National Contract: Fixed term- 2 years
Location: KotidoDuties and responsibilities:
– Ensure that the Karamoja Programme provides quality accounting and financial control support to her partners for efficient management of all the grants that they receive.
– Build financial management capacity of partners and programme staff.
– Contribute to effective project expenditure monitoring,, handle queries on financial matters from partners and the programme staff.
– Carry out day-to-day finance and accounting transactions pertaining to management of partner grants and undertake quality control checks among other duties.
Qualifications and experience:
– A University Degree in a finance related field or an equivalent qualifications with at least 3 years experience in a similar role, preferably with an NGO.
– Ability to analyze accounting possesses and identify practices and procedures that require correction or modification.
– Ability to formulate recommendations to improve accounting systems.
– Ability to detect the financial strengths and weaknesses of project partners and the ability to make independent judgment on institutional capabilities and the adequacy of accounting systems and controls.
– Excellent capacity building and communication skills as well as good interpersonal skills.
– Adaptable and flexible and able to demonstrate cultural and gender sensitivity.
– Ability and willingness to work in a harsh and remote environment.
– A good audit background will be an advantage.
Application procedure:
Submit your application and CV in English detailing your experience for the post and include the daytime telephone contacts to;
kampalajobs@oxfam.org.uk
The subject of your email should be the title of the job you are applying for.
Please don’t send your academic credentials with your application, only CVs.
