The Kaizen Company is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven organizational and institutional performance improvements, and establish communities of practice that facilitate peer-to-peer learning and the achievement of shared goals. We leverage existing knowledge, technology and new media, and local peer networks to support local reforms. Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 100 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including governance, economic growth, environment and water, energy, and global law enforcement, to name a few
Scope and Objectives:
Kaizen is seeking one regional administration and finance expert for the forthcoming Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) East Africa Regional project.
The overall objective (impact) of the WE4F programme is to increase food production and income of smallholder farmers through and a more sustainable use of water and energy in food production. The WE4F program expects the following outputs to be achieved through the request services in the present assignment:
- Business capacities of innovators (SMEs) that offer innovative solutions (technological, digital, financial, etc. new to a context) for up-scaling climate friendly, energy and/or water efficient innovations are improved through financial and technical assistance,
- Access to appropriate financing options for climate friendly, energy and/or water efficient innovations is improved and new, suitable financing mechanisms for end user of innovations are identified.
Tasks:
- Act as administration finance and contract manager
- Manage all administrative and financial procedures according to WE4F and GIZ regulation
- Support the administrative and financial tender procedures of innovation call according international rules
- Support team leader in identifying and contracting appropriate local short-term experts for specific tasks
- Support team leader with regular administrative and financial reporting, controlling and other documentation to meet WE4F requirements
Qualifications:
- General qualification: BSc Degree in business administration, financial management, business management or similar
- Language skills : English C1
- Specific qualifications: Work experience in administrating development cooperation projects (5 years) including work experience in budget planning and controlling (5 years) and contract preparation and management (10 years)
- Regional experience: Professional experience (5 years) in East Africa
- Work experience in administrating development cooperation projects (10 years)
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