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Finance and Administration Officer, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Malawi

Organization Name: Clinton Health Access Initiative
Placement location: Lilongwe, Malawi
Eligible Citizenship: Malawian
About: The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems in the developing world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. CHAI’s solution-oriented approach focuses on improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices for treatment; accelerating access to life-saving technologies; and helping governments build the capacity required for high-quality care and treatment programs.
Established in 2002 by President Clinton as the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, CHAI initially focused on addressing the limited access to HIV/AIDS treatment faced by developing countries, where more than 90 percent of individuals living with HIV/AIDS reside. By working in collaboration with governments and NGO partners, CHAI has helped more than 2 million people access the medicines needed for treatment, which represents nearly half of all the people living with HIV and on treatment in developing countries.
Building on its model, CHAI has expanded its scope to include efforts to strengthen healthcare delivery systems and to combat malaria and childhood illness.
Position Overview: CHAI is a flexible organization that responds to the most pressing needs within the Malawian health sector. As such, all staff (GHC fellows included) are engaged in multiple projects, which are developed based upon the potential for impact. The Finance and Administration Officer will work to ensure that sound financial, administrative and contract management practices are implemented across CHAI’s projects.
Responsibilities
  • Prepare project draft accounts
  • Prepare trial balances and bank reconciliations
  • Generate project financial reports
  • Review the system for tracking budgets/incomes with expenditure returns and advise Budget Holder on financial position
  • Monitor financial resources and accounting to ensure accuracy and reliability of financial reports and also prepare periodic progress reports as well as end of project reports
  • Manage and ensure the realization of project activities and achieve project outputs
  • Provide guidance and direction to other departments in keeping track of progress of activity implementation
  • Participate in relevant project planning and progress reporting of events/activities
  • Organize key meetings such as technical working group and donor group meetings
  • Support compliance with operational documents, budgets and plans
  • Support compliance with donor contracts and grants
  • Support compliance with government statutes and inform key staff members about changes in legislation, taxation and any other INGO requirements

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Ability to prepare budgets and financial reports in line with donor recommended formats
  • Ability to extract monthly trial balances and prepare bank reconciliations
  • Grant management skills and experience
  • Experience of electronic and physical archiving, implementing file trees
  • Ability to organize technical working group meetings and donor group meetings
  • Basic project management/organizational skills
  • Computer skills including excel, powerpoint
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • A keen eye for developing and strengthening financial and operational systems and processes
  • Good at team building and working as part of a team
Preferred Skills and Experience:
  • Skills in using QuickBooks
  • experience of working with partners from a range of sectors to ensure grant compliance
Living Conditions: Fellows will be provided with housing, health insurance and a living stipend of $650/month. Fellows will receive an award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year. Flights to and from the placement site and all other costs associated with GHC programming are included, including $600 in professional development funds. All work-related expenses (e.g. transport, phone, Internet) will be provided by CHAI.
*Note: the living stipend and completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by the placement organization.
To apply to this position click here: http://ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/application/

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