{"id":57424,"date":"2021-05-17T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=57424"},"modified":"2021-05-17T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:28:36","slug":"world-vision-ghana-recruitment-2021-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/world-vision-ghana-recruitment-2021-2.html","title":{"rendered":"World Vision Ghana Recruitment 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Landscapes and Environmental Agility across the Nation (LEAN) project will be implemented by World Vision Ghana (WVG) together with Rainforest Alliance, EcoCare\u202f and Tropenbos Ghana with funding from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The overall objective of the project is to directly contribute to the national efforts of conserving biodiversity, improving livelihoods of smallholder farmers, increasing climate change resilience and reducing emissions from land use changes in the savannah, high forest and transition zones of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>World Vision Ghana will work with stakeholders to reduce land degradation, prevent forest loss and increase productivity, climate change resilience and natural resource conservation through training and mentoring of smallholders on FMNR, SLM, CSA, SFM practices, and sustainable natural resource regeneration and management in two districts of Kassena-Nankana West and West Gonja Districts of Ghana<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title: Grant Finance Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Major Responsibilities:<\/p>\n<p>Planning, Budgeting, Procurement<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contribute to project planning and budgeting by providing inputs<\/li>\n<li>Work closely with project team to explain any variance in budget execution.<\/li>\n<li>Support project manager with information on all budget-related- communication with donor and other relevant stakeholders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure adequate cash flow of the project<\/li>\n<li>Help project coordinators prepare good procurement plan for the project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monitoring, Reporting &amp; 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