Programme, Budget and Finance Officer, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

Closing date: Tuesday, 30 June 2015

The mission of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.

Vacancy Notice No: AFRO/15/FT303

Title: Programme, Budget and Finance Officer

Grade: NO-B

Contract type: Fixed-term Appointment

Duration of contract: 1 year

Date: 11 June 2015

Application Deadline: 30 June 2015

Duty Station: Dar-es-Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Organization unit: AF_SSR AF South-East Sub-Region (AF_SSR) /

AF_TZA Tanzania (AF_TZA)

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME : Within the Country Management Support Unit (CSU), to provide direct support and services to the WHO Country Office in the area of workplan management and budgeting functions.

Country Management Support Units (CSU) have been established in the organisational structure to provide support for Managers and staff to fully assume their responsibilities in the GSM environment and to ensure compliance with organizational policies, procedures, rules and regulations on all administrative and financial matters and transactions in the context of an enterprise resource Planning (ERP) system.

Description of duties: Under the direct supervision of the Operations Officer, the incumbent performs the CSU functions as they relate to programme planning, management and monitoring. The incumbent will have constant interaction with the Planning and Budgeting Management Regional Team and Cluster Client Services within the budget centre (s) concerned, consult and interact with other team members within the Regional Office Management Support Unit (RSU), Inter-country Support Units (ISU), Country Management Support Units (CSU), the Headquarters and the Global Service Center.

• Input/update workplans including planned costs in GSM;
• Initiate setting up of HR plans, identify and include positions in HR plans, update position parameters and submit for approval;
• Initiate mapping of positions to task and awards;
• Complete Award Activation, Distribution and Amendment requests;
• Raise or revise workplan funding requests;
• Develop/revise award budgets ;
• Monitor expenditures against award budgets, project funding, award distributions and PB allocations;
• Identify and process necessary revisions to expenditures, award budgets and project funding;
• Monitor and review staff costs in occupied and vacant positions;
• Follow up on cancellation of encumbrances in relation to travel costs and procurement of goods and services (refer to accounting instruction 45);
• Perform budget analysis and produce budget and award reports;
• Contribute to the reporting on performance assessment.
• Supervise and train two or more staff members providing program/budgetary and finance assistance and evaluate their work as necessary
• Perform other duties as may be required.

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