Volunteer Accountant for African Charity

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Job Description:

Our partner is a small charity in Malawi which aims to improve the living standards of communities surviving in the most marginalized rural areas of the Rumphi district. The organisation focuses on food security, household income levels, HIV and Aids, and gender disparities.

Its current projects are:

1. Care and support to grandmothers hosting orphans and vulnerable children

2. Care and support to orphans/vulnerable children and people living with AIDS

3. Improving market linkage through enhanced sustainable agriculture project

4. Youth Empowerment

The charity supports the marginalized rural communities within Rumphi and the adjacent Mzimba districts of northern Malawi with the following beneficiaries:

a. 420 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)

b. 109 People Living with HIV/AIDS

c. 240 local farmers

d. 105 Youths aged between 10 to 29

e. 71 grandmothers

A volunteer accountant is required for 2-4 weeks to help develop the organisation’s financial management policy, help with forecasting and budgeting, cash flow calculations, programme budgets, and to mentor local staff.

The organisation is within striking distance of Nyika National Park.

For more information please view www.afid.org.uk/volunteers or contact us on +44 (0) 208 741 7000 or email info@afid.org.uk.

Please forward our details to any accountants in your network that you think would be interested in our work.