date: Tuesday, 30 June 2015
The mission of WHO
is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
Vacancy
Notice No:
AFRO/15/FT303
Title: Programme, Budget and
Finance Officer
Grade: NO-B
Contract
type:
Fixed-term Appointment
Duration of
contract:
1 year
Date: 11 June 2015
Application
Deadline:
30 June 2015
Duty Station: Dar-es-Salaam, United
Republic of Tanzania
Organization
unit:
AF_SSR AF South-East Sub-Region (AF_SSR) /
AF_TZA Tanzania
(AF_TZA)
OBJECTIVES
OF THE PROGRAMME :
Within the Country Management Support Unit (CSU), to provide direct support and
services to the WHO Country Office in the area of workplan management and
budgeting functions.
Country Management
Support Units (CSU) have been established in the organisational structure to
provide support for Managers and staff to fully assume their responsibilities
in the GSM environment and to ensure compliance with organizational policies,
procedures, rules and regulations on all administrative and financial matters
and transactions in the context of an enterprise resource Planning (ERP)
system.
Description
of duties:
Under the direct supervision of the Operations Officer, the incumbent performs
the CSU functions as they relate to programme planning, management and
monitoring. The incumbent will have constant interaction with the Planning and
Budgeting Management Regional Team and Cluster Client Services within the
budget centre (s) concerned, consult and interact with other team members
within the Regional Office Management Support Unit (RSU), Inter-country Support
Units (ISU), Country Management Support Units (CSU), the Headquarters and the
Global Service Center.
- Input/update
workplans including planned costs in GSM; - Initiate
setting up of HR plans, identify and include positions in HR plans, update
position parameters and submit for approval; - Initiate
mapping of positions to task and awards; - Complete
Award Activation, Distribution and Amendment requests; - Raise
or revise workplan funding requests; - Develop/revise
award budgets ; - Monitor
expenditures against award budgets, project funding, award distributions
and PB allocations; - Identify
and process necessary revisions to expenditures, award budgets and project
funding; - Monitor
and review staff costs in occupied and vacant positions; - Follow
up on cancellation of encumbrances in relation to travel costs and
procurement of goods and services (refer to accounting instruction 45); - Perform
budget analysis and produce budget and award reports; - Contribute
to the reporting on performance assessment. - Supervise
and train two or more staff members providing program/budgetary and
finance assistance and evaluate their work as necessary - Perform
other duties as may be required.
REQUIRED
QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Essential: University degree in
Finance, Management Accountancy or Business Administration. Post Graduate
degree in Finance or Accounting Management.
Desirable: Membership of professional
accounting bodies e.g. C.A.
Skills: Excellent knowledge of
Microsoft applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc) with an emphasis on
Excel or a similar workbook application.
Experience: Essential: At least 2 years of
professional experience with an emphasis on programme management and/or budget
and financial monitoring.
Desirable: Good knowledge of programme
management and end-to-end business processes as designed in the Global
Management System; Experience in project management, ideally in the UN System
and/or a public health context; Good knowledge of GSM System or similar ERP
Systems;
Languages: Excellent knowledge of
English with the ability to work in another UN language.
This
vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade
level.
Online
applications are strongly encouraged to enable WHO to store your profile in a
permanent database. Please visit WHO’s e-Recruitment website at:
www.who.int/employment. The system provides instructions for online application
procedures.
All
applicants are encouraged to apply online as soon as possible after the vacancy
has been posted and well before the deadline stated in the vacancy
announcement.
WHO
is committed to workforce diversity.
Any
appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff
Rules and Manual. Only candidates under serious consideration will be
contacted.
WHO
has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form
of tobacco.
