Job Title: Finance Roving Partnership Officer
Organisation: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure that all required NRC and donors financial management policies, systems, procedures and standard forms are in place to enable adherence to the generally accepted accounting practices and standards.
- Carry out verification of all payment vouchers/other documents for partners.
- Ensure that all partner procurements, payments and other transactions are in line with donors’ financial guidelines, rules and regulations for procurement, accounting and reporting
- Monitor the partner cash flows and expenditures relating to the projects.
- Collaborate with the finance coordinator to ensure partners are compliant and supported to deliver quality project documentation.
- Assisting the NRC Project staffs in translating their work plans into budgets in accordance with the Project budget.
- Ensuring that partners file/Pay government taxes on time and in the right way.
- Receive and verify the interim and final financial reports for partners.
- Support partners during implementation through capacity building, workshops, field visits and one on one discussions.
- Responsible for the quality posting of costs or partner Liquidations in Agresso/ unit4.
- Contribute in the design, development and implementation of the financial management policies, procedures and practices.
- Training partners in financial processes according to NRC policies and also the use of different financial tools.
- Assist the Finance Coordinator in maintaining overall budget control, provide up-to-date analysis and regular reports of the field office financial status and share detailed Budget vs. Actual reports for the entire field offices.
- Mobilize regular meetings with partners and always ensure proper documentation of minutes for these meetings, and also follow – up with action plans.
- Work with the Finance Coordinator and ensure accurate, reliable master support budget is in place and updated.
- Any other task relevant to the position as requested by the line manager/supervisor.
- Please download the Finance Officer – Partnership Roving Officer.doc to learn more about the position
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- University degree in Accounting and Finance
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Associate of the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants (ACCA) or equivalent
- At least 5 years of financial and grants management experience in an INGO. Experience of managing consortium project will be an added advantage.
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- Understanding of issues in complex emergencies and crisis contexts
- Ability to work with stress and under high time and other pressure
- Excellent ability to work independently with very limited supervision
- Fluent in English, both written and verbal
- Excellent working knowledge of Excel and standard accounting packages
- Willingness to travel on a regular basis to all areas where the funded project are implemented.
- Flexible and creative
Behavioral competencies
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect
- Handling insecure environment
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested Ugandan applicants should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 30th December 2025
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60