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Right To Play is a global organization committed to improving the lives of children and youth affected by conflict, disease and poverty. Established in 2000, Right To Play has pioneered a unique play-based approach to learning and development which focuses on quality education, life skills, health, gender equality, child protection and building peaceful communities. With programming in over 20 countries, Right To Play transforms the lives of more than one million children each week using play and sports, both inside and outside of the classroom. In addition to our work with children, Right To Play advocates with parents, local communities, and governments to advance the fundamental rights of all children.
Right To Play is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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Right To Play NGO Jobs In Ghana February 2020
Finance Coordinator
The Finance Coordinator reports directly to the Finance Manager (FM). The incumbent is responsible for providing supports to the FM in financial administration tasks such as data entry, processing transactions, ensuring all transaction supporting documents are complete and properly filed and reconciling bank accounts entries.
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Indirect Advisory Responsibilities
The incumbent deals with the country staff specially Field Facilitators regarding advances. He/she is expected to provide advices to the country staff in this regard.
Responsibilities
Accounting
- Ensures that all documents are complete with the appropriate supporting documents, reviewed and approved before processing for payment.
- Filing of vouchers and send the vouchers to Finance at country office on a monthly basis.
- Ensures that all payments are made on time.
- Review bank transactions to ensure all the cheques are processed; files hardcopies and prepare bank reconciliation.
- Record all financial transactions into the RTP Daily Expenses Log (DEL).
- Reviews all petty cash expenditures and replenishment requests when two-thirds of the money is spent.
- Responsible for budget follow up and the correct use of all the donor codes.
- Do regular surprise cash counts from cashier, where applicable
Project Officer
The Project Officer reports directly to the Program Manager (PM) and is responsible for the effective administration of the project and reporting on the outcome to internal and external contacts as required.
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Indirect Advisory Responsibilities
The Project Officer provides direct advice and guidance to partners for effective implementation of Right To Play projects in the project location.
Responsibilities
Project Administration
- Contributes to the formulation of the project strategies plans feeding into the overall country strategic plan.
- Prepares and leads the implementation plan of project activities from existing operational plan.
- Guides Field Facilitators on executing the activities in each project location.
- Ensures that activities are compliant with RTP methodology and standards.
- Oversees community events such as Play Days to promote topics/ issues related to their needs.
- Develops and strengthens understanding of our project management cycle with project staff and partners.
- Compiles reports received from the Field Facilitators and submits monthly activity reports to PM.
- Completes monthly budget projections and tracks expenditures.
- Participates in the planning of budget and tracks activity expenses occurred against cash projections.
- Procures project equipment (in coordination with Logistics Officer/Assistant where applicable), within authorization levels set in the In-Field Authorization Levels policy.
- Coordinates facility upgrades based on the needs of the project site.
- Arranges for storage and delivery of sport equipment to participating schools.
- Coordinates with other NGOs/CBOs to ensure participation in partner events.
- Monitors security situation in project location and reports to the PM.
- Follows up on logistics issues at project location and ensure assets, including project vehicles are maintained.
Field Facilitator
The Field Facilitator reports directly to the Project Officer (PO) and is responsible for the implementation of Right To Play project activities and providing support and guidance to the community team in using RTP tools in the project location. He/she is also responsible for monitoring the project for quality of delivery and effectiveness.
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Responsibilities
Activity Planning and Implementation
- Ensures participation of partners, children/young people and stakeholders in the process of project planning and implementation of the proposed activities.
- Supports Coaches and Coach Trainers in developing their activity plans and schedules, encourages their initiatives while ensuring alignment with project proposal, facilitates their activities and reports to the PO.
- Organizes and conducts special events activities, play days and sports tournaments.
- In coordination with partners, Coaches and Coach Trainers, evaluates events, provides updates of lessons learned and best practices and reports on progress and challenges as they arise.
- Manages the logistical arrangements for training workshops and events.
- Assesses training needs of Coach Trainers, Coaches, Junior Leaders, teachers and partners, recommends the suitable intervention and works with them to develop training schedules.
- Organizes and facilitates training workshops conducted by other program staff and participates in the training as required.
- Facilitates the training sessions conducted by Coach Trainers, evaluates them and reports to the PO.
- Handles equipment management and distribution in the assigned community.
- Handles advance payments and manages cash money used for the activity implementation.
- Follows up on how partners are spending budget received for project implementation in the location and verifies the accuracy of their financial reports and receipts and reports to the PO.
- Assesses needs for facility repairs and upgrades in the community, facilitates the authorized work and ensures that overall work has been completed in accordance with the approved standards.
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