TITLE: Finance Volunteer – Partnerships

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Finance

LOCATION: Amman, Jordan

GRADE:

CONTRACT LENGTH: 3 MONTHS

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Finance Volunteer will play an important role in supporting the finance team by assisting with partner verification processes and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial records. Additionally, the role involves organizing and archiving financial documentation. The volunteer will also provide ad-hoc support as needed.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

The Partnership Finance Assistant will be responsible for:

• Support the verification of partner’s financial reports and supporting documents, making sure that expenses are reasonable, allowable, and allocatable to the approved budget and comply with donor regulations.
• Support on safekeeping and archiving of all records received from partners.
• Support on draft General Journal (GJ) for all partner financial reports.
• Provide other ad-hoc financial tasks as requested.

Reports Direct: Finance Coordinator

Staff reporting to this post: NA

Budget Responsibilities: NA

Role Dimensions: Coordination with other colleagues of the Area Offices and Finance staff of different Sub-grantees.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Adequate documentation according to donor financial requirements.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, take responsibility for their own personal development, and encourage their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future-orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners, and supporters
• values diversity, and sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or equivalent.)

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 0-1 year’s experience in accounting/finance.
• Experience in the NGO sector preferred.
• Experience in the Finance partnership preferred.
• Proven ability to handle a workload and multi-task to meet deadlines.
• Understanding of financial systems (FMS – Agresso & AMS) and procedures
• Understanding of computerized accounts packages, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Written and verbal in Arabic & English

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties following the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.