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Finance and Admin Manager – Skills for Prosperity is needed at Palladium Group
JOB TITLE: Finance and Admin Manager – Skills for Prosperity
Ref.: req8032
LOCATION: Abuja
Project Overview and Role
Global Prosperity Fund’s ‘Skills for Prosperity’ is a £75m DFID programme, which seeks to improve the cost-effectiveness, access, quality, relevance and equity of skills through innovative approaches in 9 Middle-Income Countries around the world, including Nigeria.
In Nigeria, the Skills for Prosperity (S4P) country programme will work in six targeted states to:
- Improve access to quality Higher Education and TVET for youth and young women, with a focus on improving access to and the quality of apprenticeships, and supporting training institutions to deliver demand-driven, competency-based training,
- Strengthen education-to-employment linkages, and
- Build the capacity of training institutions to improve outcomes for vulnerable women and people with disabilities.
- Apprenticeships, training, and capacity building interventions will focus on identified high growth sectors of the economy (Agriculture/Agribusiness/agro-allied industries; Creative and Entertainment, and Information and Communications Technology sectors).
- S4P aims to directly benefit 6,000 youth and women in targeted states of Kano, Kaduna, Enugu, Edo, Benue and Lagos.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrable and extensive experience in financial management, accounting and administration for large donor-funded programmes
- Demonstrated leadership in managing programme operations
- Knowledge and understanding of professional accounting principles, theories, practices, and terminology (private sector, governmental, and non-profit) and ability to understand accounting practices and procedures, to analyse data, narrative reports, and workload flow charts
- Knowledge and understanding of professional contracting principles, theories, practices, and terminology (private sector, governmental, and non-profit)
- Experience and understanding of DFID financial rules and regulations
- Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with managers, colleagues, and clients
- High computer proficiency, particularly in the Microsoft Office suite and accounting software programmes.
- Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe.
- Ability to respond and adapt quickly to changing requirements and competing demands
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Job Features
Job Category | Accounting / Audit / Finance, Manager |
Deadline | 15th May, 2020. |