Key Roles and Responsibilities.

Accounting and Programme Finance

• Prepare vouchers of payment, receipt and journals relating to cash transactions against approved bills/invoices in relation to the project.
• Ensure proper process documentation of all financial transactions
• Ensure proper filing of finance related documentation
• Update the donor financial reports and arrange for timely requests for funds
• Verify the project expenses against approved budget and protocol
• Ensure compliance organizational policy in regard to advances for project related visits
• Ensure all supporting documentation are available with voucher before payment as per donor & organizational compliance
• Checking the correctness of retirements of travel advances/impress and ensuring that they are well supported for further authorizations
• Ensure process and policy has been followed regarding procurement.
• Undertake other general finance duties as required to facilitate the smooth running of accounting and project finance activities.

Budget Management & Cost control

• Assist the Project Manager in operational management of project funds e.g. budgeting/forecasting, documentation and spending.
• Provide information to program team in relation to budget and expenditure
• Support in preparing monthly and quarterly financial reports
• Prepare monthly budget variance report and share with management
• Undertake other general finance duties as required to facilitate smooth functioning of accounting and project finance activities.

Required Qualifications and Key Competencies.

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business management or any other related subject.
• CPA finalist

Other Requirements

• At least 2 years’ experience of donor funded project reporting.
• Good experience and knowledge of accounting data processing and report generating
• Knowledge about tax and statutory requirements
• Knowledge on donor compliance, rules, and regulation especially USAID preferred
• Data analysis skill
• Up-to-date knowledge and understanding of organizational procedures and guidelines
• Experience and knowledge on donor financial monitoring
• Communication and report writing skill
• Demonstrate pro-activeness and responsiveness
• Ability to work as a team player and contribute to improve team performance

Key Roles and Responsibilities.

• Overall oversight of all intervention activities at the county level in relation to agro-entrepreneur development, farmers engagement and empowerment, crop production, aggregation, and marketing.
• Drive day to day sorghum production activities including management of crop calendar, input procurement, planting, and crop management, harvesting and post - harvest handling
• Responsible for mobilizing agro-entrepreneurs to offer farmer services including input access, advisory, mechanization, aggregation, finance, and markets
• Establish high quality demonstration sites(plots) to be used in delivery of practical farmer trainings by the agro-entrepreneurs.
• Initiate collaboration and local partnerships with the County and Sub - County Agricultural officers, input suppliers and other relevant service providers and identify leverage opportunities capable of adding value to the project
• Monitor and provide timely periodic data to inform collation of reports from the accomplished field activities
• Responsible for ensuring that data reported is of high-quality standards of accuracy, reliability, credibility, and confidentiality and that it is in tandem with the services offered to the farmers.
• Reporting program progress in timelines agreed upon primarily weekly, monthly, and quarterly but may also requested to prepare ad hoc reports
• Work closely with BDS provider to facilitate commercialization of farming systems within the sorghum value chain with specific emphasis to PWDs.
• Organize peer learning sessions and provide feedback on progress of implementation

Required Qualifications and Key Competencies.

• Degree in either of the following disciplines; Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Extension, Agribusiness management.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in related commercialized agricultural value chain either in the private, rural or community development organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in data collection and reporting for similar programs
• Experience working with production groups, cooperatives or contracted farmers will be preferred
• Ability to ride a motorcycle with at-least 2-year experience and a valid riding license.
• Excellent command of Swahili and English.
• Excellent presentation, report writing and communication skills.