Jobs at Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a LGA Field Assistant to join our team in Kebbi, Nigeria. 

The LGA Field Assistant supports the implementation of SMC activities at LGA, health facilities and household level. He/she is responsible for planning, implementation, reporting and coordination with local government representatives and community level stakeholders.  

The role of LGA Field Assistant assist the quality implementation of delivery of SMC services at the community level by HFW/supervisors and CHWs through the timely delivery of SMC commodities and supplies and documentation of program activities. He/she interacts with the LGA management team, keeps them updated on the program progress and ensures high-quality SMC implementation.

The LGA Field Assistant takes instructions from the State Technical Officer (STO) on the implementation of SMC activities. S/he gives feedback to the STO in form of basic documentations and to the M&E Officer in form of data entry for administrative coverage and supply chain management. S/he will also support the Finance Officer in getting account details of distribution personnel for payment.

Programme Implementation, treatment tracking and management (70%):

• Support implementation of SMC activities at health LGA level, including timely implementation of route plan, planning meetings, commodity distributions and monitoring to avoid any stock out, Community mobilization activities, supervision, monitoring and reporting.
• Ensure accountability of received commodities and supplies through tracking consumption levels and review of reconciliation reports
• Provide administrative support to training events field partners (Supervisors, HFW, CHWs, and community mobilisers).
• Track program targets and timely implement the planned activities to ensure program meets targets and review reports from LGAs and HFW for accuracy and completeness prior to submission.
• Ensure implementation of activities are in line with the laid down protocols, by continuously monitoring and escalating issues detected to the STO for mitigation 
• Maintain a good relationship and work jointly with – Public Health Officers and other partners to undertake home visits, meetings and to ensure health LGA’s ownership.

Reporting & data quality control (10%):

• Review distributors’ tally sheet, making corrections where necessary and entering the data on relevant data capturing platform
• Assist ME Officer on the data quality queries and ensure identified issues are rectified in time.
• Ensure submission of other reports to keep the STOL and State Project Manager abreast with the project implementation at LGA level.

Coordination and representation (10%):

• Ensure planning and coordination meetings are conducted as planned at LGA and community levels.
• Attend data validation meetings at LGA level and as directed by STO

Administrative and other duties (10%):

• Ensure the development of individual and team action plans to ensure role complementarities in achieving the set treatment target.
• Participate in the follow-up of supplies consumption.
• Provide information for overall planning of stock levels, making sure that they are sufficient for the operations at SMC sites
• Ensure that all HF release physical inventory of all SMC commodities supplied at the end of each cycle.
• Any other duties as required by the line manager

Qualifications and Experience:

Essential:

• Clinical Officer, nurse, science, social science or Public Health qualification at minimum of diploma level
• At least two years field experience in related field
• Fluency in English, Hausa and/or other local languages is required
• Experience working in drug/commodity supply management, M&E and logistics
• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences including LGA staff, HFW and community leaders
• Experience of conducting quality supportive supervision and data use

 Desirable:

• A broad range of experience including logistics, training and capacity building ability
• Experience of supporting teams
• Experience working at LGA level 

Work-based skills:           

Essential: 

• Good planning and organisational skills
• Basic computer skills particularly Microsoft Office
• Flexible, ability to work both as an individual and as a team member and under stress in what can be a harsh environment
• Nigerian citizen (legal requirement)

Desirable: 

• Ability to speak and understand English

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Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Finance Assistant to join our team in Nasarawa, Nigeria.

The Finance Assistant will provide finance functions including clerical work and accounting services of maintaining proper financial records of all transactions in accordance with MC financial procedures to the respective field offices in the zone.

The Finance Assistant will be responsible for timely filing of field/country office monthly financial information inclusive of payment vouchers, bank information, financial correspondence etc. S/he will also ensure orderliness within the finance department.

The Finance Assistant will deal with all payments documentation as well as advising the Project Manager, Technical Officer and Financial Accountant on the arising financial matters and sharing area of concern with suggested solution within he/her capacity.

The Finance Assistant will be a staff in the state or Abuja and will report to the project manager while interacting directly with other staff including operations officer, administrative officer and other technical staff in the field office. S/he will also work with stakeholders, Local government and communities in the state. Indirectly report to the country finance officer.

Key accountabilities:

Finance work (50%):

• Review all transactions and ensure completeness of documentation and approvals.
• Review attendance using the approved Database and prepare payment schedules for participants of SMC personnel to ensure names in attendance sheet tally with Database and Schedules.
• Prepare payment vouchers, ensure correctness of cost classification and coding
• Receive payment advise and attached to relevant documents to file
• Preparing Payment schedule of all meetings, workshop and training participants and consultants
• Safeguarding the organisation resources by scrutinising all payment requests, TAFs, PRFs by adhering to the MC Manual, Policies and Procedures
• Follow up on the stock balance of financial documents (forms, vouchers, receipts etc.) and make a timely order before stock outs occurs.
• Work with Finance Officer to ensure PV is raised with all supporting documents for every payment made and filed.
• Advising the Finance Officer on the arising financial matters and sharing areas of concern with suggested solutions.
• Maintain an excel journal template for recording of all payments completed and share with Finance Officer weekly for posting.

Suppliers Invoice (15%):

• Track and receive all invoices from suppliers & vendors and prepare the Invoice authorisation forms
• Prepare all invoice payments and obtain approval from the authorised personnel

Operations related work (30%):

• In charge of archiving, scanning and filling all finance documents and ensuring that they are in safe custody and easily accessible by the finance team.
• Ensure Finance Documents (PVs) are filled as per Malaria Consortium Finance Manual filing requirement.
• In-charge of collating timesheets of all field office staff.
• Keep tracker for all payment documents to ensure they are sent/ received to/in Abuja.

Perform other duties as require by Finance Officer, Accountant and Finance Manager. This will include but not limited to (5%):

• Support audit by making documents available.
• Support in Asset spot check and physical verification.

Qualifications and experience:

Essential:

• OND/HND or Bachelors in Accounting
• Minimum of 2 year experience in a finance team, with at least one year in an Accounts Officer position

Desirable:

• Experience in working in INGO an added advantage
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other software skills

Work-based skills and competencies:

Essential:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Knowledge of NGO donors and their financial reporting requirements
• Excellent computer skills with high proficiency in Microsoft excel
• Good analytical and reporting skills
• Strong ability to be able to manage and prioritise multiple tasks
• Willingness to learn at all times
• A self-starter

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of accounting software is an added advantage
• Trustworthiness, Stress tolerance and operational decision-making skills is an

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Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Finance Assistant to join our team in Oyo, Nigeria.

The Finance Assistant will provide finance functions including clerical work and accounting services of maintaining proper financial records of all transactions in accordance with MC financial procedures to the respective field offices in the zone.

The Finance Assistant will be responsible for timely filing of field/country office monthly financial information inclusive of payment vouchers, bank information, financial correspondence etc. S/he will also ensure orderliness within the finance department.

The Finance Assistant will deal with all payments documentation as well as advising the Project Manager, Technical Officer and Financial Accountant on the arising financial matters and sharing area of concern with suggested solution within he/her capacity.

The Finance Assistant will be a staff in the state or Abuja and will report to the project manager while interacting directly with other staff including operations officer, administrative officer and other technical staff in the field office. S/he will also work with stakeholders, Local government and communities in the state. Indirectly report to the country finance officer.

Key accountabilities:

Finance work (50%):

• Review all transactions and ensure completeness of documentation and approvals.
• Review attendance using the approved Database and prepare payment schedules for participants of SMC personnel to ensure names in attendance sheet tally with Database and Schedules.
• Prepare payment vouchers, ensure correctness of cost classification and coding
• Receive payment advise and attached to relevant documents to file
• Preparing Payment schedule of all meetings, workshop and training participants and consultants
• Safeguarding the organisation resources by scrutinising all payment requests, TAFs, PRFs by adhering to the MC Manual, Policies and Procedures
• Follow up on the stock balance of financial documents (forms, vouchers, receipts etc.) and make a timely order before stock outs occurs.
• Work with Finance Officer to ensure PV is raised with all supporting documents for every payment made and filed.
• Advising the Finance Officer on the arising financial matters and sharing areas of concern with suggested solutions.
• Maintain an excel journal template for recording of all payments completed and share with Finance Officer weekly for posting.

Suppliers Invoice (15%):

• Track and receive all invoices from suppliers & vendors and prepare the Invoice authorisation forms
• Prepare all invoice payments and obtain approval from the authorised personnel

Operations related work (30%):

• In charge of archiving, scanning and filling all finance documents and ensuring that they are in safe custody and easily accessible by the finance team.
• Ensure Finance Documents (PVs) are filled as per Malaria Consortium Finance Manual filing requirement.
• In-charge of collating timesheets of all field office staff.
• Keep tracker for all payment documents to ensure they are sent/ received to/in Abuja.

Perform other duties as require by Finance Officer, Accountant and Finance Manager. This will include but not limited to (5%):

• Support audit by making documents available.
• Support in Asset spot check and physical verification.

Qualifications and experience:

Essential:

• OND/HND or Bachelors in Accounting
• Minimum of 2 year experience in a finance team, with at least one year in an Accounts Officer position

Desirable

• Experience in working in INGO an added advantage
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other software skills

Work-based skills and competencies:

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Knowledge of NGO donors and their financial reporting requirements
• Excellent computer skills with high proficiency in Microsoft excel
• Good analytical and reporting skills
• Strong ability to be able to manage and prioritise multiple tasks
• Willingness to learn at all times
• A self-starter

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of accounting software is an added advantage
• Trustworthiness, Stress tolerance and operational decision-making skills is an added advantage