Job Vacancies in Singida and Kigoma at World Vision Tanzania

 

Position: Senior Grant Finance Officer

Location: Kigoma

Purpose of the position:

Manage grant accounting, reporting and budgetary functions and ensure conformity with World Vision policies and stringent donor requirements.

Major Responsibilities:

• Facilitate preparation and revisions of donor budgets, AOPs, DIPS, cash flows in line with partnership guidelines and specific donor regulations, follow up the PBAS commitment of the Grant project and properly track the annual grant budget.
• Prepare and submit accurate donor reports timely and file the signed copies; implement internal controls and contribute to the designing of appropriate policies and procedures.

 

• Monitor actual grant expenditures against approved donor line items on a monthly basis; alert management on any irregularities and make recommendations concerning the re-negotiation or approved grant line items with the donor where appropriate.
• Review coding on vouchers for accurate account, expense codes, donor combinations and proper documentation (backup). Ensure weekly posting of transactions.
• Monitor and supervise project financial activities and review of finance documents to ensure compliance with donor regulations before payments.
• Coordinate supply chain activities (procurement, stores and fleet management) for the Grant in line with WV procurement policies, procedures and diverse donor requirements. Manage project fixed assets.
• Coordinate Grant audit exercise, participate in preparation of management responses and ensure timely submission, ensure 100% implementation of audit recommendations.
• Review all payments to ensure that they are within the approved control system. Conduct project site visits for verification on existence and delivery of materials.
• Manage all Balance sheet items including staff advances as per WV EER/Per diem policy. Review staff EERs for accuracy and validity of receipts.
• Ensure monthly timesheets are prepared by project staff in compliance with donor requirement, including reconciliation with Payroll.
• Ensure timely monthly funding for the Grant against approved donor budgets and cash flows.
• Build capacity of non-finance staff in Grant financial management and supervise the work of Grant Finance Officer
• Management of local partners; Review of partners budget, detailed implementation plans and cash flows, sub-grantee monitoring, physical verification of expenditure and posting of partners retirement.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:

Minimum Qualification required: Bachelor Degree in Accountancy or related fields.

Experience: 5 years working in donor funded projects preferably GAC

Required: ACCA, CPA

Technical Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent computer skills in Excel, Word & Sun-systems software.
• Demonstrated ability in supervision
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Tact and diplomacy in dealing with staff-related to work environment needs
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff

Working Environment / Conditions:
Work environment: Field work
Travel: 10% Domestic travel is required.
On call: 10%
Deadline: 21st March, 2019

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Position: Sponsorship and Program Facilitator- Water Engineer

Location: Singida

Purpose of the position:

Effectively and efficiently facilitate Implementation of Technical Program and sponsorship at the project level to ensure that communities are empowered for sustainable development and they contribute to child wellbeing outcome as per World Vision standards. Communicate World Vision's Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.

Major Responsibilities.

Implementation and reporting of planned activities

• Participate in planning and budgeting of Area Program, preparation of work plans, implementation of planned activities and monitoring/ reporting of progress.
• Implement the Technical Program for Livelihood& Resilience, Wash, H&N projects to ensure all project activities and budget are spent according to plan, budget, timeframe and quality.
• Facilitate and monitor the implementation of planned activities and community level engagements.
• Mobilize and facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and Seminars.
• Identify local level partners, support and facilitate the partnership in the implementation of planned activities.
• Facilitate stakeholders and partners in supervision and monitoring of programmatic activities.
• Support the collection and documentation of impact and success stories on monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annually.

Community engagement and advocacy

• Sensitize community empowerment through TEAM approach by organizing commercial producer groups (CPG) and formation of commercial villages.
• Mobilize and facilitate integration of Vision Fund Tanzania(VFT) and Resilience Project Models such as Market Led Agriculture, Local Value Chain Development (LVCD), Standardized Saving Groups (e.g. Village loan saving Association (VSLA) and other Economic development initiatives.
• Innovatively support communities including RC households to participate and benefit from the programme development and make intentional inclusion of RC families in CPG, VSLA, Village Community Bank (VICOBA) and other program economic activities
• Sensitize community on sponsorship (RC parents/ guardians, community leaders and other community members) and facilitate participation in the sponsorship management project activities.
• Mobilize and facilitate active participation of children and their communities to participate in planning, monitoring and implementation and evaluation of community development initiatives.
• Build the capacity of children, families and community to collectively engage local leaders on identified issues.
• Follow-up on commitments by leaders on improvement of the wellbeing of children.
• Mobilize communities to participate in annual children care and protection days – such as the Day of African child.

Management of sponsorship performance

• Monitoring of RC in line with partnership standards.
• RC records and files well managed and stored securely.
• Support RCs to correspond with sponsors in a timely manner.
• Facilitate processing of all special mails; Christmas cards, Spontaneous letters, APR, introductory letters within partnership standard.
• Support children to respond to sponsor correspondences- Sponsor letters and introductory letters.
• Support management of Support Office Queries, Gift Notifications, mails, and file copies of correspondences in children’s files.
• Conduct and produce quality periodic mailings Annual Progress Report – (APR) and Christmas Cards.
• Take quality pictures according to the required standards.
• Mobilize and support RC families to adequately prepare for and manage sponsor visits.

Monitoring of Registered Children

• Support development of integrated monitoring plan in assigned area with ADP stakeholder.
• Analyze STEP management report and follow up critical RCs findings by using case management tool.
• Analyze Child wellbeing (CWB) RC visits and Service Operation Indicator (SOI) reports from STEP and share them with ADP stakeholders.
• Compile monitoring reports for management action.
• Hold monthly / quarterly meetings with Child Monitors and guardians/parents and child protection committees to address findings from monitoring.
• Identify, train volunteers/monitor, partners and train on sponsorship philosophy and partnership standard.
• Provide quality and accurate information on presence, support and benefit to enable entry in STEP database.

Child Protection and Wellbeing

• Monitor the wellbeing and child abuse cases and report any accordance in line with child protection policy and guidelines.
• Work with local leaders to protection children from child violations and abuses on child protection.
• Sensitization of children including all RC on child protection.
• Sensitize children, guardians/parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities with a view to identify child violations.
• Facilitate spiritual nurture of children.

Networking:

• Facilitate networking relationships and participation with wide stakeholders such as government, church, faith based organization leaders and other key partners at local level such as NGOs, CBOs, IGA groups.
• Facilitate WVT/VFT integration for profitable agriculture, livestock production and enterprise development (high value agriculture crops and livestock breeds).
• Foster partnership with local institution in RC monitoring.

Qualifications: Minimum Qualification required: Diploma in Social Science from accredited College/University in Wash, Water Engineer & related field.
Preferred: Degree in WASH, Water Engineer, Health, , Education, & related field.
Experience: 2 years in programming.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• High integrity.
• Partnering and engaging with stakeholders
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Report writing skills
• Networking and influencing skills.
• Highly reliable and dependable.
• Passion for children.
• Skills in Programming.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff and donors
• Computer skills
• Community Facilitation skills

Other Competencies/Attributes:
Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
Perform other duties as required.

Working Environment / Conditions:
Work environment: Few office work with frequent visits to the field
Travel: 02% Domestic travel is required and On call: 05% Deadline: 21st March, 2019 

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