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Salary: Paid TSh26,676,400 Basic Annual Salary (Subject to Statutory Deductions)Location: TanzaniaClosing date:27 January 2025Download Finance and Administration Officer JD Here
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About Restless Development

Restless Development is a global non profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) bound together by our vision for youth power. 

We run youth-led programmes to tackle the issues that young people care about the most. We also run the Youth Collective – a growing network of over 5,000 local youth-led organisations in 185 countries. We are committed to creating an agency that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.

More information about Restless Development:

• Restless Development Strategy 
• Youth Collective 
• Power Shifting Checklist
• We Are Restless Blog

Our Approach to Safeguarding

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, volunteers and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.


About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic, committed and passionate individual to join our Finance unit in the role of Finance and Administration Officer. The Finance and Administration Officer will be based in the Dar es Salaam office; they will be in charge of overseeing many of the core functions of the Finance team including but not limited to; assisting with Payments collection and documentation , Payments /Recording , Assisting in auditing and donor budget management, Supporting Staff in trainings and development  and  other financial accounting functions.

Experience

• Holds relevant Bachelors Degree level Accounting & Finance qualifications with  Certified  professional certification/s (eg CPA, ACCA)
• 1-2 years’ experience in financial management and administration
• Experience of meeting donor financial requirements and reporting,   
• Good experience of computing packages, particularly Microsoft Excel and 1-2 years demonstrable  knowledge of financial force  
• A self-starter who can work unsupervised or as part of a team.
• Eligible to work in Tanzania.

Desirable

• Previous experience in preparing budgets and  in refore-casting.
• Experience using online payment platforms for mobile money and bank
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Solid understanding of donor funded projects and operations
• Track record of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

Equal Opportunity

Restless Development is an equal opportunities employer and invites applications from all segments of the community. Restless Development will guarantee that no applicant faces less favourable treatment based on gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be demonstrated to be relevant to performance.

 


How to Apply

KEY DATESComplete this ONLINE APPLICATION FORM   by 27th January 2025, 17:00hrs.

Please note that we do not accept CVs, resumes or cover letters.