Sunday 12 August 2012

Account and Administrative Assistant Job Vacancy at National Forestry Authority


Job Title:                       ACCOUNTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT(2 Positions)
Reports to:                        Range/Plantation Manager
Duty station:                      Transferable
Salary Scale:                      NFA 5
   Terms of Employment:   3 years contract (Renewable)
Job Summary: Will provide overall Financial and administrative management of the Support Centre
activities.
   
Responsibilities and tasks:
Reviewing suppliers’ invoices, fee notes, and related expenditure documents against supporting
documents (purchase orders, goods received notes, service receipt certifications) and checking for
correctness of approvals and calculations.7
Preparing payment vouchers and coding expenditure in line with the chart of accounts.
Maintaining staff imprest details, preparing reports on imprest outstanding on a monthly basis for
follow up and recovery, and reviewing personal expenditure reports to ensure that advances/imprest are
fully accounted for.
Monitoring bank account balances to ensure that there are sufficient funds available to execute planned
activities.
Reconcile Bank and control balances to ensure that there are sufficient funds available to execute
planned activities.
Provide technical support to field offices wherever required.
Handle all HR activities at the support centres/ Ranges.
Minimum Qualifications, skills and experience:
 Minimum of Diploma in Business Administration/studies.
 Two (2) years working experience of similar work in a busy Setting.
 Literacy in word  processing and spread sheets are essential and knowledge of sun systems
would be an added advantage


Interested candidates, who fully meet the above requirements, should submit their application letters, copies
of academic and professional certificates and transcripts and curriculum vitae  giving full details of
applicants education, qualifications, experience, present salary and naming three referees, plus their postal,
email and telephone contacts to the address below not later than 31st August 2012.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
                                                                                                                     
The Executive Director,
                                                                                                           
Plot 10/20 Spring Road Nakawa
                                                                                                 
 P.O. Box 70863, Kampala
                                                                                       
Tel: 031 – 264035/6
                                                                             
 041 – 230365/9
E-mail – info@nfa.org.ug