Vacancy: Finance Officer, Yetu Initiative
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Category: Banking & Financial Services
Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is a private, non-denominational, development agency
promoting creative solutions to problems that impede social development. AKF
(East Africa) seeks sustainable solutions to long-term problems of poverty,
hunger, literacy and health, with a special emphasis on the needs of rural
communities in coastal and other resource-poor areas. Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Category: Banking & Financial Services
AKF (EA) works in five sectors
including Health, Education, Early Childhood Development, Rural Development and
Civil Society enhancement. Over the last several years, AKF (EA)’s programmes
have evolved and expanded in response to government policies, beneficiary
demand and assessment of needs.
In order to optimise AKF (EA)’s
efficiency and effectiveness as a development actor in the region, it seeks to
support and improve innovations that create viable solutions to community
problems that impede development.
AKF(EA) is starting a 4-year project with USAID entitled the Yetu Initiative.
AKF(EA) is starting a 4-year project with USAID entitled the Yetu Initiative.
Yetu means “Our” in Kiswahili and the
Initiative will help Kenyans assert “These are our concerns and these are our
solutions”. Yetu will strengthen CSOs in community philanthropy, which occurs
when citizens mobilise their own resources to address their community’s needs
(whether these are very local communities or even the global community of
Kenyans).
Yetu will “build the capacity of
Kenyan CSOs to engage and catalyze citizen support for their missions” through
3 objectives:
- Build alliances between Kenyan businesses and
CSOs;
- Improve the capacity of Kenyan CSOs;
- Improve the cultural and technological
environment for community philanthropy.
AKF (EA) is seeking experienced
personnel for the following three positions which will be based in
Nairobi.
These positions will report to Senior
Management and form part of the core team.
Description
The Finance Manager will be responsible for ensuring the project meets AKF and donor requirements and will also lead the preparation of accurate, high quality and timely reporting.
The Finance Manager will be responsible for ensuring the project meets AKF and donor requirements and will also lead the preparation of accurate, high quality and timely reporting.
The incumbent will work closely with
various agencies.
Specifically, the Finance Manager
will:
- Review and ensure that all the Yetu grant
financial reports are prepared and submitted on timely basis, accurate and
in line with the USAID requirements.
- Generate financial analyses on a periodic
basis on the grant financial information that will provide management with
information for decision making and the public information on how monies
have been spent.
- Develop and maintain a USAID-compliant system
for tracking cash and in-kind cost-share contributions to the project
- Review funding requests/projections from Yetu
sub-grantees and manage the disbursement of the funds to the various
sub-grantees in consultation with the AKF(EA) Regional office.
- Conduct continuous trainings and offer ongoing
support and mentorship to the sub-grantee finance staff in order to build
capacity and systems for partner CSOs.
- Conduct audits and ongoing oversight of
partner spending to ensure donor compliance and effective use of funds
Qualifications
- Degree in Business and CPA(K)/ACCA and
preferably MBA
- Minimum 5 years of financial accounting and
administration experience in a busy organisation, preferably an
international development organisation
- Experience in grants management - working with
donor agencies and sub-grantees
- Proven detailed knowledge of USAID rules and
regulations is a requirement
- Excellent computer literacy especially in MS
Office suite. Knowledge of iScala will be a distinct advantage
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and train
others in management of financial and administration systems
- Must be innovative, organised, methodical with
good attention to detail, ability to work under pressure on multiple tasks
and deliver on deadline
- Must be diligent, committed individual with
high level of integrity and ability to work as a team
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal and
communications skills
- Audit experience a valuable asset
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to
apply online
Applications close on Wed,
17th Dec 2014