Internal / External Vacancy Announcement

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) wants to recruit employees in the following vacant positions the details of which are mentioned bellow.

About the Ethiopian Red Cross Society

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was established in 1935 and is one of the oldest and largest humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. ERCS provides services to communities affected by natural and manmade disasters through the provision of emergency responses, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential drugs, water and sanitation, and other humanitarian services. ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. Currently the ERCS has a structure consisting of 12 Regional Offices, 34 Zonal Branches and 131 District/Woreda Branches, 599 Woreda Red Cross Committee and 5871 Kebele Red Cross committees

ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs relating to food security, climate change adaptation, livelihood diversification, and institutional capacity building interventions, with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. ERCS works in partnership with the Ethiopian Government, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), partnering National Societies, members, volunteers and the communities we serve.

Key performance area

• Under the supervision and direction of Head, Region Branch, Head, Admin and Finance Division/ Regional branch / is responsible to/for:
• Plans, coordinates and supervises activities of customer service management, human resource management, general service, general accounts and property administration activities of the region in accordance with the policy of the Society;
• Identifies and assesses the need for additional human resource and looks for ways of filling vacant positions; Assesses competent employees to fill vacant jobs by way of promotion on competitive basis as per level of delegation; Gives orientations/inductions to new employees transferred, promoted or recruited to posts of the Center;
• Follows up on the collection of receivables in due course and reports on over dues for immediate action;
• Ensures that fixed assets of the Center are properly registered, classified and codified or tagged for ease of tracing and identification; Ascertains that fixed assets are properly registered and periodic inventory taking is done;
• Checks and verifies as to payment orders and purchasing transactions are duly approved by authorized personnel; Ensures that cash and check payments are prepared and effected in due course; Counter signs payments verifying correctness and completeness of supporting documents; Checks receiving vouchers and payment vouchers are posted to general ledgers and respective subsidiary ledgers; 
• Ensures that legal and authorized deductions are made from employee’s salary income during payroll preparation;
• Conducts performance appraisal of subordinates, recommends appropriate training and coaches them to fill the gap;
• Ensures that the financial transactions of the region are recorded and data entries thereof processed, accounts timely closed and audited, interim and end-of-period financial reports produced in accordance with the overall financial system in place; 

Reporting to: Head, Region Branch

Terms of employment: Permanent after probation period

Place of Work: SNNP, Region, Ethiopia

Job Requirements

Qualification and Professional Experience

• Second or First Degree Accounting, Accounting & Finance, Management, business Administration.
• Training in accounting software application and ACCA, training in IFRS.
• 8/10 years’ of work experience out of which 4/6 years in a managerial position(s )

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to fill out the employment application form from the official website of the Ethiopian Red Cross in vacancy menu and email to ercs-recruitment@redcrosseth.org OR via postal office Ethiopian Red Cross Society SNNP Region Branch P.O.Box 787 before the closing date of this announcement on Dec 31, 2021.

Qualified women are strongly recommended to apply!

Please note that we ONLY consider those who filled in the application form and send us back. We regret to inform that we do not accept CV at this stage.