Job Description

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) wants to recruit employees in the following vacant positions the details of which are mentioned bellow.

About the Ethiopian Red Cross Society

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was established in 1935 and is one of the oldest and largest humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. ERCS provides services to communities affected by natural and manmade disasters through the provision of emergency responses, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential drugs, water and sanitation, and other humanitarian services. ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. Currently the ERCS has a structure consisting of 11 Regional Offices, 34 Zonal Branches and 131 District/Woreda Branches, 599 Woreda Red Cross Committee and 5871 Kebele Red Cross committees.

Work unit :- Center of Capacity Development for Humanitarian Services  

Reporting to:- Finance Manager

Terms of employment:- Contract for four month.

Grade :- VI

Key performance areas

• Collects and organize service delivery report from divisions so as to issue invoice;
• Issues credit sales or cash sales Invoice based on the service delivery report;
• Distributes sales invoice to customers and collect cash;
• Collects cash from sales of items non sales transaction; 
• Counts and collects cash against supporting documents, gives changes to clients as required, and issues receipts; 
• Deposits cash collections at bank and draws cash from bank against written orders; 
• Pays out cash against written orders and obtains receipts; 
• Keeps records of amounts received and paid and reconciles cash balance with records; 
• Encodes the transaction data in a cash register machine in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements; 
• Checks cash balance against transactions at end of day; 
• Keeps banknotes and denominations (changes) or other negotiable instruments sorted to avoid possible errors and facilitate disbursement; 
• Counts and records cash at the beginning and end of each period of duty and prepares reconciliation statement; 
• Verifies cash held against records; 
• Thoroughly checks for fulfillment of approval procedures by the authorized officials of the Center, and of the Society as the case may be, before effecting payments to requesting parties; 
• Makes proper use of such working equipment as adding machines, cash registers and keeps cash collections and disbursements registered and updates records; 
• Disburses salaries, per diem and advance to employees of the Center based on the approved payment documents and other pertinent supporting documents or facilitates such payments through bank accounts depending on the established payment modality and practice; 
• Sorts out and arranges receipt & payment related documents and distributes the right number of copies to complete internal control procedures; 
• Effects petty cash payments upon presentation of approved support documents; 
• Keeps the petty cash of the Center; maintains petty cash register book of the petty cash transactions; 
• Checks the sequence of payment vouchers and checks are in order; 
• Stamps payment documents as appropriate; 
• Follows up the petty cash balance and requests for timely replenishment; 
• Keeps proper custody of petty cash, collections and other cash on hand along with proper accompanying supporting documents;  

Job Requirements

Qualification Requirements:

• First degree in Accounting/ Accounting & Finance.
• 4 years related work experience  

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to fill out the employment application form from the official website of the Ethiopian Red Cross in vacancy menu and email to ercs-recruitment@redcrosseth.org before the closing date of this announcement on Feb 19 ^th, 2021.

Qualified women are strongly recommended to apply!

Please note that we ONLY consider those who filled in the application form and send us back. We regret to inform that we do not accept CV at this stage.