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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Programme Planning & Coordination

• Lead the development and maintenance of a single, integrated AFIYA delivery plan covering all workstreams and countries, ensuring clear sequencing of activities, identification of dependencies, and visibility of key decision points across the programme lifecycle.
• Maintain a rolling 12–18 month forward delivery horizon, refreshed quarterly to reflect programme performance, emerging risks, contextual shifts, and adaptive management decisions.
• Ensure strong alignment between AFIYA strategic priorities, approved budgets, partner delivery plans, and implementation timelines, supporting realistic planning and effective resource utilisation.
• Provide end-to-end visibility of programme delivery progress, surfacing implementation risks, bottlenecks, and cross-workstream dependencies early to enable timely decision-making and course correction.
• Strengthen programme delivery discipline through structured planning cycles, milestone tracking, and clear reporting rhythms across countries and delivery partners.
• Support the Head of Delivery by ensuring that programme decisions are informed by credible, timely performance data, delivery insights, and forward-looking risk analysis.
• Coordinate planning and delivery interfaces across technical teams, country teams, implementing partners, to ensure coherent and efficient programme execution.
• Support adaptive programme management by ensuring delivery plans are living tools that respond to learning, evidence, and evolving programme priorities.

Delivery Cadence & Governance

Design, institutionalise, and drive a clear and consistent programme delivery rhythm to strengthen accountability, visibility, and timely decision-making across AFIYA, including:

• Weekly internal delivery check-ins focused on progress tracking, risk surfacing, and immediate priority actions
• Monthly country performance reviews assessing delivery progress, financial performance, partner implementation status, and emerging risks and opportunities
• Quarterly portfolio performance and decision reviews to assess strategic alignment, resource utilisation, delivery trajectory, and key investment or course-correction decisions
• Establish and maintain strong governance standards across programme forums, ensuring discussions are focused, decision-oriented, and aligned to programme priorities and outcomes.
• Prepare clear, concise, and decision-focused agendas, high-quality pre-read materials, and structured action trackers to support productive and efficient governance engagements.
• Ensure all decisions, actions, and agreed next steps are clearly documented, assigned to accountable owners, and systematically tracked to completion.
• Strengthen transparency and information flow by ensuring governance outputs are communicated to relevant stakeholders in a timely and accessible manner.
• Continuously review and refine delivery cadence and governance structures to ensure they remain fit for purpose, proportionate, and supportive of adaptive programme management.

Risk, Dependency & Decision Management

• Maintain a programme-level risk and dependency register covering delivery, financial, facility-related, reputational, and fiduciary risks.
• Proactively identify and surface emerging risks, bottlenecks, and trade-offs, escalating them to the Head of Delivery with clear options for resolution.
• Monitor critical dependencies across workstreams, countries, and implementing partners to ensure timely interventions and minimise delivery delays.
• Support structured, evidence-based decision-making by providing credible information, timely analysis, and actionable insights to the Head of Delivery, AFIYA.
• Ensure financial and operational decisions are aligned with programme priorities, dependencies, and strategic objectives, enabling coherent and efficient delivery across all AFIYA projects.

Adaptive Management Support

• Ensure milestones and budgets are treated as adaptive tools, enabling the programme to pivot and respond effectively to emerging information, risks, and changing contexts.
• Facilitate structured learning and reflection sessions across workstreams and countries, encouraging evidence-based discussions and collaborative course-correction where needed.
• Proactively monitor assumptions underpinning programme design and delivery; trigger timely decision-making conversations when assumptions are no longer valid or when emerging issues could impact outcomes.
• Support the integration of lessons learned into planning, prioritisation, and resource allocation to strengthen programme resilience and maximise development impact.
• Foster a culture of adaptive management within the programme, encouraging teams and partners to respond constructively to change while maintaining alignment with strategic objectives.

Carry out any other duties or special assignments as assigned by the Management.

COMPETENCIES
Competencies describe the key behaviours that drive success in all of FSD Africa’s roles, regardless of technical specialism. They have been derived from systematic research correlating performance with personal attributes. 

Competency Levels 

• Level 1: Basic
• Level 2: Foundation   
• Level 3: Specialist
• Level 4: Senior Specialist      
• Level 5: Leading Expert          
• Level 6: Executive

PERSON SPECIFICATIONS

Qualifications and Education

• Master’s degree and 9 years of experience or Bachelor’s Degree and 11 years of experience in Project Management, Finance, Economics, Business or a related field.

Essential Experience, Knowledge, and Skills

• At least 10 years’ experience managing or supporting complex, multi-country development programmes
• Demonstrated experience with adaptive, market-systems or financial-inclusion programmes
• Strong ability to synthesise complex information and communicate clearly to senior stakeholders
• Proven judgement in risk identification and escalation
• High comfort operating in ambiguity and fast-moving environments
• Strong capability in planning, forecasting, and tracking project performance across multiple workstreams
• Ability to analyse complex project information, exercise sound judgement, and provide clear, actionable recommendations

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Accounting and Financial Reporting:

Ensure accurate and timely entry and posting of AFIYA financial data into the accounting system to support informed decision-making and ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and standards:

• Enter financial data into the accounting system in an accurate and timely manner; ensuring all the necessary approvals have been completed. 
• Support the Assistant Manager, Financial Accounting in the preparation of financial statements. E.g. drafting project accounts for review.
• Assist the Assistant Manager, Financial Accounting with tracking the cashflows forecasts.
• Assist the Assistant Manager, Financial Accounting in reviewing vendor invoices and balances ensuring the creditor aging is in line with the organisations policies.
• Complete month-end close activities; including bank reconciliations and monthly adjustments for accruals, unbilled expenses, and prepayments by the 3rd working day of the following month to maintain an accurate and up-to-date general ledger.
• Review, maintain, and reconcile general ledger and sub-ledger accounts within the accounting system.
• Ensure project closures are processed accurately and submitted on time.
• Reconcile vendor statements against payment records to ensure completeness and accuracy.

Disbursement of Payments:

Contribute to an efficient payment system by ensuring that AFIYA payments to staff, vendors, service providers and other stakeholders are made accurately, on time and with good customer service.

• Review AFIYA payment documentation to ensure payments are processed promptly and in line with FSD Africa’s financial procedures, including required verification and approva
• Review and verify payment requests in the syst
• Verifying submitted accompanying documents
• Obtaining authorised signatories as required
• Prepare payment vouchers ensuring their completeness and accuracy.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that all taxes and statutory payments are accurately calculated and paid. These include (WHT, WVAT, WHT on Rent Income) and ensure timely payment in line with existing policies, procedures and statutory regulations.
• Promptly follow up on queries regarding any delay in payment and update the various stakeholders if there is any delay in payments.
• Manage payment tracker in the ERP system to ensure compliance FSD Africa’s SLA..
• Maintain and ensure timely reconciliation and replenishment of petty cash in compliance with FSD Africa’s policy. 

Finance Records Keeping and Management:

Provide financial administrative support to the AFIYA team to facilitate the fluid and efficient day to day operations; manage the archive of financial records, ensuring that all documentation is secured confidentially and can be easily retrieved as required.

•  Support the Assistant, Manager Financial Accounting in gathering supporting documentation that will be used to respond to queries raised by stakeholders.
• Support with providing timely and accurate audit information

Assets Management and Verification: 

Ensure that AFIYA fixed assets are recorded and verified, and that the fixed asset register is accurate and reconciled to the general ledger.

• Receive, tag, and update the asset register with purchased assets. 
• Manage assets storage and issuance.
• Take full participation in the asset verification exercises.
• Ensure that the Fixed Asset Register is accurate and reconciled to the general ledger.
• Monitor the movement of assets; keeping track of all the items being procured, transferred and disposed off.

Risk, Compliance & Audit support

Contribute to the successful conduct of  AFIYA internal and external audits by providing FSD Africa’s finance team  with logistical support (scheduling) and information.

• Manage the finance records; ensuring that all required information is on file and retained  for the statutory time period in compliance with FSD Africa's data management policies.
• Ensure that all legal/statutory requirements associated with the FSD Africa's finance are fulfilled (especially pertaining to record keeping and reporting).
• Support in the preparation of  audit schedules in preparation for the annual external audit and respond to internal and external audit queries during the audit exercises.
• Support in the implementation of the recommended audit actions.
• Participate in identifying financial risks, and threats pertaining to financial processes and systems of the organisation.

Carry out any other duties or special assignments as assigned by the Management.

PERSON SPECIFICATIONS

Qualifications and Education

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree with 1 year of experience or High Diploma with 2 years in commerce, Finance or Business-related discipline.
• Professional certification is an added advantage.

Essential Experience, Knowledge, and Skills

• At least one year’s administration work experience in a first paced finance environment of a donor funded organisation. 
• Proven, strong organisational skills, including the ability to self-start, prioritise and proactively respond to evolving/ unfolding demands
• Working knowledge of accounting ERP systems, with experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 considered an added advantage.
• Experience in managing processes and analysing information
• Demonstrably strong customer focus
• Good communication skills (written and spoken)