Description
Carbon Tanzania is an innovative conservation business whose primary focus is to provide unique skills and interventions that lead to the production and delivery of forest-based carbon offsets. These carbon offsets are generated through the actions of local Tanzanian communities conserving and managing their indigenous trees and forests. Central to Carbon Tanzania’s innovative conservation approach is a fundamental respect for local community land rights; this approach generates significant and sustained local economic benefits that incentivize and enable communities to conserve their immediate environment on which their way of life depends.
Carbon Tanzania is looking for a dynamic and energetic certified public accountant (CPA) to work as the community finance manager within an operational field team. The community finance manager will be responsible for ensuring, and tracking, efficient use of revenue paid to communities from carbon credits. This revenue is used to maximize community benefit, standard of living and educational opportunities within the project area.
Duty Station: Mpanda, Tanganyika District, Katavi Region
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Knowledge
- Ensure every village within Carbon Tanzania’s project area understands the cost of business associated with activities leading to the project outcomes and also includes the administration costs in their budgets.
- Visit other Carbon Tanzania project sites to understand and share experiences.
Planning – in partnership with project manager and management team
- Ensure every village in the project area has short-term and long-term financial plans.
- Assist and ensure every village has budgets approved by village development committee (VDC) supported by the community through villages general assembly meetings.
- Determine and strategize short-term and long-term education and health needs and come up with proposed financial plans.
- Design with finance manager the mechanism for control to avoid misuse and fraud.
- Ensure villages incorporate crucial business costs into their budgets.
Execution – in partnership with project manager and management team
- Liaise with district and regional offices to ensure flow of information about the use of funds and ensure compliance with local and national accounting standards.
- Seek clarifications and advise from district internal auditor for village internal controls.
- Attend village meetings to announce funds provided and follow up on the village expenditure reports to the community.
- Strengthen the internal controls for villages to ensure no leakage and frauds.
- Assist in procurements procedure to ensure villages adhere to government requirements.
- Organize dummy cheque handover event and steering committee meeting semi annually.
- Ensure VGS have contracts, equipped well, paid in time and their financial rights are protected.
- Assist and coordinate with project manager, monitoring and evaluation personnel where needed.
- Work with COCOBA.
- Do other tasks that contribute to the projects results assigned by the management team.
Reviews
- Ensure transparency of the village financials and publish report on the village notice board.
- Audit and verify transactions every quarter.
- Ensure the village government expenditures are within the budget.
Communications
- Build relationship with local and district government and submit letters and proof of payment to regional and district offices.
- Sending project updates report weekly to the management team.
Risks
- Identify financial risks and communicate to the finance manager.
- Report and action any sign of fraud or misuse.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Strong experience (minimum of 4 years) working on Finance roles.
- Degree in Accounting, Business and Administration or finance related fields
- Must have a CPA
- Accounting data and administrative management practices and procedures
- Competency with computer skills is essential
- Exceptional time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize
- Problem solving attitude
- Proficiency in English and Swahili as working languages
- Must be detail oriented
- Experience of working with community is added advantage.
- Audit experience is an added advantage
The contract duration is performance-based with one-year duration, starting in early 2021. The compensation system will be commensurate with experience and appropriate for a field-based finance Manager of a small to medium enterprise.
Please send your CV and Cover letter to email: ctlimitedrecruitments@gmail.com
For more information please visit: www.carbontanzania.com
Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in next three weeks (before 30th May 2021)
