Volunteer Finance Assistant Job Description
Position: Volunteer Finance Assistant
Duty Station: Kampala, with frequent travels to the field
Reports to: Finance Officer
Application Deadline: June 12, 2024
The mission of Health Access Connect is to link remote communities to healthcare. HAC currently pursues this mission through three programs:
Medicycles: We use microfinance Boda Bodas to bring Ugandan government health workers to set up one-day mobile clinics in remote villages. In those clinics, health workers give HIV testing, antiretroviral treatment, immunizations, perinatal services, family planning, and many other services available in rural health centers.
Technical Advising: We collaborate with the Africa Resource Center and the Uganda Ministry of Health to teach and empower PEPFAR implementing partner organizations to implement the HAC outreach clinic model in an effort to improve service provision to people living with HIV and all other residents of remote communities.
Treat & Teach: We improve access to family planning in the communities of Masaka and Kalangala districts by a) providing low-density high-frequency certificate training to health workers, b) setting up outreach clinics in remote communities, c) generating demand by collaborating with community health workers (VHTs), and d) reducing commodity stock outs by providing buffer stocks and improving commodity tracking at partner health facilities.
Job Summary
The Volunteer Finance Assistant will work with HAC staff and partners to efficiently and effectively implement the Finance department processes as well as Office administration so as to ensure value creation and building of sustainability within the organization.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Record all bank, cash and mobile money transactions
Record all Field officer staff expenses.
Following up on Field officer accountability and reporting any discrepancies.
Filing receipts, invoices and all finance documentation
Support actively in the external audit process.
Pick up bids from respective suppliers and present them to management
Support the purchase, branding and delivery of these items to their intended warehouses
Implement stock tracking mechanism and verification
Support with tracking depreciation and usage of equipment purchases in health facilities and outreach sites.
Support in end of month reporting.
Qualifications, Technical Competences, Skills, and Experience
EDUCATION
Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration/Commerce/Finance/ with a bias in Procurement and Supply management or its equivalent.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Fresh graduates are encouraged to apply
Experience working with QuickBooks is an added advantage
Experience in procurement procedures is an added advantage
REQUIRED
Strong writing skills in English
Fluency in both spoken and written English.
Computer skills: proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Proficiency in using google suite
Ready to make frequent field visits.
Compensation
This position is designed as a full-time (40 hours/week) position. Compensation is UGX 450,000 per month before taxes. Field travel expenses will be paid for by Health Access Connect.