Finance Manager - Usaid Envision Gaza

Finance Manager Usaid Envision Gaza 2020

Description
Global Communities, formerly CHF International, is an international non-profit organization that works closely with communities worldwide to bring about sustainable changes that improve the lives and livelihoods of the vulnerable.

Global Communities seeks a Finance Manager for the USAID Envision Gaza 2020 project. Envision Gaza 2020 is the humanitarian assistance and early recovery pillar of the larger Gaza 2020 initiative that seeks to promote recovery, reconstruction, and redevelopment in Gaza through four major activities: water and sanitation, private sector development, health and humanitarian assistance.

Envision Gaza 2020 aims to create a path for vulnerable populations in Gaza to become more sustainable and self-reliant by providing basic humanitarian commodities and increasing employment opportunities through short term employment, internships, minor capital investments, and job training. This position is based in Gaza.

About Global Communities West Bank/Gaza
Global Communities has been working continuously in the West Bank and Gaza for the last 20 years, and we currently manage one of the largest humanitarian assistance and development portfolios in the West Bank and Gaza. We provide food assistance to many of the 60% food insecure population in West Bank and Gaza through the UN World Food Programme (WFP). We are also implementing the $100 million USAID Local Government and Infrastructure (LGI) program in the West Bank that has the dual impact of creating employment and raising the standard of living in vulnerable area while also supporting community participation and government responsiveness. In Gaza Global Communities, working through Mercy Corps and USAIDs Palestinian Community Assistance Program (PCAP), improves the lives of Gazans by providing social and economic relief and recovery activities to meet basic humanitarian needs and lay the foundations for long-term recovery. Through PCAP, we built technical and management capacity of local contractors to ensure a continued ability for emergency response, repairing and rehabilitating conflict-damaged homes, increasing food security for families in Gaza and encouraging self-sufficiency, and improving provision of basic services through community infrastructure projects. During the escalating conflict in the summer of 2014 we responded, as we did before during the 2008 2009 and 2012 conflicts, to the needs of the most vulnerable affected by the conflict in Gaza. We provided food assistance to internally displaced and vulnerable families, domestic and personal hygiene kits as well as other essential non-food items, shelter kids for homeless families, and psychosocial support for some of the 25,000 traumatized children in Gaza.

Responsibilities:
-The Finance Manager will provide financial and operational oversight for all aspects of Envision Gaza 2020 in accordance with USAID regulations. S/he will be responsible for budget forecasting, expenditure tracking, and financial analysis, as well as supporting grant and contract management. This also includes maintaining pipelines, approval of various types of payments to include payroll, vendor payments, tax payments and preparation of various donor reports. The Finance Manager will report to the DCOP. Finance Manager responsibilities will include:
-Provide financial management and oversight for all financial aspects of the program, including annual budget development, work plan and activity budgets, and ensuring compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations, USAID rules and regulations, and Global Communities policies, procedures and accounting principles.
-Managing finance staff, and ensuring that functions are performed timely and accurately.
-Managing the project budget, and ensuring all costs incurred by Global Communities are accounted for and in compliance with local laws.
-Providing financial control, preparing and analyzing budgets, developing financial reports, and making recommendations to HQ on budget expenditures.
-Ensuring financial reporting - Global Communities, grantees and any vendors - is in accordance with USAID requirements.
-Manage and mentor a finance team.

Required experience:
-A Masters degree in economics, accounting, business or any other related field.
-Demonstrated knowledge of USAID rules and regulations.
-A minimum of seven (7) years of experience as a finance manager on large international development projects.
-Minimum of three (3) years of experience demonstrating familiarity and experience in working on a USAID-funding program, including the management of various audits.
-Experience in the Middle East required; experience in West Bank and Gaza preferred.
-Experience with computerized accounting software required.
-Fluency in English and Arabic required.
-Local candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
-Must be able to legally work and reside in Gaza for the duration of the 5-year program

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