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Finance and Risk Officer - Inclusive Disability

Employer
Sightsavers
Location
Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Salary
£31,000 per annum
Closing date
6 Oct 2019

Job Details

Sightsavers implements projects in over 30 countries in Africa and South Asia. Our aim? To eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities. The Project Finance and Risk Officer works closely with international country office staff all over the world and other support teams to ensure that projects funded by donors run smoothly.

Title: Project Finance and Risk Officer - Inclusive Disability

Location: Haywards Heath, UK

Contract: Full Time – Fixed Term Contract 24 Months

Salary: £31,000 per annum

This finance and budgets orientated role may be for you if:

  • You have excellent administration and numerical skills and are a confident user of Excel. You are quick to notice irregularities yet you do not lose sight of the bigger picture. You enjoy solving problems and have a keen eye for improvement.
  • You are proactive by nature and show initiative. You are comfortable taking decisions and have a good sense of when to escalate issues.
  • You communicate clearly. You adapt your language and pace to suit your listeners. You are confident with stakeholder engagement, holding close working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders in person as well as remotely.
  • Last but not least, you are comfortable working in an international context, as this role will involve travelling to the countries we work in.
  • If you have experience budgeting and finance, grants, accounts or project finance, or have a knowledge of DFID funding, it would be an advantage (although not essential), as is an interest in disability inclusion.  

A typical day could include:

  • Calling the finance manager of Nigeria to discuss pending issues in the financial report of their Disability Inclusion project
  • Noticing an area for improvement in our review process. Making a note of it to bring up in our team meeting next week
  • Dealing with ad-hoc requests about exchange rates and budget flexibility
  • Attending a meeting with stakeholders across the organisation to kick-start the proposal application for a £1mn project in Bangladesh
  • Filling out a payroll journal that charges staff time to donors
  • Pausing your work on the payroll journal to review a financial report that just arrived in your inbox from the Kenya office. You send it to the Senior Finance & Risk Officer for final sign-off, who then submits it to the Fund Management Team.

The Project Finance and Risk Officer will be based in our Head Office in Haywards Heath, an easy commute from London or Brighton and we offer travel loans and discounts. There will be some flexibility to work from home and some international travel will be required.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills, please read the complete job description for further details.

 

 

Company

Sightsavers Head Office

35 Perrymount Road,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex RH16 3BW

Postal Address

Bumpers Way,
Bumpers Farm,
Chippenham SN14 6NG

Sightsavers is an international charity that works in more than 30 countries around the world to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently. Sightsavers is headquartered in the UK and has over 400 employees. It also has branches in Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, India, the United States and the United Arab Emirates.

Sightsavers works with partners in order to provide a comprehensive range of eye care services. In 2013, Sightsavers' projects provided eye health examinations for nearly 14 million people, performed 300,000 eye operations, and treated over 100 million people for neglected tropical diseases.

People are also referred for treatment to prevent blindness or restore sight. Through community volunteers in developing countries, Sightsavers distributes medication to prevent blinding diseases. The charity also trains eye care workers and surgeons and funds operations.

Of the 30 countries Sightsavers works in, 23 are in Africa. These include Mozambique, Mali, Liberia and Kenya. Sightsavers is also present in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean.

In addition to its medical work, Sightsavers works with partners in order to train specialist teaching staff and supply glasses, Braille kits and other learning tools. The charity aims to educate communities and reduce stigma around visual impairment and blindness. Through its work, people with visual impairments and other disabilities are supported to live independently, get an education and earn an income.

Sightsavers is also a campaigning organisation, working with national governments to tackle the root causes of avoidable blindness, such as lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities. The charity’s ‘Put us in the Picture campaign calls on the international community to make global development inclusive of the world’s 800m people with disabilities. The campaign’s vision is for all people to have equal access to employment, education, healthcare and participation in society.

Backing up Sightsavers’ work around the world is a strong research capability. Research and policy work revolves around three priorities – health, education and social inclusion. Gathering and disseminating sound research evidence helps to ensure the charity’s programmes meet the needs of the people they are designed to serve. Research evidence is also a strong tool when advocating for policy changes with governments.

Sightsavers has many partners that assist with its aim of eliminating avoidable blindness and may also provide funding. Partners include the UK government’s Department for International Development, the European Union and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Read our latest article on Third Sector: Sightsavers: Work for an award-winning charity tackling blindness worldwide

Company info
Website
Telephone
01444 446600
Location
35 Perrymount Road,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex
RH16 3BW
GB

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