Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Provide coaching and build capacity to REDD+ target village committees
▪ Manage the community village-allocated budget effectively and efficiently and prepare financial statement/report
▪ Manage expenditures to ensure financial guidelines compliance and accuracy and transparency with common consent by members/indigenous communities.
▪ On job training/coaching on monitoring budget vs actual to make sure that using a correct budget line and in line with budget plan/proposal
▪ Provide orientation and build capacity on financial guidelines, how to conduct sport checks and perform internal control
▪ With REDD team assist committees in presenting financial reports/statement to the community
▪ Refresher training to WCS Community facilitators on community financial guidelines as deemed necessary
2. Provide capacity building on periodic financial-related reporting/tracking:
▪ Prepare monthly community Financial Reports (Budget vs Spending by each village) using monitoring banners and excel file
▪ Daily/monthly/quarterly support the village committees on reviewing their expenditures supporting documents and reconciliation financial report/statement
▪ Build capacity of committees on how to do bookkeeping, prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports
▪ Provide coaching and build capacity of committees on monthly reconciliation/closing and final report
3. Other
▪ Support village committees in procurement process to ensure compliance with community financial guidelines
▪ Review monthly advances requests, clear advances, monthly reconcile and follow up to return underspend from villages
▪ Support on monthly review direct payment request and submit the request to Community Redd+ Manager for approval before releasing payment to supplier
▪ Perform other work assignments, duties, and/or functions as assigned/designated/instructed by the Project Senior Finance Officer or WCS next level management in the course of WCS operation
