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OVERALL DESCRIPTION
General
Description of the Programme:
GOAL has been working in Sudan since 1984. GOAL currently
has 6 programme sites throughout Sudan. Twic County in Warrap
State, Kurmuk County in Southern Blue Nile and Sobat in Upper
Nile State are managed through the GOAL office in Juba. The
GOAL office in Khartoum manages programmes in Abyei, North
Darfur and Kassala State. The current GOAL programmes focuses
on four main sectors: primary health care, women’s education
(REFLECT), water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH),
and sustainable livelihoods.
General Description of the
Role:
Support the Country Director and Financial Controller in managing
the GOAL North Sudan donor finances, ensure proper budgetary
preparation, control and monitoring and improve existing work
practices with particular emphasis on the standardisation
of procedures and training of staff.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Ensure timely preparation of donor reporting for review
by the Financial Controller and Country Director prior to
submission to Dublin and ultimately the donors;
- Assist the wider team, including Programmes and Operations,
in the preparation of donor budgets and annual rolling budgets;
- Liaise with programme and support staff to help ensure accurate
expenditure forecasting and budget monitoring through the
monthly production of Budget Management Tools (BMTs);
- Coordination and documentation of grant management meetings
and reporting of same monthly to GOAL Dublin.
- Manage and ensure donor files are complete and well maintained
in accordance with GOAL Dublin and Donor requirements
- Review and update cost apportionment basis to Donors and
ensure supporting documentation is reasonable and appropriately
filed.
- Financial training and capacity building of locally recruited
accounts staff.
- Assist with timely preparation of monthly, quarterly and
annual management accounts for review by the Financial Controller
- In the absence of the Financial Controller, day to day responsibility
for managing finance with the
support of the Country Director.
- Any other duties as may be assigned by the Financial Controller
or the Country Director.
Requirements:
- A qualified Accountant (Chartered, Certified or Management)
- Three years post qualified experience
- Experience with management of Institutional Donor grants
preferable eg: OFDA/ USAID, ECHO, DFID etc
- Work experience in busy, changing environment
- Excellent written and spoken English, outgoing personality
with excellent communication and training skills
- Ability and willingness to work in a remote areas.
- Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft
Excel and Word and if possible have knowledge of Sage desirable
or a similar package.
- Ability to implement effective projects sometimes with limited
resources.
- Good team player, flexible and capable of working with a
multinational country team.
This Job
Description only serves as a guide for the position available.
GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Unfortunately
GOAL cannot contribute to financial costs incurred when attending
interview.
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