THE ORGANIZATION

Yamba Malawi transforms children’s lives by empowering communities to break the cycle of poverty. We acknowledge that strained resources, poor safety nets, and limited caregiver capacity lead to poor childhood development outcomes, particularly during children’s first five years, and have lifelong effects. Limited financial literacy and insufficient access to formal financial services hinder community and caregivers efforts to invest in their children’s futures. And lack of economic opportunity creates a cycle of extreme poverty that increases childhood vulnerability and has lifelong effects on children’s growth, development, and happiness.

Yamba Malawi’s signature Childhoods and Livelihoods program uses a holistic 3-pronged approach to addressing these complex and interrelated set of challenges: 1. improving nurturing care and support for children through the strengthening of community safety nets and services, and increasing caregiver knowledge and skills in best practices for childhood wellbeing and early childhood development (ECD), 2. increasing access to financial knowledge and services, including training, savings and credit, and budgeting to improve the use of income on children’s existing and future need, and 3. improving economic resilience through diverse income generating activities that provide increased income to meet children’s basic needs.

Working at the household and community level, the Program includes a planned, time-bound sequence of activities that pairs the transfer of business assets with training, savings promotion, short-term income stabilization, and critical ECD and childhood wellbeing coaching that enables caregivers to plan beyond immediate needs and build foundations to improve their children’s futures.

The organization is seeking experienced professionals to contribute their high level of expertise to the organization and the program through the following positions:

POSITION: Finance Officer (1)

SUPERVISION RECEIVED : Director of Finance and Operations

SUPERVISION EXERCISED: None

LOCATION : Chikwawa, Nsanje, Phalombe

THE POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Finance Officer will provide financial and administrative support to the programme team to ensure compliance with Yamba Malawi’s internal control policies and procedures as well as donor regulations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Finance

• Ensure accuracy and completeness of payment vouchers in compliance to Yama Malawi’s policies and procedures.
• Ensure completeness of supporting documents in all respect which includes authenticity of signatures, cross-checking attendance sheets and verifying payments made to beneficiaries.
• Ensure that all advances are liquidated timely.
• Tracking and monitoring programme expenditures to ensure that they conform to budgetary provisions.
• Ensure that transactions are correctly allocated to the correct coded activity.
• Keeping relevant books and records for all financial transactions including filing both electronically and in hardcopy.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports to donors according to their prescribed form.
• Perform any other duties relevant to finance and administration as may be assigned to her/him from time to time by the Director of Finance & Operations.

Administration

• Maintain an expense analysis of office vehicles to determine cost cutting measures.
• Maintain asset register.
• Ensure goods supplied have been procured following Yamba Malawi and donor procurement policies.
• Oversee facilities and technology, ensuring efficient and comfortable daily operations.
• Ensure that members of staff leave forms and timesheets are updated on a daily basis.

OTHER COMPETENCIES/ATTRIBUTES

• Must be detail-oriented and possess excellent organizational skills, with the ability to prioritise, multi-task, and meet aggressive deadlines.
• Knowledge of non-profit legal rules, regulations, and quidelines.
• Strong Microsoft Excel knowledge a must.
• Be a team player.
• Experience with QuickBooks strongly preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS

A Degree in Accountancy with at least five years of experience.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Please send your cover letter and Curriculum Vitae to [email protected] no later than Friday, February 3rd, 2023

Specify in the email subject line the position being applied for.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.