Job Title: Intern – Finance (No Experience Jobs)
Organisation: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Created in 1948, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has evolved into the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network. Our Members include expert and influential government, non-government and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations from over 160 countries, and our Commissions draw upon more than 15,000 experts worldwide. IUCN is the only institution that brings governments and civil society together with one purpose: to advance sustainable development and create a just world that values and conserves nature. The Union’s diversity, depth and reach give its decisions a powerful mandate and its actions profound impact.
Job Summary: The Intern Finance is a financial administration role in terms of ensuring total compliance with IUCN policies. The overall objective of this position is to provide effective support to the Uganda Country Office Finance Unit in an effective, transparent and legally appropriate manner in conformity with IUCN policies and best practice and standards
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Major responsibilities:
- Ensure effective, efficient, and accurate financial operations in line with organizational policies and donor requirements. Finance procedures are followed in all transactions and accounting documents properly filed.
Specific duties:
- Payment management;
- Assist in Reviewing and process payment requests, ensuring all payments are authorized, recorded, and supported by relevant documentation.
- Support the preparation and verification of expense claims, ensuring compliance with financial policies.
- Assist in the preparation and processing of Travel Authorizations (TAs), ensuring compliance with internal policies and proper documentation.
- Monitor and manage petty cash transactions.
- Receipting, banking and ensuring a regular monitoring of bank balances.
- Prepare Monthly Bank reconciliation reports
- Statutory management;
- Preparing returns for Statutory payroll deductions
- Tracking and filling monthly withholding taxes
- Assist with data capture into the accounting system
- Financial records management;
- Maintain finance registry by ensuring that all accounting documents are filed according to the established standards and donor requirements
- Any other duties;
- Undertake any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- An Accounting degree from a recognized institution.
- Progress towards attaining professional accounting qualifications is an added advantage
Work Experience;
- Volunteer work or school projects
- Strong motivation and willingness to learn
- Language Proficiency;
- Ability to communicate effectively in both written and spoken english
Core Competencies;
- Transparency: Able to build trust and contribute to informed and responsible decision making by carrying out the work of IUCN in a transparent manner; provides clear guidance to ensure that objectives and desired measurable results are understood by members of the team.
- Inclusiveness: Understands and accepts cultural diversity, and provides a tolerant, positive and supportive working environment that fosters respect for diversity, demonstrates ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.
- Professionalism: Promote the organization’s interests, objectives and values in a diligent and professional manner.
- Accountability: Takes responsibility of individual and collective actions, promotes the IUCN One Programme approach.
- Functional competencies;
- Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Able to work in a dynamic environment
- Excellent communication and Interpersonal skills
How to Apply:
Applicants are requested to apply online through the HR Management System, by opening the vacancy announcement and pressing the “Apply” button.
Deadline: 10th December 2025
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: no experience required