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Country: Kurdistan region of Iraq – Location: Erbil, with regular trips to Bardarash

Duration: 6 months, renewable according to funding, starting ASAP

Conditions: Salaried contract, gross monthly salary from €1,800 to €2,300 depending on experience, monthly per diem €500, medical coverage of 100% + repatriation insurance + provident fund, accommodation, international and local transportation as part of the mission, break every 3 months. More information on www.trianglegh.org, under « Participate ».

Family duty station: no.

Presentation of TGH

« Actor in a sustainable and shared solidarity »

Founded in 1994, TGH is a French international solidarity organization based in Lyon. The association designs and implements emergency, rehabilitation and development programs in the following sectors: water, hygiene and sanitation, civil engineering, food security and rural development, socio-educational and psychosocial. TGH is currently operating in 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

 

Context

During the year 2014, the humanitarian situation in Iraqi Kurdistan further deteriorated. For many months, Iraq has been plunged into an armed conflict opposing Iraqi and Peshmerga forces to jihadist fighters of the Islamic State. The conflict caused over 11,000 civilians casualties in 2014, and resulted in massive displacements of populations fleeing conflict zones. Currently 2.6 million Iraqis are still displaced within the country among which more than a million are located in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KR-I). This comes in addition to the 240 000 Syrian refugees settled in KR-I, and regularly continuing to arrive.

Although the KR-I Government has a clear policy of free access to primary and secondary education, schools are however still overcrowded and cannot address the increasing diversity of needs resulting from the enrolment of Syrian refugee and Iraqi IDP children. Refugee and IDP children face particular difficulties adjusting to a new curriculum in KR-I due to language barrier. They often require remedial support to integrate in their new educational environment successfully.

In addition, most families’ income does not allow them to bear the cost of sending their children to Arabic schools, all located in Erbil centre and paying for school equipment (uniforms, supplies). This leads parents to encourage their teenager children to contribute to the household’s income through informal activities (selling, begging or any child labour) despite the potential risk of abuses. And all over Iraq, children have been trauma affected as they are repeatedly exposed to conflict stressors such as violence, torture, continuous displacements.

 

Presentation of the mission

TGH worked in Kurdistan from 1995 to 1999 in the education and agriculture sectors to support refugees from Turkey. TGH is officially registered in KR-I and Iraq. In 2013, TGH reopened a mission in Kurdistan and conducted 3 projects in Erbil: WASH in schools, winterization distribution, education and psychosocial support.

Currently TGH has 2 operational bases in KR-I, one in Erbil and one in Bardarash.

In Erbil, TGH has opened a Learning Center in Daratoo providing non formal education for Syrian refugee children, remedial courses for Iraqi IDP children and psychosocial support for all conflict affected children. In addition, TGH is implementing a Cash For Education Project (May 2016 - August 2017) aiming at avoiding drop out and improving the enrolment of Syrian refugee in primary school. A protection project targeting the same beneficiaries will be implemented as from summer 2016, with the setting up of mobile protection units and community multipurpose center in Daratoo.

In Bardarash, emergency projects in education and protection are implemented in the camp and in the sub district, in order to support the IDP population and to provide support to the families newly displaced from Mosul.

 

Job description

The overall objective of the Finance/HR/admin Coordinator is to ensure the implementation of all administrative procedures and to train the local support team in order to support the current and future projects.

The Finance/HR/admin Coordinator will be under the responsibility of the Head of Mission. He/she will be managing the national Administrative Officer. The main responsibilities include:

FINANCE

• Train the Administrative Officer on SAGA
• Train the Administrative Officer on budget follow up
• Supervise and train the Administrative Officer on daily accountancy
• Implement a regular voucherisation of invoices on the mission and train the Administrative Officer
• Keep an up to date Allocation Table for the mission
• Manage, in collaboration with the HoM, all mission budgets, proposal, financial reports, monthly accountancy closure, cash flow forecast
• Manage the cash flow and cash supply requests to Head Quarters
• Prepare and conduct financial audits as needed

ADMINISTRATION

• Ensure that TGH follows the Iraqi and regional (KR-I) laws
• Collect all information about income tax and social benefits, and update internal regulations, work contracts and administrative guidelines accordingly
• Ensure a clear archiving of all accountancy and administrative documents
• Provide specific training sessions to the Administration team on the internal HR, admin and finance procedures
• Assist HoM with administrative procedures such as expatriate registration, collecting all information and prepare documents for the NGO registration

LOGISTICS

In collaboration with the logistics manager:

• Ensure the respect of internal and donors’ purchase procedure
• Ensure a check on the documentation of purchase procedures
• Contribute to procurements if required
• Assist HoM, as and when needed, with procurement procedures

HUMAN RESOURCES

• Collect all necessary information on local labour law and update internal regulations/work contracts accordingly
• Follow up of the HR database (leave follow-up, employment contract FU etc)
• Train the admin officer on the regular update of all HR documents (FUs, organigram, leaves etc)
• Assist the HoM in ensuring that all HR policies are understood and respected by all staff
• Participate to the hiring process of any support staff to be recruited
• Identify the training needs and organize trainings for the Administration teams

COORDINATION AND REPRESENTATION

• Attend internal coordination meetings
• Attend external inter-NGO administration coordination meetings

REPORTING

• As and when needed, contribute to writing financial reports and compiling data for financial reports
• As and when needed, contribute to monthly reporting to Head Quarters
• Regularly report to Head of Mission

This list of responsibilities could be modified according to the needs in the field.

 

Security, working and living conditions

There are two bases on the mission, located in Erbil and Bardarash. Despite the war context outside of KR-I, the region is generally safe.

Erbil city is safe, and there are few restrictions of movement within the city. There are bazaars, restaurants, sport centres, parks, shopping centres, supermarkets. Trips to the countryside are possible at weekends. Security rules may be revised according to the evolution of the context.

Working and living conditions in Erbil are good. Communication means are satisfying (efficient internet, international phones). The office is separated from the guesthouse. The guesthouse is spacious and each expatriate benefits from an individual room.

Bardarash is a small city located at 1h15 minutes from Erbil, around 15km from the front line and 30km from Mosul. The security context remains correct. Working and living conditions in Bardarash are good as well.