The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity, and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

The IRC is the recipient of a new, USAID-funded 5 year basic education program, named the Accessible and Quality Basic Education (AQBE), Afghanistan. The AQBE will support more than 200,000 children in both  public and CBE education across 8 provinces to address key barriers and challenges facing equitable access to quality learning through:

1. Improving the delivery of quality instruction in foundational skills and the delivery of wellbeing support for students by educators;
2. Reinforcing community school management and family engagement to sustain access to learning;
3. Increasing the transition rate of CBE students into public schools; and
4. Sustaining equitable learning opportunities for all learners.

The AQBE project, under the leadership of the Chief of Party (COP), is housed by the IRC, but includes a dedicated Project Management Unit (PMU), who is in charge of ensuring coordination across the 7 AQBE partners, technical standardization for all project delivery, and transparency, accountability and reporting to USAID for all supported activities.

Scope of Work:

The PMU Finance and Grants Officers will work directly to support the Finance and Grants

Manager in day-to-day budget and grants management support to partners. He/She will be responsible for;

1          Recording Financial Transactions in SUN/Integra:

•           Ensuring that documentation is accurate, authorised, and complete for all financial transactions.

•           Maintaining easily accessible (physical and online) filing systems for all cash, bank, and general ledger vouchers.

•           Reviewing bank and cashbooks for all expenditure and income to ensure that they are correctly coded.

•           Ensuring that all income and expenditure is adequately authorized prior to uploading in the system.

•           Ensuring that the IRC financial procedures for Bank and Cash are always followed.

•           Passing of correction/Adjustment journals in the system

•           Uploading the approved Partner data into SUN/Integra. 

•           Checking all the transactions are entered correctly

•           Ensure accounts and transactions are regularly allocated

2          Month end closure

•           Carry out all month-end closures steps in consultation with CO Finance

•           Ensure timely closure of monthly accounts including balance sheets transactions related to projects

•           Maintain month end closure check list and ensure that it is closely followed.

•           Carrying out bank/Cash and B/S reconciliations in consultation with CO Finance

•           Ensuring all data is fully booked in the systems. Partner payments duly recorded, and tracker maintained for payments and expenses. Supporting FGM in partner monthly/Quarterly reconciliations

•           Support Partners in completing their month end requirements.  Provide feedback and training on reporting to these locations. Maintain a tracker to monitor Partner submissions. 

3          Monthly Control Checklist

•           Support the Finance Manager in preparation of the Monthly Control Checklist (MCC) and the Monthly Financial Review Reports  

•           Prepare and review all balance sheet control accounts with an emphasis on the monitoring of accounts; Intercompany, Accruals, statutory liabilities, Cash in Transit, Prepayments, Staff Advances and Programme Advances.

4          SUN/Integra Financial System

•           Liaise with CO Finance to ensure codes for the project are kept up to date (Staff, Projects, Partners, Suppliers, Assets, Property etc.)

•           Uploading budgets in the financial system in consultation with CO Finance

•           Ensure the uploaded information is correct

•           Creation of new accounting codes as required.

5          Training

•           With the support from the finance manager organise training on the IRC accounting systems to both Partner’s and non-financial staff

•  3-4 years of finance experience (finance management);
• USAID-specific budgeting and finance experience preferred;  
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, master’s degree is preferable in finance.  
• Excellent communication and coordination skills  
• Excellent communication skills in Pashto and Dari.
• Wiling to travel and conduct field visits regularly.

For IRC- Afghanistan Internal Candidates:

(“ The IRC encourages employees to remain in a position for at least one year and be in good standing before applying for another position within the organization. if an employee is interested in a vacant position within the organization, he/she must inform his/her supervisor in advance before applying for a new position”)

(However, 1 year is a must to complete but to encourage IRCA employees somehow we are flexible who work in the current IRC position for at least 6 months or above and are given chance to compete for an opportunity in the organization)

All qualified candidates are requested to open the given link and follow the instructions:

https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/51284?c=rescue

applications received without a given link and/or online system will be disqualified and removed from the entire process. 

Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and after that for interviews. If you are not contacted TWO or FOUR WEEKS after the closing date .please know that your application has not been successful for the post. IRC Afghanistan Country Office, Qala-e-Fathullah, Street # 3, District 10, Old UNOCHA Office, Beside Fatemia Mosque.