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Nigeria is the country with the largest GDP of the whole African continent and it is currently living strong internal crisis due to several factors. In the coastal area, tensions are still ongoing, sometimes in a very violent way, and are related to environmental associations and to the kidnapping of several technicians who were working for oil extraction. In the south and in the centre of the country tensions are very strong too, and really violent, especially between farmers and breeders. But the two main issues that are really concerning the humanitarian community are the persistence of malnutrition and food insecurity in the Sahel area in the north of the country and the considerable increase in the fresh wave of attacks of the terrorist movement, the Islamic fundamentalist Boko Aram. In all the states of the North and Centre, but especially in the three states of the North East (Yobe, Borno and Adamawa) where the state of emergency has been declared, there are ongoing attacks in schools, churches, shopping centers, markets and any crowded place. The IDPs are fleeing from the most insecure areas and they are about 700.000, while there are several thousand of refugees in the neighboring countries (Cameroon, Niger and Chad).

 

 

Country Finance And Administration Officer 

 

Coopi is currently organizing carrying out a humanitarian intervention in four Local Governmental Authorities (LGA) of the Bauchi state which has the following general objective: to provide multi sector assistance to IDPs: NFI, food security (cash voucher, land access, seeds and tools), wash, health and nutrition.

 

At the moment we are carrying out a project in Bauchi State, and we will be soon start another operation also in Bauchi and Yobe states. 

 

We need an Country administrator who will be in charge of the finance part of out interventions. 

 

Description

He/she ensures the correct accountancy and administrative management for the projects in compliance with the contract (included budget) and of COOPI and the donor’s procedures. 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Safe and bank account management: He/she ensures the correct management of the safesand the project’s bank accounts, by directly managing or by regularly controlling the project accountant, if available. 
• Accountancy management: He/she ensures the correct project accountancy andall accountancy documents filing. He/she does this by monitoring the accountants or by directly performing the accountancy, in case there was no accountant.
• Administrative management: #In collaboration with the project manager He/she verifies the correct administrative management of theprojects (contracts, goods and services purchase, calls for tenders etc.) in compliance with COOPI and the donor’s procedures. He/she ensures the correct filing of all project’s administrative documents.
• Expenses planning and monitoring:In collaboration with the Project Manager (and thelogistician if present) he/she makes the project’s financial planning. He/she monitors expenses, in accordance with the budget. He/she provides the accountancy data to the ProjectManager so as to allow him to monitor and plan the expenditures and to request funds.
• Contract modifications and administrative documents: He/she collaborates with the Project Manager in the elaboration of contract modifications (including the budget), and in the preparation of all necessary projects documents.
• Financial reporting: In coordination with the Country Director and with the Project Manager he/she prepares the intermediate and final reports for the projects under his/her responsibility.
• Budget preparation: if requested by the Country Director he/she participates to new projects’ budget writing.
• Staff management: He/she plans the work, supervises, and collaborate to train the staff of the project’s accounting-administrative area upon request by the Country Director. Upon request her/she collaborates to staff evaluation activities.