Ethiopian Red Cross Society External Vacancy Announcement Job Position 1 – Accountant Required Qualification and Experience
Education:Second/First degree in in Accounting/ Accounting & Finance/ and 4/6 years related work experience, Knowledge of Accounting Software is mandatory.
Work Unit: Office of Zonal Coordinate Office
Term of Employment: Permanent
Reports to: Head, Administration and Finance
Employment Type: Full Time
Number Of Required: 1
Salary:16,814.00
work Place: Addis Ababa
Deadline : March 25th, 2026
Job Summary
Under the supervision of the Admin and Finance Manager, the Sr. Accountant follows up budget requisition, consolidation, endorsement and implementation matters of the branch are in accordance with pre-established regulatory framework; Verifies payment orders and purchasing transactions are duly approved as per delegated authority; verifies and follows up on the timely collection of revenues and settlement of disbursements; verifies journal entries and checks payment requests against support documents for the preparation of checks or other mode of payment; analyzes records of present and past operations, trends and costs, estimated and expenses incurred to project future operation results, prepare interim and end of year financial reports;
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
1. Participates in planning and formulating internal control policies and procedures for administration and finance matters of the zonal branch;
2. Reviews, verifies, checks and finalizes activity outputs of subordinate staff;
3. ensures that books of accounts are kept to the best satisfaction of the IPSAS and internal as well as external regulatory requirements;
4. Inspects & tests books of accounts for clerical and arithmetic accuracy and performs other advanced general accounting tasks or posting;
5. Follows up budget requisition, consolidation, endorsement and implementation matters of the zone are in accordance with pre-established regulatory framework;
6. Expedites and facilitates the preparation of annual budget for income and expenditure and annual forecast of cash inflow for the zonal branch;
7. Prepare monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual financial report (Balance sheet and Statement of Income and Expenditure) and analyses the report and provide accurate information for management decision making;
8. Verifies references and cross-references of postings and source documents;
9. verifies that bank statements are reconciled with the records of the branch;
10. Verifies that expenditures are justified, properly made and signed and charged to correct accounts;
11. Checks the agreement of the balances of subsidiary ledgers and that of control accounts in the general ledger and tests the equality of debit and credit totals (trial balance) of the general ledger account balances;
12. Checks the correctness of petty cash payment vouchers and account coding;
13. Prepares, checks and verifies the accuracy of payroll;
14. Prepare schedule of payables and receivables at the end of every month and provide the report to Finance and Admin Manager;
15. Maintains and updates purchase register books by inserting all the necessary data;
16. Examines and checks all registers for correctness and the register totals for general ledger posting;
17. Prepares periodic and end-of-period financial reports and statements resulting from subsidiary and general ledger accounts;
18. Ensures that the financial books of the branch are always kept up-to-date, timely closed and audited;
19. Executes audit review feedbacks given on the books of accounts and accounting practices of the zonal branch;
20. Performs other related duties and responsibilities of the job as assigned by the admin and Finance head.
Requirement Skill
Analytical skills
Decision-making skills
Microsoft Office Pack: Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Outlook, Powerpoint
Accounting
Job Position 2 – Volunteers, Members, and dissemination expert Required Qualification and Experience
Education:Second/First degree in Pedagogical Science/Social Work/ Sociology/ Social Anthropology/ Social Psychology/ Applied Psychology/ Public Administration/ Business Administration/ Regional and Local Development Studies/ development studies/ Management / Political Science & International Relations and 2/3 years’ relevant work experience.
Salary: 16,814.00
Term of employment: Permanent
Work Unit: Office of Zonal Coordination office
Report to: Head, Zonal Coordination Office
work place: Addis Ababa
Deadline : March 27th, 2026
Other skills and Competency:
Training in communications, Advocacy, community mobilizations, Training Trainers (TOT), and Volunteer Management is Advantage.
High level of communications, Relationship Management skills, working with community and volunteers have also an asset.
Duty and Responsibilities
Provides technical and expertise assistance in planning VMD activities of the Zonal Branch;
Provides technical and expertise backup to Woreda branches on VMD management, the dissemination of the Geneva Conventions, Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and International Humanitarian law and expansion of volunteerism;
Monitors and evaluates the activities of raising and governing membership and voluntarism for the causes of the Red Cross/ Red Crescents Movement, keeping a well-organized and updated database of members and volunteers of the Zonal Branch, training, organizing and deploying volunteers for rescue work, social welfare and other mandated fields of activity of the Society delegated to Zonal Branch;
Identifies materials required to effectively carry out dissemination activities of the Zonal Branch, facilitates and follows up the adequate and timely supply of the same;
Facilitates, follows up and performs in person the dissemination activities of the Zonal Branch on value, principles of the Red Cross Movement, the Geneva Conventions, International Humanitarian Law and other matters of importance in furthering the purposes and causes of the Movement in general and of the Society in particular to target audiences;
Initiates membership management systems to raise quality of membership for improved productivity and self-sustenance;
Mobilizes youth associations, members and volunteers for providing their voluntary service when and where this service is required.
Facilitates the overall activities recruiting, developing, retaining and mobilizing volunteer force of the Zonal Branch to respond to humanitarian needs of vulnerable communities;
Keeps sufficiently detailed, complete and consolidated record of members and volunteers in the Zonal Branch, follows up their statuses of members and volunteers and constantly updates the database thereof;
Initiates policy ideas on dissemination, volunteers and membership matters based on practical experience;
Assesses and identifies the resource and skill gaps of branches in carrying out VMD activities effectively and efficiently and recommends courses of action;
Regularly evaluates the VMD activities of branches;
Facilitates, follows up and personally participates in organizing and administering necessary VMD trainings of trainers of the Zonal Branch;
Cascades capacity building trainings as far down to grass levels of the Society’s humanitarian services, and ensures that the intended impacts are realized through proper monitoring, evaluation and reporting;
Encourages woreda branches to organize dissemination sessions to different target groups and provides the necessary supports;
Follows up and evaluates the effectiveness of the existing VMD management activities of the Zonal Branch and recommends courses of action based on results;
Prepares reports on dissemination, members and volunteers matters of the Zonal Branch regularly and on demand and hands over to superior for review, finalization and submission;
Organizes appropriate public events to disseminate the ideals and principles of RC/Crescent movement at Zonal level;
Mobilizes members and volunteers of