An exciting opening has arisen in our Ethiopia programme for a Grants and Finance Manager who will manage the day-to-day and monthly grants and finance activities of the Addis Ababa office for Tearfund and be involved in the capacity building of Tearfund partner organisations.
The preferred candidate for the role is responsible for maintaining a system of financial record-keeping from which to provide the Country Director, Tearfund at regional/Cluster and UK level with timely, accurate and meaningful financial management information to enable them to monitor and manage the programme covering both partner programmes and partner field offices. In accordance with Tearfund policies and guidelines, to maintain a system of sound internal and partner controls in order to safeguard Tearfund assets, mitigate against the risk of financial loss and fraud and satisfy donor and statutory audit requirements. To ensure the programme’s financial accounting records and systems and procedures, both for directly implemented work as well as partners are compliant with Tearfund standards, Donors and Government requirements
Tearfund is looking for a candidate with strong analytical and problem solving skills, a good command of the English language, experience in working with financial software, flexible and resilient and able to accommodate changing priorities and to remain calm under pressure, self-disciplined with ability to work proactively, using own initiative, attitude of servant leadership and willingness to travel to the field.
Please note, applicants must be committed to Tearfund's values and missions. All posts involve potential contact with children and vulnerable adults and the recruitment process will include specific safeguarding checks.
Job overview
As part of the Senior Management Team the Grants and Finance Manager (GFM) is responsible for maintaining a system of grants and financial record-keeping from which to provide the Country Director, Tearfund at regional/Cluster and UK level with timely, accurate and meaningful financial management information to enable them to monitor and manage the programme covering both partner programmes and partner field offices. In accordance with Tearfund policies and guidelines, to maintain a system of sound internal and partner controls in order to safeguard Tearfund assets, mitigate against the risk of financial loss and fraud and satisfy Donors and statutory audit requirements. To ensure the programme’s grants and financial accounting records and systems and procedures, both for directly implemented work as well as partners are compliant with Tearfund standards, Donors and Government requirements.
Key responsibilities
Programme Strategy
Project / Support function management
Corporate policy and compliance
Team management
External representation
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