Terre des hommes Foundation Child Relief Current Jobs in Kenya: Recruitment for Administration Officer

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Since its creation in 1960, the mission of Terre des hommes (Tdh) has been to come to the aid of children in need. It endeavours at all times to defend the rights of children, in times of war and natural disasters, or in less publicised situations of distress.

We are looking for our emergency projects in Kenya for an Administration Officer:

POST TITLE:   Administration Officer


POSITION START DATE: As soon as possible Project

JOB DURATION: 12 months

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10th of February 2012

JOB LOCATION: Dadaab and Garissa – North-East Kenya Supervisor: Field Coordinator (Head of Operations)

TYPE OF POST: Unaccompanied

CONDITIONS: Swiss salaried contract 3 025 Chf (~2300€) < > 4148 Chf (~3100€) net salary/month according to experience x 13.

ANNUAL LEAVE: 25 days per year.

Contract includes also local accommodation and transportation, health and repatriation insurance, return flight.

DETAILS OF CONDITIONS & ADVANTAGES

BACKGROUND:

• Tdh programme in Garissa County operates in two main target areas: Dadaab complex and surrounding areas (with a range of child protection services) and rural areas in Lagdera District (with an integrated health and nutrition/child protection/WASH intervention).

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Overall administration – financial, human resources and administrative – responsibility for Tdh intervention in Dadaab and Garissa county under the direction of the Field Coordinator (Head of Operations) with the support of the expatriates programme managers and Logistician Officer and guidance from Tdh HQ administration itinerant delegate.

LINE MANAGEMENT:

• To supervise the administration team members as posted in Dadaab and Garissa County,
• To coordinate with the expatriates' team posted in Dadaab and Garissa, as well as Nairoby.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING:

• To ensure implementation of Tdh and donors' finance rules,
• To liaise with Tdh budget monitoring and donors contracts management,
• To follow-up the Tdh budget breakdown in close collaboration with the field coordinator and programme managers,
• To ensure budget monitoring (real cost analysis, budget forecast quarterly…),
• To participate to the design of the budgets in order to forecast the needs for future project,
• To prepare monthly accountancy closure (including donors expenditures allocation) to be sent to Nairoby/HQ (electronic files, scanned docs),
• To check the filling/stamping of the accountancy documents,
• To consolidate the monthly cash request for Dadaab & Garissa,
• To liaise with administration forms (quotations, purchase request, sold notes),
• To ensure the security schedule for purchases and payments authorizations,
• To provide accountancy information necessary to the asset inventory management,
• To supervise the local administrator in his finance tasks and work closely with the Country Representative at Nairoby office.

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT:

• To monitor the national staff recruitment process in Dadaab and Garissa under the Tdh procedures and the Kenyan labour law and procedures,
• To draft administrative staff job description and ensure adherence with the Tdh local needs and Tdh procedures,
• To recruit national admin staff,
• To manage (day to day activities, working hours, presence planning…) and evaluate admin staff, encouraging effective team work and providing supervision and guidance,
• To prepare payslips for national employees,
• To up-date and follow national staff work contract,
• To up-date the national staff data base according to guidelines (sick leaves, vacations, basic salary, personal details, contact…),
• To ensure the respect of the staff regulation, internal policy and labour act,
• To ensure transparent salary scale and seniority,
• To identify the training needs and gaps (individual and collective) for the national staff and implement with the senior management a training national plan,
• To train field based administrative staff (including cleaners and cook),

REPRESENTATION:

• To attend relevant inter-agency coordination meetings as required,
• In coordination with the Field Coordinator/Country Representative (Director), to guarantee that all formalities required by the government are prepared properly, kept up to date, and presented punctually,
• To attend or delegate attendance to appropriate external meetings, as required,
• In collaboration with the Field Coordinator to represent the organisation to the relevant institutional and governmental structures.

REPORTING:

• To produce a monthly report per format in Kenya and submit to the Field Coordinator,
• To coordinate, prepare and elaborate financial and donors' reports for submission to the Field Coordinator/Country Representative (Director).
  

CHILD PROTECTION POLICY:

• To commit to respect the Child Protection Policy,
• To commit to ensure the best implementation possible of the Child Protection Policy in Dadaab and Garissa, including participation in annual audit, and reviews and updates of action plan,
• To commit to inform the Country Representative (Director) and/or the Child Protection Programme Manager and to deal with any case of any allegations or possibility of transgression, even potential, of the Child Protection Policy.

PROFILE:

• Working experience accountancy, management of budgets and reporting (narrative and financial),
• Excellent computer skills in Word, Excel and Saga,
• Fluent in oral and written English,
• Strong interpersonal, management and leadership skills; good communication; training and capacity building ; flexible attitude; stress resistant; knowledge of security issues.
  
  

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply, we will only consider complete online applications which correspond to the required profile:

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