EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Account Clerk

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

Date: May 6, 2021

Vacancy No:   070/21

No of Positions; (One)  

Type of Employment- Definite- until December 31, 2021

Duty base and Position:  Raya/Alamata

Dead Line: May 14, 2021

JOB SUMMARY

The Accounts Clerk is responsible for the collection of cash/check from Donors, Grants, Travel/Project advance settlement, and others. She/he deposits all collections in the proper bank accounts. She/he also files financial documents, stamps paid mark on all invoices and issues checks to customers and vendors, registers all checks sequentially on cash register book

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

 Cash Handling:

• Receives cash and checks on a pre numbered cash receipt documents of the organization, deposits collected money in the bank intact;
• Keeps in safe blank and signed checks;
• Submits a copy of cash receipt and bank deposit slip to assigned accountant daily or on next working day;
• Maintains cash register book to follow up daily cash balance.

Disbursement Documentation:

• Verifies source documents for proper approval/authorization before they are filed and recorded;
• Receives signed checks and bank payment orders and sends checks via register mail to payee;
• Ascertains that acknowledgement is received from payee and filed with cash disbursement voucher and other documents;
• Stamps paid mark and cross-references on all invoices and other financial supporting documents daily;
• Issues of checks to vendors, Counter parts, Partnership, Procurement against receipt;
• Informs counter parts or cooperative sponsors or any organization to collect their respective checks on time;
• Ensures that all unused official documents and vouchers of the organization are properly registered and are available in sufficient quantity.

Filling and Reporting:

• Maintains filing of all financial documents and reports;
• Issue the requested documents to Auditors upon authorization;
• Reports and follows up outstanding and unsettled payments and receipts.

  Learning:

• Keeps up to date with developments in the sector, including best practice examples and ensures ongoing personal development and learning;
• Ensures the communication and documentation of lessons learned within the organization, and with other stakeholders.

 Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW)

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• Diploma in Accounting from Vocational School or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Desired:

• Collage diploma.

EXPERIENCE

• 0 experience for collage diploma and 3 years for vocational school diploma.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

• Able to work accurately;
• Confidence in handling money;
• Knowledge of written and spoken English;
• Good skills in computer applications.
• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, sensitivity to HIV/AIDS, participatory approach and sustainable development.                 

Desired:

• Able to communicate in a friendly and efficient manner.

COMPETENCIES

Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, integrity, stress tolerance, collaboration, customer focus, contributing to team success, interpersonal skills. 

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners.

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer

How to Apply

If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through Ethiojobs: www.ethiojobs.net

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.