The basics
- Graduate degree in accounting and/or management with experience of working at senior management levels required;
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g. chartered or certified) required;
- 8+ years’ experience in not-for-profit senior management required;
- Strong knowledge of funder regulations, including USAID and DFID.
- Experience with ERP systems preferred. Strong working knowledge of spreadsheets required.
- Fluency in English required and fluency in Swahili preferred
- Proven track record in management and demonstrated leadership skills required
- Proven ability to manage team in a dynamic, fast paced environment
- Strong sense of integrity
- Ability to manage complexity and balance priorities in a fast-paced work environment
- Strategic, creative, analytical, result and customer-oriented
- Good active listener, good communicator
- Committed, self-motivated and solution-oriented; organized but flexible
- Strongly motivated by humanitarian causes
- Can-do attitude, go-getter
- Demonstrated leadership in working in with a large finance and operations team in a nation-wide operation
