CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: Action Against Hunger-USA
Country: Uganda
Closing date: 20 Sep 2014

FINANCE COORDINATOR –UGANDA (NATIONAL POST)

Action Against Hunger (ACF) is an international humanitarian Non-profit Organization (INGO). For over thirty years it has been implementing Food Security and Livelihoods, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene activities in Uganda via bases in Lira, Otuke, Gulu, Amuru, Nwoya, Kaabong, Napak, Moroto, Adjumani and Kiryandongo Districts.

ACF seeks to hire highly skilled, competent, dynamic and motivated individuals to join their team in the position of Finance Coordinator.

The Finance Coordinator is responsible to ensure transparent and sound financial management and reporting of expenditure; compliance with donors and ACF accounting and financial procedures. The incumbent is specifically responsible for planning, implementing & following-up a sound and sustainable financial plan of the mission and providing support to the bases for sound general financial management inline the agreed framework/proposals & protocols and ACF Uganda strategic plan for 2014-2015. The Finance coordinator is a senior staff of ACF Uganda mission and directly reports to the Country Director and works in collaboration with the Project managers and the Heads of bases at field level, with the logistic coordinator, the technical coordinator and the assistant Country Director in Kampala and with the Financial controller at Headquarter level.

Responsibilities Include:

· Responsible to ensure that all expenses are relevant to the activities implemented and are according to existing allocate financial resources.

· Responsible to ensure the timely, precise and transparent monthly financial reporting to ACF Head Quarter.

· Responsible to ensure the timely, precise and transparent financial reporting to donors according to the periodicity, format and rules agreed in the contracts.

· Ensure that donors rules are always respected.

· Responsible for managing cash and bank accounts in the missions according to ACF, national and donors procedures

· In collaboration with the CD, the HQ financial controller and the coordinators, develop and follow-up a sound and sustainable financial plan of the mission; Responsible to ensure that the funding plan of the mission is constantly updated and reflects current projects and resources portfolio.

· Ensure that the mission is financially sustainable and runs according to reasonable financial visibility and with risk mitigation strategies.

· Ensure that the structures running costs of the mission, both at Kampala level and on the bases, are always sustainable and proportionate to the volume of activities of the projects.

· Provide support, guidance and control to the Head of Bases in all their tasks related to accounting and financial issues.

· Responsible to identify training needs of the Head of Bases in the area of finance and accounting and ensure that weakness are properly addressed through ad hoc training, coaching extra resources and assistance

Matching Indicators:

· Minimum Masters degree in business related course, or any related disciplinefrom a recognized university; professional qualification (ACCA, CPA) a MUST

· 5-10 years experience as a finance professional, with a sound knowledge of humanitarian field experience and accountability, and donor financial procedures (DFID, ECHO, USAID, UN Agencies in particular)

· Three years of relevant experience preferably as a member of a country management team with an International NGO

· Ability to communicate and perform within an international and a wide diversity of multicultural team

· Demonstrated ability to work in and mediate conflict a stressful environment, taking initiative& prioritizing multiple tasks with minimal supervision

· Knowledge of MS Office (high proficiency in Excel); knowledge of Saga accounting software and comfortable working with computers with minimal IT support

· Excellent Written & Spoken communication skills in English are a must; strong organizational, coaching & training skills, and is detail-oriented

· Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work both independently & cooperatively as a member of a team at all levels.

· Genuine interest in & commitment to the humanitarian principles of Action Against Hunger and Available to report immediately.

The successful candidate shall earn a gross monthly salary of UGX 4,550,000.Other benefits include; Life Insurance for employee, Medical insurance for the employee and a maximum of five legal dependants.

Application Procedure:

• Action Against Hunger, (ACF International) is an equal opportunity employer. All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply bysubmitting ONLY an application letter, adetailed CV (not more than 4 pages), a daytime telephone contract, names and contact details of three referees, + salary history. Please ensure electronic applications/attachments of not more than 2MB; larger files will be rejected.
• Copies of academic certificates/transcripts shall be required when shortlisted for interview stage.
• Address your applications to the HR Recruitments Committee, ACFatRecruitment.ug@acf-international.org mentioning Finance Coordinator– Kampala in the subject line.
• We do appreciate your interest in working with us, however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Consider your application unsuccessful in case you do not hear from us by 20^th October 2014.

Deadline: Sunday 20^th September, 2014 at 5:00pm

Qualified female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.

How to apply:

Please include cover letter.