SPARK develops higher education and entrepreneurship, so that young ambitious people are empowered to lead their conflict-affected society into prosperity. SPARK is a dynamic and growing not-for-profit development organization with 80 staff members that helps young entrepreneurs to start or grow their own businesses.SPARK is achieving its mission by organizing business plan competitions, business skills training, SME coaching and mentoring, business incubation, SME financing, intensive higher vocational summer courses, curriculum development and quality assurance at universities and higher vocational education institutions.
SPARK focuses on small and growing businesses, in post conflict states such as, and not limited to: Burundi, Kosovo, Liberia, Mali, Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Somalia and South Sudan.
Spark is currently looking to fill the position of:
Finance Officerbased in Monrovia, Liberia
Tasks and responsibilities
- Train and coach local partner organizations in the improvement of their financial management systems;
- Coach partner organisations is drafting activity budgets and reporting on these budgets;
- Coach partner organizations in the preparation of external financial audits at their organizations;
- Be the main contact for financial matters to all partners in the country and to the Finance department of SPARK in HQ in the Netherlands;
- Control and process financial reports of local partners
- Making payments for Spark office and process all payments in the bookkeeping system
- Administration of SPARK office, preparation of monthly financial reports of Spark office
- Administrating Spark Car use and make bookings
- Maintain contact with local bank and micro-finance institution
- Representation and networking with donors and partner institutions
- Proposal writing, especially budgets, for new projects
- General office management support
Requirements and skills
- Professional experience in training and coaching in Financial Management;
- Experience in project management, especially in drawing up activity budgets and reporting to donors;
- Accurate, Structured, Flexible, Responsible
- Good oral and written language skills in English
- Good team worker while able to work independently
- Good communication and social skills and able to work in multicultural setting
- Working experience in a prior comparable job is an advantage
SPARK offers
- Contract for 40 hours a week;
- Remuneration depending on education and experience;
- International environment;
- Dynamic working experience;
HOW TO APPLY:
For more information, please visit SPARK website: www.spark-online.org.
If you are interested, please email your letter of motivation and your CV to vacancy[at]spark-online.org before January 20th 2015.Reference: Vacancy Financial Officer Liberia. Only successful candidates will be contacted. If you have any questions please send these to the email address indicated before January 17th 2015.
