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Job Description: To live in Tanzania and liaise with the Kesho Leo Manager as to the day-to-day running of Kesho finances. You will be required to log in the receipts of daily expenditures and to keep excel budget files and to discuss/analyse these with the Kesho Leo Manager.

Liaise with: Kesho Crew in Tanzania – particularly the Kesho Leo Manager.

Time: 2 hours a day (but some days it will be more). We trust you’ll also be up for having the odd job thrown at you – not like we’re going to scratching to find you some tasks!

Term: 13-month posting. (November 2008 - December 2009).

Location: Kesho Leo Volunteer House, Sinon Village, Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa.

Skills:  We are looking for someone who is good with numbers and has a working knowledge of excel (ie do you know how to use VLOOKUP?).  You will be expected to manage  a hectic cash turnover, negotiate fair compromises with local staff when it comes to requests for pay advances, educate and follow up the fws staff on-ground to record transactions accurately, manage local bank transactions, reconcile cash on hand with transaction records and email your monthly transaction reports back to fws accountant.

Pre-Package: Free accommodation (off-site).

Keen to number-crunch for Kesho?

Then email shona.arneil@foodwatershelter.org.au