Elements and Performance Criteria

RANGE STATEMENT

The Range Statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Add any essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts.


Relevant policies and procedures may relate to:
Cash transaction record keeping
General financial procedures
Corporate security requirements
Movement of cash


Development or humanitarian assistance context may include:
Regions where access to international financial networks or support services (such as telegraphic transfer through banks or companies such as Western Union) is limited or non-existent
Regions where threat of break-in, personal assault, and/or robbery is high
Countries where financial infrastructure, including banking, communication and transport, has been disrupted by destruction of physical infrastructure through natural disaster such as earthquake, flood or fire
Regions where financial infrastructure, including banking, communication and transport, has been disrupted by war, civil war, or rioting


Physical barriers may relate to:
Location of building
Location of cash room within building
Safes
Locked doors
Strong boxes


Non-physical barriers may relate to:
Restricting information about cash management to a minimum number of personnel


Concepts and principles of aid effectiveness and community development include:
Ownership, including:
using delivery processes that support partner countries to exercise effective leadership over their development policies and strategies
coordinating development actions
involving communities and local government in decision making, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
encouraging community's and local government's contribution to problem solving
Alignment, involving maintaining a comprehensive understanding of partner countries' national development strategies, institutions and procedures to guide program delivery
Harmonisation:
actively seeking to collaborate with other Official Development Assistance (ODA) partners to create added value and greater development effectiveness
Managing for results, including continuous improvement of systems to:
manage for development results
support evidence-based decision making
Mutual accountability, involving demonstration of:
full transparency and accountability for the use of development resources in program delivery


Facilitate safe transport may include:
Limiting the number of trusted personnel involved in transport of cash
Varying routines so cash is not transported on a pre-determined schedule
Using different modes of transportation of cash at different times
Use of 'code' words to refer to cash to mitigate ability of others to track movements
Not notifying drivers of travel in advance when transporting cash by road
Never transporting cash bags/boxes with keys
Ensuring contingency plans are in place which provide secure alternatives to ensure adequate cash is on hand


Cash transport may include:
Transport within a country or across political boundaries (including unofficial political boundaries as may exist during times of civil unrest, war or lawlessness)

EVIDENCE GUIDE

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the Performance Criteria, Required Skills and Knowledge, the Range Statement and the Assessment Guidelines for this Training Package.

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate this unit of competency:
The individual being assessed must provide evidence of specified essential knowledge as well as skills
The application of competency is to be assessed in the work context or realistically simulated work context
Consistency of performance should be demonstrated over the required range of situations relevant to the work context
The task of managing cash can be undertaken at a number of levels of complexity, depending on the amounts of cash to be handled, security issues and availability (or not) of local banking and financial infrastructure
Assessors unable to assess through observation in a development or humanitarian assistance work context should particularly ensure the validity of evidence and determine with care the level of complexity at which management was undertaken
Assessment must confirm a reasonable inference that competency is able not only to be satisfied under the particular circumstance, but is able to be transferred to other circumstances


Access and equity considerations:
All workers in development and humanitarian assistance should be aware of access, equity and human rights issues in their own area of work
All workers should develop their ability to work in a culturally diverse environment
In particular workers should be aware of cultural, historical and current issues facing the people and culture in which they are working
Assessors and trainers must take into account relevant access and equity issues relating to the culture in which they are working


Context of and specific resources for assessment:
This unit may be assessed independently, however holistic assessment practice with other related units of competency is encouraged
Assessment of essential underpinning knowledge, other than confirmatory questions, will usually be conducted in an off-site context
Assessment must comply with relevant regulatory requirements and/or standards
Resources required for assessment include access to:
workplace location or simulated workplace
specifications and work instructions
policy manuals and procedure manuals (international and local, including sector specific finance manuals)
relevant documents (such as duty statements, financial reports, cash and insurance records, transport plans)
relevant equipment (such as office equipment and communications equipment)
managers, co-workers and other finance personnel


Method of assessment:
Assessment needs to take into consideration the practical difficulties associated with attempting on-job assessment in the field
Assessment may be applied under project related conditions (real or simulated) and require evidence of process
Given the nature of this unit, assessment should be supported by supplementary evidence from a wide range of sources, preferably including evidence from one or more field situations