Nutrition International (NI)
Finance Assistant – Kenya
The main role and responsibility of
this position is to provide support to finance officer in execution of Kenya
program.
Finance Assistant – Kenya
Location: Nairobi
Nutrition International (NI),
formerly the Micronutrient Initiative, is a Canadian-based international
non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the health and
nutrition of the world’s most vulnerable; especially women and children.
Nutrition International, Kenya, is adopting a Direct Funding Model for
implementation of the Right Start program in 10 counties namely; Kajiado,
Nandi, Nakuru, Vihiga, Busia, Muranga, Embu, Kiambu, Makueni and Kitui.
The Finance assistant will be
responsible for supporting in the financial and administrative management of
grants to counties.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
·
Provide effective support to Finance
officer overseeing budget execution and monitoring in line with NI policies and
procedures.
·
Ensure the accuracy of NI Kenya
projects and contracts information entered in the Contracts Database and that
all related milestones are kept up to date at all time by Program Officers.
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In liaison with the Finance officer,
assist in the preparation and review of program and operational budgets.
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Process payment request and travel
authorization forms for NI Kenya staff
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Support the Finance Officer in
preparation of mid-month and end month corporate financial reports
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Manage Kenya Office petty cash
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Process and make payments using Mpesa
Platform
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Effective cash flow management
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Other relevant duties as assigned
from time to time.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Education / Professional Designations
/ Experience:
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Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in
Commerce with at least three to five years of working experience in finance,
preferably in the development sector;
·
CPA II or equivalent professional
qualification preferred.
Language Skills: Proficiency in English and Swahili Language.
Travel Requirements: None
Other Specific Skill Requirements:
·
Interpersonal and people management
skills
·
Competent IT skills, i.e. Word, Excel
advanced, and Outlook, knowledge of Great Plains will be an advantage
·
Attention to detail
·
Ability to work under minimal
supervision
·
Ability to work under pressure
·
Multi-tasking ability with an
analytical and methodical approach.
·
High level of integrity, maturity and
professionalism
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Finance Officer – Africa
Location: Africa
Regional Office, Nairobi.
Nutrition
International (NI), formerly the Micronutrient Initiative, is a Canadian-based
international non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the
health and nutrition of the world’s most vulnerable; especially women and
children.
At
Nutrition International, we believe nutrition is the difference between what
could be and what never gets the chance. So, every day, we drive for better,
faster ways to deliver the nutrition interventions we know work to those who
need them most.
If
you are interested in being part of a team that is improving the lives of millions
around the world, please submit your application for the above position.
Reporting
to the Senior Finance Officer, the Finance Officer is responsible for
operational accounting for assigned Country Offices within NI Africa Region
including review of monthly financial reports, cash flow management, all
non-bank GP entries and operational payments.
Key Duties and responsibilities:
Budgets
·
Verification of contract budgets to
ensure that they are in line with the approved budgets.
·
Operational budget monitoring for
assigned countries
Accounts
and Program Payments
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Responsible for processing weekly
batch sheet and payments for assigned Country Offices
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Review and submit the mid-month and
month end financial reports of the country offices to
HQ
·
Checks account coding, verifies the
entry and signs off the voucher
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Verifies and processes all financial
reports including bank reconciliations, petty cash reconciliations received
from country offices
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Cash flow management and
replenishment processing for assigned countries
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Processes procurement and service
bills of suppliers, consultants and service providers.
·
Processes travel expense
reports/bills and other claims for the countries.
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Regularly scrutinizes the general
ledger for analysis and rectification etc.
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Reviews and updates the Fixed Asset
Registers for all countries within Africa Region.
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Reviews and provides travel MIS for
all countries within the Region.
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Review of annual financial statements
in preparation for statutory audits
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Any other specific task assigned by
the supervisor.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Education / Professional Designations / Experience:
·
Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in
Commerce with at least five years of working experience in finance, preferably
in the development sector;
·
Professional qualification in
accountancy(CPA 3 or ACCA)
Language Skills: Fluent
in English. Knowledge of other languages spoken in countries supported by
Nutrition International is an asset.
Travel Requirements: None
Other Specific Skill Requirements
·
Skills in financial management and
administration skills
·
Superior interpersonal and people
management skills
·
Competent IT skills, i.e. Word, Excel
advanced, and Outlook, knowledge of Great Plains will be an advantage
·
Attention to detail
·
Ability to work under minimal
supervision
·
Ability to work under pressure
·
Multi-tasking ability with an
analytical and methodical approach.
·
Highest integrity, maturity and
professionalism;
·
Integrity;
To
apply for this position please log into https://nutritionintl.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=89
Program Officer, Behavior Change Interventions – Kenya Office
Location: Nairobi
Background: Nutrition
International (NI), formerly the Micronutrient Initiative, is a Canadian-based
international non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the
health and nutrition of the world’s most vulnerable; especially women and
children.
Nutrition
International, Kenya, is adopting a Direct Funding Model for implementation of
the Right Start program in 10 counties namely; Kajiado, Nandi, Nakuru, Vihiga,
Busia, Muranga, Embu, Kiambu, Makueni and Kitui.
The
Behavior Change Interventions (BCI) Officer will be responsible for ensuring
timely implementation and prompt reporting of BCI related program activities at
county level. He/she will work closely with SPO to plan and implement BCI in
collaborating with counties and stakeholders at the community level.
Specifically,
the officer will ensure evidence-based BCI approaches are adopted in project
design and plans for all counties, coordinate implementation and monitoring of
the Right Start BCI Strategy.
She/he
will provide technical assistance and capacity building to local actors (health
manager, health workers and community service providers) in the counties to
implement activities in line with the BCI strategy. She/he will design/update
training tools and support training-of-trainers (TOT) to cascade training at
county level, establish cost effective partnerships with regional and community
mass media entities, information dissemination and community nutrition
education.
The
officer will also revise/reproduce BCI materials and disseminate to counties,
monitor coverage and document emerging communication/information needs from to
inform response planning.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical
Assistance and Capacity Building
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Provide technical leadership and
support to counties during project planning to ensure evidence based
comprehensive BCI approaches are incorporated in the overall program
·
Develop and implement a capacity
building plan to improve BCI skills of program personnel at county level
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Continuously review program strategic
approaches and make viable recommendations/cost-effective solutions on
community strategies, approaches and methods in the areas of participatory
engagement, social mobilization and behavior change and on appropriate
materials and media to reach target audiences
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Work with program teams to adopt the
Anzilisha social, behavior change communication (SBCC) strategy, materials and
tools to approaches related to interpersonal, small group, community
mobilization and mass media interventions to promote utilization of services
·
Provide effective coordination and
technical support to county government counterparts, NI county coordinators and
other partners in the counties and sub counties to implement and monitor
outcomes of BCI activities
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Together with government
counterparts, partners and program team, lead the identification, production
and/or adaptation of related job aids, or promotional materials related to
nutrition and health and ensure dissemination is done to appropriate service
delivery points
Monitoring,
Reporting and Documentation
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Monitor BCI program outputs and
ensure timely, accurate, and appropriate reporting of activities in the
monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports
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Participate in periodic NI
assessments by providing feedback from collected information on NI interests
that is not routinely collected using the Kenya Health Information System.
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Participate in preparation of
narrative reports for donor reporting as required, ensuring these are of high
quality and submitted for review in a timely manner. This will involve
compilation of information from MOH partners and county coordinators by working
closely with the SPOS and the
Monitoring
& Reporting team
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Promote, guide and support
documentation and dissemination of best practices among project teams and
partners. This includes preparation of presentations, briefs and articles for
presentations
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Participate in supervisory site
visits to counties as may be required, documenting the process, output and
action points for program improvement.
Coordination,
Partnership and Communication
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Represent NI in relevant internal and
external fora including national technical working group meetings Advocacy
fora, Social Mobilization and Communication team meetings at national and
county level (as appropriate)
·
Represent NI in partner meetings at
national and county level as delegated from time to time
·
Foster partnerships with other
stakeholders at county and national levels
·
Promote NI visibility in every forum.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Education / Professional Designations / Experience:
·
Master’s degree in one of the
following or related fields: public health, health communications, behavioral
sciences, health promotion, social sciences or community development with at
least 5 years of relevant experience
·
Knowledge on application of theories
of behavior change in programming
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A good understanding of evidence based
approaches in health communication
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Knowledge of current debates and
recommended approaches in health communication
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Extensive experience designing,
managing, and evaluating culturally-sensitive behavior change components of
public health and/or nutrition programs
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Experienced in training needs
assessment, learning module/curriculum development and facilitation skills
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Familiarity with the principles and
approaches in community mobilization and the application of information
technology in development programs and well versed with Kenya’s health system
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Experience in working in diverse
cultural background
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Experience in community entry
approaches and engagement, and implementing partners’ management coordination
skills
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Demonstrated success in planning,
facilitation, and management of events including stakeholder/audience
consultation workshops, materials/product pretesting activities, focus groups,
meetings, conferences, and program launches
Language Skills: Proficiency in English and Swahili Language
Travel Requirements: Official travel within Kenya and occasionally other
countries to be authorized when need arises.
Other Specific Skill Requirements:
·
Strong leadership and negotiating
skills
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Excellent communication, presentation
and reporting skills
·
Excellent interpersonal skills
·
Discretion
·
Integrity
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Program Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation – Kenya Office
Location: Nairobi
Background: Nutrition
International (NI), formerly the Micronutrient Initiative, is a Canadian-based
international non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the
health and nutrition of the world’s most vulnerable; especially women and
children.
Nutrition
International, Kenya, is adopting a Direct Funding Model for implementation of
the Right Start program in 10 counties namely; Kajiado, Nandi, Nakuru, Vihiga,
Busia, Muranga, Embu, Kiambu, Makueni and Kitui.
The
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will provide technical oversight and support
to counties in the development and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation
frameworks.
The
officer will ensure effective monitoring and evaluation concepts and tools are
included in program design and plans for counties, provide technical support to
implementation of quality data management systems, routine monitoring of
program outputs, and reporting of the Right Start and Child Survival
interventions in the 10 counties.
Specifically,
the officer will; design and Implement monitoring and evaluation tools, in line
with county level monitoring systems; oversee program information management;
conduct capacity development in M&E for responsible county officials and NI
Kenya staff; data quality assurance; reporting and documentation.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Design
and Implement Monitoring and Evaluation System
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With support from the Regional
Monitoring and reporting team, lead the development and implementation M&E
system for the Kenya Program, ensuring all the programs have detailed
monitoring plans, tools for data aggregation and analysis, quality data is
generated and reported in a timely manner.
·
Provide technical support to program
staff, and County officials in implementing the program M&E framework, as
well as utilization of data for program improvement
·
Liaise with county officials, County
Program Coordinators (CPCs) and Program Officers to collect and analyze data
and to determine progress achieved.
Program
Information Management
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Track Program output and outcome
level results on regular basis in close coordination with County/Sub County
Health and Records Information (C/SCHRIO) and program implementing team
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In liaison with CHRIO, follow up to
ensure constant availability of approved standardized tools by health
facilities in accordance with MOH guidelines
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Coordinate collection, collation and
verification of program activity data from the counties as stipulated in the
M&E plan
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Manage program data-books/database.
Capacity
Development in M&E
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Enhance capacities of County and
Sub-County teams as well as NI program staff including county coordinators on
M&E planning and implementation, reporting requirements, indictor
definition, and use of data tools through formal and on-job-training approaches
·
Strengthen the Capacity of CHMTs and
SCHMTs in ensuring generation of quality data through DHIS and other
supplementary data generation systems as stipulated in the monitoring plan and
facilitate utilization of the data for decision making
Quality
Assurance
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Ensure county reports are complete
and meet NI quality requirements
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Lead routine data quality assessments
(DQAs) in collaboration with CHRIOs and ensure development and implementation
of data quality improvement plans
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Prepare monitoring field visit plans
and conduct monitoring visits to the counties as and when required
Reporting
and Documentation
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Assist program team to prepare donor
reports by providing M&E related information
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Work closely with the program team to
ensure that lessons learned from program evaluations and assessments are
documented properly
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Contribute to development of relevant
of knowledge products
Representation
of NI
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Represent NI in relevant internal and
external fora including M&E TWGs and other stakeholder fora at national and
county level
·
Represent NI in partner meetings at
national and county level as delegated from time to time
·
Foster partnerships with other
stakeholders at county and national levels
·
Promote NI visibility in every forum
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Education / Professional Designations / Experience:
·
MS/MA/MPH in relevant field with 3-5
years’ experience or BS/BA in relevant field with 5-7 years’ experience in
monitoring and evaluation within health and development projects, preferably
RMNCH.
·
Excellent computing skills including
Microsoft Office Suite
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Specific proficiency in excel and
access
·
Knowledge of common statistical
software packages, health information technologies, software applications, as
well as web technologies including DHIS 2.
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Experience in quantitative and
qualitative data collection and analysis
·
Well versed with Kenya’s health
system
Language Skills: Proficiency in English and Swahili Language
Travel Requirements: Official travel within Kenya and occasionally other countries
to be authorized when need arises
Other Specific Skill Requirements:
·
Excellent report writing and oral
presentation skills
·
Demonstrable project management
skills
·
Proficiency in data management
·
Good interpersonal and team work
skills
·
Excellent communication,
interpersonal, writing and oral presentation skills
To
apply for this position please log into https://nutritionintl.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=91
Nutrition
International is committed to an inclusive, barrier-free work environment and
encourages applications from all qualified individuals.
Interested
candidates should submit their applications by 31st December, 2018.
We
thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those chosen to
participate in the interview process will be contacted.