Program Accountant -EUTF project
Trócaire, Ethiopia

CST Ethiopia represents the overseas development and humanitarian agencies of the Catholic Church from England and Wales (CAFOD), Scotland (SCIAF), and Ireland (Trócaire) in Ethiopia. The three agencies have over 40 years’ of experience in international development and humanitarian response and are each members of worldwide networks, including Caritas Internationalis. Currently, the three agencies jointly operate a single, integrated country programme in Ethiopia through the legal entity CST Ethiopia.

CST Ethiopia is implementing a country strategic plan focused on two programmes Women’s Empowerment and Resilient Communities, which integrates sustainable livelihoods, humanitarian and other (e.g. peacebuilding) programming.

As part of the CST Ethiopia Programme, CST Ethiopia/Trócaire has secured a grant from EU under the EUTF for a project entitled Stability and socio-economic development for vulnerable and marginalized communities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia (T05-EUTF-HOA-ET-76). The overall objective of the project is to promote stability and socio economic development in vulnerable and marginalised areas of the Tigray region, in Ethiopia. The project has two components namely; i) Promotion of peace building and conflict prevention among local populations living in peripheral areas of Tigray at regional, zonal, woreda and at community levels and ii) Improvement of socio-economic opportunities for the most vulnerable and marginalized populations of the Tigray region. The project is going to be implemented in partnership with 7 implementing partners for 42 months with a total budget of 5.89 million, starting in April 2021. As the lead organization, CST Ethiopia/Trócaire is planning to open a satellite office in Tigray for proper coordination and management of the project.

CST Ethiopia/Trócaire is seeking to hire a Program Accountant with relevant experiences on managing consortium projects who is familiar to the area of operation.

Scope of Role

The Program Accountant reports to Consortium Manager and functionally reported to Finance amp; Administration Manager of CST Ethiopia. The Program Accountant is an important role in the satellite office in Mekelle and will coordinate and manage the EU funded project to deliver the intended results in collaboration with other EUTF team.

The position holder is not a budget holder. However, it works closely with consortium manager and other programme staff amp; Partners staff to provide technical support on other EUTF projects implemented by the Partners who are working in Tigray Regional State.

Reporting to

CST Ethiopia Consortium Manager of EUTF-functionally report to Finance amp; Administration manager

Key Duties amp; Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

(a) Financial Control and Bookkeeping (20%)

• In collaboration with the Consortium Manager, CST Ethiopia Finance Team and partners, as well as other programme staff, ensure timely transfers of funds are made to partners.
• Prepare all the necessary financial documents pertaining to the Project;
• Ensure all the costs incurred are as per the approved budget of the Project and in compliance with the financial guidelines of the donor and CST;
• Make sure that all payments are accompanied with the necessary supporting documents and are coded accordingly;
• Work with the Financial Accountant to ensure all the floats taken from CST for the Project are settled in a timely manner and are as per the guidelines of the donor and the Office, providing guidance to partners on the same;
• Follow up the tax exemption or reimbursement process of items purchased under the Project when applicable;
• Work with the Financial Accountant to ensure all the internal transactions into Agresso in a timely manner.
• Ensure all the grants to partner’s transactions are entered into Agresso in a timely manner and that a report is generated at end of each month.

b) Financial Monitoring and Capacity building (30 %)

Ø Undertake financial monitoring visits with the Project Coordinator on a regular basis, including visits to the Project field locations, so as to check partners’ compliance with the donor’s financial management guidelines at field and head office levels;

• Ø Provide technical support on financial management to the partners whenever the need arises; Ø Be actively involved in procurement processes and ensure they are carried out in compliance with the donor’s as well as the Joint Office procurement policies and highlight any deviation from EC procedures to the Proj

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