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Job description

This volunteer opportunity was originally posted on Catchafire, an online tool that connects nonprofits & social enterprises with passionate professionals who want to donate their skills, pro bono. All Catchafire volunteer opportunities are well scoped, flexible, and include access to support from Catchafire’s team of Nonprofit Advisors.

About This Organization

Resilience Action International (formerly SAVIC) is a nonprofit working to empower refugees through education, entrepreneurship development and access to sexual and reproductive health services.

What We Need

• A Salesforce database including: a customized set of Salesforce objects, single-record editing of data and field history tracking (up to 15 object types), a customized set of views to allow table-based editing of data (up to 15 views), a customized set of reports to pull data from multiple object types (up to 15 reports)
• Migration of Organization's current database to Salesforce
• Training for designated staff member on new objects, reports and views
• “Hand-off” documentation on the object schemas and any custom code

How This Will Help

Salesforce will be the main platform for managing our work. This will help increase efficiency in beneficiary management, fundraising, and project management.

What We Have In Place

We currently have two staff members ready to learn and work with you on the project, who will also be responsible for the implementation of Salesforce. We're working with a trial account, with hope to start using the full Non-Profit account soon.

Fun Fact About Us

RAI was started by refugees, and is currently based in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. We are running pilot projects in Kigoma-Tanzania, and in Nairobi.

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Job description

This volunteer opportunity was originally posted on Catchafire, an online tool that connects nonprofits & social enterprises with passionate professionals who want to donate their skills, pro bono. All Catchafire volunteer opportunities are well scoped, flexible, and include access to support from Catchafire’s team of Nonprofit Advisors.

About This Organization

Resilience Action International (formerly SAVIC) is a nonprofit working to empower refugees through education, entrepreneurship development and access to sexual and reproductive health services.

What We Need

• Analysis of accounting needs and assessment of current accounting practices
• Recommendations for process improvements and report generation
• Recommendations for appropriate bookkeeping software and related costs (if necessary)
• Implementation of chosen bookkeeping software (if necessary)
• Training on data input and essential reports to generate

How This Will Help

• We will use this project to complete setting up our accounting system. With the help of another Catchafire Expert, we recently adopted an accounting system, developed Chart of Accounts, and set up an accounting software using Aplos.
• With this new project, we would like to move from Aplos to QuickBooks Online. The expert in this project will help us set the QuickBooks in a customized manner to make our work easier as an NGO.

What We Have In Place

We currently have Chart of Accounts, Finance Manuals, Accounting Policy, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have a team of 2 people to help you get started, and the ability to provide any other information you need.