Catholic Relief Services Kenya Program wishes to recruit a System Administrator and a Finance Manager for its Nairobi Office.
1. Position: Finance Manager
(Ref 2009/02)
Primary Function:
The Head of Finance will support the Country Program (CP) to develop effective systems and procedures, in the area of finance.
In line with established standards, these systems will enable CRS and its partners to maintain high levels of resource stewardship and financial accountability, and to report to Donors in a timely and accurate manner.
S/he will work closely with the respective departments to increase the capacity of the staff and partners to manage resources and to ensure the accurate and timely
accounting of and reporting on financial resources.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide technical and managerial oversight of all aspects of finance for the CP.
- Work closely with Programming and Administration department to develop policies and procedures that are coherent with CRS systems, donor rules and regulations and meet established standards;
- Ensure adequate internal control systems are in place to secure the Agency’s financial resources.
- Supervise the preparation of the annual program budget and tracking to ensure adherance.
- Orient accounting, project management and partner staff in relevant and appropriate financial management practices, policies, procedures, and standards;
- Assess the capacity building needs of CRS and partner staff and provide technical assistance as needed to ensure that they have the skills needed to manage existing programs and expand to attract additional funding;
- Ensure that CRS-Kenya financial management and reporting meets established standards and deadlines and are in compliance with HQ and Donor regulations;
- Provide technical assistance to partner finance staff in the use of appropriate financial management system and procedures;
- Provide technical guidance to counterpart to ensure budget tracking, preparation of cash advance requests and monthly expenditure reports.
Internal: CRS Country Representative, Administrator, program staff, CRS Deputy Regional Director for Management Quality, various CRS/HQ departments.
External: Partners, host country government ministries, public donors (USAID and ECHO), local/international NGO offices, UN agencies, local church officials
Qualifications:
- University degree in Financial Management/Accounting, CPA(K) or equivalent
- Minimum of 7 years professional experience, with supervisory responsibility of finance department
- Demonstrated thorough and in-depth knowledge of US Government financial management regulations and requirements
- In-depth knowledge of Sun Systems financial accounting package and EXCEL
- Ability to analyze problems and provide systematic solutions in line with established policies/procedures
- Budgeting and budget management experience
- Excellent communication, coaching and facilitation skills
- Willingness to work as member of team and to undertake a wide variety of responsibilities according to program needs.
- Experience working with local church partners
- Ability to work both as motivating member and leader of a diverse team.
(Ref No 2009/03)
Primary Function:
Manage day-to-day IT support services function, network operations, Software design and development and establish and enforce IT policies and procedures.
Specific duties and Responsibilities:
- Review and direct support services functions and assist supervisor/support services staff with technical expertise.
- Establish unit performance goals, procedures, policies, and review performance.
- Responsible for IT network, infrastructure design and implementation decisions.
- Direct staff on the implementation of network projects & equipment.
- Establish and maintain network usage, maintenance and security policies as well as monitor and review network systems operations.
- Direct and manage all IT related tasks on other departmental initiatives.
- Establish project schedules and manage schedule adherence.
- Define and establish technology direction for the organization.
- Define and establish policies governing usage of technology for organization.
- Establish and/or approve IT procedures governing system and software maintenance and management.
- Install and Maintain Software Packages, CRS standard operating systems and various application programs.
- Deliver, setup, install, and maintain Hardware and Peripheral Components
- Perform hardware upgrades on above existing computer equipment or replace hardware causing problems due to defect.
- Organize and maintain Software library; and control Anti-Virus processes.
- A Bachelors Degree in information Technology or Computer Science or related areas of study.
- 5 years experience working for non-profit organization in similar capacity.
- Experience in MCSA 2003
- Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Internet security and acceleration server, and Microsoft Windows 2003
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Human Resources Specialist
Catholic Relief Services – Kenya Program
P.O. Box 49675, GPO 00100 Nairobi
E-mail: hr @ crskenya.org
Please note only short listed candidates will be contacted
