Vacancy Announcement – TechnoServe
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!TechnoServe would like to invite qualified and interested job seekers to apply for the following different positions.
Position 1: Finance Officer
Duties and Responsibilities
Financial management & accounting tasks:
- Process accounting data recording with accurate, appropriate and adequate documentation before submitting for approval in NAV.
- Assist the daily running and extraction process of expense and advance reports from Databases for importation to NAV
- Prepare journal entries by ensuring the accuracy of financial transactions for Account ID, Geography, Task Code, ARC, Responsibility Center and other dimension codes in NAV.
- Comply with International Public Sector Accounting Standards whenever vouchers are prepared.
- Assist the review process of the journal vouchers to correct and/or adjust/update accounting records;
- During preparing documents for settlement, confirm that procurement processes adhered to TNS policy, legal and contractual obligations and donor standards;
- On a monthly basis, monitor and track the assigned debtors (card balances)/creditors balances for timely liquidation.
- Prepare bank reconciliation and petty cash reconciliation at the end of the month.
- Perform month end reconciliations for Travel and project advances and report it to the controller promptly.
- Prepare monthly employees’ payroll before being approved and paid off.
- Perform settlement of payroll taxes, provident fund, and withholding tax on timely basis
- Perform timesheet completion for Ethiopia proxy group as assigned by the Databasics group and troubleshoot any issues as soon as raised.
Regulatory & Statutory Compliance
- Ensure compliance with TNS policies and procedures, donor requirements and local laws.
- Reconcile and ensure all statutory payments are intact and settled within the government deadline.
- Maintain high levels of confidentiality in relation to sensitive and confidential financial data, decisions and issues;
- Ensure compliance requirements of IPSAS and the ACSO regulation.
- Asset Management
- Ensure the existence of effective management, monitoring, and tracking of TNS properties.
- Assist the country controller in reviewing the asset register is periodically.
- Take part in the year end physical count of fixed assets.
Financial Reporting/ Analysis
- Report controller of the outstanding balances of debtors and creditors for timely settlement.
- By 2nd of each month, ensure all ledgers and sub-ledgers are reconciled on daily basis with the objective of having clean MoVs at the end of the month.
- Contact individuals or entities with delinquent accounts for clearance.
- Manage monthly and annual financial closings, and prepare financial reports / statements as required.
Field Office Support
- Assists the accounts manager in providing technical assistance and serve as a backstop person for field office accountants.
- Coordinate monthly report submissions by Field Offices. Ensure submission is of financial documents by 15th each month.
Others
- Assist the controller in monitoring budgets and ledger balances.
- Assists the accounts manager in facilitating audit undertakings.
- Undertake other related works as instructed by the Financial Controller.
- Orient, train, motivate, assign, coach, evaluate and apprise employees reporting to this position.
Job Requirements
- Degree in Accounting and finance from a recognized institution.
- Bachelor’s Degree + 3 years experience, Master’s Degree + 1 year experience in accounting, preferably with an international NGO.
- Sound knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
International Public Sector Accounting Standards
- Excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- Proficiency in English (written/spoken).
Workplace: Addis Ababa
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Deadline: September 21, 2023
Position 2: – Market Linkage Specialist
Key responsibilities:
- As Market Linkages Specialists, you will be responsible for facilitating linkages for start-up entrepreneurs and/or existing Horticulture value chain actors in the program ACCs woredas.
- As major tasks of the role, identification and building of linkages between buyers, aggregators and agro input suppliers to increase efficiency of the supply chains.
- Provide support on conducting and updating market scans and analyses, as well as in the identification of potential strategic partners.
- Organize Market Linkage forums and workshops among the horticulture value chain actors in ACC woredas.
- Ensure the delivery of the sales volume targets via market facilitation
- Facilitates relationships of each supply chain actors toward creating a more transparent and inclusive sector to ensure sustainable supply chains.
- Provide technical assistance to agro dealers, buyers and aggregators to put together realistic sourcing strategy, bookkeeping, basic business plans and build business relations among the supply chain actors
- Organize business to business meetings and group platforms for market linkages to facilitate negotiations and contract agreements between aggregators and buyers/off takers.
- Organize business to business meetings and group platforms for market linkages to facilitate negotiations and contract agreement between input distributors & local agro dealers
- Coordinate and facilitates trainings for aggregators on quality standards to ensure buyers source raw materials according to their requirements
- You will closely coordinate and work together with the ATI cluster coordinators, MoA focal persons in the assigned ACCs woredas, Local trade offices, with the guidance of your supervisor to formalize the supply chain.
- Closely work with health and nutrition extension agents to promote horticulture nutrition campaigning and linking local market actors with aggregators
- Nurture and maintain the necessary network in the private sector and among the farming community as well as development projects that support agricultural productivity and marketing
- Develop and keep up-to-date profile of supply and demands / off-takers among buyers and aggregators both for agro inputs and produce supply
- Identify and undertake thorough and periodic analyses of demand and supply gap between aggregators and buyers
- Encourage private sectors/buyers to invest resources in smallholder farm production and logistics to support quality and reliable supply.
- Ensure aggregators understand each buyer product requirements.
- Support the piloting and implementation activities of contract farming legislations in Oromia
- Implement gender action plans and strategies to ensure participation of women owned and/or led businesses as well as women SHF benefit from the market linkages work
Job Requirements
Bachelor/Master’s degree in one of the following: Agribusiness; Economics; Business Administration; Horticulture, and/or related field;
Work Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree + 3 years experience, Master’s Degree + 1 year experience working experience in developing and facilitating market linkages, business advising and organ; Working experience in market systems development and facilitation.
Technical and Social Skills
- Able to use and utilize MS office applications. Strong analytical and risk assessment skills.
- Serious and hard-working, eager to learn, good feedback mentality, result oriented, taking responsibility and accountability, good in building and maintaining relations key partners and negation skills.
- Flexible and autonomous working, enthusiastic and willing to travel
- Written and Spoken fluency of English, Amharic and Afan Oromo.
- Knowledge of the local language “Afan Oromo” is mandatory.
Workplace: Addis Ababa
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Deadline: September 25, 2023
Position 3: – Agronomy Advisor I
Key roles and responsibility:
- Sensitize local leadership, smallholder coffee farmers and all local stakeholders on the TechnoServe coffee project work.
- Implement existing strategies to provide assigned woredas and kebeles with agronomy training and with structured post-training farm visits to improve adoption.
- Train and advise farmers being assisted by the project on coffee agronomy best practices with the objective of helping them to improve coffee yields and quality.
- Train, mentor, coach and support assigned Farmer Trainers on all technical and operational aspects of their work and in relationship with farmers. This includes assisting them to set performance goals, continuous assessment of performance and giving feedback.
- Participate in the implementation of the defined project monitoring, measurement and evaluation activities that ensure accurate and consistent capture of date for project reporting and documenting of the impact of our work.
- Where possible, create linkages between wet mills, farmers and suppliers of recommended inputs and other farm requirements.
- Collect, collate, validate and submit the specified project data and clients’ reports within stipulated time lines. This includes impact stories, photos and other beneficiaries’ information that may be requested from time to time
- Cultivate and manage good relationship with local leadership and farmer as well as with key industry stakeholders and community leaders at local levels.
- Keep abreast of developments concerning coffee at the wet mills, farms and in the local community and regularly report these.
- Understand, respect and promote TechnoServe’s values, vision, and strategy in the implementation of assigned duties.
- Any other relevant tasks as assigned by the Senior Agronomy Advisor.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture, or Plant science. May accept experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 2-4 year’s professional experience – ideally in the private sector – in one or more of the following areas: coffee processing or agronomy; business or cooperative management; SME development; agriculture; training; extension services.
- Demonstrated good understanding of the Ethiopia coffee industry is an added advantage
- Possess an aptitude and skills for training adults in a field set up.
- Strong planning skills and ability to generate innovative solutions in highly dynamic work situations.
- Demonstrated ability to prepare and present well-written, cohesive analyses and reports.
- Strong interpersonal, collaborative and cross-cultural skills.
- Willingness to be based and to spend time in project implementation sites located in rural areas.
- Valid Renewed Motorcycle riding license, ability and willingness to ride a motorcycle is a MUST
- Fluency in English and Amharic. Knowledge of local languages such as Afan Oromo or Sidamigna is an added advantage Success Factors
Workplace: Bensa Woreda, Sidama
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Deadline: September 29, 2023
How to Apply
We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe’s vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply by September 29, 2023 using the above link, which mentioned under each position.
With our commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and affirmative action employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.
We are also proud of our commitment to protecting staff, partners, and beneficiaries from abuse and exploitation and thoroughly vet all final candidates through rigorous background and reference checks.
If you have a disability that affects your ability to use our online system to apply for a position at TechnoServe please contact the Human Resources at recruitment@tns.org or call +1 202 785 4515.
FEMALE CANIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY
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