Jobs

Group Finance Manager

Based: London

Salary: £37,000

Reporting into the Head of Finance, this role has full responsibility for financial accounting within the UK and for financial reporting across the Group.

You will be a qualified accountant, with good technical and interpersonal skills. You will be ambitious for the organisation and keen to improve our systems and procedures where necessary. You should have a strong focus on detail and be able to identify potential risks arising from our financial transactions.

Together with the Finance Assistant, you will have full responsibility for all the regular accounting and reporting within the UK including month end, quarterly and year end processes, budgeting & reforecasting and production of the year end accounts. You will also form the liaison point for Sidai Africa Limited, our Kenyan social enterprise.

FARM-Africa has an ambitious strategy and business plan: by 2016 we are aiming to directly help 1.5 million people each year. To achieve that goal we need to push boundaries, to be creative with new and old solutions and work flexibly, taking advantage of the most effective solutions with communities, private sector, civil society and governments. This in turn is likely to lead to an increase in organisational complexity and the need for an ambitious, flexible and expert finance team who can support it.

Further details can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification here.

If you would like to apply for this position please send a completed application form and cover letter highlighting how your experience relates to this role. Your applications must be submitted by midnight (UK) on the closing date to recruitment@farmafrica.org.uk for the attention of the HR Manager and with the reference of: Group finance manager application in the subject line of your email.
If you have any questions regarding this role, please submit them by email to recruitment@farmafrica.org.uk .

*Note: we will not be answering telephone enquiries about this role. All questions must be emailed.

Closing date: Thursday, 23 February 2012.

Head of Finance and Administration Tanzania

Based: Dar es Salaam

Competitive salary

FARM-Africa is creating a new country office in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The Head of Finance and Administration will play a central part in setting up the office and establishing the systems and procedures necessary to ensure strong financial management within the FARM-Africa Tanzania Hub and all projects based in Tanzania and Uganda. This post holder will be a member of the management team of the Tanzania hub and contribute to the overall development of FARM-Africa’s strategy and plans as we embark on the launch of our new strategy.

To succeed in this role you must be ACCA or CPA (K) qualified or equivalent and have up to date technical knowledge of financial reporting and tax, preferably within a Tanzania context.

Further details can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification here.

If you would like to apply for this position please send a CV and a detailed supporting statement explaining how your experience relates to this role. Your applications must be submitted by midnight (UK) on the closing date to recruitment@farmafrica.org.uk for the attention of the HR Manager and with the reference of: 2012 HOFTZ Application in the subject line of your email.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please submit them in writing to recruitment@farmafrica.org.uk . *Note: we will not be answering telephone enquiries about this role all questions must be emailed.

Closing date: Thursday 22^nd March 2012.

Programme Operations Manager Tanzania

Based: Dar es Salaam

Competitive salary

FARM-Africa is creating a new country office in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The Programme Operations Manager will report to the Country Director and will be responsible for ensuring the effective and efficient implementation of FARM-Africa programmes/projects.

The POM will take a lead role in the design and development of new programmes and assist in the marketing and funding of those programmes. The POM line manages and develops and ensures that annual work plans and annual appraisals are developed and conducted in a timely manner. The POM will be responsible for improving the programme M&E functions (especially demonstration of impact) and the capacity of programme staff to operationalise these functions. The POM will play a key role in facilitating the implementation of FARM-Africa’s new 2012-2015 organisational strategy and the development of the specificTanzaniaandUgandacountry programme strategies and the subsequent implementation and monitoring of the strategy. The POM will assist with donor and government counterpart liaison and s/he will deputise for the CD in his/her absence.

Further details can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification here.

If you would like to apply for this position please send a CV and a detailed supporting statement explaining how your experience relates to this role. Your applications must be submitted by midnight (UK) on the closing date to recruitment@farmafrica.org.uk for the attention of the HR Manager and with the reference of: 2012 POMTZ Application in the subject line of your email.

Closing date: Thursday 22 March 2012

Other ways to get involved

You can also get involved in our work by joining our active Friends of FARM network - groups of supporters currently based across the UK and in Kenya. Friends of FARM are invaluable to FARM-Africa and constantly surprise us with the variety of fundraising activities they devise in support of our work.

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