Finance Intern
Contract duration: 6 months
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Starting Date: ASAP
Background on ACTED
ACTED
provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the
sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges
facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster
development and reduce vulnerability to disasters.
Our
interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and
development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global
and local, and adapted to each context.
Our 3,300
staff is committed in to responding to emergencies worldwide, to supporting
recovery and rehabilitation, towards sustainable development.
Our teams
in the field implement some 340 projects in 34 countries covering the following
sectors emergency relief, food security, access to health, education and
training, economic development, microfinance, advocacy, institutional support,
and regional dialogue, cultural promotion.
Based on
considerable experience addressing the needs and situations of vulnerable
communities, ACTED contributes to the international agenda towards reaching the
Millennium Development Goals, through a wide range of partnerships, innovative
initiatives, and campaigns.
Country Profile
Capital
Office : Nairobi
National
Staff : 28
Areas : 2
(Pokot, Middle Juba)
On-going
programmes : 6
Budget :
1.3 M
ACTED
launched its Kenya mission in January of 2008 with an emergency assistance program
for residents in Nairobi slums affected by the post election violence. Since
2009, Nairobi has been the home base of ACTED’s relief operation in Southern
Somalia aimed at supporting vulnerable famers affected by recurrent droughts.
In 2010,
ACTED’s mission in Kenya/Somalia sought to address the needs of pastoralist and
farmer communities of North Central Kenya and South Somalia arising from
multiple shocks such as adverse climatic conditions and disease outbreaks,
through emergency food and non-food items distribution.
In the wake
of this emergency context, ACTED also promoted the adoption of sustainable
community-based solutions, emphasizing livelihood strengthening and
diversification, natural resource rehabilitation and management, good hygiene
practices and access to sanitation facilities.
ACTED is
developing its programs in South Somalia, focusing on building capacity to
respond to emergency outbreaks, as well as ensuring local populations are
integrated into longer term projects aiming at improving their livelihoods.
This will
occur in the form of food, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and livelihood
support to vulnerable agro-pastoral and riverine communities.
Today,
ACTED's teams and resources are mobilized on the front of dire needs in our
areas of intervention in Somalia and Kenya, as well as other areas in the Horn
of Africa.
III. Position Profile
The finance
intern works under the supervision of the Finance Officer and/or Country
Finance Manager
His/Her responsibilities will be has
followed:
- Control that operations respect existing financial procedures and manage accounting files for the Country Office;
- Analyze financial data and create management indicators ;
- Support Country Coordination through analysis of project running costs, follow-up on resource allocation, and finance training
Qualifications:
- Msc in Administration, Business Management or equivalent.
- Finance and accounting skills required
- Willingness to undertake serious responsibility and manage stress efficiently
- Excellent communication skills, including advanced written and oral English (or French for francophone countries)
Conditions:
- Field Intern benefits include: - 300 USD per month living allowance - Coverage of all accommodation, food, and travel costs, a luggage allowance of 50 kg - The provision of medical, repatriation, and life insurance.
How to apply:
Submission of applications:
Please
send, in English, your cover letter, CV, and three references to stages@acted.org
