Projet
The Marshall Islands: Women and Youth Skills Empowerment and Resilience Project - Project Implementation and Management Services
Senior Accountant
Poste de travail
Senior Accountant
Description du projet
The Republic of the Marshall Islands requested assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance a social protection project with the outcome of increasing skills, empowerment and resilience of vulnerable women and at-risk young people. The Women and Youth, Skills, Empowerment, and Resilience Project will be considered by the ADB Board of Directors in November 2024. The project is estimated to cost $21.84 million. The Government of the Marshall Islands has requested a grant not exceeding $19.70 million from ADB’s Asian Development Fund (ADF) Special Funds resources to help finance the project, including $13.7 million from the ADF 13 thematic pool, under its strategic area on achieving the sustainable
development goal 5 transformative gender agenda. The Ministry of Finance, Banking, and Postal Services (MOFBPS) is the executing agency for the project and the Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs (MOCIA) is the implementing agency.
The project is aligned with the following impacts: (i) an enabling and sustainable environment built where all youth develop their full capacity and contribute meaningfully to sustainable development (National Youth Policy 2021–2025); and (ii) gender equality and the empowerment of women progressed, with the meaningful involvement and contributions of all development sectors and civil society (National Gender Mainstreaming Policy). The project will have the following outcome: vulnerable women’s and youth’s skills, resilience, and empowerment increased. There will be three outputs:
Description de poste
The Senior Accountant will support the PIMS and MOCIA to ensure that the project’s accounts system are set up and operating effectively and will conduct knowledge transfer to staff in the MOCIA finance unit. Key tasks include but are not limited to the following:
• prepare and update supplementary project financial management guidelines;
• ensure that all project registers are set up and working effectively (including advance registers, contract registers, asset registers);
• prepare withdrawal applications, prepare six-month forecasts and request advances of ADB funds,
• prepare monthly finance reports and other regular finance reports, and help to draft quarterly project progress reports;
• support budgeting, payment and reporting activities for the project, using ADB systems and in partnership with MOCIA and MOFBPS relevant finance departments; and
• ensure skills transfer to MOCIA and MOFBPS finance staff through on-the-job training.
Conditions requises
• Degree in financial management, accounting or related field.
• At least 10 years of general work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in financial management or an accounting position.
• Previous work experience on developmentfunded projects is desired.
•Written and spoken fluency in English language is essential.
Informations supplémentaires
The assignment is planned for 60 person months.
Marshall (Iles)
Pièces jointes
Durée de la mission
01/04/2025 - 31/10/2030
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures
30/09/2024
Type d'emploi
long terme
Statut de travail
préqualification
Référence de projet
24-0199-000-MRS-ADB-women