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Senior Admin and finance Officer

Location: Jigjiga, Ethiopia

Deadline: July 21, 2025

Job Description

CVDA has been re-registered and licensed by the Ethiopian Ministry of Justice, Charities and Societies Agency, on November 30, 2009 as an Ethiopian Residents charity in accordance with the Charities and Societies proclamation No. 621/2009 with registration No. 0588. As per 1113/2019 proclamation also re-registered on July 30, 2019.

CVDA has permission to work at the national level however so far operates marginal parts of Benshangule Gumuz Region, Sidama region, South Ethiopia Region, Central Ethiopia region, South west Ethiopia region, Oromiya region, Afar region and Addis Ababa City administration.

It is member of Consortium of Reproductive Health Association (CORHA), Union of Ethiopian Women Charitable Association (UEWCA), Ethiopian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative/EEITI/, Ethiopia Civil Society Coalition for Scaling up Nutrition/ECSC-SUN/ and Afar Region Health Partner Forum.

The following are CVDA’s vision, mission, goals, principles and values:

Vision

CVDA envisions a poverty-free Ethiopia where equity and equality are ensured.

Mission:

CVDA’s mission is to enhance socioeconomic development in health, education, agriculture, environment, livelihood, and WaSH, humanitarian responses, community-based peace-building, and good governance through holistic approaches and working with the community to contribute towards sustainable development and an improved standard of living in Ethiopia.

Overall goal:

CVDA’s goal is to contribute to poverty alleviation through community-based approaches by implementing programs for development, good governance, and humanitarian responses in different regions of the country.

CORE VALUES

CVDA and its operations enshrine the following values.

  • Integrity: Upholding the principles of honesty and responsibility and maintaining the highest ethical standards possible.
  • Courage of conviction: CVDA’s pledge is to fight against poverty and hunger and always take sides with the poorest and most disadvantaged groups and help them bring about positive changes in their lives.
  • Accountability: This espouses CVDA’s ongoing commitment to be accountable for its actions and to respond periodically to questions concerning its activities or answer to those who will be affected by our decisions or actions.
  • Transparency: CVDA takes decisions and implements them in a manner that follows the rules and regulations. Moreover, CVDA shall provide key stakeholders with reliable, relevant, and timely information on matters that concern them.
  • Sensitivity: CVDA is sensitive to conflict, gender, resources, culture, and social values in all of its program design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting and hence it wishes to be impartial and equitable in all its actions and activities

PRINCIPLES

CVDA adheres to the following principles:

  • Real-time and change-oriented performance
  • Belief that results can be achieved if the process is sound and suitable
  • Trustworthiness
  • Team spirit
  • Ownership
  • Volunteerism
  • Compliance and commitment
  • Do no harm
  • Value for money
  • Sustainability

PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

1, Reproductive and Primary Health Program

2. Water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Program

3. Food Security, Livelihood Diversification and Natural Resource Conservation Program

4, Education Program

5, Emergency and Relief Program

Duration of employment: one year with high possibility of extension based on performance and availability of fund.

Salary: As per the scale of the organization

Main duty and Responsibility

Senior Admin and Finance Officer will have the following duty and responsibility but not limited to listed below:

  • She/He will directly manage Finance and administration activity of the project in consultation with Admin and finance Head and other CVDA staffs
  • She/He will track project expenditure as per project budget, CVDA manual and donor regulation
  • Review payments made by regional cashier for appropriateness
  • Ensure all project staffs timely sign time sheet and comply to administrative regulation
  • Follow project advances timely settled
  • Ensure project financial transaction properly record in peach tree
  • Ensure Financial reports submitted to CVDA head office and donor

Required qualification and experience

  • Applicant need to have MSC degree/BSC degree Accounting 4/6 years experience in Finance positions in similar Activity
  • Experience in USAID funded project will be preferred
  • Applicant need to have good English language skill and computer skill
  • Female applicants are highly encouraged

About You

Required qualification

  • Applicant need to have MSC degree/BSC degree Accounting 4/6 years experience in Finance positions in similar Activity
  • Experience in USAID funded project will be preferred
  • Applicant need to have good English lauguage skill and computer skill
  • Female applicants are highly encouraged.
Required Skills
  • Time management
  • Analytical skills
  • Adaptability
  • Communication
  • Attention to detail
  • Acute care
  • Problem solving
  • Accounting

How to Apply

N.B: Applicants should complete summary table listed below and should clearly state minimum salary expectation even the organization has its own salary scale. .Applicants who did not comply this instruction will not considered for further selection

Application procedure: applicants should submit only application letter and CV through email:hr@cvdaethiopia.org CC to habetamubirhanu12@gmail.com and cvda2005hr@gmail.com. And Write on subject of the email; position & also attach summary sheet

Registration place: submit summary of your profile as per format below, copy of application letter, C.V stating 3 work related reference & minimum salary expectation and other confidential: Head office; Bekele Eshte Tower, which is along Torhailoch Total road 5th floor, Room No.504 For further information contact 0113691051/66

You can deliver in hand or submit through email up to July 21,2025 from the date of the vacancy announcement day.

Format for Summary sheet of Application: Please fill this form and attach when you apply.

Name of applicant Position applied Qualification Field of study Year of graduation Year of Work experience Title of women economic empowerment project managed Salary expectation (required to put the amount) Working experience in Somali region

Yes/No

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