Vacancies at Child Fund International
Vacancies at Child Fund International
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Finance and Administration Officer
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Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitors all donor-funded financial transactions.
- Prepares payment for planned and approved projects in a timely manner.
- Reviews all the daily financial transactions and the books of accounts to ensure they are appropriately recorded and coded.
- Reviews monthly bank reconciliation reports
- Ensure fund meant for program activities are disbursed and received on time.
- Ensures adherence and compliance to the area budget.
- Ensures that the related financial transactions comply with the donor requirements, country laws, donor policies and procedures.
- Prepares annual, monthly, and quarterly financial requirements for the area for funding.
- Prepares financial reports using quick books.
- Ensures that LRDP meets donor audit requirements and provides appropriate guidance and comments in disclosure letter.
- Ensures appropriate internal controls through adherence to the accounting systems and procedures.
- Supervises staff and ensures that HR policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Ensure staff and assets are secured and well maintained.
- Any other duty assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications/Experience.
- A bachelor’s degree in commerce majoring in Finance or Accounting,
- CPA-K will be an added advantage
- Knowledge in accounting packages.
- At least five years of professional experience in accountancy and administration in an INGO/NGO handling donor-funded projects
- Working knowledge of Kenya Labour Laws
- Knowledge in HR and Procurement processes
- Conversant with donor reports or general project reports-monthly, quarterly, mid-term review and endterm reviews
- Good organization and time management skills and ability to work under pressure.
- Good communication and writing skills.
- Must have very good interpersonal skills
- Must be a person of very high integrity.
Consultancy for the Review and Development of Country Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan- Nairobi
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Overall, the aims of the putting in place the EPP is to:
- Provide a practical framework for ChildFund Kenya Country Office (CO) to continually improve its preparedness and response.
- Increase understanding of potential risks affecting children, their families, and communities in its areas of operation.
- Establish and mainstream a standard for minimum emergency preparedness at CO level.
- Guide CO as an emergency risk becomes more imminent and help in raising its readiness level.
- Enable CO to build and increase its emergency response capacities to adequately address humanitarian needs in coordination with other actors.
- Guide Country Office in their initial emergency responses.
- Increase ChildFund Kenya’s profile within the County and National governments, UN system, Donors, NGOs, and other key emergency actors.
Now that it is almost two years since the country EPP was developed, it and that organisation in 2022 started implementing a new Country Strategic Plan, it is this an opportune moment to review and update the document. This TOR is therefore seeking to engage a consultant that will lead in the review and update of the EPP.
Purpose and Objectives of Consultancy
Overall Objective of the Consultancy
The objective is to support and coordinate the review and development of a ChildFund Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPP), that will enable the realization of the CSP priorities. The Process is expected to assist ChildFund outline EPP sector wise focus in areas of Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE), Education in Emergency (EiE), WASH, Food and Nutrition Security, Shelter, NFIs, Livestock among others. The EPP is thus envisaged to enable ChildFund and its IPs to mainstream disaster risk reduction in their programmes and projects.
Specific Objectives
- Update the Country and county specific disaster situation data over years to data for trend analysis.
- Coordinate and work with ChildFund team in the gathering of information on the hazards, risks, vulnerability, and capacity in ChildFund Kenya operational areas and update the EPP.
- Gather and information data from various ChildFund Kenya departments update the relevant sections of the Country EPP accordingly.
- Carry out the actual review, design, and delivery of final updated EPP to ChildFund Kenya by end of May 2023.
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Scope of work
The assignment involves review ChildFund EPP with the relevant up to date information and data from credible sources relating to the counties where ChildFund has operation and information from the National government and other actors regarding Emergency preparedness, plan, and response in the country. The plan will encompass hazards, disasters, capacities, and vulnerability and disaster preparedness. The plan is expected to be aligned to ChildFund’s CSP, Government plans and strategies both at the national and county level. This exercise will take a maximum of 3 weeks and may require where possible engagement with the various IP in different counties where possible for information gathering. The consultant will work with the DRR specialist in consultation with Program and Sponsorship Director for the review and input into the EPP before presentation of the draft for validation by the Management.
Methodology
- Review of Government, UN agencies and other NGOs emergency documents
- Discussion and information gathering from Participants, ChildFund Staff, Implementing Partners, and Government officials in target Counties.
- Engagement of key stakeholders in the humanitarian Sector in the review of the EPP.
- The consultant should lead a process of self-reflection/learning and results incorporated into the EPP.
- Review of existing documents within ChildFund including the CSP, project documents, policies, and reports.
- Review and input into the existing ChildFund EPP.
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Expected contents and outputs
- ChildFund and its IP staff should be able to appreciate and understand the potential risks affecting children, their families, and communities and how to respond.
- An updated EPP that will enable ChildFund to prepare and respond to different emergencies within the next 2 years adequately and effectively.
- The EPP should be implementable and enable ChildFund and IPs better contribute to the timely and relevant emergency response.
Tentative Schedule
- The exercise will take approximately 3 weeks from the agreed start date of the assignment.
- There will be an inception meeting with the consultant on the first day with key ChildFund Kenya team.
- The consultant will take 5 working days to gather updated information from the relevant stakeholders as indicated in the scope and methodology above
- One day reflection and learning workshop
- Review and update of the ChildFund EPP will take 6 working days and followed presentation to ChildFund for validation.
- Upon validation the consultant will finalization the EPP final document and submit to ChildFund within two working days.
Deliverables
- Submission for an Inception Report at three days after taking up the assignment.
- Submission of the final reviewed and updated ChildFund Emergency Preparedness Plan
- A short presentation to ChildFund on the EPP
Consultants’ Qualifications
The consultant must have the following competencies:
- Must have an advanced degree in related to humanitarian response, disaster management, development studies or or any other related discipline.
- Must have similar experience on Emergency Response planning and Disaster Preparedness in the past 5 years
- Good understanding of Kenya disaster and climate change context
- Experience in developing organizational strategies, contingency plans, actions plans and policy documents etc. in areas of Emergency
- Excellent analytical and report writing skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
Method of Application
Use the emails(s) below to apply
- Finance and Administration Officer – Apply Here
- Consultancy for the Review and Development of Country Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan- Nairobi – Apply Here
Interested candidates who meet the above qualifications should send their applications including the technical and financial proposal. The technical proposal should clearly indicate the qualification and previous similar assignments are undertaken. Incomplete applications will be disqualified, all the applications should be sent before the close of business on 19th May 2023
Only shortlisted consultants will be contacted.
Job disclaimer and notification:
Beware of scams – ChildFund Kenya does not ask for payment during or after the recruitment process.