Job announcement for the recruitment of a Financial Assistant for the Cadre Régional de Concertation des Organisations des Producteurs de Riz de l’Afrique de l'Ouest (CRCOPR/ROPPA)

1. Job announcement for the recruitment of a Financial Assistant for
the Cadre Régional de Concertation des Organisations des
Producteurs de Riz de l’Afrique de l'Ouest (CRCOPR/ROPPA)
(Regional Consultation framework of West African Rice Farmers’ Organizations)
Reference: CRCOPR/0001-2014
Date of announcement: March 01 st 2014
Closing date : March 30th 2014
Title of the position : Financial assistant for the Cadre Régional de Concertation des
Organisations des Producteurs de Riz del’Afrique de l'Ouest (CRCOPR/ROPPA)
Location of the position : Executive Secretariat of the Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des
Producteurs Agricoles de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (ROPPA/AO) - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Line manager: Coordinator of CRCOPR/AO
Term: The applicant retained will be recruited on a fixed-term contract for a period of 2 years,
subject to an annual renewal based on the satisfactory evaluation of performance, and funding
conditions.
Starting date of the job: Monday, May 05th 2014
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Background
CRCOPR, created in January 2011 in Bamako, in Mali is a specific organization of ROPPA
on rice sectors in West Africa. It gathers rice farmers’ organizations of countries members
of ECOWAS.
It has as missions:
1. Representation and the defense of rice farmers’ interests at the national and sub-regional
level through national platforms and ROPPA;
2. capacity-building of rice farmers and their organizations regarding policies of rice
development, notably States, industrialists, traders, financial and technical partners and
NGO ;
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2. 3. Facilitation of the consultation of rice farmers with the other actors intervening in rice
sectors, notably States, industrialists, traders, technical and financial partners and
NGOs ;
4. Promoting the participation of Rice Farmers’ Organizations (RFO) in the design and
implementation of national and regional policies and programmes of rice farmers’
organizations development;
5. Facilitating information, communication and exchanges of experiences between rice
farmers’ organizations at various levels.
CRCOPR has as objectives to:
1. Ensure a specific representation of the rice sector within ROPPA;
2. Address the problems related to the sector at the regional and international level;
3. Give a point of view on all the questions relative to rice sectors ;
4. Ensure the defense of specific interests of rice farmers in the vision of family farms
In order to implement its strategic plan 2012- 2017 CRCOPR envisages recruiting a
financial assistant.
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Mission
The financial assistant is responsible for the bookkeeping, payment and production of financial
documents of the CRCOPR’s technical Unit.
III.
Tasks
1) Regarding the financial management
• Bookkeeping (banks or cashes) ,
• Preparation of withdrawals requests of funds intended for donors ;
• Preparing all the payments statements.
2) Regarding the accounting management
• Carrying out accounting allocations ;
• Bookkeeping ,
• Classifying evidence documents of expenditures and incomings ;
• Analyzing accounts and substantiating the accounts’ balances ;
• Doing the statements of special accounts conciliations of projects and statements of
banking conciliation ;
• Producing accounting books ; ire les livres comptables,
• Designing financial reports and statements.
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3. 3) Regarding the staff management
• Posting deductions from salaries and taxes statements of the personnel and seeing to
the transferring to the services concerned ;
• Posting the centralization of payment. .
4) Regarding the property assets management
• Setting up and carrying out an inventory file of goods on a regular basis ;
• Bookkeeping of assets acquisitions
5) Regarding the production of reports
• Ensuring the design of monthly, quarterly and half-yearly financial reports,
• Participating in the preparation of annual financial reports.
6) Regarding the budgetary management
• Designing budgets of CRCOPR in collaboration with the Coordinator and members
of the Executive Secretariat ;
• Assisting the Coordinator to the centralization of basic budgets (various structures).
• Ensuring the budget execution in collaboration with the Coordinator;
• Analyzing and commenting the differences for a rational decision-making.
7) Regarding the monitoring and control
• Updating accounting entries in the software ;
• Making available all the accounting documents for verification missions ;
• Executing the recommendations of audit and supervision.
8) Other tasks
• Ensuring all the other tasks related to its competence at the request of his line
manager.
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Qualifications, Experience, Abilities and skills
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Having a baccalaureate on finance and accounting ;
Having at least 3 years of relevant professional experiences in the area of financial
and accounting management ;
Abilities to animate a team work ;
Strong knowledge of the computer tool as well as the mastery of a financial and
accounting management software;
Being able to work under pressure;
Mastery of French and English would be an asset ;
Sharing the values and ethics of CRCOPR;
Having a work experience with CSOs and particularly farmers’ organizations in
West Africa would be an asset ;
Excellent relational qualities and team works ;
Passion for learning, sharing and knowledge use;
Being able to work out of working hours and/or week-end on an occasional basis ;
Coming from a country of West Africa;
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4. V.
Requirement of the position
- Having a spirit of initiative and professional confidentiality ;
- Being methodical and rigorous in the files treatment ;
- Being of good morality, discreet and disciplined.
VI.
How to apply for?
The applicant interested in this position sends a CV, a letter of motivation and mention to
reference persons, copies of degrees and job certificates by mail to the following address before
March 31 2014
roppa2000@yahoo.fr or riz_roppa@yahoo.fr
Applicants should send to the Executive Secretary of ROPPA at the latest at 17h00 (local
time/ Burkina Faso) March 30 2014.
Female applications are encouraged.
As resources are limited, only the short-listed applicants will be contacted.
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