Finance and Administration Assistant

Job Title: Finance and Administration Assistant

Reporting to: Finance Officer.

Hours: 40 hours per week

Status: Initial one-year contract, with potential extension

Salary: Negotiable

Principal Location: Kinshasa with frequent travel within DRC as necessary

Background:

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 children to go to school and learn, supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Role summary

The Finance and Admin Assistant will provide vital support to Street Child ’s programme implementation in ensuring effective office management, procurement of goods and services, logistics coordination, and accurate