Background
In Southern Africa, gender-based violence which disproportionately affects women and girls is among the most severe and widespread human rights violations and has an impact on almost every aspect of life and is further entrenched in society, cultures and institutions.
The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) epidemic poses a serious obstacle for efforts to achieve global, regional and national development goals. The elimination of VAWG is therefore firmly anchored in the Sustainable Development Goals.
The revised-Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Equality (2016) stresses the importance of VAWG, which has led to a renewed dynamism at the level of SADC member states for addressing VAWG. But while policies, legal frameworks and action plans are largely in place, challenges remain in regard to ineffective coordination and implementation, especially of prevention interventions.
The German and Southern African Regional Governments (South Africa, Lesotho and Zambia) have agreed on a joint initiative: the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls Programme (P-VAWG). The overall
objective of the programme is to strengthen the cooperation between governmental, non-governmental and private sector actors to prevent violence against women and girls in Southern Africa with four outputs; namely:
- Output A: strengthening the institutional capacities of actors for coordinating and implementing prevention measures
- Output B: Implement flagship measures to prevent VAWG, and which take account of local conditions and innovations
- Output C: implementation of practical research projects which can be used to examine information needs at global, regional and national level and the actors’ need for evidence
- Output D: Regional exchange where actors from different countries in Southern Africa meet to share the lessons and research findings generated in the other outputs at national and/or sub-national level are communicated and discussed.
The programme further promotes multi-stakeholder initiatives for joint and shared implementation of prevention activities, where various actors can make contributions.
Responsibilities:
Junior Finance Professional will support programme head of finance and administration in all matters related to financial management of P_VAWG in line with GIZ requirements and international good accepted accounting practice.
The position encompasses the following areas of responsibility:
- Bookkeeping of locally incurred costs and expenses;
- Personnel costs (payroll and leave days);
- Staff Leave days records;
- Handling of cash and effect cash payments;
- Bank Correspondence, reconciliations and filing related documents;
- Repayments of private calls, kilometres, photocopies etc.
Tasks:
- Prepares the vouchers for the program bookkeeping per GIZ regulations;
- Archives captured vouchers;
- Attends to remarks and requests from GIZ Pretoria office concerning the vouchers;
- Controls the justification of all payments;
- Handles cash and effects all cash payments;
- Attends to remarks and requests from the GIZ Pretoria office concerning the cash handling;
- Handles bank transfers and cheques. Bank correspondence, reconciliation and filing related documents;
- Recovers costs from personal use of project vehicles and phones (private calls);
- Computes the settlement of travel expenses per GIZ regulations for local trips of national personnel
- Performs other duties and tasks at the request of the management
Qualifications and Experience:
- Good knowledge of English;
- Formal qualification in accounting;
- More than 2 years professional experience in finances, such as accounting, bookkeeping, auditing;
- Experience working for an international organisation is an asset;
- Well-versed with relevant software-packages (e.g.Excel, WINPACCS)and good working knowledge of ITC technologies (phone, fax, email, internet)
Suitable candidates should apply by submitting their CV’s of a maximum of 3 pages and a motivation letter to: [email protected]; attention head of unit Dorothey Taaibosch.
Closing date for application is 19 April 2018.
GIZ is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender.