Project Administration Manager -Somali, Ethiopia

MISSION AND MAIN ACTIVITIES

The main function of the Project Administration Manager is to put in place the component parts of the resource management system.

He/she is responsible for managing the staff administration (contracts, employees’ files, work attendance, payroll), controlling spending commitments against the procedures of the association, monitoring the financial means raised for the project (expenditure monitoring, accounting, budget monitoring and review, follow-up of tables of allocations per donor), as well as implementing financial and HR management tools.

Under his/her various areas of responsibility, the Project Administration Manager will be in charge of ensuring:

• Compliance with the ALIMA rules and procedures applicable to the country,
• Smooth functional organization of the project resources,
• Monitoring of the use of the resources (expenditure and spending commitments),
• Adequacy in terms of number, skills and allocation of human and administrative resources.

Main responsibilities:

• Advise the Project Coordinator on set up (org chart) and together with the FINHRCO update the project’s organizational chart and job descriptions
• In close coordination with the Project Coordinator, FINHRCO calculate the HR operational needs and the associated budget in order to efficiently ensure the required sizing and capabilities of the mission and to facilitate budget following-up.
• Ensure hiring, carrying out amendments and contract termination formalities for employees at project level, according to labour local laws, archiving and updating individual employee files, informing them on their rights and preparing all mandatory tax declarations, in order to ensure legal compliance ;
• Assist the Project Coordinator, and/or team leaders and supervisors to draw up annual holiday planning and staff shifts in order to forecast HR needs and to ensure HR availability for the project activities ;
• Supervise/perform payroll procedures, ensuring that all data related to monthly salary calculation of national employees of the project are correctly entered in Homere (days off, unpaid leaves, sick leaves, overtime, salary advance, etc.) and incentives payments, in order to ensure on time and accurate salary payments ;
• Under supervision of the FINHRCO, ensure indexation process of national staff salary grids in order to ensure internal equity, cost-of-living adjustments and the correct application of employment conditions in the project sites ;
• Support, in close coordination with the project team , the project line managers in detecting training needs, in properly evaluating people performance and in potential identification, in order to improve people capabilities, and their end results contribution to mission goals ;
• Plan and supervise, in close coordination with the FINHRCO, the associated processes (recruitment, training/induction, evaluation, potential detection, development and communication) of the staff under his/her responsibility in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required ;
• Together with the Project Coordinator, support the line managers in implementing the internal communication policies in order to boost staff active participation and ALIMA commitment ;
• In close collaboration with the coordination team , applies the administrative procedures part of any Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in force between local partners (eg. Ministry of Health, etc.) and ALIMA ;
• In close collaboration with the coordination team, looks for the best options to avoid and/or solve possible labour conflicts in the project ;
• Follow up all movements and/or accommodation of staff in the mission ;
• Implement circuits and workflows (management of cash boxes, transfers, advances, purchase procedures, payment validations, follow up of regular payments, bank conciliation) in order to anticipate expenses at capital and project  level and to optimize cash needs and its security ;
• Implement and supervise transactional procedures and systems in order to ensure transparent accounting practices and full documentary traceability (invoices, receipts, bank statements, etc.), following ALIMA guidelines and rules, and using the respective software in place ;
• Ensures that monthly accountancy closure is taking place and controlled, with due quality and on due time ;
• In close collaboration with the coordination team, analyze and follow up the project budget, in order to ensure that funds are used according to funding contracts and to proposing corrective action ;
• Ensures all HR, Administrative and Financial reporting of the Project (Homère and SAGA) monthly closure, sitreps, etc.

Implementation of prevention measures against abuse of power, gender-based and sexual violence

• Participates in training and awareness-raising sessions
• Implements abuse prevention standards
• Ensures that team members follow training and awareness sessions and apply abuse prevention rules
• Contributes to creating and maintaining a nurturing and protective environment

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• University degree in finance and HR management or in the same position
• Minimum 3-year experience in Finance & HR management
• Experience with medical international NGO, an asset
• Perfect knowledge of MS Office package, especially Excel & Word
• Knowledge of Saga (Finance software) & Homere (HR software) is an asset

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS

• Strong interpersonal skills, team work.
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and adaptable to changing needs and situations
• Flexible, patient and adaptable to a changing environment.
• Ability to work under pressure with numerous deadlines, etc.

Languages spoken by the candidate

• Oral and written fluency in English is essential
• Knowledge of a local language (Somali and Oromo) is an asset