Financial Administrator, Namibia at Jhpiego, April 2024

USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program (MSCP) and Jhpiego are seeking a Financial Administrator to supports the MCSP and work closely with the Finance Manager to coordinate and ensure internal structures and systems are consistent with JHU’s systems and donor reporting requirement. Financial Administrator will also work closely with country offices to develop and strengthen uniform practices and procedures that support international field operations.

Healthy women are the foundation of a strong community, and healthy newborns are the future. Yet each year, nearly 300,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and an estimated three million newborns die within the first month of life.¹ Although these numbers have declined since 1990, there are still too many avoidable deaths, and the vast majority occur in developing countries, where adequate health services are often unavailable or inaccessible.

Jhpiego, an international health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), has been working to bring such life-saving measures to mothers and newborns around the world for four decades. Since 1998, we have led a series of U.S. Agency for International Development flagship global programs to increase maternal and newborn health and survival. Currently, we are leading the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP).

Currently, Jhpiego has maternal and newborn health programs in 40 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Responsibilities

Assist in developing financial policies and procedures, training materials and programs and present to staff
Interpret financial transactions and events for non-financial staff
Assist staff in determining allowable and allocable costs for a particular award and whether costs should be charged direct, to the service center or to general funds
Actively work with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize, and prepare Financial plans, budgets, cash flow projections, pipeline analyses, and operating forecasts
Review assigned projects on a monthly basis, assessing cash burn rates, funding requirements, sub-grants, and contract cash and financial commitments
Determine updated monthly accruals and projections to support forecasting accuracy and project completion as required
Monitor actual expenditure levels against budgets and funding obligations
Recommend budget adjustments, and other cost improvement measures, as required
Coordinate the preparation of and interpret monthly and quarterly financial reports for program and management’s review
Provide ad-hoc reports to internal and external clients as required
Coordinate and prepare budgets for all assigned accounts
Prepare and coordinate detailed project budgets
Use various software applications, such as spreadsheets, relational databases, statistical packages, and graphic packages to assemble, manipulate, format data and/or reports
Assist in creating detailed budgets and budget narratives for business development applications/proposals
Assist in preparing detailed annual budgets for the Service Center and General Funds accounts
Assist in developing the required financial information in support of the budgeting processes related to the JHU five-year plan and non-sponsored and indirect rate accounts
Work closely with the Finance and Administration Office to ensure timely setup and changing of sponsored accounts in the various financial systems and the timely and accurate submission of reports and invoices to sponsors
Work closely with Global Human Resources to open and close country offices and awards/projects within a country office
Provide guidance regarding the interpretation of applicable contract, grant and cooperative agreement terms and conditions, as well as other administrative rules, cost principles under OMB (including A-21, A-133, A-110), 22CFR226, 22CFR228, and FAR
Recommend changes in imprest fund balances as required
Recommend improvements to global financial policies and procedures
Keep abreast of laws and regulations that apply to their field of professional expertise to maintain up-to-date compliance
Serve as direct finance team link to country offices

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Jhpiego

Our History

Responding to the Changing Needs of Women and Families Worldwide

Since its founding in 1974, Jhpiego has been innovating to save the lives of women and families worldwide. From the first day, Jhpiego has been asking the question: How can we make lifesaving services available and accessible to the people who need them—all over the world?

Dr. Theodore M. King, an early innovator and champion for women’s health, was the moving force behind the founding of Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1970s, King recognized the need to make physicians, nurses and administrators from developing countries aware of reproductive health breakthroughs, such as laparoscopy (a procedure used to inspect internal reproductive organs for infertility or to provide contraception by closing off the fallopian tubes) and modern contraceptives. Originally known as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the organization was funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under King’s leadership, as a founder, trustee and later president of Jhpiego for 14 years, the organization conducted a steady stream of programs throughout the developing world.

How Did We Get from There to Here?

Early on, Jhpiego established itself as a leader in reproductive health training. Beginning in 1974, Jhpiego held training sessions on family planning/reproductive health for doctors and nurses in the USA In 1979, Jhpiego started its first in-country training programs in Tunisia, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand and the Philippines. From 1987 through 2004, Jhpiego conducted three global Training in Reproductive Health Projects, funded by USAID. Beginning in 1993, Jhpiego published learning materials on long-acting family planning methods.

Over the years—to respond more effectively to the needs of individual countries—Jhpiego became increasingly field-based and established its first field office in Kenya in 1993. Today, Jhpiego has field offices in more than 30 countries worldwide. Similarly, Jhpiego’s programming areas have expanded to meet changing needs in the field. In addition to family planning and reproductive health, Jhpiego now has expertise in maternal and child health, infection prevention and control, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases.

Jhpiego’s work has also expanded to address reproductive health policy and guidelines and to support health systems strengthening. For example, in 1996 in Brazil, Jhpiego launched a performance and quality improvement approach, now known as Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R), which has since been implemented in 30 countries. SBM-R empowers health workers and facilities to improve the performance and quality of their services by providing them with the tools and methods they need to make decisions, solve problems and innovate at the local level.

Innovations in Training Methods and Technologies

In 1986, Jhpiego pioneered a competency-based training (CBT) approach that emphasizes learning by doing. CBT focuses on how the participant performs and promotes the trainer’s ability to encourage learning. Jhpiego also introduced the use of anatomic models for “humanistic training.” To minimize risk to clients, learners first practice on models until they achieve competency. In 1995, a clinical training skills manual—the cornerstone of Jhpiego’s training approach—was published. Using a systematic “training of trainers” approach, Jhpiego has created a global network of qualified physician, nurse and midwife trainers.

As early as 1984, Jhpiego collaborated with the University of the West Indies to deliver reproductive health courses, via satellite, to six islands in the Caribbean. In 1987, Jhpiego sponsored a global meeting on reproductive health education and technology with the World Health Organization (WHO) and introduced computer-assisted instruction to simulate clinical situations in several of its US-based courses. In 1995, ReproLine, an online source for reproductive health information, was launched. Today, Jhpiego continues to explore new learning technologies: mobile phones in Afghanistan, a computer-based learning management system in Ethiopia, computer-based training in Ghana, a distance learning program in Zambia.

Practical Solutions for Low-Resource Settings

Since the 1992 publication of its international reference standard Infection Prevention for Family Planning Service Programs, Jhpiego has been at the forefront in promoting evidence-based practices that can protect health care professionals, staff and clients from potentially life-threatening infections. To this end, Jhpiego has tested and introduced practical, low-cost infection prevention procedures that can be implemented effectively in settings with limited resources.

In developing countries, cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. In 1995, Jhpiego began research with the University of Zimbabwe to find a low-cost alternative to the Pap test that could make cervical cancer prevention a reality in low-resource settings. Based on the results of this research, Jhpiego helped form the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention in 1999 and received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its cervical cancer program. Since that time, Jhpiego has developed and piloted the single visit approach in which women are screened and treated during the same visit.

In 1995, Jhpiego began addressing HIV/AIDS and its integration with family planning services. Six years later, Jhpiego began work in HIV voluntary counseling and testing with a USAID-funded project in Jamaica. In 2002, Jhpiego received its first funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work in HIV/AIDS and, the following year, developed a global learning package on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV—with CDC, WHO and university partners—to enable global scale-up. Also in 2003, Jhpiego began work on male circumcision for HIV prevention in Zambia. In 2008, Jhpiego developed a global learning package on male circumcision for HIV prevention with WHO and UNAIDS.

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USAID's Maternal and Child Survival Program (MSCP) and Jhpiego are seeking a Financial Administrator to supports the MCSP and work closely with the Finance Manager to coordinate and ensure internal structures and systems are consistent with JHU's systems and donor reporting requirement. Financial Administrator will also work closely with country offices to develop and strengthen uniform practices and procedures that support international field operations.

Currently, Jhpiego has maternal and newborn health programs in 40 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Responsibilities

Assist in developing financial policies and procedures, training materials and programs and present to staff
Interpret financial transactions and events for non-financial staff
Assist staff in determining allowable and allocable costs for a particular award and whether costs should be charged direct, to the service center or to general funds
Actively work with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize, and prepare Financial plans, budgets, cash flow projections, pipeline analyses, and operating forecasts
Review assigned projects on a monthly basis, assessing cash burn rates, funding requirements, sub-grants, and contract cash and financial commitments
Determine updated monthly accruals and projections to support forecasting accuracy and project completion as required
Monitor actual expenditure levels against budgets and funding obligations
Recommend budget adjustments, and other cost improvement measures, as required
Coordinate the preparation of and interpret monthly and quarterly financial reports for program and management's review
Provide ad-hoc reports to internal and external clients as required
Coordinate and prepare budgets for all assigned accounts
Prepare and coordinate detailed project budgets
Use various software applications, such as spreadsheets, relational databases, statistical packages, and graphic packages to assemble, manipulate, format data and/or reports
Assist in creating detailed budgets and budget narratives for business development applications/proposals
Assist in preparing detailed annual budgets for the Service Center and General Funds accounts
Assist in developing the required financial information in support of the budgeting processes related to the JHU five-year plan and non-sponsored and indirect rate accounts
Work closely with the Finance and Administration Office to ensure timely setup and changing of sponsored accounts in the various financial systems and the timely and accurate submission of reports and invoices to sponsors
Work closely with Global Human Resources to open and close country offices and awards/projects within a country office
Provide guidance regarding the interpretation of applicable contract, grant and cooperative agreement terms and conditions, as well as other administrative rules, cost principles under OMB (including A-21, A-133, A-110), 22CFR226, 22CFR228, and FAR
Recommend changes in imprest fund balances as required
Recommend improvements to global financial policies and procedures
Keep abreast of laws and regulations that apply to their field of professional expertise to maintain up-to-date compliance
Serve as direct finance team link to country offices

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