Accountant And Fundraising

JOB TITLE:                   Accountant and Fundraising

DEPARTMENT:            Administration

REPORTS TO:              Financial Controller-Treasurer

SCHEDULE:                  Part time (25 hours per week)

LOCATION:                  Rmeileh and Gemmayze (work in both places)

RESPONSIBILITIES 

1) Accountant:

- Checking Fratelli’s finance system and enter expenses and data (Quickbooks)

- Keeping track of the expenses, filing all receipts and checking that money spent has been recorded. This includes ensuring all staff adhere to petty cash procedures

- Monthly reconciliations

- Producing a monthly finance report

- Grant budgets and updating Fratelli's overall budget

- Scan the receipts and invoices each month

- Help in other tasks to the Financial Controller

- Work in collaboration with the accountant department in Gemmayze

2) Fundraising:

- Identifying and researching potential grants

- Writing fundraising and grant proposals, including drafting necessary supporting documents such as proposed budgets

- Reporting to funding organizations on Fratelli's progress in relation to funded projects

- Responsible for ensuring that donors receive timely updates through Fratelli’s newsletter or beneficiary specific updates

- Initiating and leading fundraising campaigns. This might include events, reaching out to businesses and producing innovative ideas for fundraising

- Supporting communications campaigns

- Identifying and researching potential individual funding partners

- Developing professional relationships with funding partners such as businesses, Embassies and individuals

- Representing Fratelli externally as required

- Maintaining Fratelli’s donor database and updating the communications officer.

 
REQUIREMENTS 

- Essential: Bachelor’s degree

- Very important: Much discretion and confidence. Every day will handling sensitive information

- If possible, that knows how to use Quickbooks

- Work in an orderly, organized and thoroughly

- Track record of raising money through grants and large individual donors

- Experience in developing funding proposals, including narrative and budget, in line with organizational funding needs and to do audits.

- Proven mathematical and logical skills

- Proven skills in using Microsoft, especially Excel (advanced)

- Ability to work independently, to initiative and with the ability to prioritize workloads without direct supervision

- Strong interpersonal, written and oral English communication skills with an ability to communicate to a wide range of actors. Arabic and French Language. Spanish if possible.

- Proven research skills

- Experience working in the humanitarian sector or previous experience of working in the NGO sector.

- Good diplomacy skills

- Good presentation

- Creative and enjoys problem solving

- Capacity and availability of mobility and work in both places: Rmeileh and Gemmayze