Education Development Center, Financial Analyst and Grants Coordinator Jobs Vacancy

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Financial
Analyst and Grants Coordinator
About
EDC
Education
Development Center (EDC) is one of the world’s leading nonprofit research and
development firms. Established in 1958, EDC designs, delivers and evaluates
innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in
education, health, and economic opportunity. Our services include research,
training, educational materials, a

nd strategy, with activities ranging from
seed projects to large-scale national and international initiatives.

Project
Description
The
Rwanda Youth Employment Project / Huguka Dukore is a 5-year project (2017-2021)
funded by USAID. The Huguka Dukore activity will provide 40,000 vulnerable
youth – 36,000 new youth and 4,000 Akazi Kanoze alumni – with employability
skills by scaling up successfully proven Akazi Kanoze interventions, across 19
(of 30 total) districts countrywide, using a series of inclusive innovations
that will invite more youth to participate in Rwanda’s historic transformation,
particularly women and youth with disabilities. The Huguka Dukore project will
target vulnerable youth, defined as young women and men aged 16-30 living below
the poverty threshold (i.e., those earning less than $1.75 a day), with
educational attainment of at least six years but less than nine years of basic
education.
Job
Responsibilities:
  • Manage
    financial functions in compliance with EDC and Donors’ procedures and
    policies;
  • Organize
    and conduct continuous financial management training and coaching to
    sub-grantees.
  • Conduct
    regular field visits to monitor and audit sub-grantees.
  • Contribute
    to the development and editing of accounting policies and procedures for
    sub-grantees.
  • Adequately
    facilitate the disbursements of funds to sub-grantees in accordance with
    grant terms;
  • Review
    and audit sub-grantees’ reports, and ensure sub-grantees reporting
    timeliness;
  • Review
    Sub-grantees’ expenditure to ensure that it is incurred in compliance with
    grant terms and donors’ regulations.
  • Provide
    timely feedback and establish follow actions to individual sub-grantee
    financial reports
  • Liaise
    with the DCOP and IPs Manager to ensure sub grantees refund
    advances/refund requests are consistent with approved work plans
  • Maintain
    a detailed grant status schedule and organized grant files including all
    correspondences relating to grants, and conducted grants closeouts.
  • Reconcile
    monthly bank statements, verifying all deposits, and handling
    discrepancies;
  • Perform
    accounting payable duties, such as verifying all invoices for payments;
  • Administer
    the staff payroll, pécule de congé and severance accruals;
  • Monitor
    financial activities of all expenditures completing monthly financial
    reporting in a timely manner;
  • Control
    the advances disbursements and reconcile accounts on weekly and monthly
    basis;
  • Prepare
    VAT refund claims and submit to RRA;
  • Reporting
    to the Finance Director
Other
accounting duties and responsibilities:
  • Prepare
    timely and accurate financial reporting,
  • Train
    and support interns in finance department,
  • Maintain
    journal entries of wire transfers and receipts,
  • Maintain
    accurate and complete accounting records,
  • Supervise
    the distribution and generation of checks,
  • Ensure
    filing of supporting documentation for accounts reporting,
  • Ensure
    remittance and declaration of statutory salary deductions (Pension
    contributions and Pay As You Earn),
Requirements:
  • Should
    have a minimum of University degree in Business Administration, Finance or
    Accounting or any other related discipline.
  • Should
    have a minimum five years’ hands-on experience in accounting and financial
    management
  • Proven
    experience in sub-grantees/awardees management for USAID funded projects
  • Proven
    capacity in conducting capacity building of local
    organizations/sub-grantees on donors’ compliance including USAID and
    Private Foundations
  • Proven
    experiences in tracking and documenting sub-grantees cost share within
    USAID funding context
  • Experience
    on the QuickBooks or any other similar accounting software
Applications
including Motivation letter and CVs/resume ONLY addressed to the EDC Country
Director must be submitted to the following email address: ryp@edc.org  by Thursday, February 20, 2018
COB.
EDC
is committed to diversity in the workplace. EDC offers a supportive work
environment, competitive salary, and excellent benefits
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