Volunteer Opportunities at VSO Tanzania, November 2018
Volunteer role: Financial management Adviser
Role overview
You will work with the Project implementing partners – SIDCO, TCCIA, and TWCC – to coach local Small Medium Enterprise’s in improving their financial management capacity and their ability to access financing, win contracts, budget, and report financially.
Skills, qualifications and experience
Knowledge/qualifications:
• A bachelor degree holder in Finance/Accountant/Banking or related subject
• Fully qualified accountant Nafasi za kazi November 2018
Experience:
• Experience in developing financial management systems
• Able to formulate and implement financial regulations, policies and procedures.
• Good experience in establishing and supporting organization development
• Facilitation and training skills
• Strong understanding of business ethics
Skills/Abilities:
• Experience of working on similar projects in a developing country
• Strong understanding of the particular barriers facing female headed SMEs
• Able to network effectively, adapting communication style to different contexts and audiences, including internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and prioritise own work load
• Able to be flexible and travel significantly
The volunteer must be a team player with good social and interpersonal skills and networking abilities. S/he should be able to handle conflicts in a constructive consultative way.
S/he should have a flexible personality, adapting easily to new situations.
Competencies and Behaviour
At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:
• Ability to be open minded and respectful
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to seek and share knowledge
Volunteer role: Environmental Adviser
Role overview
You will Provide environmental advisory and build capacity of local partners and Small Mediums Entrepreneurs, you will also conduct environmental assessments of implementing partners to determine their current existing practices and strategies and also evaluate their commitment to environmental sustainability.
Skills, qualifications and experience
• A degree in environmental sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position (such as forestry, fisheries biology, wildlife ecology, environmental law, environmental science, biology, botany range management, geology, and other biological science courses).
• Experience in environmental management.
• Able to formulate and implement environmental regulations, policies and procedures.
• Good experience in establishing and supporting organizational development.
• Facilitation and training skills
• Strong understanding of businesses, esp. small and medium businesses
Desirable
• Field experience or have actively participated in environmental projects, ideally international or developmental Nafasi za ajira November 2018 kujitolea
At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:
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