To manage HR/Admin/Finance and Transport & Logistics activities in line with professional principles and the organization’s rules and regulation and co-ordinate and manage field vehicle/fleet to ensure efficient and effective operation in the office. Provide effective and efficient HR/Admin related services to staff working for the office and support procurement processes as delegated or appropriate.

Financial Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with other team members to complete financial requirements for Action plans and prepare reports for relevant parties such as Government, WaterAid Ethiopia HO and donors as necessary

• Undertaking other standard financial requirements such as monthly cash count, surprise cash count, undertaking random checks on purchase prices and preparing cash flow requests

• Prepare and check monthly financial report and send to HO up to 5th of the next month

HR & Admin Responsibilities:

•  Manage and record staffs’ annual leave roster and ensure all annual leave is used within the current year. Record and manage all staff related leaves such as compassionate, sick leave, TOIL as per HR Manual

•  Manage and address all staff personal issues following the HR manual guidelines

• Provide the necessary materials and equipment to project staff for their day to day activities

Safeguarding & Safety & Security:

•  Ensures that Safeguarding, Child Protection, and Gender Equality policies are fully embedded in project design, during implementation and as principles applied in day-to-day work of Programme team

•  Ensures that comprehensive health, safety and security measures (e.g. risk management plans, local security protocols) have been put in place when designing programmes / project and are consistently upheld during their implementation.

• Ensures that any partner agencies that WaterAid works with are adopting the same health, safety and security standards (as defined in any applicable WaterAid health, safety and security policies), and arrange for capacity building support where gaps or weaknesses are identified.

Others:

• Arrange all financial documents for Internal & External Audit

•   Support on the financial report preparation

• Perform additional duties as assigned to ensure the smooth running of organizational objective and maintained team spirit of the finance team.

Job Requirements

To be successful, you will need:

Education and year of experience:

•    University Degree or Diploma in Accounting

•     Minimum of 4 years of proven and progressive work experience, preferably in NGOs

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

•   Good communication skill and appropriate knowledge in accounting

•   Good skills in computer application preferably in accounting software

•   Ability to act in a professional and ethical manner

•   Willingness to work under pressure

•     Firm belief in teamwork and gender equality and sensitivity to HIV/AIDS

•     Commitment to values and working styles of WAE.

Personal Characteristics / Skills:

The Admin and Finance Officer should demonstrate competence in some or all the following:

•        Building partnership;

•        Stress tolerance;

•        Building commitment;

•        Collaboration;

•        People focus

•        Fluent in local language both in spoken and written

How To Apply

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Pre-employment screening:  To apply for this role, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the respective country. All pre-employment checks will be carried out according to local law and WaterAid’s Safer Recruitment policy. All UK based roles require a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Benefits

Our Global Commitment:

Our People Promise

We will work with passion and focus to make sure everyone everywhere has clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.

Equal Opportunities

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions, ways of life and status. This includes, but is not limited to, race, ethnicity, caste, colour, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability status, neurodiversity, age, marital and family status, sexual orientation and gender identity, health status, place of residence, economic and social situation.

Safeguarding

We are committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero- tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and to any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks).

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