GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
A SACIDS Accountant will be assisting in taking up daily accounting activities within SACIDS.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Assist the Financial Management Officer to record, analyze .and report project financial status in consistence with World Bank’s procedural and reporting requirements.
• Assist in maintaining and updating all project accounting records.
• Assist in preparing monthly and annual financial reports to ensure timely submission as may be required.
• To ensure proper maintenance of receipts and payment vouchers.
• Assist in Preparing ‘ad hoc’ management and financial information and reports, as and when required internally by management officers.
• Maintain project cash balance.
• Undertaking monthly reconciliation between SACIDS Projects Bank accounts and cash book.
• Maintaining student’s records i.e. stipend payments history, tuition fees, research funds payments and any other students related claims.
• Any other task as may be assigned by the Centre Leaders.

Qualifications and Experience:
• Applicants should have a Degree in Accountancy, or finance or equivalent qualification from a recognized University or Higher Learning Institution.
• Experience in spread sheets and Microsoft Office Package.
• A good knowledge of and experience ‘with computerized accounting system such as Vote book Information Financial Management System will be an added advantage.
• Fluent in English and Kiswahili Languages.

Duty station
SACIDS Secretariat at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
The SACIDS-ACE is committed to the principles of gender equity and equal opportunity to individuals with physical disability.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified Tanzanians to fill the vacant positions under The SACIDS Southern Africa Centre of Excellence far Infectious Diseases Surveillance, based at SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE (SUA). Application letter accompanied with CV, Birth, Academic and Professional Certificates and names of at least two. referees be addressed to’ the DEPUTY VICE CHANCELLOR (ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE), P.O.BOX 3000, CHUO KIKUU, MOROGORO; with scanned copies by-mail to secretariat@sacids.org to reach him not later than TWO weeks from the date of this advertisement.