United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Ebola Response Finance & Awards Lead | £42K

Organization: Accounting for International Development
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 08 Dec 2014

The Finance and Awards Lead will provide the primary financial and award management inputs in Ebola emergency response programme working closely with Ebola affected countries. The role has three main aspects to it: leading the emergencies finance and awards teams, including those in the country offices; provide the Response Team Leadership with finance and awards oversight; and capacity building finance/ awards and non-finance staff in their financial professional development.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Provide strategic finance and awards support to the Response Team Leader including update and management of the Funding Tracker, Master Budget development and monitoring, and advice on how to best to utilise a programme’s funding portfolio.

• Ensure that at all stages of the response the control framework of the operation is consistent with the situation and ensure that necessary risks are taken knowingly with appropriate mitigating actions.

• Provide a high standard of financial accounting management, ensuring compliance to local statutory law and donors regulations and consistent with accounting policies, procedures and tools.

• Ensure preparation of donor financial reports and proposal budgets.

• Ensure full cost recovery is achieved (through strategic financial management and proposal budget development)

• Ensure all donor requirements are complied with and reports are prepared on time with complete audit trial.

• Depending on the presence or not of a dedicated Awards Manager in the response take the lead on the donors coordination and in ensuring that key processes are in place to ensure that proposals, formats, eligibility, compliance, award management system, reporting, M&E and quality assurance receive optimum attention at the various stages of the life cycle of awards with a view of securing donor satisfaction.

• Recruit, train and manage finance and awards staff and/or work closely with existing finance and awards staff.

• Ensure that all new staff recruited into the response are adequately inducted in emergencies and financial systems, and donors’ compliance requirements consistent with their various roles.

• Ensure that commitment to improving quality and accountability in humanitarian work is upheld, through reference to the Sphere Project Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards, the NGO Code of Conduct, and other relevant tools.

• Strengthen the non-finance staff knowledge and capacity to manage finance and awards by providing, induction, training and coaching consistent with their various roles and responsibilities.

• Provide interim support to a country or regional programme which lacks finance/ awards resources in various roles (Country Finance and/or Awards Manager, Regional Finance Manager, Audit Officer etc).

• Provide country programme finance & awards staff and non-finance staff with finance awards induction, training and coaching into policies, procedures, best practice guidance and tools and on major awards compliance issues.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Qualified Accountant (CCAB) or equivalent experience.

• Knowledge of the requirements and experience managing grants from the major emergency donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting.

• Experience of engaging with donors at country strategy levels

• Experience of and well developed skills in staff management and supervision. Proven coaching and capacity building skills.

How to apply:

Email your CV to jobs@afid.org.uk for more information on this role and others like it.