Administrative Supervisor at Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA)

Mission and Main Activities

• The Admin Supervisor is responsible for the management of the administrative files of the national staff and the administrative and accounting management of the project where he works.

Function & Responsibilities
Administrative Management of Personnel:

• Assigns work, provides direction to staff and ensures that assigned tasks are completed. Ensures effective and appropriate staff coverage.
• Monitors the performance of staff. Provides feedback on their performance and conducts performance evaluation.
• Participates in the recruitment and selection of staff by performing duties such as advertising vacancies locally, screening resumes, interviewing applicants and providing input on selection.
• Evaluates, develops and recommends office procedures and practices to senior management. Ensures that approved office policies, practices and procedures are understood and followed.
• Performs a variety of secretarial duties such as drafting and typing routine correspondence, arranging meetings and taking minutes.
• Maintains a variety of financial records such as petty cash fund, purchase orders and cheque requisitions. Provides input into budget formulation.
• Maintains staff and program information using spreadsheet and/or database software.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Payroll Management:

• He captures the variable elements of the payroll in Homer
• He validates the requests of instalments and records them on Homer,
• He collects the attendance sheets and notes the various absences, collects overtime cards and checks their validity, and enters these in the Homer payroll software he/she establishes the monthly pay slips
• It publishes the ballots and verifies that each ballot is correctly established,
• He has checked and targeted salary listings by the logistician-administration or field administration manager,
• It prints the bulletins and closes the pay of the month. At the end of the contract, he establishes the balances of all accounts
• It verifies the rights to paid holidays, enters the variable elements of the salary into the payroll software,
• He/she prints payslips and gives to staffs and files acknowledged copy
• He causes these elements to be targeted and transmitted to the employee.

Administrative and Accounting Management:

• He/she in charge of accounting management under the supervision of the logistics and administration manager and under the responsibility of the Accountant, in strict compliance with ALIMA internal procedures
• He reports the inconsistencies to the Accounting Coordinator or the Field Administration Coordinator.

Money Management:

• He/she is responsible for the sums entrusted to him in his safe and manages them with discretion
• Maintains follow-up workbooks (for operational advances, payroll, suppliers' advances) and ensures that advances are delivered on time, justified by invoices and do not accumulate,
• Ensures at least weekly that his physical inventory corresponds to the balance of his workbook in the presence of his supervisor,
• Checks the balance of bank statements,
• Signs any difference in cash on his notebook and his manager as soon as he finds it.
• Plans cash demands based on daily needs during the month (payday advances, month-end pay, daily needs - operational advances and direct payment
• Provides monthly cash flow with its supervisor and communicates it to the financial coordinator,
• Signals with his supervisor any operational changes that may require additional funds. He shall pay the suppliers on time (direct payment / operational advances),
• Receives invoices and receipts, ensures that they are consistent and conform, that they are validated by the purchasing officer and in accordance with the purchasing procedure in force,
• Informs his supervisor of any difference in price and quantity detected in order to resolve or validate it,
• Pay by the most appropriate means (cash, checks, transfers) and ensure that they are received by the recipient (stamp, signature ...).
• Implementation of prevention measures against abuse of power, gender-based and sexual violence:
• Ensures that his/her team, partners and community members are aware of ALIMA's policy and have access to information (complaint escalation mechanism, focal point...).
• Facilitates the organization of training and awareness sessions
• Implements standards related to the prevention of abuse of power, gender-based violence and sexual violence.
• Ensures that team members and partners involved in the project (Ministry of Health, national partners, etc.) follow training and awareness sessions and apply the rules for preventing abuse.
• Contributes to creating and maintaining a nurturing and protective environment for his/her team, community members and project partners.

Qualifications

• Education: Degree / HND in Accounting, Business Admin or other related field.
• Experience: 2 years experience. INGO experience is added advantage.

Language:                        

• Local language essential. Mission language desirable.

Knowledge:

• Essential basic mathematics and use of measuring equipment.
• Desirable computer literacy (word, excel)
• Desirable ability to do basic repairs.

Competences:

• Results.
• Teamwork.
• Flexibility.
• Commitment.
• Stress Management.