Family Like Care “FLC” Junior Accountant

SOS Children’s Villages takes action for children as an independent non-governmental social development organization. We build families for children in need, we help them shape the development of the community, we respect varying religions and cultures, and we work in countries and communities where our mission can contribute to development.

Position Title: FLC Junior Accountant

Line Manager: FLC Coordinator

Status: Full Time

Contract Type: Limited Contract

Location: Bethlehem

Child Safeguarding Commitment:

SOS Children’s Villages works with children’s and youth. Any applicant he/she should act in a way that safeguards children and youth from all forms of discrimination, abuse, mistreatment and neglect, and will keep data about the children and youth in SOS Children’s Villages programmes confidential. He/she will report all concerns regarding actual or potential child abuse, mistreatment or any other violation of the Child Protection Policy according to our reporting and responding system. For sure, He/she would be protected and supported by the organization.

PSEA Standards:

SOS Children’s Villages, has a zero tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of beneficiaries.  Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct, that enshrines principles of PSEA, at all times (both during work hours and outside work hours).  Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training.  All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause. 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

SOS Children’s Villages is an equal opportunity employer and values. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Position Summary:

Implement the finance and accounting of the Family Like Care (FLC) Programme unit in accordance with the accounting policy of the organization.

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

- Prepare monthly reports about the incomes and expenses separately for FLC Rafah Evacuated Group.

-Analyze it with the Village Director and reveal the reasons of the deviation from the budget.

-Present the required monthly financial reports information and explanations to the National Office.

-Check and sign the documents of inflows and outflows of the cashbox and bank, also check the existence of the ground for them and make sure that they correspond with the cash book and bank account registrations.

-Regularly check the cash balance in the cashbox and the money given to the coworkers in a random way and make sure that it corresponds with the registrations

-Supervise the reliability and compliance of the costs for children’s care and food with the articles of the budget.

-Regularly check the correspondence of the purchased goods with the registrations made in the family budget register.

-Supervise the receipt of the material assets, their allocation and correspondence to the payment order.

-Organize the inventory of assets at least once a year.

-Support the FLC Coordinator in the process of annual budget preparation and presentation to National Office.

-Administer Household allowances during the month, as well as obligations of the branch in case of existence of the needed documents.

-Be a tender/competition committee member.

-Any other tasks assigned by the national office.

Child Safeguarding (CS)

• Responsible within own area of work to raise awareness of the SOS Child Protection Policy principles and to prevent and protect children from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
• Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the IOR CS focal person and/or to the respective line manager.