Finance and Administration Manager - The Centre for Counselling, Nutrition, And Health Care in Dar es Salaam

Job Title:Finance and Administration Manager


The Centre for Counselling, Nutrition, And Health Care (COUNSENUTH)
Phone: +255 755 165 112
Area: Dar Es Salaam

Position Description:
The Centre for Counselling, Nutrition, and Health Care (COUNSENUTH) is a Tanzanian non-profit, non-governmental organization working to scale up nutrition work in Tanzania. The mission of COUNSENUTH is to improve quality of life for vulnerable groups through cost-effective, evidence-based, locally appropriate nutrition interventions. COUNSENUTH achieves this mission by building a multi-sectoral advocacy movement for better nutrition governance through active engagement with citizens, policy makers, and government authorities at all levels.

COUNSENUTH is inviting applications to fill a position of Finance and Administration Manager, which is based in. Dar es Salaam. Applicants should be capable of working with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds. The incumbent must have very good interpersonal skills, highly motivated, creative, team player with high degree of integrity and must be fluent in both written and spoken Kiswahili and English.

Position Summary

This position will report to the Executive Director. The Finance and Administration Manager will be responsible for overseeing the administrative, financial management of several projects, provide financial & accounting advice, direction and leadership as well as ensuring compliance with donors' conditions and regulations.

Qualifications and Experience

The applicant must:

Hold a post-graduate degree in Business Administration, Finance or related field with full professional accounting qualifications such as CPA (T)/ACCA

Be registered by the National Board of Accountants and Auditors as Authorized Accountant/Auditor

Have at least five (5) years experience of which three (3) years as a Finance Manager or a Senior Accountant;

Have experience with and NGO, USAID or other donor funded projects, will be an added advantage Possess strong computer skills; experience with Sage ACCPAC ERP is an added advantage

Responsibilities

Maintain Internal Controls System to ensure compliance with Financial and Human Resource legislation policies & Procedures

To regulate, supervise and implement a timely, full and accurate set of accounting books of the organization reflecting all its activities in a manner commensurate with the relevant legislation and regulation in the territories of operation of the organization and subject to internal guidelines set from time to time by the Board of Directors.

Supervising and coordinating the finances of the projects Maintain budgetary controls of expenses

Assisting in building capacity of local Sub-grantees Prepare financial reports

Prepare projects budgets, detailed monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements Perform month-end closing and year-end duties such as reconciliations

Prepare and coordinate annual auditing of the Centre

Prepare bi-annual internal auditing "Of the Centre

Coordinate all the Centre administrative issues

For detailed Terms of References, please contact-us by using the address below



Application Instructions:

Interested applicants should send their written applications, detailed curriculum vitae, photocopies of academic certificates and names and contacts details of three referees including addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses to the address below, quoting the position applied-for on the application letter. For electronic application, quote the position title on the subject of your e-mail. Your application must be submitted to the address below not later than 3rd July 2013. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Executive Director,

The Centre for Counselling, Nutrition and Health care (COUNSENUTH),

44 Galu Street, Ada Estate,

P.O. Box 8218,

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Cell: +255 755 165 112, +255222664756
Deadline: 07/03/ 2013