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Background: To ensure that effective WHO country presence is established to implement WHO country cooperation strategies that are aligned with Member State's health priorities, sustainable development agendas and harmonized with the United Nations country teams and partners to improve health outcomes and progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage. |
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Duties and responsibilities: 1. Ensure financial transactions are in compliance with the financial rules and regulations and that the imprest accounts are reconciled and submitted to the Regional Office in a timely manner. 2. Prepare general and specific budgetary estimates for projects; monitor the application, control and accounting of approved budgetary allocations by programmes. 3. Track and report on financing against budget; monitor implementation rates, consolidate financial data, prepare periodic/ad hoc budgetary and financial statements and returns, identify financial gaps, and recommend alternative action to managers as appropriate. 4. Consolidate, analyze and prepare the financial data as well as reports for the country office. 5. Facilitate and implement the efficient running of financial operations within the Polio programme, ensuring strict compliance with accounting standards including the application of IPSAS and other financial policies and procedures. 6. In coordination with the RMO, collaborate with counterparts within other UN agencies and Donors to facilitate budget resource management planning and resource mobilization. 7. Follow-up on donor proposals and reporting deadlines; verify and provide budgetary clearance to proposals and reports for resource mobilization team.8. Brief staff members and non-staff on relevant financial and budgetary rules and procedures. |
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Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required: REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONSEducationEssential: A first university degree in accounting, financial management, business or public administration or economics with specialization in budgeting/accounting.
ExperienceEssential: At least 1 year of relevant experience in finance, budget/accounting. Demonstrated experience in accounting and consolidation of financial data using ERP systems or similar packages.
Skills
Teamwork
Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Expert knowledge of Arabic.
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Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 31,361 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.
For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int - WHO is committed to workforce diversity. - WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice. - WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates. - WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco. This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.
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