Finance & Grants Officer

Duration of Project: Anticipated dates—late 2011 to February 28, 2015

Position: Finance & Grants Officer

Duty Station : Jayapura, Papua

Objective:

Kinerja is seeking an experienced Indonesian Finance & Grants officer (FGO) to support an anticipated USAID health governance activity in four districts of Papua, Indonesia (Kota Jayapura, Kab. Jayapura, Kab. Jayawijaya, and Kab. Mimika). The project aims to contribute to the improved delivery of public health services (especially related to tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health) in Papua by strengthening health sector management and good governance, including increased participation, accountability, and access to information.

General Description of Position:

Provides assistant in one of the Kinerja provincial offices in Jayapura (Papua) in managing all financial and

accounting functions for the project ensuring that RTI financial policies are properly implemented and all transactions are properly processed, recorded and reported on time. The Finance/Grants officer is required to maintain the accuracy of these transaction records to ensure USAID compliance. He/she is to regularly assist the Jakarta Senior Accountant/Grants Officer to review the financial system and operations, including grants administration and management in accordance with RTI and USAID policies and procedures. Travel for site visits to grantees

might be required.

This position reports to Provincial Coordinators and Jakarta Grants Officer.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides training for grantees on applicable rules and regulations, policies and procedures, guidelines for preparing financial reports

• Updates grants database in RTI systems; keeping grants documentation and files in the project office

• Coordinates monitoring of grants by project technical staff; ensures timely filing of monitoring reports

• Conducts periodic grants site visits

• Prepares grants implementation section for quarterly project progress reports

• Reviews advance requests from grantees and endorse them for further approvals and processing

• Reviews progress reports and financial reports from grantees, endorse financial reports for further approvals and booking in Quickbooks

• Conducts grantee financial monitoring, including collection of financial information and supporting documentation from grantees; voucher verification; determination of budget compliance, reasonableness of charges, and cost allocability;

• Conducts periodic market surveys and unit cost checks to insure reasonableness of unit costs for grantees and sub-awardees.

Qualifications required:

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting/Finance

• Minimum 3 years of experience performing similar duties as an accountant and grants administration

• Knowledge of banking and financial procedures

• Ability to work under tight deadlines and managing priorities

• High degree of adaptability to varied working environments and good interpersonal and teamwork skills

• High standard of personal and professional integrity

• Experience in administering USAID and RTI financial regulations, systems and procedures is desirable

• Proficient in MS Excel and working knowledge of Quickbooks accounting software is preferable

• Able to communicate in both native language and English (written and spoken)

KINERJA Project, a local governance program funded by USAID focusing on providing service delivery in the areas education, health and economic services is currently looking for Provincial Coordinator according to the scope of work below. Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications to apujiastuti@kinerja.or.id not later than 4 November 2011 indicating the reference subject. All candidates are requested to specify their availability date in the application form. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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