Regional Project Finance Coordinator, April 2024

Regional Project Finance Coordinator

Nairobi, Kenya

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC), founded in Denmark in 1956, is Denmark’s largest and the world’s leading non-profit, independent, rights-based refugee organisation. Our vision is to assist communities affected by displacement, protecting them from harm, safeguarding their legal rights, and empowering them towards a better future.

DRC East Africa & Great Lakes (EAGL) operates in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda in order to prevent displacement, support communities on the move and help people achieve durable solutions. In addition to its programmatic response, DRC supports initiatives focusing on mixed migration, durable solutions and borderlands, as well as advocacy and policy initiatives related to the displacement agenda at national, regional and global levels.

About the job

This Finance Coordinator provides overall advice, coordination, and technical support on finance to the project team.

This role has a regional focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines within the whole regional area. The role contributes to the development of strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. The role provides support and/or technical guidance to areas of operation under the project scope.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Support

Support the development and implementation of financial management capacity building of staff
Provide technical support and advice to the Finance team

Financial Management

In close cooperation with the Project Manager, reinforce existing procedures and systems for financial management and control in compliance with guidelines of DRC’s Operations Handbook, internal guidelines and donor requirements
Support timely delivery of quality financial reports to donors and internal reports to colleagues and HQ
Ensure compliance with relevant country statutory and other financial obligations such as tax, levies and statutory returns
Monthly financial briefings to the Project Manager
Ensure thorough and effective budgetary control in the Project
Liaise with the Project Manager on key financial issues for the project, including co-funding, financial reporting, key variances and any remedial action
Collecting cash forecasts from the Project Manager and requesting funds in a timely manner
Maintain a continuous overview of funding levels and pay particular attention to shared support costs, including staff salaries
Ensure all required documentation for financial audits in cooperation with Coordination staff and HQ
Ensure monthly meetings are held with the project manager to discuss key variances, reasons for these, and any remedial action that is required
Prepare for local audits
Contribute to the development of proposals with regards to budgeting in cooperation with the Project Manager

About you

To be successful in this role we expect the following:

Minimum 3-5 years’ of international practical experience in financial management
Proven experience in managing large budgets
Competence in providing technical guidance and training
Proven experience in working with national partners, local/government authorities
Working experience with relevant donors (e.g. UNHCR, ECHO, OFDA, WFP, DFID or BPRM guidelines)
Advanced proficiency in Excel
Full professional proficiency in English
Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting or Business Administration

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer

Contract length: 1 year, with the possibility of extension depending on funding and performance

Band: F Non-management

Designation of Duty Station: Unaccompanied

Start date: 15 May 2024

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for National staff in Kenya; please refer to drc.ngo under Vacancies.

Application process

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. Applications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 25 April 2024

More Information

Job City Nairobi,

Danish Refugee Council Nairobi

Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing a broad range of activities relevant to conflict affected communities and persons. The activities are categorized in ten sectors:

Shelter and Non-food Items, Food Security, Protection, Income Generation, Coordination & Operational Services, Community Infrastructure & Services, Humanitarian Mine Action, Armed Violence Reduction (AVR), Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Education.

Here you can read some short exemplifications of what types of activities the respective sectors include:

Shelter and Non-food Items: Provision of emergency shelter, emergency cash grants, rehabilitation of housing, distribution of non-food items (NFIs) and provision of return and repatriation kits.

Food Security: Emergency food provision or food voucher programmes. Training and capacity development in agriculture, agricultural inputs (e.g. tools and seeds), agricultural grants.

Protection: Advocacy for the rights of displaced people in their context of displacement, child protection initiatives, individual protection assistance based on vulnerability, legal aid, land & property rights, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, registration services for the internally displaced and refugees, monitoring of rights and rights awareness-raising, facilitation of return and repatriation processes.

Income Generation: Business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, literacy and numeracy training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation.

Coordination & Operational Services: Coordination and management of refugee and IDP camps, active participation in UN cluster coordination, humanitarian surveys and studies, facilitation of NGO Networks focused on displacement solutions, capacity development, training and support to local NGOs, secondment of experts to UN emergency operations worldwide

Community Infrastructure & Services: Provision of physical infrastructure like roads, bridges, community centres, irrigation systems or other community structures, facilitation and training of infrastructure management groups at community level, facilitation and funding of community development plans, initiatives for disaster risk reduction at community level.

Humanitarian Mine Action: Manual or mechanical mine clearance, clearance of former battle areas, education for affected communities – with special focus on children on how to avoid harm from mines and UXO, surveys of expected and confirmed mined or UXO areas, explosive ordnance disposal and stockpile destruction, capacity building of national demining institutions.

Armed Violence Reduction (AVR): Education in procedures for safe storage and safe handling of small arms and light weapons (SALW), capacity building of institutions for safety, local and community level conflict management and mitigation.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH): Emergency water supply, hygiene item distribution, hygiene information and education, construction of latrines, installation water points, wells and water storage. Water purification.

Education: Education grants and fee support, school feeding programmes, teacher training and support, school materials provision and construction or rehabilitation of school structures.

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