🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ Living Water International Sierra Leone – 2 Positions

• Honor God
• Develop People
• Pursue Excellence
• Be Good Stewards

1. Provide a competent accounting service to the country office;
2. Maintain a set of complete and accurate financial records, including all relevant supporting documentation for each project;
3. Establish, manage, and modify the financial procedures: e.g. receipts, payments, disbursements and bookkeeping, banking, filing procedures and other finance-related tasks;
4. Ensure accounting procedures and policies are being adhered to and internal controls exist to reduce financial risk;
5. Establish an effective filing system that provides easy access to finance-related information and proper documentation of all financial and contractual transactions;
6. Process the monthly and end of year payroll into QuickBooks;
7. Provide timely financial information and reports to the Country Director;
8. Provide overall strategic leadership and initiative for accessing resources
9. Oversee budget preparation and on-going budget management
10. Establish/maintain financial procedures and recording mechanisms

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Finance, Accounting or other appropriate discipline in relevant field;
• At least 3 years of relevant financial experience
• Grant management experience preferred

Experience/Qualifications

• Honor God
• Develop People
• Pursue Excellence
• Be Good Stewards

• To develop and coordinate the annual well maintenance plan of the country office of LWI, ensuring its proper functioning in the communities.
• Ensure the maintenance of spare parts necessary to assist in the repairs of the pumps in the communities, or in those where technical support is required for their repair.
• Coordinate the verification visit of the state and condition of the pumps, ensuring that proper hygiene operations are complied with
• Coordinate water test outlets and pump maintenance visits to verify that there is no contamination or any other parasite that may affect water, using the TDS instrument.
• To promote and promote good relations between LWI and communities, by means of follow-up visits to verify the conditions of wells and water points, proving that they are in good condition of service.
• To coordinate and provide training to the users of the wells in the communities in the maintenance and care of the same.
• Coordinate field visits to communities to follow up requests for maintenance by communities
• To train personnel in the use of equipment and tools for the maintenance of pumps, as well as in the knowledge of the quality standards of LWI
• Coordinate meetings with community leaders to provide all information on LWI contact points, if they require support for well maintenance, or difficulties in use
• To coordinate with the facilitator of hygiene and sanitation, the trainings to the leaders of the communities in the knowledge of techniques for the care and hygiene of the wells.
• Coordinate the purchases of pump spares from the wells to be visited, maintaining the appropriate stocks, requesting the Finance Department the necessary funds to make purchases of the parts to be replaced.
• Activities during support visits to the pump team
• Drive the vehicles to transport the pump maintenance equipment, ensuring the safety of the team during the time that the visit takes place in the country, providing indications of what is due and should not be done during the visits to the communities
• Ensure proper use of safety equipment, such as gloves, helmets, earplugs, and all necessary safety tools in the field.
• Ensure that all visits are adequately fed and the visiting areas have the proper hygienic conditions.
• Ensure proper BoQ developed and shared with line manager for maintenance and construction activities as required
• Ensure LWI and GoSL SOPs for water and sanitation facilities are followed.

• Knowledge of water and sanitation operations, requirements, risk factors and safety involved in operating processes
• Familiar with community water systems
• Ability to install, test and well know the maintenance of water pumps
• Familiar with construction engineering

• Ability to move, travel and stay in the field
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
• Advanced English Language level
• Knowledge of water test and bacteriology
• Valid driver’s license-essential in heavy vehicle handling

• Mechanical Pump Certificate, mechanic’s degree or mechanical certification
• A degree or equivalent in engineering/construction will be added advantage
• 2 or more years of experience in pump maintenance.