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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 Ri ce 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

I. 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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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.

II. 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) 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.

IV. Qualifications, Experience, Abilities and skills • 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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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.