CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: Concern Universal
Country: Gambia
Closing date: 07 Jan 2015

*Location:*Fajara, The Gambia

Responsible to: Country Director, The Gambia/Senegal

Responsible for: Finance and Administration staff

The Role

The Finance and Administration Manager will provide high-quality financial management of all operations and be responsible for financial reporting to Concern Universal's donors and management. This includes ensuring accurate and timely cash management, supporting project staff to prepare and adhere to budgets, ensuring that financial practices meet required standards, and managing external and internal audit processes. In addition, core budget oversight and ensuring that the Country Programme achieves core cost recovery targets is an important aspect of the role.

Based in our main office in Fajara, the Gambia, the post-holder will manage the day-to-day operation of the office and remotely manage other field offices. This involves line managing all finance and support staff; overseeing the effective functioning of all assets; and ensuring that effective operating and governance systems and policies are in place and adhered to.

The role involves working closely with the Country Director to update policies and systems, evaluate and develop staff, conduct recruitment, devise strategic and fundraising plans and support all areas of decision-making.

About Concern Universal

Our vision is a world where justice, dignity and respect prevail for all. Working in partnership, Concern Universal challenges poverty and inequality by supporting practical actions that enable people to improve their lives and shape their own futures. Founded in 1976, we work in 9 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. By working directly with partners and communities to identify real opportunities for lasting and positive change, we facilitate projects that promote resilient livelihoods and better health and uphold rights.

We work in partnership with organisations that share our commitment to accountability and service within a community-based approach: in all our work we aim to maintain a cost-effective, professional and practical approach while also attaining high standards. Concern Universal is responsive to community needs. In each country we target the sectors where we can make the greatest difference. Distinctive country strategies, developed with the participation of partners, communities, and other key stakeholders, emerge from this.

In the Gambia & Senegal, Concern Universal works to promote sustainable livelihoods, particularly in rural areas. This is achieved through interlinked activities including: farmer training, low-cost irrigation technologies, development of market linkages, community and partner capacity building, and disaster risk reduction. This work is implemented in close collaboration with approximately 15 established local NGOs as well as business and government partners.

An impact report conducted by Concern Universal in 2012 identified that as a result of our livelihoods programmes in the Gambia since 2004, 13,000 households (and specifically led by women and youth members) took on horticulture production as a result of our interventions. An annual increase in income of US$2.4million (spread across the 13,000 households) can be attributed to the work of Concern Universal and our partners. As well as highlighting the significant successes of our work, the impact review also identified areas where we need to do better to secure sustainable livelihood improvements.

Concern Universal’s programme in The Gambia and Senegal is funded by multiple donors, including USAID, EU, Big Lottery Fund, Oxfam America and ECOWAS. The majority of the programme funding is project-related with limited untied core resources. It is therefore imperative that a continuous funding base is secured every year, while ensuring compliance with current project grant contracts.

For more information, please visit: www.concern-universal.org

How to apply:

Application Process

To apply for this position, candidates must submit a completed Application Form to olivia.sawyer@concern-universal.org**by 7 January 2015**.

Please visit www.concern-universal.org to download the Application Form. If you have difficulty accessing it, then contact us at the above e-mail address.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to initial telephone interviews. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the post mid-March 2015.