Financial Management and Resource Mobilization Specialist

Job Description

Qualification:

A degree in accounting/finance, economics or equivalent and a professional qualification in

accountancy from an internationally acceptable accountancy body i.e. ACCA, ICASL, ICA GH, and

CPA.

Experience:

• The Financial Manager Specialist will have not less than 10 years’ experience in financial and project management.
• Detailed experience managing investment funds, including structuring new funds, strong internal governance, and a track record of fiduciary responsibility and accountability, and ability to attract additional funds.
• Experience in matching grants
• Experience in disbursement procedures and financial management of World Bank credits/grants or other donor funded projects will be an added advantage.
• Must have a proven track record for the design and implementation of a robust resource/fund mobilization strategy
• Excellent skill in MS Excel and MS Word.
• Excellent skills in project management demonstrated in previous jobs.
• Proven track record in working effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

About the Organization

The Mitchell Group, Inc. (TMG) is a global solutions leader providing meaningful impact and sustainable solutions to development efforts affecting the lives of ordinary people. We are a veteran-owned business with over 30 years of international development program experience. TMG has performed highly successful, long-term contracts for US government clients such as USAID and National Institutes of Health (NIH) in supporting their various projects in multiple countries on 6 continents throughout the world. Many of those projects have been in Africa, where TMG has worked in 38 of its countries and currently has offices in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Ethiopia. Through these projects, TMG has gained broad, multi-sector experience in managing more than 100 US government contracts. We work with a large group of highly qualified experts whose specialized skills provide expertise to perform services in various technical areas, logistical management, financial management, administration, project management, MIS services, capacity building, training, and other sectors.

TMG has been a leading contractor in assisting the US National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and other domestic and international agencies with their important international biomedical research efforts to find cures for such human scourges as Malaria, AIDS and Ebola. TMG has also assisted USAID in successfully performing major contracts implementing its international development programs in such functional areas as Monitoring and Evaluation, Education and Training, Health Services, Countering Violent Extremism, Disaster Management, Agriculture and Food Security, and Outreach and Communications.