- Finance Support Officer
- Programme Manager Health and Nutrition – Marsabit
Finance Support Officer
The Finance Support Officer is responsible for printing Payment Request Forms (PRF) requests for approval and payment from field offices, printing quotes, updating books of accounts in excel, Stamping. Additionally, excellent time management skills will be required to cope with the disparate duties.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Finance documents finalisation
- Printing quotes and sharing with requestors’ (logistics and procurement staff) as received via existing electronic means
- Printing Payment request Forms (PRF) from field locations for approvals and presentation to Treasury officer for payment
- Updating the books of accounts –bank books and Mpesa books in excel as per the standard descriptions available
- Stamping of the payment vouchers with the relevant stamps available including “POSTED”, “PAID” and ‘PAID from UNICEF’.
- Integrating payment vouchers paid via scans with the original documents once received and further filing them as required
- Compiling support documents for balance sheet reconciliations and accruals
- Assist with archiving of financial documents as per Concern’s archiving policy
Communication and Reports
- Communication in writing to the Treasury Officer regarding any challenges in meeting the above tasks
Other Duties
- Adhere to and promote the standards outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct and associated policies to their team, beneficiaries, and be committed to providing a safe working environment
- Participating and contributing towards Concern’s emergency response, as and when necessary
- Comply with Concern’s health, safety and security guidelines during emergencies
- Take all possible measure to meet Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS)
- Any other duties as assigned by the Line Manager
Minimum Education, Qualifications & Experience Required
- A degree in Commerce, Finance, Accounting or related field
- CPA or ACCA professional certification
- At least (2) years’ experience working in finance department
- Familiar with government policies and regulations on taxes
- Excellent application of excel and word packages
Preference will be given to candidates who have:
- Full profession qualification
- High integrity and demonstrated ability to follow standards and policies
- Ability to attend to details and work in a systematic and organized manner
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and values
- Strong communication and negotiations skills
- Team player and able to work with others (internally and externally)
- Analytical and problem solving
Competencies required:
- Managing self
- Communicating and working with others
- Delivering Results
- Planning and Decision Making
How to apply
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements, should send a detailed CV with three professional referees and Cover Letter Only to nairobi.hr@concern.net with the subject of the email as “Finance Support Officer- Nairobi’ on or before Tuesday, 15th October 2024. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
Programme Manager Health and Nutrition – Marsabit
The incumbent will provide technical leadership and support in the implementation of the Health and Nutrition programme in Marsabit County (excluding NAWIRI).
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Health and Nutrition programme management
- Provide organizational and technical guidance and lead MOH and local partners in the implementation of High Impact Nutrition Interventions (HINI) with a particular focus on MIYCN, IMAM Surge, BFCI, Family MUAC approach and other health and nutrition interventions at the facility and community level.
- Liaising closely with the county health management team (CHMT) and sub county health management Teams (SCHMT) to develop joint work plans and ensure MOH ownership and integration of the child wasting initiative programme into the existing health systems.
- Work closely with CHMT and SCHMT to oversee and review the implementation of county/sub-county work plans and activities.
- Support MOH to strengthen planning, implementation and review of health and nutrition interventions at the county and sub-county level.
- Work with stakeholders at the County and sub-county level to establish health and nutrition complementary interventions while actively promoting inter sectoral linkages and integration in line Concern Worldwide country strategic plan.
- Ensure programme quality by taking an active role in monitoring of programme interventions including contributing to the development of context specific M&E tools, using data for decision making, field monitoring and joint support supervision.
- Monitor the health and nutrition situation in the county including coordination of nutrition surveys, supporting surveillance and assessments as required.
- Contribute to the development and review of the prevention of health and Nutrition programme, research and advocacy strategies
- Work closely with the local partners in development and implementation of county level nutrition specific programme budgets, budget revisions, costed work plans, procurement plans, among other financial planning tools as required.
- Documentation of health and nutrition programme process and compilation of programme reports including generating lessons learnt and case studies.
- Writing monthly reports and briefs as well as quarterly reports.
- Contribute significantly to the development of high quality donor reports
- Represent Concern at the County and sub-county Health and Nutrition meetings/forum and support advocacy initiatives in line with health and nutrition programme strategy.
- Conduct field visits to monitor the delivery of quality intervention
- Monitor programme budget and partner grants and account for expenditure through timely financial reporting.
- Adhere to Concern M&E reporting system and result based management.
People Management
- Support direct reports development weekly and monthly work plans and support them in its implementation
- PDR development, review and monitoring for direct reports in line with PDR guidelines
- Conduct monthly virtual and/or physical catch up meetings with the direct reports
- Support the capacity development of direct reports
- Responsible for performance monitoring and management of direct reports
Other Duties
- Adhere to and promote the standards outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct and associated policies to their team, beneficiaries, and be committed to providing a safe working environment
- Participating and contributing towards Concern’s emergency response, as and when necessary
- Comply with Concern’s health, safety and security guidelines during emergencies
- Take all possible measure to meet Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS)
- Any other duties as assigned by the Line Manager
Person Specification
Minimum Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:
- Minimum of a Bachelor degree in Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, Health, Nursing or related field with KNDI professional certification.
- At least Four – Six (4-6) years’ experience in health and nutrition programme management in the delivery of High Impact Nutrition Interventions (HINI) and health services; with at least one (1) years’ experience in a supervisory or managerial role
- Experience working with and through local partners in ASAL contexts
- Experience and knowledge of MOH systems, particularly at County level and working with and through local partners
- Good understanding of cross cutting issues- gender, SBC, HIV and AIDS, DRR, etc. and how to integrate them into public health and nutrition programmes.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and report writing skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams.
- Demonstrable experience in managing donor budgets.
- Operational research experience
- Previous experience working in the ASAL counties with good understanding of the context.
Preference will be given to candidates who have:
- High integrity and demonstrated ability to follow standards and policies
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- Energy to work long hours when needed and be out in the field all day
- Ability to work under pressure
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and values
- Commitment to adhere to the standards of conduct outlined in the Code of Conduct and Associated Policies
- Fluent in both oral and written English and Kiswahili. Speaking local language of the Community is an added advantage
Competencies required:
- Planning and decision making
- Communicating and working with others
- Deliver results
- Creativity and innovation
Application Process
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements, should send a detailed CV with three professional referees and Cover Letter Only to nairobi.hr@concern.net with the subject of the email as “Programme Manager Health and Nutrition – Marsabit’ on or before Sunday, 20th October 2024. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
Programme Manager Health and Nutrition – Marsabit
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