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JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title:
Finance Consultant – South Sudan
Location:
Juba, South Sudan
Management responsibility:
1 Finance Officer
Budget responsibility:
Programme budget of USD 2 – 2.5 million per year
Reporting to:
South Sudan Country Manager
Key Relationships:
Finance Director and Finance Manager (UK), Head of S/Sudan
and Great Lakes programme; Ops/HR Manager (South Sudan)
and South Sudan project team
Contract Duration:
2 months maternity cover
Salary range:
A competitive INGO salary, plus benefits.
Description of Saferworld and South Sudan programme:
Saferworld is an independent non-governmental organisation that works to prevent and reduce violent conflict and
promote cooperative approaches to security. We work with civil society, governments and international
organisations to encourage and support effective policies and practices through advocacy, research and policy
development, and through supporting the actions of others.
Saferworld has been working in Africa since 1997, with a primary focus upon East Africa and the Horn region. We
have well-established programmes in Kenya, Uganda, Somalia and South Sudan. In addition, Saferworld supports
regional and international conflict prevention and security processes. Saferworld headquarters are in London, with
offices in Nairobi, Kampala and Juba. The South Sudan programme is managed by the Head of S/Sudan and
Great Lakes Programme, based in Saferworld’s office in Kampala. The South Sudan Country Manager manages
the programme in country.
Saferworld’s South Sudan programme aims to develop and implement community-focused and integrated
responses to the complex mix of security, conflict and development challenges faced by the people, the
state and international partners. The programme will improve:
security sector governance and community-focused security responses, focusing on policing service
delivery, the role of informal security providers, civil society oversight, and linkages between security,
conflict and development responses.
small arms control policy, legislative framework and its implementation
multi-sectoral national and international responses to conflict and insecurity through providing
information and analysis and sharing lessons from practical programming.
The programme seeks to achieve change in these three areas through working with national and state-level
government and civil society stakeholders, and international actors.
The geographic focus is on South Sudan, with some engagement on North-South, regional and cross-border
issues.
Job Purpose:
The Finance Consultant will be responsible for ensuring the efficient and transparent management of South Sudan
programme finances in line with recognised accounting/auditing standards and Saferworld procedures, in the
context of a fast-growing programme and the development of new systems to support this growth.
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