Project Finance Officer at Carbon Tanzania

Project Finance Officer at Carbon Tanzania

Project Finance Officer at Carbon Tanzania

Carbon Tanzania

Ruvuma, Tanzania

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Carbon Tanzania is an innovative conservation business whose primary focus is to provide unique skills and interventions that lead to the production and delivery of forest-based carbon offsets. These carbon offsets are generated through the actions of local Tanzanian communities conserving and managing their indigenous trees and forests. Central to Carbon Tanzania’s innovative conservation approach is a fundamental respect for local community land rights; this approach generates significant and sustained local economic benefits that incentivize and enable communities to conserve their immediate environment on which their way of life depends.

Carbon Tanzania is looking for a dynamic and energetic Accountant to work as the Project Finance Officer within an operational field team. The Project finance officer will be responsible for ensuring, and tracking, efficient use of revenue paid to communities from development phase to revenues from sales of Verified Emission Reduction Carbon credits (VER’s). Ensure revenues earned is used to maximize community benefit, standard of living and educational opportunities within the project area.

Duty Station: Namtumbo District, Ruvuma Region

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Knowledge

• Ensure every village within Carbon Tanzania’s project area understands the cost of
  business associated with activities leading to the project outcomes and includes the administration costs in their budgets.
• Visit other Carbon Tanzania project sites to understand and share experiences.
• Planning – in partnership with project manager and management team
• Ensure every village in the project area has short-term and long-term financial plans.
• Assist and ensure every village has budgets approved by village development committee (VDC) supported by the community through villages general assembly meetings.
• Determine and strategize short-term and long-term education and health needs and come up with proposed financial plans.
• Design mechanism for control to avoid misuse and fraud.
• Ensure villages incorporate crucial business costs into their budgets.
• Execution – in partnership with project manager and management team
• Liaise with district and regional offices to ensure flow of information about the use of funds and ensure compliance with local and national accounting standards.
• Seek clarifications and advise from district internal auditor for village internal controls.
• Attend village meetings to announce funds provided and follow up on the village expenditure reports to the community.
• Strengthen the internal controls for villages to ensure no leakage and frauds.
• Assist in procurements procedure to ensure villages adhere to government requirements.
• Organize dummy cheque handover event and project steering committee meetings
• Ensure VGS have contracts, equipped well, paid in time and their financial rights are protected.
• Assist and coordinate with project manager, monitoring and evaluation personnel where needed.

Work with COCOBA.

• Do other tasks that contribute to the projects results assigned by the management
  team.

Reviews

• Ensure transparency of the village financials and publish report on the village notice
  board.
• Audit and verify transactions every quarter.
• Ensure the village government expenditures are within the budget.

Communications

• Build relationship with local and district government and submit letters and proof of
  payment to regional and district offices.

Sending project updates report weekly to the management team.

Risks

• Identify financial risks and communicate to the finance department.
• Report and action any sign of fraud or misuse.

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ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Strong experience (minimum of 4 years) working on Finance roles.
• Degree in Accounting, Business and Administration or finance related fields
• CPA is added advantage
• Accounting data and administrative management practices and procedures
• Competency with computer skills is essential
• Exceptional time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Problem solving attitude
• Proficiency in English and Swahili as working languages
• Must be detail oriented
• Experience of working with community is added advantage.
• Audit experience is an added advantage
• The contract duration is performance-based with one-year duration, starting in early

September 2024. The compensation system will be commensurate with experience and appropriate for a field-based finance Officer of a small to medium enterprise.

Please send your CV and Cover letter to email: [email protected] ,

For more information please visit: www.carbontanzania.com

Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in next three weeks (before 30th Aug 2024)