he U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria project is PMI’s flagship global service delivery project, supporting countries in their efforts to fight malaria and save lives by strengthening diagnosis, treatment, and drug-based prevention for those most at risk—particularly young children and pregnant women. PMI Impact Malaria is a USAID contract hosted and led by PSI as the prime contractor.

PMI Impact Malaria is helping national malaria control programs tackle malaria service delivery challenges by working to:

• Close the gaps in malaria diagnosis and treatment to get the right medicine, with the correct diagnosis, to patients in need, in the timeliest manner.
• Unlock the potential of key drug-based prevention approaches by helping countries introduce, implement, and scale-up proven interventions.
• Strengthen malaria health systems and data for decision-making to accelerate service delivery improvements and advance key learnings.

The PMI Impact Malaria (IM) team provides global technical leadership along with implementation support and technical assistance in health facility and community settings in up to 27 countries around the world. We are a focused, multi-disciplined, and multi-cultured team based out of Washington DC, working through PSI country offices as well as through our partners Jhpiego, MCDI, and UCSF.

IM has been operating in Sierra Leone since 2018. The project supports the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) and the NMCP to implement key malaria service delivery interventions at the national level and across ten focus districts. IM SL supports the NMCP to strengthen malaria case management at the community and facility levels, with an emphasis on addressing severe malaria and MIP, bolstering the national laboratory diagnostics system, and building capacity in the collection and use of data for decision-making.

In Sierra Leone, IM, in support of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), seeks to improve Case Management (CM) and prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy (MIP) services through two of the three overall objectives of the project, namely:

Objective 1: Improve the quality of and access to malaria case management and malaria prevention during pregnancy.

Objective 2: In support of Objective PS1, provide global technical leadership, support operational research, and advance program learning.

Project-EpiC Sierra Leone

Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) is a five-year global project funded by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).  EpiC receives COVID-19 funding to bolster health systems necessary to address COVID-19 and reduce cases of reemergence.

Currently, EpiC and its consortium members implement COVID-19 activities in more than 45 countries worldwide.  The project delivers high-quality technical assistance at the community, facility, district, regional and national levels and builds relationships with relevant partners working to address COVID-19.

In Sierra Leone, EpiC works hand in hand with Sierra Leone’s Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) to identify and address gaps that are not currently covered by other partners throughout the country but more especially in the 7 districts that have the lowest COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

Finance Assistant.

PSI Sierra Leone is seeking for an individual to fulfill the experience required to work in future. For qualified, motivated applicants, this position offers exposure to learning and coaching.

Because of this, PSI Sierra Leone is seeking an energetic, dynamic, and highly organized applicant for the USAID/PMI Impact Malaria and EpiC-funded projects, advancing progress service delivery.

The Finance Assistant will work under the direct supervision of the Senior Accountant

Skills and Specifications

• Work along with the Senior Accountant and the Director of Admin and Finance to support the financial system and ensure efficiency and accountability is maintained.
• Enter all financial transactions in Quick Books (QBE) accounting software on time.
• Assist the accountant to prepare and close monthly field accounts for submission as per deadline.
• Process all accounts payable and receivable on a timely basis.
• Monitor and reconcile invoices and partial payments.
• Assist in monitoring and analyzing employee advance accounts.
• Provide updates to vendors on progress on transactions.
• Ensure all financial files are adequately collected, maintained and filed.
• Verify vendor invoices with supporting documentation.
• Review travel authorizations and expenses report forms submitted by staff to ensure accuracy.
• Assist in payment of field operational costs ensuring they comply with PSI guidelines.
• Assist the accountant in making monthly tax and NASSIT deduction and onward payment to the relevant institutions: (NRA and NASSIT)
• Prepare payment approval coversheet ensuring correctness invoices and tax calculations.
• Write checks and prepare remittance sheet based on approved payment/cover sheet.
• Monitor petty cash and bank balances to ensure sufficient funds are always available depending on program needs.
• Supporting program workshops/trainings logistics.
• Reconcile orange money accounts and ensure adequate and timely replenishment.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in finance & accounting with 5yrs relevant experience, or master’s in accounting and finance and any related field of study, from a recognized university.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, be highly organized, and comfortably work on multiple activities at once.
• Experience in similar job advert.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• References will be required.
• Fluency in reading and writing in English psi