Overview
The Humanitarian Finance Officer will be responsible for managing financial and project strategies, ensuring compliance with guidelines, and supporting humanitarian financing operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain country SOPs regarding administrative and financial workflows of HF.
- Ensure financial revision of project applications and project budgets.
- Provide guidance on Humanitarian Financing and administrative procedures and guidelines to partners.
- Conduct market cost survey for items commonly purchased under Humanitarian Financing projects.
- Review project budgets to determine “normal costs and variations” in project expenditure areas.
- Review requests for project amendments and revisions of projects.
- Track, collect and review final financial reports from relevant recipient organizations.
- Liaise with auditors for project audits and review audit reports.
- Develop, maintain, and update a database to support cost effectiveness analysis.
- Prepare and update numerical and narrative reports detailing Humanitarian Financing performance.
- Reconcile and coordinate HQ-level records and the Fund’s field records.
- Support monitoring and evaluation visits to project sites.
- Conduct Financial and administrative partner visits.
- Maintain all related files updated and share information with colleagues.
- Perform other duties as required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 2 years (or 4 years if graduated with a first-level university degree) of experience in areas of grant and/or programme management, humanitarian affairs, humanitarian emergencies, donor relations, monitoring and evaluation, communication and reporting, budget management and/or administration-financing is required.
- Experience in humanitarian financing, e.g., grant management, fundraising, and donor relations for humanitarian programmes is required.
- Experience in handling of web-based management systems and ERP financials, preferably PeopleSoft is desirable.
- Experience in humanitarian assistance is desirable.
- Experience with a UN agency and an international NGO is desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in project management, development studies, international relations, public administration, economics, accounting or a related field is required.
- A relevant first-level university degree in the above fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
