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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre - part of a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
Job description
The Position
Internships are short-term academic training for young professionals who join ILRI for a short period (usually 3 months or less but can be up to 6 months in length) as s part of their academic curriculum and are expected to resume their studies upon completion of their internship. ILRI wishes to recruit a Finance Intern based at the Finance Unit to assist in undertaking the below activities:
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in preparing VAT exemption applications and liaising with Finance Admin. Assistant to submit to Liaison Office
- Assist in monitoring and updating of VAT exemptions sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and KRA
- Notifying the responsible accountant on return of the certificates and issuance of the VAT exemptions to the suppliers
- Assist the Finance Admin Assistant in assigning Finance tasks at the Helpdesk
- Checking of supporting documents on Payment Vouchers
- Assist in Invoice-PO matching process, and post supplier invoices in OCS
- Learn and be able to undertake supplier statement reconciliations
- Be able to learn and generate payment remittance proposals
- Learning and preparing bank reconciliations and following up on outstanding items.
- Learn how to draft letters/instructions to the bank
- Assist in review of the petty cash vouchers
- Assist the Finance Admin. Assistant in generating receipts for staff refunds
- Assist to review Travel Expense Reports (TERs) for staff
- Assist accountant in reviewing physical field office vouchers
- Storing, arranging, indexing and classifying various financial records in the archive
- Assist in filling finance documents & retrieving documents during project audits
- Maintaining a database of suppliers and other external customers’ contacts
- Understand the ILRI budgeting cycle, concepts and process
- Learn how to prepare monthly management reports
- Understand how to review donor reports.
Required Skills And Experience
Applicants must at the time of application meet the following requirements:
- Be enrolled for a university degree programme in Finance or Accounting or its equivalent either in third year or fourth year.
- CPA 2 or equivalent
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel and word and good skills at using financial software applications.
- Proficiency in English.
Terms of appointment: ILRI will offer a competitive stipend to cover living expenses as well as insurance.
Interested candidates who meet the criteria above are encouraged to send their application letter, detailed CV and university internship letters to by 7 September 2018. Applications should be made to the Director, People and Organizational Development. Kindly indicate the position title on the subject line when applying.
We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
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Job Description
Responsibilities
- Support the planning of, execute and coordinate field work activities within and outside Kenya, according to the needs of different projects. These include, but not restricted to interviews, help design field work protocols, preparing and administering questionnaires, running focus group discussions, workshops and biological sampling. As part of such activities, train enumerators and field technicians on various data collection techniques including electronic systems such as ODK and develop work-plans and budgets for field activities and field staff.
- Prepare results summaries and report writing as part of ongoing and upcoming team projects.
- Conduct data entry, data cleaning and management of survey data and support basic statistical analysis for various datasets, as required.
- Locate and assemble secondary data relevant to projects in the team.
- Undertake literature reviews within the scope of different projects within the team.
- Managing references for reports and publications from the team.
- Establishing and maintaining contacts with collaborating stakeholders and partners as well as assist in organizing project and stakeholder’s meetings and participate in workshops and trainings.
- To engage in a range of other activities in line with his/her skills and competencies as required by the team
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural sciences, veterinary medicine, human health or related
- At least 3 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience working in research projects, including both desk and field work activities
- Proven experience on scientific writing (MSc thesis, publications, contribution to reports,)
- Evidence of experience conducting basic data analysis
- Good command of Microsoft word (including excel)
- Good command of at least one statistical software (STATA, R, or similar)
- Good command of written and spoken English and Kiswahili
Terms of Appointment
This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position based at ILRI’s Nairobi campus. It is open to Kenyan nationals only. The position is on a 3-year contract, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding.
Job Level
This position is job level 2B, level 2, and ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes; pension, medical and other insurances for ILRI’s Nationally Recruited Staff.
Applicants should send a cover letter and CV explaining their interest in the position,, what they can bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to the Director, People and Organizational Development by clicking on the "link" tab below before 13 September 2018. The position title and reference number REF: RA/8/2018 should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.