Financial Assistant at Water Mission Tanzania
Job Summary: The Finance Assistant is responsible to ensure all work is completed to a high degree of excellence and according to all standards and requirements of Water Mission Tanzania. Employees are required to share the news of the Living Water, gospel through their words and actions.
Our culture: As an employee of Water Mission Tanzania, the Finance Assistant is responsible for developing a biblical worldview culture that leads to God-honoring excellence in all their work and reinforcing the following: providing accurate data, empowering staff to have the skills and mindset needed to acknowledge mistakes or problems as opportunities to find appropriate solutions, and empowering staff to consistently work for excellence in solutions that are consistent with Water Mission’s mission, vision, values, and standards.
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General Duties
Mission Driven
- Maintain a strong Christian witness and model servant leadership to colleagues, partners, the communities we serve, and the public.
- Engage and participate in prayer before and after team meetings.
- Lead and participate in biblically based staff devotions.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure that processes and controls are in place to ensure the accuracy and integrity of any office information.
- Ensure adequate documentation before issuance of payment to both staff and vendors.
- Assist in preparing the information required for internal and external audits.
- Systematically file financial documents.
- Assist in the preparation of financial reports in accordance with relevant accounting standards.
- Reconcile accounts payable.
- Reconcile staff cash advances, cash floats to ensure proper accountability of funds.
- Remit withholding payments to Tanzania revenue Authority on time.
- Update and maintain the asset register and organization inventory in NetSuite.
- Analyse bank statements, reconciling them with general ledger entries, and preparing bank reconciliations.
- Petty Cash management and preparing weekly petty Cash certificates after Cash Count.
- Review expenses submitted by employees from travel advances and accurately recoding in accounting.
- Post all approved transactions in the accounting system in a timely manner and fill them out appropriately.
- Support region offices with all accounting relating matters. .
- Review incoming payments from accounts receivables and outgoing payments from accounts payable.
- Assist the Finance Manager in preparation for Monthly/Yearly closure process.
Other tasks as may be assigned.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
Relationship and Alignment:
- Personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Alignment with Water Mission’s Statement of Faith and core values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity.
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Education Qualification and Experience
- University degree in Accounting or Finance is required.
- Good knowledge of Accounting and Financial management areas with good technical knowledge of International (GAAP, IPSAS) and local financial reporting standards and compliances.
- At least one year of experience in financial management.
- Advanced skills with MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint) and familiarity with financial and accounting information systems
Skills and Abilities
- Impeccable level of integrity in handling funds in an accountable and transparent manner.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including articulating ideas and feedback constructively
- Understanding the principles of adequate documentation and audit and the procedures necessary to ensure audit compliance
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a team.
- Commitment to ending the global water crisis.
- Authorization to work in Tanzania without sponsorship
How to Apply:
To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
Project Manager II at Water Mission
Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit that builds safe water solutions for people in developing countries, refugee camps, and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission has served more than 8 million people in 60 countries, sharing safe water and the message of God’s love. Working at Water Mission is as much a calling as it is a career, and we are searching for people with the courage, passion, and drive to help us change the world. Read more about our Statement of Faith and Our Christian Mission.
Job Summary
Reporting directly to Water Mission’s Country Director in Tanzania, the Kasulu Project Manager will implement project management tasks within the Country Program following established standards and procedures. The position is based in Kasulu, Tanzania. The position requires travel to remote locations in respective regions to conduct inspections or training. The job entails frequent field visits and national and occasional international travel.
As a key leader in Water Missions International Tanzania, the Project Manager is responsible for leading staff in developing a biblical worldview culture that leads to God-honoring excellence in all their work and reinforcing the following: providing accurate data, empowering staff to have the skills and mindset needed to acknowledge mistakes or problems as opportunities to find appropriate solutions, and empowering staff to consistently work for excellence in solutions that are consistent with Water Mission’s mission, vision, values, and standards.
General Duties
Mission Driven
- Maintain a strong Christian witness and model servant leadership to colleagues, partners, the communities we serve, and the public.
- Engage and participate in prayer before and after team meetings.
- Lead and participate in biblically based staff devotions.
Read Also:
Key Responsibilities
- Understand, support, and nurture the Vision, Mission, and Core values of Water Mission.
- Provide project management oversight of all projects by tracking the scope of works, project schedule, and budget using Water Missions project management software systems.
- Provide direction and assistance for staff, contractors, and volunteers in the field. Provide as-needed onsite project management in support of approved projects.
- Conduct field inspections and site assessments as needed under the direction of the Country Director.
- Maintain regular contact with Department Heads, Water Mission headquarters Program Manager, and stakeholders.
- Oversee project procurement planning and the submission of procurement requisitions to the procurement department.
- Assist with proposal writing, grant applications, and grant reporting.
- Ensure all service contracts are properly tracked and pay apps are updated accordingly every month and provided to finance as and when needed.
- Oversee the effective coordination of all project activities between engineering, community development, and procurement.
- Management of local contractors. Support staff resource tracking and scheduling to ensure suitable utilization of staff time.
- Support the vehicle tracking and scheduling to ensure controlled mileage. Other duties assigned.
Relationship and alignment
- Personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Alignment with Water Mission’s Statement of Faith and core values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity.
Qualifications and Experiences
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Additional professional qualification preferred, preferably in project management.
- 3+ years of experience in project management.
- Possession of a valid driving license
Skills & Abilities
- Self-starter who demonstrates initiative.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas and feedback constructively.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a team.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally for up to three consecutive weeks, three to four times a year.
- Legal authorization to work in Malawi without sponsorship.
Application Instruction
Apply directly via the Water Mission Website.
Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of academic certificates, Testimonials, and contacts of three traceable referees.
Applications shall be received no later than November 20, 2024.
How to Apply:
To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
Engineer at Water Mission Tanzania,
Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit that builds safe water solutions for people in developing countries, refugee camps, and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission has served more than 8 million people in 60 countries, sharing safe water and the message of God’s love. Working at Water Mission is as much a calling as it is a career, and we are searching for people with the courage, passion, and drive to help us change the world. Read more about our Statement of Faith and Our Christian Mission.
Job Summary
Under the direction of the Lead Engineer and/or his/her designee, Engineer (Engineer Level I) is responsible for the engineering services, including design, construction, and maintenance of water treatment systems in communities and disaster response situations in accordance with WMT standards, values, work scopes, schedules, and budgets. This position requires that the person resides near the regional office in Kasulu. This person must be willing to work in the field for up to one week on a regular basis and occasionally for longer periods of time to carry out assessments and to support some of the technical aspects of the organization.
As a key leader in Water Mission, Engineer (Engineer level I) is responsible for leading staff in developing a biblical worldview culture that leads to God-honoring excellence in all work and to reinforce the following: providing accurate data, empowering staff to have the skills and mindset needed to acknowledge mistakes or problems as opportunities to find appropriate solutions, and empowering staff to consistently work for excellence in solutions that are consistent with Water Mission’s mission, vision, values, and standards.
Duties and Responsibilities
At Water Mission Tanzania (WMT) we work as a team. All employees must be willing to do any task their supervisor asks of them and/or needed to complete the mission, even if it is not specified in their job description. All employees must show initiative and seek to improve the way things are done and to conduct the work in an increasingly cost-effective manner.
Engineer (Engineer level I) is responsible for ensuring all work is completed to a high degree of excellence and according to all standards, values, and requirements of WMT. Because WMT seeks to share the good news of the Living Water, all employees are expected to share the gospel through their words and actions. The following list is meant to be a guideline:
- Maintain a strong Christian witness and model servant leadership to colleagues, donors, volunteers, and the public.
- Understand, support, and nurture the Vision, Mission, and Values of Water Mission.
- Conduct engineering field work and design according to established engineering principles and standards to a high degree of excellence and dependable accuracy.
- Perform Engineering tasks including water hydraulic design calculations, and development of plans, specifications, and structural drawings.
- Provide onsite project management in support of approved projects.
- Conduct field inspections and site assessments as needed to ensure that construction is in accordance with design and expectations.
- Champion and ensure that WM QA/QC (Quality Assurance/Quality Control standards and procedures) is upheld by the technical team
- Layout and design of water systems including source, pumping, treatment, storage and distribution.
- Ensure that your work is reviewed by another engineer as designated by the Country Director.
- Perform assessments in communities, including water quality and quantity testing, survey measurements and other aspects as may be required.
- Timely Project reporting, including monthly report, Assessment report, follow up report with accompanied photographs as per specific assignment guideline.
- Provide disaster response support and work in other countries as needed.
- Other tasks as may be assigned.
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What is Required?
- Personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Alignment with Water Mission’s Statement of Faith and core values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity.
- Impeccable integrity and stewardship that demonstrates to those who invest in WMT a sense of security and trust that their gifts are well used and invested.
- Must be standards and detail-oriented with ability to plan.
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering – Water Resources, Sanitation, Civil, Environmental, Chemical, or Mechanical are preferred.
- A minimum of four (4) years of experience in water resources, sanitation and/or wastewater engineering or related field.
- Must be registered as a Professional Engineer with the Engineers Registration Board of Tanzania (ERB).Advanced skills with office computer programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and familiarity with design & modeling programs (EPANET, AutoCAD, Power CADD, SolidWorks, ProE).
- Experience in the use of project management software.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills (English and Swahili are the preferred languages).
- Excellent analytical skills, project planning, monitoring, and management skills.
- A strong work ethic and self-starter demonstrating initiative.
- A candidate must have a driver’s license.
- Ability and willingness to travel.
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Application Instruction
- Apply directly via the Water Mission Website.
- Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of academic certificates, Testimonials, and contacts of three traceable referees.
- Applications shall be received no later than November 27, 2024.
How to Apply:
To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
