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Job Title: Principal Pensions Officer

Organisation: World Vision International

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: People and Culture Director

About US:

World Vision Uganda is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy Non-Government Organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in over 41 districts in Uganda. World Vision is committed to the protection of children and we will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. “Our Vision for every child, Life in all its fullness.  Our prayer for every Heart, the will to make it so.”

Job Summary: To provide strategic leadership in effective management, control and administration of the affairs of the Scheme on behalf of the Board of Trustees.

The position is responsible for timely response to members and service providers queries and assisting the Board of Trustees in scheme compliance and supervising service providers of the Scheme and ensuring timely payments of retirement benefits to exiting members, replicating of member statements, making returns to regulatory authorities.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Member Registration and Benefits Administration
• Oversee the registration of members World Vision Uganda Staff Provident Fund in accordance with established guidelines.
• Ensure the maintenance of appropriate membership records.
• Liaise with World Vision Uganda to ensure contributions are made, and the supporting schedules are submitted to the Scheme and reconciled by the Administrator timely.
• Process payment applications for retirement benefits and any other claims in accordance with the law and scheme rules & regulations.
• Member data maintenance, Documentation and Compliance
• Manage the Scheme’s activities and programmes in compliance with the Trust Deed, Scheme Rules, and statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Submit statutory reports/information to the Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority and Uganda Revenue Authority as required
• Ensure scheme Document are well filed and archived
• Retrieving records upon request by the Staff and Board of Trustees
• Collecting members’ and beneficiaries’ records on the scheme database
• Maintain scheme records both in soft and in hard copy
• Facilitating payments from scheme
• Issuing notices for board meetings, attending, taking minutes and follow up on action items
• Ensure that all quarterly reports are prepared and dispatched to Trustees in good time
• Organize and call for annual general meetings or special/ extraordinary meetings of the Scheme,
• Avail the required data of the Scheme to the other service providers appointed by The Trustees to enable the preparation of the statutory returns to the Authority;
• Ensuring that discharge forms for payment and approvals are done from the scheme following due process.
• Ensure that verification and facilitation of timely payment of service providers’ fees, trustee remunerations, consultancy fees and withdrawal/retirement benefits payment.

Customer Service:

• Responding to members/ stakeholders of the scheme on email, phone and when inquiries are forwarded to the Board of Trustees.
• Advising Staff on retirement benefits, especially the ones who are exiting the service of the World Vision.
• Maintaining good service providers’ relationship for a smooth working relationship
• Assisting service providers in delivering service

Meetings and Reports

• Receive the reports from the Fund Managers, Custodian, and Administrator, and ensure that the reports are analyzed and comply with the established criteria.
• Management of the Schemes’ activities and programmes.
• Assisting Board of Trustees in the arrangement for AGM
• Representative of the scheme in stakeholder interactions

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant Degree in Social Sciences, Business Administration or Accounting or any other relevant degree
• Post Graduate qualification in Financial Management is desirable
• At least three years’ experience in managing retirement or pension schemes
• Computer literate with strong numerical ability/excel skills.
• Familiarity with Saving schemes and portfolios desirable.
• Strong conceptual and Analytical skills with keen attention to detail
• Customer oriented focus
• Demonstrable integrity.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to submit your application and complete Curriculum Vitae by applying online through visiting World Vision International’s e-recruitment jobs portal at the web link below.

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Deadline: 28^th March 2022

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