PROFILE
Education: Bachelor degree in accounting, administration, and/or logistic or related field and at least one year proven experience in administrative, financial and logistics management.
Experience: Minimum of 6 months of international experience, preferably in emergency or humanitarian contexts; experience in sensitive environments (post-conflict, conflict), IDP/refugee camp experience is an added value.
Previous experience of local partner capacity building and management is an asset.
Technical skills and knowledge: Knowledge in administrative, human resources and financial management. Knowledge in procurement, fleet (car, motorbike) and premises (energy, ICT, security) management. Knowledge of Solidarites International rules and procedures in terms of all human resources,financial and logistic matters (finance, accountancy, cash management, HR processes, purchase process…) preferred.
Software to manage: SAGA – HOMERE and Excel;
Transferable skills: Experience in training a small team and local partners – Significant importance on capacity building for this position. Excel.
Languages: Good English command (spoken and written) essential;
Other desirable qualities: Autonomy – Sense of diplomacy – Patience very appreciate when it comes to deal with local partner – Asian experience valued
Desired start date: 20/10/2024
Duration of the mission: 6 months
Location: Bentiu
SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs for food, water and shelter. Particularly committed to the fight against diseases linked to unsafe water, the leading cause of death in the world, SI’s interventions provide expertise in the field of access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, but also in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in 26 countries, the SI teams – 3200 people in total, made up of expatriates, national staff, permanent staff at HQ, and a few volunteers – intervene with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultural norms.
About the mission
In October 2006, SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL conducted an assessment in Malakal and its surroundings, where the population had doubled since 2004. Humanitarian priorities were to help the returnees getting back to both rural and urban areas, to improve access to basic services (water, sanitation, food, education, etc.) for the most vulnerable populations and to avoid further degradation of the situation in an area already subject to chronicle food crisis and poverty. SI strategy in the Upper Nile State was to respond to the WASH needs of both urban population in Malakal and rural communities across the State.
From March 2010, SI started to work in WASH in Unity State (Mayom, Abiemnom, and Rubkona Counties). SI activities were coordinated from an office in Bentiu (State capital). Following the attack on Mankien town on April 21st, 2011, and the looting of an SI compound, SI did not maintain its operational office in the area. SI has also worked in three refugee camps in Upper Nile State and Unity State, providing WASH services, from 2012 until June 2014 when the activities in Yusuf Batil were handed over to the NGO Medair.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the supervision of the finance Coo, Hr Coo and of the Logistics Coo, the Admin/Log carries out administrative, accounting, financial, HR and logistics management of his/her base, in compliance with donor and SOLIDARITES International procedures.
He/she organizes logistics and administrative support to the programs and is charged with ensuring that Solidarités International’s Human Resources policy is properly implemented as well as of the supervision of all the logistics and administrative activities at the base level.
He supports monitors and trains the members of his administrative team.
He/she assists the base Manager or the Field Coordinator to implement the security procedures
He/she will overseas at base level :
Supply Management
Equipment/Telecommunications Management
Management and Monitoring of IT Equipment
Supplies Management
Human Resource Management
Security
Reporting/Capitalization
Administrative management of personnel
Team management
Cash-flow/bookkeeping
Budgetary / financial monitoring
Administrative management of the mission
Reporting/communication
A salaried position:
According to experience, starting from EUR 2310 gross per month ( 2100 base salary + 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly) and a monthly Per Diem of USD 700.
SI also covers accommodation costs and travel expenses between the expatriate’s country of origin and the place of assignment.
Breaks: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of 7 working days every three months (with a USD 850 break allowance, allocated by Sl). To these breaks periods, SI grants one (1) additional rest day per month worked.
Insurance package: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which refunds all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.
Living condition:
The LOG/ADM Manager is based in Bentiu/Rubkona at the so-called humanitarian hub managed by IOM and securred by UNMISS
1. both office and accomodation of SI is in prefabricated containers at the hub (sperarated guesthouse & office areas)
2. curfew (8 pm) put in place
3. Staff are responsible for their own feeding / guesthouse area on the hub premises has a shop, restuarants & cafeterrias
4. Rooms are equipped with internet, ACs, cupboards, table, chair, beds & bed nets and bathroom
5. hub has common area”
Security condition:
1. bentiu has security level 2 which represent moderate risk level (i.e. tense but stable situation). Nevetheless, implementation of operations and , hence humanitarian access, may be affected by selective security incident
2. Weak mobile communications especially in some areas away from main urban areas resulting in no or poor communications
3. High inflation rate (devaluation of local currency & high prices) amid poor socio-economic situation in the country resulting in enhanced crime rate in Unity State
4. Enhanced inter-communal/inter-tribal tensions