Green Belt Movement Jobs:Accountant

Position title: Compliance Accountant/Consultant

Job Description
 

Background:

The Green Belt Movement International (USA) has received a grant from the U.S. Department of

State, Bureau of Oceans & International Environmental & Scientific Affairs (OES) to support the creation and scaling up of the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace & Environmental Studies (WMI) at the University of Nairobi.

The WMI wPOWER Hub will employ facilitation, technology support, data collection and reporting, as well as handle the myriad logistical and administrative details needed for the initiative to function smoothly. The Hub will amplify the impact of the existing partnership and partner organizations, make it more sustainable in the longer term, and help raise the public and political profile of clean energy, gender, and climate change issues across Africa and globally.

Specialized trainings and wPOWER Africa and wPOWER India exchanges at the Hub will increase the business and technical capacity of women entrepreneurs related to clean energy technologies and solutions, including an understanding of linkages to climate change and reducing deforestation.

The Hub will empower women entrepreneurs from around the world by training on best practices on clean energy entrepreneurship, creating a platform for exchange visits with wPOWER international partners, and monitoring and evaluation of clean energy technologies in use within the network.

The Compliance Accountant will be responsible for all matters relating to financial compliance with private and US Government donor contracts.

Specific Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Obtain and maintain necessary expense approvals and documentation to process funding requests
• Responsible for reviewing program expense documentation to ensure compliance with US Government rules and regulations, US Grant Award specifications and grant documents
• Ensure compliance, on the part of grantees with regard to financial, implementation, documentation, reporting and other requirements , in accordance with the latest USG Grant Assistance rules and regulations.
• Work with US Government Agency on-site reviews
• Prepare financial reporting for US Government grant awards with support form the GBM Program Accountant
• Review of monthly budget to actual GBMI reporting to ensure compliance with donor spending requirements and USG rules and regulations
• Work with the project accountant/project officer to assess overall project compliance, including the review of contracts and engagement documents to ensure compliance with US Grant Award specifications, rules and regulations and grant documents
• Review GBMI grant financial records
• Ensure proper planning for and close-out of private and government grants

All applications to be sent to Sara Mason at sara@shiftsocialimpact.com by Close of Business on 22nd May 2015.