Plan International job vacancies – we are recruiting for the following roles:
- IT Intern
- Internal Audit Officer,
- Finance and Grants Officer,
- Finance Consultant,
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Plan International is looking for suitably qualified and experienced candidates for immediate employment. Below are the requirements and Application Procedure: for Plan International jobs online.IT Intern
Location: FCT, AbujaRole Purpose
- Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children’s development organizations in the world. We work in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty particularly those who are excluded or marginalized with high quality programs that deliver long lasting benefits by increasing its income, working in partnership with others and operating effectively.
- Working in both the development and humanitarian sphere across 18 States in Nigeria delivering life changing services and support. In the next 5 years, Plan International Nigeria aims to Transform Power Relations in Favour of Girls and will not stop until 10 million girls can learn, lead, decide and thrive.
- The position holder is responsible to provide technical support for users; and to manage and administer local IT infrastructure and corporate systems under the direction of the IT Coordinator.
- Financial measures or statistics relevant to post such as budget; list of direct and indirect reports
- IT operational plans
- Security and access control for data and network devices.
- Plan and manage CO technical services ensuring adherence to all corporate processes.
- Assist in performing hardware and software installation procedures
- Perform software configuration on stand-alone computers and laptops
- Provide support in diagnosing hardware and software issues and troubleshooting activities
- Support with documenting all processes in reference manuals for training and guidance
- Assist in hardware and software inventory management
- Handle periodic maintenance of hardware and software
- Troubleshoot equipment such as printers and scanners and other peripherals
- Take telephone calls from users and attempt to assist them with their information technology questions and problems
- Handle IT related documentation and make sure that all IT supplies are available
- Assist in gathering user requirements and developing appropriate reports for IT professionals
- Provide users with ongoing assistance in their information technology problems
- Provide support in setting up end-user training activities
- Ensure adherence to corporate standards, design and architecture
- Escalates incidents to ITC / global infrastructure support or local external support contracts as appropriate
- Provide support with user IT training needs and highlight these to the ITC.
Essential:
- University Degree or Diploma in Computer studies
- Proven ability and experience in setting up LANs and telecommunications networks
- Experience in supporting and management of LANs
- Experience of Microsoft Server Administration
- Experience in support Windows Operating System
- Embrace Child-centeredness, Child protection, Community participation and partnership
- Manage customer relationships and service
- Capability to communicate ideas and technical information to a non-technical audience
- Promotes high performance by all staff
- Networking, sharing information and best practices
- Works collaboratively as a team player, listens actively and values contributions.
- Self-management and personal accountability.
30th July, 2019.
Application Procedure:
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Internal Audit Officer
Job Location: Maiduguri, BornoRole Purpose
- The Internal Audit Officer will adopt systematic and disciplined audit approaches to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the organization’s risk management, control, and governance processes of Plan International Nigeria. Whilst risk management responsibility is that of the Country management, she/he is the main instrument for its implementation and improvement.
- An Internal Audit Officer is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring that proper checks are carried out to ensure accuracy of accounting systems and procedures.
- Under the direct supervision of the Country Internal Auditor, the Internal Audit Officer function is responsible for supporting the developing, directing, and coordinating a comprehensive internal audit program, which supports improvement of the risk management of Plan International Nigeria.
- Area of Responsibility – Borno and Adamawa (and other offices when the need arise).
- Located at Plan Maiduguri Office and reports to Country Internal Auditor.
- Support Programs and Finance systems, processes for compliance and management information.
- Risk Management and support for the proper functioning of all Plan systems.
- Carry out a full audit of an organization; including accessing risk and taking the necessary risk management steps to forestall fraud.
- Ensure control management regarding financial reliability and compliance by making sure that directions and regulations are strictly adhered to.
- Monitor actions taken by management in response to audit reviews, ensuring that all agreed audit actions and recommendations are accurate and timely implemented including Global Assurance findings.
- Work closely with external or visiting auditors and support their audit process.
- Ensure that audits are performed with due professional care and there are credible audit observations, conclusions and recommendations.
- Obtain, analyze, and evaluate accounting documentation, reports, and data
- Act objectively by giving independent advice in order to ensure legality and achieve organizational goals.
- Maintain and improve on existing open communication with the management.
- Assist to document the audit process and prepares audit findings. Also, prepare and present reports that clearly reflects the audit results.
- Assist to do a follow-up on the audit assignments giving to other auditors by Plan International Nigeria.
- Strive to continuously develop knowledge in the sector regarding rules, regulations, best practices, techniques and performance standards.
- Perform Partner audits to ensure compliance with donor and Plan’s rules and regulations.
- Keep Supervisor informed of any initiative or difficulties relating to the job’s responsibilities.
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned by the Internal Auditor or Country Director.
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Finance and Grants Officer
Job Location: Mubi, AdamawaRole Purpose
- The purpose of this role is to provide timely, accurate financial information and ensure that Grants expenditures are in line with specific FAD/donor requirements. The role’s support is to the BMZ Projects.
- Communicates within Plan International Nigeria and with partners and related government institutions.
- The post holder will contribute towards grant and financial management of the office and programmes, interfacing with both operational and programme team members.
- The post holder will also contribute towards the organisational development of Plan Internationals implementing partners.
- Budgets – Monitor the budget of all BMZ Projects.
- Reporting – Support financial reporting on the BMZ Projects.
- Area of Responsibility – All the BMZ Projects.
Programme development & Quality Management
Grants Administration:
- Assist with the grants set-up in SAP.
- Support the full cycle of grants management activities beginning from pre-award assessments, monitoring/compliance visits and close-out procedures.
- Track grantee contractual obligations, e.g., pre-award conditions
- Support the Finance & Grants Manager – Humanitarian and project managers to prepare the annual grants budgets for all BMZ projects.
- Support the KP06 budget preparation and periodic upload in SAP.
- Provide technical assistance in terms of accounting (use of SAP), financial management, financial policy formulation, and systems of internal control to all partners/grantees to ensure compliance in terms with donor rules and regulations.
- Support the assessments of partner/grantee organizations as directed by the Finance & Grants Coordinator and the Finance & Grants Manager-Humanitarian.
- Review partner budgets and provide assistance and guidance where necessary including the monitoring and interpretation of project budgets versus actual expenditures.
- Support, train staff and partners on donor policies, rules and regulations.
- Facilitate timely partner advance request and liquidation in SAP.
- Review Partners/grantee liquidation and recommend for approval.
- Conduct and document regular partner visits to ensure compliance with grant agreement.
- Ensure receipt of timely and accurate accounting and financial reports from partners.
- Monitor the partner burn rate and offer timely advice to the partner and programs team for prompt action and decision-making.
- Monitor and track grants related performance measurement indicators and liaise with Finance & Grants Coordinator to implement strategies to improve performance.
- Explain donor requirements and organizational financial policy & procedures to staff and ensure compliance.
- Prepare and review on a monthly basis, donor-specific bank reconciliation statements and receipts/deposits reconciliations.
- Support the preparation of financial reports based on donor requirements.
- Ensure proper filing (electronic and hard copy) of grants financial reports.
- Periodically update the financial reporting matrix.
- Ensure that partners use the standard reporting templates and formats for their reports.
- Prepare monthly BMZ Projects burn rate – expenditure traffic tracker.
- Prepare monthly BMZ Projects cost recovery tracker.
- Support the preparation of all BMZ Projects funding/grant tracker.
- Prepare all BMZ Projects expenditure tracker.
- Support the CO in recharging costs to BMZ Projects.
- Fulfill Plan’s Child Protection Policy at all times.
- Ensure that filing of travel advances, per diem calculations and travel reconciliation forms are reviewed;
- Ensure that all travel and purchase advances are liquidated on time.
- Perform any other project related duties as specified by the Finance & Grants Coordinator and/or the Finance & Grants Manager-Humanitarian.
- Working contacts inside and outside the organization; include the purpose and level (high, medium, low) of the contact
- Prepare and submit relevant financial reports for domestic and international consumption using SAP.
- Provide timely responses concerning queries linked with relevant projects and the BMZ Projects.
- Provide support to Plan International Nigeria’s BMZ Projects programme delivery and resource mobilization.
- Work with other members of the Finance and Humanitarian units to ensure effective and efficient programme delivery.
- Degree in Accounting or equivalent.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in donor funds grants administration.
- Experience working with sub-grantees required.
- Fluency in local language and English required.
- Preferred qualifications: knowledge of and experience with the key donors in the industry is strongly preferred.
- Experience providing capacity development assistance to sub-grantees strongly preferred.
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Finance Consultant
Job Location: FCT, AbujaRole Purpose
- The purpose of this role is to support Finance and Human Resource department on Timesheet management and reconciliation from Plan International Nigeria’s inception to date as well as prepare apportioned and shared cost staff cost recovery.
- This is to ensure that all timesheets for staff reflect the amount of time spent on respective projects.
- Communicates within Plan International Nigeria only. The post holder will contribute towards;
- Reconciling timesheets submitted to Human Resource department thus interfacing with both Finance and Human Resource departments
- Ensure staff costs are recovered from Projects for all apportioned and shared cost staff
- Timesheets are available for staff for all the years
- Compute the hours on the timesheet by making use of the SAP posted OHDS/Zjournal documents from finance.
- Support the Finance & Operations Manager – To review whether staff costs charged on to projects agree with the hours indicated on the timesheets.
- Complete a Staff cost recovery template for apportioned and shared cost staff and ensure its periodic update.
- Arrange the time sheets month by month from inception to date and file accordingly.
- Carry out any other assigned tasks.
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