MEDA\u2019s project, Greater Rural Opportunities (GROW), seeks to improve food security for 20,000 families in northern Ghana. GROW helps women increase availability, access, and utilization of a variety of appropriate and nutritious food through strengthening production and market linkages, increasing diversification in production, and creating nutrition awareness.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title: Finance And Administration Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n Project Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n The Finance and Administration Officer will be responsible for providing support and assistance to the effective management of Country Office in Tamale and in the Field Office of MEDA in Wa, Upper West for the GAC-funded Greater Rural Opportunities for Women (GROW).<\/p>\n Administration:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Support staff in preparation of requests, advance retirements and other logistics and forward to approving authorities. Finance:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Support the Finance Manager and the Logistics Coordinator keep up to date records of Technology Fund transactions. Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 A minimum of first degree in accounting, finance, commerce or procurement is key Location:<\/strong> Tamale<\/p>\n How to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n Applicants should apply with their CV and Cover Letter, to grow@meda.org <\/strong><\/p>\n Closing Date: 20 May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Qualified Ghana nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MEDA\u2019s project, Greater Rural Opportunities (GROW), seeks to improve food security for 20,000 families in northern Ghana. GROW helps women increase availability, access, and utilization of a variety of appropriate…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-6cX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Support Admin\/HR Manager to prepare procurement documents including purchase requests, purchase orders, and forward to approving authorities.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure that duplicates of invoices, purchase requests, purchase orders and other relevant documents are kept on the procurement file.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Support the Admin\/HR Manager to keep track of inventory and assets lists.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure that all assets and inventories bought in Tamale office and transferred to Wa field office are properly documented
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Support Admin\/HR Manager to collate assets information as may be required by any form of assignment.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Support the Logistics Coordinator and the Admin\/HR Manager to manage the database of all Technology Fund equipment<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure all expenditure requests vetted from the Finance Office are submitted to CPM for approval.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Work with the Finance and Procurement team on Technology Fund Coupons and vouchers for approved and send for mandated signatories to sign.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Support the Procurement Team and Logistics Coordinator for the Technology Fund Coupon verification and equipment redemption.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure that withholding taxes are deducted before payments are made to suppliers and other contractors.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure that all financial documents and duplicates relating to the Technology Fund are properly filed. Duplicates of vouchers, coupons, and all supplier related documents are put on records
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Support the Finance Manager and the Logistics Coordinator with data to retrieve all cash due to MEDA (inflows) related to the Technology Fund.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Carry out any other duties as may be assigned by the Admin Manager, Finance Manager or the direct supervisor for this position.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 A minimum of three years working experience in finance and administration or procurement in an NGO is required
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Working knowledge of the internet and modern office software in a similar position is key
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Working experience with teams of diverse nature is an added advantage
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 The position will be based in Tamale and will have regular travels to Upper West as needed.<\/p>\n