Finance Director, USAID Learning in Emergencies Project

• Job Description

  Consortium Financial Leadership

  • Provide leadership and direction for Learning in Emergencies Project Consortium on all financial matters.
  • Support Learning in Emergencies Project implementing partner’s systems and build key staff capacity to ensure financial management that effectively supports programming objectives and meets USAID rules and regulations, and individual organizational policies.
  • As a member of Learning in Emergencies Project Executive Committee, proactively identify and help find timely solutions to issues that arise over the course of program implementation and communicate specific learning and best practices among and across all Learning in Emergencies Project implementing partners.

  Budgeting, Spending Analysis, and Reporting:

  • Effectively enable routine budgeting, spending analysis, and reporting processes to inform and support critical decision making at the LEARNING IN EMERGENCIES Consortium and Implementing partners levels.

  Financial Management and Communication:

  • Assess and improve financial management and communication systems.

   Financial and administrative management:

  • Manage the project’s operational, financial, and administrative priorities; direct the planning and budgeting processes; design and oversee an annual project cycle in accordance with USAID’s annual planning cycles to ensure sound financial management, compliance with USAID regulations, and accurate reporting. Provide guidance on budgeting, procurement, and contract management.

  Sub Awardee Management and Support

  • In collaboration with the WVUS Senior Finance Officer, support sub awardee cashflow and advance management processes and quarterly sub awardee financial management review.

  Audit support.

  • Provide support to audit related services.

Required Professional Experience

• Excellent leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to understand and successfully navigate the interests of different stakeholders and find practical solutions to challenges during the course of program implementation.
• Minimum of five years of experience in financial management of large-scale, complex, donor-funded programs.
• Knowledge of USAID award management, policies, procedures, regulations and reporting requirements strongly preferred.
• Experience applying a system thinking to organizational improvement and adaptive management.
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills.
• Experience building the capacity of staff in a broad range of areas related to financial management, including capacity building of sub awardee organizations and in financial audits.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:

• Master’s or Advanced degree in finance, management, business administration, or related field

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:

• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in accounting, financial management, human resources, procurement, and other management support functions.
• Advanced knowledge and MS Excel skills, and other business accounting packages.