ECHO Administrative and Financial Assistant Job in Nairobi Kenya

The European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) seeks to recruit

Administrative and Financial Assistant
 

to complement its national staff team in the Regional Support Office - Nairobi
 

The position involves administrative and technical duties with responsibility of planning, assessing and executing all necessary office financial accounting functions following relevant ECHO and EC regulations.
 

Required Qualifications

• Minimum CPA Part I or ACCA Part II;
• Minimum of 5 years relevant working experience;
• Experience in accounting, budgeting, monitoring expenditure and maintenance of petty cash;
• Fluency in English, other European language (i.e. French) is an advantage;

Required Skills
 

Accuracy, dynamics, high sense of initiative and organisation, strong motivation, friendly and team worker, willing to accommodate different tasks in a flexible way, good communication skills reporting capacities and ability to meet deadlines.
 

Applications which do not meet minimum requirements will be automatically rejected
 

If you meet all above requirements a prerequisite is to fill the standard CV template available on the following link http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/kenya/documents/about_us/cv_en.pdf
 

Also apply in writing with CV, copies of the work certificates of previous employments, a recent passport photograph and daytime telephone contact to:
 

The Regional Administrative Coordinator,
European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO),
P.O. Box 49991- 00100,
Nairobi
 

Latest by noon Friday 26th July 2013 in a sealed envelope indicating the position applied for on the envelope. 

Candidates who have not been contacted by 31st August 2013 should consider that they have not been selected.