Evidence Action aims to be a world leader in scaling evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty for hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places. Last year Deworm the World reached 280 million people with deworming medications, partnering with governments to launch, scale, and sustain mass school-based deworming programs. Meanwhile, Dispensers for Safe Water provided 4M people across rural Africa with clean water, saving thousands of young lives. The approach relies on an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source.

In addition to running these scaled programs, Evidence Action leverages its unique Accelerator to develop the next generation of programs. These programs are rigorously tested to ensure exceptional scale, cost-effectiveness, and clear evidence of impact. In 2019 we launched an ambitious new strategy, with the goal of doubling our impact over the next five years, with much of that impact coming from new programs identified and scaled through the Accelerator.

Evidence Action has a presence across 10 countries, with major offices in Nairobi, Kenya; Delhi, India; and Washington, D.C. Evidence Action’s programs have been recognized by GiveWell, the Skoll Foundation, the Life You Can Save, Giving What We Can, and covered in the Economist, NPR, and the New York Times.

Background on the program

Syphilis among pregnant women is a highly neglected but addressable problem, responsible for more than 300,000 serious adverse outcomes annually (stillbirth, neonatal death, and congenital syphilis). Nearly all of these adverse outcomes can be prevented inexpensively and easily if women are tested and treated during antenatal care visits. The recent development and WHO pre-qualification of an affordable rapid dual diagnostic test for HIV and syphilis has made it possible to achieve near universal testing and treatment for governments that choose to deploy this test at antenatal clinics. Evidence Action is launching a new maternal syphilis program in Liberia and will be providing technical assistance to the Government of Liberia and the National AIDS and STI Control Program (NACP) in scaling up this intervention.

Duties and responsibilities

The Associate for Finance, Administration, & Operations will perform financial bookkeeping and recordkeeping, operational, administrative and additional programmatic support functions and duties for Evidence Action’s Liberia Office.

This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and booking transactions and maintaining proper serialization and safe filing. The position has access to confidential information that needs to be protected by adhering to organizational values. The role will act as a resource and/or coordinate resources between Regional and Country based projects, and perform other duties as defined by the Department Lead/Country Leadership.

This role’s primary responsibilities include:

Bookkeeping and Recordkeeping:

• Supporting the program to ensure that all funds disbursed for program activities are accounted for by tracking disbursements and reporting pending items to the role’s supervisor.
• Verifying accuracy and completeness of all payment vouchers before processing
• Continuously and effectively tracking program budgets, ensuring proper budget utilization, proper cost allocation communication with the program team, and full accountability of funds.
• Ensuring timely disbursements of funds to teams for ongoing programmatic activities and validation of field activities.

Operations and Support:

• Supporting daily administrative, operational, and programmatic tasks as needed. These may include contacting county based staff or facility level staff for follow-up, confirming attendance of meeting invitees, providing logistical support for travel and/or meetings and events.
• Assisting in organizing meetings, booking conference venues, and arranging vehicle rentals.
• Supporting Evidence Action office set-up (i.e. procurement and distribution of necessary office supplies).
• Other duties as required.

Key performance indicators include:

• Timely verification of invoices, programmatic activities and processing of payments.
• Ensuring that Evidence Action’s Finance and Accounting policies and policies and procedures are adhered to for all transactions in Liberia.
• Working to ensure a clean and timely audit with no material findings.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, mathematics, administration or other relevant field.
• Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants
• 3 years work experience in a position with similar responsibilities
• Strategic and tactical critical thinker with good analytical and problem solving skills. Solution orientated with the ability to identify new ways of working.
• Confident decision maker who can communicate directions and solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical staff.
• Strong initiative, organization skills, and ability to work autonomously and cross-functionally while remaining flexible to changing tasks, priorities, and roles and responsibilities.
• Strong office management and administrative skills.
• Demonstrated ability to support daily programmatic operations.
• Ability to work in a matrix environment, working collaboratively with staff in Evidence Action’s Nairobi Office and US Office.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills and proficient skill level with other Microsoft accounting packages (e.g. Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, etc.)
• Ability to work with, and perform the analytical review of the large volume of data and figures on Excel.
• Oral and written English fluency.
• Ability to legally work in Liberia.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with mobile money platforms and payments.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evidence Action does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.