Key Staff Roles, Expertise and Responsibilities
Job Specification
Job Title: RCCDN Rwanda Climate Just Communities Programme Accountant
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Date: 3rd August 2023
Description |
RCCDN is a national member-driven civil society network working on climate change and other development challenges. It is a network composed of 66-member organisations working throughout the entire Rwandan territory. The organisation works with stakeholders including; communities; civil society organisations; media; business sector; government; intergovernmental institutions and research and higher institutions of learning. The objectives of RCCDN were designed to ensure effective networking and communication among members in the country to collectively identify their priority needs and be empowered to take a stand positioning for sustainable development amidst climate change challenges. The CJC RCCDN Programme Accountant role is responsible for Finance and Governance within RCCDN, Financial Control and Reporting, Programme Staff Capacity Building and Budgeting. The Programme Accountant will manage finances for the Climate Just Communities (CJC) programme in RCCDN and will support member delivery partner’s grant management, work closely with the Programme Coordinator and Finance and Programme teams over the 3 year Scottish Government funded programme. The CJC programme is being implemented across 3 Districts and jointly in consortium with SCIAF (Lead Service Provider), Christian Blind Mission (CBM) UK (Sub-Contractor) and local delivery partners/suppliers are Rwanda Climate Change and Development Network (RCCDN), DUHAMIC-ADRI, Duterimbere, Rwanda Development Organisation (RDO)) and National Union of Disabilities Organisation Rwanda (NUDOR). The Programme Accountant is responsible for effective financial planning, budget management through spending strictly within the approved budget limits, for the timely and high-quality development of financial update reports, cashflow forecasts, internal pricing schedules as per contract requirements and in line with internal regulations and procedures. |
Safeguarding Programme Participants-Children & Adults: RCCDN is committed to safeguarding people within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and has specific policies on this commitment (including a Global Code of Conduct), which outlines the expected behaviours and the responsibility of all staff, consultants and other organisational representatives. Any candidate offered a job with RCCDN will be expected to sign RCCDN’s Safeguarding Policies and Global Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. All offers of employment will be subject to pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references and appropriate screening (e.g., police/Garda vetting, counterterrorism and anti-trafficking). RCCDN also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and all employees will be subject to this as part of the contract of employment. |
Key Duties & Responsibilities |
Duties and responsibilities of the Accountant Reporting to the Project Manager, the Project Accountant is responsible for maintaining financial, accounting and grant support services in order to meet the needs of the project and the donor. The incumbent is further responsible for preparing financial statements, maintaining financial controls, providing financial reporting and analysis in support of the Project Manager. The position is also responsible for the operations of post-award grant administration and related accounting duties. The Project Accountant will focus heavily on budgeting, compliance, reporting and variance analysis functions. Specifically, he/she will: a) Project Accounting:
b) Commercial contract accounting
Other Responsibilities
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Person Specification – Essential Requirements |
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(E) Experience
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(E) Skills
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(E) Qualities Understanding of, and empathy with, the role of the Church in development. |
(E) Other Commitment to principles of safeguarding of programme participants. |
Applications Applications should be sent to E-mail: rccdnrwanda@rccdnetwork.org no later than Wednesday the 10th August 2023 at 17:00. |
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