Administrative Coordinator
Terrafina Microfinance is a microfinance program for Africa, in which ICCO collaborates with Oikocredit and the Rabobank Foundation. Terrafina Microfinance provides support to local rural microfinance institutions (MFIs) as well as networks and focuses on two rural areas in Africa: West Africa (Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal), and Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi).
We are looking to strengthen our team with a:
Administrative Coordinator (m/f)
32 hours per week
for a period of 16 months (1 Sept 2014 - 31 Dec 2015)
32 hours per week
for a period of 16 months (1 Sept 2014 - 31 Dec 2015)
About the team
The Terrafina program is executed by a small specialized team of 12 fte headed by a fund manager, and supervised by a tripartite Board of Governors. The program has 65 microfinance partners in six countries (anglophone and francophone). These microfinance partners are supported with capacity building support, both technical and financial, to help them professionalize and to promote agricultural microfinance. About half of the Terrafina staff is located in Africa, operating closely to the microfinance partners and to the field offices of our consortium partners Oikocredit and ICCO. Terrafina operates in a diverse network of microfinance practitioners, governments and policy makers, donors & investors and consultants, which makes the work challenging and interesting.
The Terrafina program is executed by a small specialized team of 12 fte headed by a fund manager, and supervised by a tripartite Board of Governors. The program has 65 microfinance partners in six countries (anglophone and francophone). These microfinance partners are supported with capacity building support, both technical and financial, to help them professionalize and to promote agricultural microfinance. About half of the Terrafina staff is located in Africa, operating closely to the microfinance partners and to the field offices of our consortium partners Oikocredit and ICCO. Terrafina operates in a diverse network of microfinance practitioners, governments and policy makers, donors & investors and consultants, which makes the work challenging and interesting.
About the position
The administrative coordinator (AC) is responsible for the support processes in Terrafina Microfinance: financial-administrative, secretarial and logistical processes. As a co-worker, you provide functional guidance to the support staff, both in Holland and in the field. You make sure that the administrative procedures and processes are up-to-date and functional, and you anchor the administrative compliance and integrity in the programs. With the help of your support team, you make budgets and financial reports of projects and programs, you facilitate payments to projects, as well as other financial support to the microfinance colleagues, and you secure the administrative services for the project cycle. You provide quarterly and annual financial figures for the Board. You supervise the (financials of the) hosting agreements with consortium partners, in Holland and in the field posts. You support the fund manager in budgeting and MIS issues. For your support team, you provide a stimulating and committed environment, to enjoy the work as a vital contribution to the field programs. Apart from supervising your team, you take a substantial share in the practical administrative tasks yourselves.
The administrative coordinator (AC) is responsible for the support processes in Terrafina Microfinance: financial-administrative, secretarial and logistical processes. As a co-worker, you provide functional guidance to the support staff, both in Holland and in the field. You make sure that the administrative procedures and processes are up-to-date and functional, and you anchor the administrative compliance and integrity in the programs. With the help of your support team, you make budgets and financial reports of projects and programs, you facilitate payments to projects, as well as other financial support to the microfinance colleagues, and you secure the administrative services for the project cycle. You provide quarterly and annual financial figures for the Board. You supervise the (financials of the) hosting agreements with consortium partners, in Holland and in the field posts. You support the fund manager in budgeting and MIS issues. For your support team, you provide a stimulating and committed environment, to enjoy the work as a vital contribution to the field programs. Apart from supervising your team, you take a substantial share in the practical administrative tasks yourselves.
Our requirements
- Background in finance & administration, HBO level, (> 5 years experience). Experience with organizational and HR-topics;
- Experience with leading small (support) teams in international/ intercultural environment; affinity with public-private partnerships in international cooperation is an asset;
- Analytical mindset, capacity to switch to helicopter views, capacity to make decisions;
- Hands-on mentality, eye for the detail;
- Communicative and social skills, team worker, flexibility;
- Entrepreneurial attitude (creative/ innovative, dare to take calculated risks, coping with change);
- Ability to work under pressure;
- English + Dutch (French is an asset), versatile with MS-Excel.
From our side, you can count on a working environment with a plenty of room for personal initiative. The employment conditions of ICCO The Netherlands apply. The position corresponds to salary scale 10 (between EU 2231 and EU 3773 gross a month based on fulltime employment of 36 h/week). The location is the ICCO office in Utrecht.
For further information about the position, please call Cor Wattel, fund manager of Terrafina Microfinance (+31 (0) 6 5161 1950), or e-mail him atcor.wattel@terrafina.nl. Please e-mail your written application, including CV, to ICCO, department Human Resources, on or before 25 August 2014. The e-mail address isvacancies@icco-cooperation.org stating vacancy number 2014-017. The interviews will take place in the week of 1 September. For further information about Terrafina Microfinance, please go to www.terrafina.nl. Terrafina Microfinance is a joint initiative of: ICCO, Oikocredit, Rabobank.
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