a particular focus on cash assistance in emergencies and complex settings.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (within delegated authority)

• Lead WFP's external engagement with private and financial sector partners on cash assistance in emergencies, including FSPs, specialized IFI bodies such as IFC, regulators, central banks and other relevant partners.
• Lead the design of a healthy innovation portfolio for cash transfers in emergencies, that privileges innovation with high-probability operational benefits (such as cross-border payments that allow WFP to provide cash assistance to refugees and other migrants) but that also contains some learning intensive transformational longshots such as USDC Stablecoin and CBDCs, ensuring that senior management and leadership are well-versed in the potential benefits and risks of both.
• Represent WFP in external fora on fintech and payments and identify opportunities for improved cash delivery in emergencies and complex settings, with a strong focus on operational efficiency, assurance and inclusion.
• Support WFP’s external positioning on cash service provision in the interagency space (IASC, refugee and mixed settings) and with governments, helping articulate WFP’s strategic capability and value proposition.
• Act as a bridge between cash and IDM to ensure advances in IDM continue to form a strong foundation for WFP's excellence in cash transfers and cash service provision.
• Lead knowledge creation for WFP’s FSP and fintech portfolio, generating practical insights, benchmarks and guidance to inform WFP’s positioning on cash assistance with a particular focus on emergencies and complex settings.
• In contexts characterized by economic volatility and/or regulatory constraints, support Country Offices to engage with regulators, central banks and other relevant government authorities to identify and implement enabling conditions for cash assistance, covering financial regulation, Know Your Client (KYC) and Foreign Exchange (FX) and other economic considerations.
• Advise Country Offices on new or more cost-efficient and/or more inclusive payments products and services, and support them in negotiations with financial services providers as needed, with the express intent of improving service levels to the people WFP is assisting, and bringing the cost of those services down.
• Work with internal stakeholders to ensure that external engagement with private sector partners and financial sector partners is aligned with corporat