Finance & Administration Coordinator (based in Addis Ababa), April 2024

Vacancy Announcement:

Health Poverty Action (HPA) is a UK based international development organization with a mission of supporting the poorest and most vulnerable people to achieve better health and wellbeing in their effort. Established in 1984, HPA currently operates in 13 countries including Ethiopia.

HPA has been operational in Ethiopia since 2006, primarily with semi-nomadic pastoralists, and has implemented various SRHR, MNCH, TB, NCDs and other health and women empowerment projects that support communities in South Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR), in lowland districts of Bale, Oromia Region and in Liben Zone of the Ethiopian Somali Region and other selected hospitals and health centres in Addis Ababa and 6 regional states. Currently, we are preparing to implement COVID-19 testing and other women empowerment project in the Zone 3 of Afar regional state with field office in Awash 7 Killo. For more information about our organisation please visit our website: www.healthpovertyaction.org

HPA wants to recruit for the following vacant position:

Finance & Administration Coordinator

The Finance and Administration Coordinator will ensure HPA/HL’s financial and administrative policies, systems, processes and procedures are implemented and developed. The Finance and Administration Coordinator will report to the Country Manager. The position is based in Addis Ababa with frequent travels to areas where HPA has operations.

Main duties and responsibilities:

Ensure that country set up adhere to HPA policies, donor and auditor requirements.
Implement HPA’s financial systems, routines and procedures.
Management of financial & admin team.
Provide regular analysis and reports.
Lead on the monthly/regular booking of expenses to HPA’s financial software
Closely monitor of level of expenditure and allocation of expenses to existing projects, providing monthly Budget versus Actual reports to be discussed with Country Manager.
Ensure effective cash flows, preparing forecast of expenditures and submitting monthly cash requests to Head Office.
Support on the elaboration of budget for new proposals, ensuring that budgeting tools are correctly used and ensuring support costs are properly budgeted.
Lead on preparation and assistance on Internal and/or External Audits and other financial documentation revision from any external body.

Duration: The contract duration is one year with possibility of renewal depending on the availability of funds and performance. Please clearly indicate the name of the position and location that you’re applying in subject line of your email.

Job Requirements

Competence and Personal Requirements:

Strong experience working on a Senior finance role in a NGO context
A minimum of BA degree in Accounting/ Business Management with more than 8 years practical experience preferably in International NGO setting with Multi donor organizations.
Proven experience in Institutional Donor´s contracting & management
Capacity of relationship with different actors (CM, donors, finance and program staff, partners, HQ)
Capacity of supervision of the team
Ability to prioritize work
Ability to delegate responsibilities
Problem solving attitude
Ability to build/elaborate new budgets, annual financial plans, costs-sharing, etc.
Knowledge of English as a working language, other language skills are an advantage

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send their CV and one page motivation letter by including their salary expectations and when you’ll be available only through [email protected] and [email protected] for seven consecutive working days starting from the first date of advertisement. Applicants will be short-listed and contacted for an interview on a progressive basis.

Note: Use “Finance & Administration Coordinator (based in Addis Ababa)” as the subject title of your email!

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Job City Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa

Health Poverty Action

In 1984 a young British doctor returned from Afghanistan with a profound understanding of the connection between health and poverty.

He wrote a vivid account of life in marginalised communities in the mountains of Afghanistan for the Guardian newspaper, depicting malnutrition, frequent child deaths and people walking for nine days to see a doctor. He described the lack of support for people there, and how development organisations were unable to help because they were either not able or not willing to face the ‘political hot potato’.

In small type at the end of the article was his phone number and a request that anyone interested in strengthening health services in Afghanistan contact him. The responses were overwhelming.

Doctors, nurses and development workers assembled to become the first Health Poverty Action staff and set up an organisation that would stand in partnership with marginalised communities for decades to come (then known as Health Unlimited).

This organisation would specialise in the connection between health and poverty. One of its defining characteristics would be to prioritise the people and issues missed out by everyone else – going where others could not or would not.

It would also recognise that, especially for the poorest, tackling one problem in isolation might achieve little more than change the cause of their death. So right from the start it took an integrated and multi-disciplinary approach. In its first year – in southern Afghanistan – Health Poverty Action focused not just on medical care, but also on improving access to nutritious food and clean water.

This was the time of the Soviet war. During such conflicts it is almost always the poorest and most marginalised who suffer most, often living in remote and inaccessible areas. In the years since that first project we have seen how often severely poor and neglected populations – often indigenous people or ethnic minorities – are living in post-conflict situations.

Health Poverty Action has developed valuable relationships of trust with many communities like this, who have learnt through bitter experience to trust few outsiders. We always respect the fact that our role is to strengthen them, in their struggle for health. The way forward should be the one they choose. Health Poverty Action doesn’t set up its own parallel systems, but helps communities build on what is already there and demand their rights.

Today, Health Poverty Action works in 13 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We continue to go where other organisations can’t or won’t. We continue to emphasise the connection between health and poverty. And we continue to tackle the two together, in integrated ways.

We remain strongly rooted in the communities we work with, the vast majority of our staff coming from the populations they serve. Alongside this we do policy and campaigns work at national and international levels, to help change the policies and practices that cause and sustain poverty, and deny poor and marginalised people their health rights.

The People’s Health Movement and Alma-Ata principles

Health Poverty Action is part of a global movement.

In 1978, health campaigners worldwide achieved a major breakthrough at the UN Alma-Ata Conference on Primary Health Care. This conference statement signalled a new approach to health care, often described as the ‘primary health care approach’ or the ‘Alma-Ata principles’ – deeply rooted in the social and structural determinants of health (such as poverty eradication), and emphasising the importance of health care being accountable and accessible to the people it serves. A global target of achieving “Health for All” by the year 2000 was established.

Health Poverty Action was born out of this primary health care movement. We have always been part of it, and it remains our primary global network (now known as the People’s Health Movement).

The title ‘People’s Health Movement’ came into being in the year 2000. The world had moved away move away from the Alma-Ata principles towards a more market-led approach (championed by the World Bank). Instead of seeing Health For All, the last millennium ended amid a global health crisis.

In response, a worldwide People’s Health Assembly was called. Thousands of health campaigners and civil society representatives (including Health Poverty Action) gathered together in Bangladesh – and the People’s Health Movement was born. This global network of grassroots activists, civil society organisations and academic institutions, particularly from developing countries, continues to work for health justice – so that one day the vision of Health For All will become reality.

The People’s Health Movement’s history, analysis and positioning is a fundamental part of Health Poverty Action’s identity. This is recognised by Health Poverty Action being one of only a handful of organisations in the world that is awarded the status of being formally affiliated to the movement.

Changing our name from Health Unlimited to Health Poverty Action

In 2010 we refreshed our identity. For the 25 years prior, ‘Health Unlimited’ served the cause well, but we increasingly found that it didn’t easily communicate what kind of organisation we are. As a result we changed our name to Health Poverty Action, to better reflec

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Vacancy Announcement:

HPA wants to recruit for the following vacant position:

Finance & Administration Coordinator

Main duties and responsibilities:

Ensure that country set up adhere to HPA policies, donor and auditor requirements.
Implement HPA’s financial systems, routines and procedures.
Management of financial & admin team.
Provide regular analysis and reports.
Lead on the monthly/regular booking of expenses to HPA’s financial software
Closely monitor of level of expenditure and allocation of expenses to existing projects, providing monthly Budget versus Actual reports to be discussed with Country Manager.
Ensure effective cash flows, preparing forecast of expenditures and submitting monthly cash requests to Head Office.
Support on the elaboration of budget for new proposals, ensuring that budgeting tools are correctly used and ensuring support costs are properly budgeted.
Lead on preparation and assistance on Internal and/or External Audits and other financial documentation revision from any external body.

Job Requirements

Competence and Personal Requirements:

Strong experience working on a Senior finance role in a NGO context
A minimum of BA degree in Accounting/ Business Management with more than 8 years practical experience preferably in International NGO setting with Multi donor organizations.
Proven experience in Institutional Donor´s contracting & management
Capacity of relationship with different actors (CM, donors, finance and program staff, partners, HQ)
Capacity of supervision of the team
Ability to prioritize work
Ability to delegate responsibilities
Problem solving attitude
Ability to build/elaborate new budgets, annual financial plans, costs-sharing, etc.
Knowledge of English as a working language, other language skills are an advantage

How to Apply

Note: Use "Finance & Administration Coordinator (based in Addis Ababa)" as the subject title of your email!

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