Job Title: Programmes Finance amp; Administration Manager
Location: DRC - Great Lakes and Central Africa Region
Reporting to: Great Lakes and Central Africa Regional Representative
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week
Principal Location: Bukavu with regular travel to other parts of the Country and Region (circa 30% time)..
Background:
Street Child believes every child deserves to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on education, child protection, and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues underpinning today’s education crisis. We partner with local organizations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programs. We use evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale-up of programs to create maximum impact for most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s most challenging places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 children go to school and learn and supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses to afford the cost of educating their children.
Part 1: Role Purpose:
This role aims to offer financial and administrative management support to Great Lakes and Central Africa Region programs, focusing primarily on Street Child Programmes in DRC. The role reports to the Great Lakes and Central Africa Regional Representative but with dotted technical relations with the Street Child Head of Finance in Africa.
The role holds a senior position within the Street Child -DRC team and will oversee Street Child -DRC financial setup to support operationalizing all program/project implementation in full compliance with donors’ and SC operational standards. The role will also provide financial support to programs across Great Lakes and Central Africa and partner organizations to support the development and implementation of robust financial management and reporting systems and assess and strengthen the control environment, financial management, grant management, and reporting. It will be building the finance and grants management capacity of Street Child staff and partners. A vital part of this is facilitating communication between Programmes and Finance staff. The role will communicate regularly with the Head of Africa Finance, in-country staff, and UK-based Finance staff.
Part 2: Key Responsibilities:
Finance Management:
Grant Management and Budget proposal: