Mendida Town, Abichuna Gnaea wereda, North Shewa Zone, Oromia
Self Help Africa
Self Help Africa-Ethiopia (SHA) is an International NGO that operational presence in Ethiopia since 1984. The organization works with smallholder farmers, farmers associations, cooperatives, unions, and agri-businesses to help farmers grow more and sell more, improve their diets, diversify incomes and make their livelihood more sustainable and resilient to external shocks.Purpose:A Community Development Facilitator (CDF) in the Milk Value Chains Development project will primarily be responsible for providing local grounding and technical content support to the day to day implementation of the project activities. The Development Facilitator will work closely with the local community, woreda sector offices, Milk cooperatives and other key stakeholders along the value chains including cooperatives, farmers unions, traders, wholesalers and others.The ideal Livestock/Animal Production Community development Facilitator would possess a passion for improving the lives of smallholder farmers, have deep familiarity with Ethiopia’s livestock sector with extensive knowledge of important systemic issues in, for instance, feed, genetics, and animal husbandry. In addition, the Development Facilitator should have a hands-on experience in selected value chains development, including milk.Key Responsibilities:Responsible for checking the accuracy and validity of invoices, documents submitted for payments;Responsible for recording all financial transactions into PSF, and arranging for authorized payments to be made;Responsible for checking that payment requests are accurately coded to the correct project and expenditure account, and that there is sufficient available budget;Ascertain that project payments are made within the relevant grant period and are as per approved budget line items;Responsible for ensuring that payment requests and documents are approved by authorized person/s according to the approval limits specified in the SHA operations manual;Preparation of payment vouchers;Calculation and preparation of monthly payroll and related payments such as income tax, provident fund, pension scheme and social contribution for SHA employees according to policies and procedures and applicable laws of SHA and the Country;Responsible for the preparation of the monthly payroll reconciliation;Responsible for the allocation of salary costs to respective projects and the input of appropriate accounting entries based on the guidance from HoFA guidance;Assist the SFM in the preparation and posting of adjusting journals as required during the review and reconciliation of the monthly trial balance;Responsible for processing the monthly cash flow request of the country programme through Salesforce, as advised by the HoFA;Responsible for the preparation of the annual report and forecasts of the country office and projects for next 3 years for Charities and Societies Agency;Assist in checking of completeness of financial documents for external auditing;Perform all duties of the of the Senior Finance Manager in his/her absence;Perform other duties as assigned to her / him by the Head of Finance;Key Relationships:InternalHead of ProgrammesProject ManagerProgramme TeamExternalGovernment Departments;Cooperatives, NGOs and other service providers