Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Closing date: 15 Jul 2016
COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale is a humanitarian, non-confessional and independent organization founded in 1965 in Milan. Over the last 50 years and through its 22 local offices in the South of the World, COOPI engaged itself in breaking the cycle of poverty and supporting populations affected by wars, socio-economic and environmental crisis or disasters in order to energize resilience and sustainable development.
COOPI has been working in Palestine since 2002 implementing projects funded by ECHO, EU, Italian Cooperation and UN Agency. COOPI started to work in Gaza with Emergency Job Creation Projects in 2006 and to implement emergency projects funded by OCHA in 2008. Since 2010 is working in Jerusalem both funded by the European Delegation (vocational training projects) and Cooperazione Italiana. At the moment we have in placed a EU and Cooperazione Italiana funded projects.
COOPI is now seeking for a country administrator based in East Jerusalem with the following terms of reference.
Duty station: East Jerusalem, with possible missions in the field.
OBJECTIVES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POSITION
We are looking for a qualified Country Administrator with overall responsibility for supervision, management and quality implementation of all aspects of COOPI financial and administrative operations in Palestine. The Country Administrator will be part of the management team and is expected to contribute to the future strategic development and professional dynamics of COOPI in Palestine.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Safe and bank account management: He/she ensures the correct management of the safes and the project’s bank accounts, by directly managing or by regularly controlling the project accountant, if available.
Accountancy management: he/she ensures the correct project accountancy and all accountancy documents filing. He/she does this by monitoring the accountants or by directly performing the accountancy, in case there was no accountant.
Administrative management: In collaboration with the project manager he/she verifies the correct administrative management of the projects (contracts, goods and services purchase, calls for tenders etc.) in compliance with COOPI and the donor’s procedures (European Commission, Italian Cooperation, ECHO, etc). He/she ensures the correct filing of all project’s administrative documents.
Expenses planning and monitoring: In collaboration with the Project Manager (and the logistician if present) he/she makes the project’s financial planning. He/she monitors expenses, in accordance with the budget. He/she provides the accountancy data to the Project Manager so as to allow him to monitor and plan the expenditures and to request funds.
Contract modifications and administrative documents: He/she collaborates with the Project Manager in the elaboration of contract modifications (including the budget), and in the preparation of all necessary projects documents.
Financial reporting: In coordination with the Head of Mission and with the Project Manager he/she prepares the intermediate and final financial reports for the projects under his/her responsibility.
Budget preparation: Support the Head of Mission and Project Managers in budget preparation as well as proposals development.
Staff management: He/she plans the work, supervises, and collaborate to train the staff of the project’s accounting-administrative area upon request by the Head of Mission. Upon request her/she collaborates to staff evaluation activities. She/he will be the focal point of the complaint mechanism and the code of conduct.
Procurement: He/she provide technical oversight to the procurement process and ensure proper supply chain management procedures are in place and that standard logistics and related administrative systems are established and implemented within COOPI country programme.
About you
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Minimum of 5 years’ relevant work experience in large organizations.
- At least 3 years’ work experience in a similar role within a international non-governmental organization (NGO), donor or multilateral agency.
- Substantial experience working with International NGO’s, UN agencies and networking and negotiating with authorities.
- Very strong financial analysis skills and an extensive practical experience working with financial tools, highly proficient with excel such as using pivot table, developing macros, etc.
- Ability to motivate and guide staff working in a complex conflict environment, preferably experience from an Middle East context. Previous experience in Palestine is an advantage.
- An excellent interpersonal skills (Good analytical, negotiation, advocacy and communication skills) and demonstrated ability to establish effective team and external relations
- Experience with capacity building of national staff.
- Ability to work under pressure in a rapidly changing and sometimes insecure environment
- Excellent English language skills both written and spoken are essential.
- Experience with donors such as European Commission, Italian Cooperation, ECHO, etc
All applicants should send a cover letter and an updated CV no longer than four pages, both in the same language as the vacancy note. Your CV should also include contact details of three professional referees.
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