West Africa - Regional Administrator at COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale

The countries covered by the Regional Coordination are: Burkina Faso, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal.

Responsibilities

Coordination:

• Provides support for the annual budget preparation of the Countries;
• Plans the regional budget and its monitoring on a periodic basis;
• Supports the organization of the work of the Country Administrators by providing indications (priority, modality) of the work;
• Ensures the financial solidity of the Regional Coordination;
• Verifies financial strength, administrative percentages and monetary quotas;
• Ensures active and regular monitoring of the financial aspects of each country concerned, either remotely or through follow-up missions;
• Takes care of the update for the development of budget sheets.

Project management:

• Ensures that the Italy Costs of the countries of competence from the Milan headquarters are transmitted to the Country Administrator;
• Ensures the implementation and development of the purchasing plan by the Country Administrators;
• Provides support, if necessary, to monitor the consistency between the project accounts and those of the country, by verifying the consistency between the accounts and other internal documents;
• Verifies and monitors grants to be received.

Human ressources:

• Participates in the selection phase: interviews, tests and final reports;
• Ensures the evaluation of Country and Project Administrators at the end of the contract.

Balance sheet:

• Verifies that the data provided by the countries is correct and complete for the annual review and that it is transmitted to headquarters.

Reporting:

• Plans and monitors the production time of the reports to be presented at Headquarters and abroad in the Countries under the Coordination;
• Provides support to countries for the verification of intermediate or final reports produced at the local level;
• Verifies the final reports that must be sent by Headquarters;
• Provides support for audits carried out by headquarters;
• Periodically checks and analyzes country bank account reconciliations.

Candidate profile

Essential

• University education in Social Sciences, Business Sciences or Techniques;
• A minimum of five years of relevant professional experience;
• At least three years of demonstrated experience in the field of international aid and development in African countries, in a similar situation;
• Mastery of the procedures of the main donors (eg EU, ECHO, UN Agencies);
• Excellent level of oral and written communication, negotiation skills, multitasking and great organizational skills;
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team necessary;
• Experience liaising with government/local authorities, IOs and NGOs;
• Demonstrated ability to work in stressful and pressured environments;
• Excellent knowledge of the French language;
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office package.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the Italian language;
• Previous experience in a COOPI mission;
• Experience working in conflict-prone environments;
• Experience in logistics, supply and security;
• Experience in personnel management.