Location: Turkey, potentially with travel
Reports to: Turkey-Syria Earthquake Response Manager
Department: Inclusive Humanitarian Action
Contract Duration: Fixed Term, 12 months (with possible option to extend)
HelpAge and Strategy 2030 – delivering real impact for older people
HelpAge International works with partners and a diverse global network of more than 171 organizations across 90 countries, supporting millions of older people to live safe, dignified and healthy lives. Through our partnership and collaborations, we work to ensure the inclusion of older people across society and strive to deliver a just and fair world for everyone, whatever their age. Our work is driven by our desire to deliver real impact for older people, to be inclusive, to work in partnership and to learn from our shared experience.
Turkey-Syria Earthquake Crisis
On 6th February 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, in South-East Turkey, near the North-West Syrian border, followed by a second deadly 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit near Ekinozu, causing catastrophic destruction, mass displacement, and devastating numbers of fatalities, missing persons, and injuries. HelpAge has been working for several years with local partners who are present in the affected areas and is scaling up an emergency life-saving response to urgently support older people and their families in the affected areas, with an age-inclusive, gender and disability inclusive programme. Our response plan includes health support, cash/NFI assistance, shelter support, Protection and Mental Health and Psychosocial First Aid*.*
We are seeking a passionate, professional and experienced candidate to support our response to the Turkey-Syrian earthquake crisis, someone who thrives in collaborating with others (inside HelpAge International and beyond) and who can work in agile ways and across boundaries.
Let’s talk about you
You will be someone with:
- Accounting Qualification or relevant accounting experience
- Substantial relevant experience in a finance department in the field at an appropriate level, with sound understanding of working with an international NGO
- Experience of producing budgets and financial monitoring reports
- Proven ability to provide support, guidance and training to finance and non-finance staffs
- Experience in review and development of financial systems and procedures
- In-depth knowledge and experience of working with international donors
- Financial analytical skills
- Training skills and the ability to pass on knowledge to others
- Communication and reporting skills (verbal and in writing)
- Advanced Microsoft office skills
- Co-operative and supportive team player in a cross-cultural environment
- Able to priorities' work and meet tight deadlines
- Ability and willingness to work in difficult environments
- Strong oral and written English language communication skills required
Desirable
- Experience of working collaboratively with local/national partners and INGOs
- Oral and written Arabic will be an asset
- In-depth knowledge and experience of operating computerised accounting systems
- Experience of SUN accounting system
- Previous work experience in Turkey or Syria
Safeguarding
HelpAge International is committed to safeguarding the communities with which we work, our partners, staff, and any others who we come into contact with.
Therefore, you will also be responsible for:
- Preventing harm and abuse from our people, operations and programmes to anyone that encounters our work
- Reporting all safeguarding incidents you see, hear, hear about or suspect, using our internal reporting mechanism
- Complying with all safeguarding framework policies and practices
- Completing mandatory training courses relating to our safeguarding policy framework and complying with HR vetting procedures
Diversity & Inclusion
HelpAge International is dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all its employees/consultants while extending the culture of inclusion into our work.
We believe that our workforce should reflect the wide diversity of the communities we serve, and that diverse voices should be elevated and intentionally integrated into our work. We embrace difference and diversity of identity, experience, and thought, and actively strive for inclusive behaviors across our organization and work regardless of gender, race, disability, age, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, marital status, pregnancy, social status, and political beliefs.
How to apply
To apply for a job at HelpAge, please review the details of the Job Description here and submit the following documents:
- A cover letter, setting out how you meet the requirements of the job profile.
- Your current curriculum vitae (3 pages maximum)
- Three referees, including your most recent employer
To be considered, please read the job description to find out more information and then email your application to helpAge-hr@helpage.org before the closing date.
Closing date: Tuesday, 21 March 2023 at 24:00 (GMT+1)
Important Message: Please ensure that you remove personal information including your date of birth, age, gender and marital status from your CV. Please do not include any photographs.
