Hands at Work in Africa requires the services of a Financial Manager to oversee the finances of two organisations.

Responsibility and Key Performance Areas:

• Supervise five staff members
• Books to Trial Balance
• Financial Reporting & Contract Management
• Ensure all expenses are allocated in accordance with budgets of different funders
• Ensure all funders receive their financial reports timely
• Prepare monthly management reports for internal use
• Year-end procedures and annual audit

Skills Requirements:

• B.Com Degree
• 3-5 Years accounting & financial management experience of a large entity
• Computer literate (Excel & Pastel essential; Pastel Payroll experience an advantage)

Applications should include a resume/vitae and a succinct cover letter detailing interest in the position, current salary, and availability to start. Please submit to: hr@handsatwork.org. SA Fax only: 086-633-4377. Short-listed candidates will be notified.

Responsibility: An essential piece of the vision to reach 100,000 by 2010 is our Footprints in Africa one-year internship program. We are currently seeking passionate leader volunteers to guide our Footprints program as part of collaborative team of Hands at Work instructors.

Skills: The ideal candidates would be a couple (as both male and female mentorship is required) with significant cross-cultural experience, preferably including Africa. They would be mature followers of Christ and would have experience in training, perhaps in a YWAM-like environment.

Time Commitment: 2 years

Deadline for Applications: This is a critical volunteer position and candidates will be evaluated as soon as applications are submitted. To apply, or for more information contact Lize-Marié Theron at: hr@handsatwork.org.

Start the journey with 11 weeks in rural South Africa confronting cross-cultural challenges, learning more of Hands at Work and preparing your ministry. Then travel—with one or two others—to serve as an integral team member in one of Africa’s most desperate communities using your skills: administrative, nursing, building, management, agricultural, or other.

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Hands at Work is currently accepting applications for its volunteer teaching internship. It is looking for a university graduate to lead a program preparing high-potential orphans for university study in the Masoyi village in South Africa.

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Responsibility: As the nine components of the Masoyi Community Intervention Model are continually being implemented at Hands at Work projects across Africa they continue to be advanced and enhanced, especially at the site of Hands at Work’s most developed project, Masoyi Home-Based Care. To properly communicate the model to implementing projects and supporting partners, the rich stores of information kept in Masoyi needs to mined and documented.

Skills: Strong ability to communicate observations and experience in a clear, structured narrative framework. Ability to research: primarily extracting concealed information from a number of sources, including field observations, community worker interviews, and various written documents. Ability to work to deadlines without constant supervision.

Location: Masoyi, South Africa

Responsibility: Project managing the development of a contact database with M&E aspects and a project accounting system.  This would involve the specification, testing, training & implementation of the systems.

Skills: A relevant degree or national diploma, computer literate (MS SQL), skills and relevant experience in system specification, testing & training.

Location: Masoyi, South Africa

Responsibility: To administer the internal IT infrastructure of Hands at Work in Africa and Masoyi Home Based Care. This would involve assisting in using all the IT tools that are available in the MS Small Business Server suite of products for the benefit of the organisation.

Skills: Good working knowledge of MS Small Business Server, MS Exchange, MS Office, Networking

Location: Masoyi, South Africa

Open to: A foreign volunteer or South African resident remunerate. According to SA legislation we can accommodate volunteers to assist in the position, but can only remunerate SA residents.

Responsibility: To help develop project management skills of community based organizations from initial proposal stage, planning, implementation and control.  Researching available resources and training community organizations.

Skills: Strong project management experience.  Ability to mentor and train program managers in the practical principles of project management.

Location: Masoyi, South Africa

Responsibility: To help develop organizational capacity of community based organizations from constitutions & governance to how to run a meeting with agendas & minutes. Researching available resources and training community organizations.

Skills: Ability to work at all levels of an organization as an organizational development consultant and trainer.

Location: Masoyi, South Africa

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