Job Description
Danish Refugee Council (DRC), one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently seeking a highly qualified Finance and Compliance Coordinator for its operations under the Hope, Empowerment, and Resilience (HER) Project in Ethiopia and Sudan. The project is a multi-country, consortium-led initiative funded by Agence française de Développement (AfD) and aims to strengthen the resilience of displacement-affected women and girls through integrated humanitarian and early recovery interventions across protection, health and nutrition, economic recovery, and social cohesion sectors.
Given the project’s multi-partner structure, complex operating environments, and strict AfD compliance requirements, the Finance and Compliance Coordinator plays a central role in ensuring sound financial management, value for money, and full compliance across the consortium. The position is embedded within the Consortium Management Unit (CMU) and acts as the primary finance and compliance focal point linking the CMU, country offices, partners, and donors.
The Finance and Compliance Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and strengthening financial management and compliance systems across the HER consortium, ensuring transparent, efficient, and compliant use of project resources while enabling timely and adaptive program delivery in volatile contexts.
Job Responsibilities
Financial Oversight and Consortium Coordination
The Finance and Compliance Coordinator provides consolidated financial oversight for the HER Project across Sudan and Ethiopia in line with the approved AfD budget, grant agreement, and consortium arrangements. The role includes monitoring expenditures, identifying risks related to overspend or underspend, leading regular financial review meetings, and supporting the preparation and review of financial reports for AfD in alignment with narrative and MEAL reporting.
Compliance and Risk Management
The role ensures consortium-wide compliance with AfD financial rules, DRC policies, and national regulations. This includes establishing compliance monitoring systems, conducting regular compliance and spot-check visits, identifying and mitigating financial and compliance risks, and escalating critical issues to consortium leadership when required.
Partner Capacity Assessment and Strengthening
The Finance and Compliance Coordinator leads financial capacity assessments of consortium partners, develops tailored capacity strengthening plans, and provides hands-on technical support, mentoring, and training to partner finance staff to ensure sustainable compliance and quality financial management.
Budget Management and Modifications
The role supports the development, review, and consolidation of project budgets and partner sub-budgets, coordinates budget revisions and reallocations in line with AfD requirements, and ensures accurate cost allocations and shared cost methodologies across consortium partners.
Financial Controls, Audits, and Close-Out
The Finance and Compliance Coordinator ensures robust internal control systems are in place, supports internal and external audits, oversees the maintenance of auditable financial documentation, and provides financial management support for project close-out activities including reconciliations and partner settlements.
Taxation, Procurement, and Regulatory Compliance
The role coordinates with country offices and partners to ensure compliance with national tax laws, including VAT and statutory deductions, supports the acquisition of tax exemption certificates where applicable, and works with procurement and logistics teams to ensure correct tax treatment and documentation.
Contribution to Consortium Governance
As a core member of the CMU, the Finance and Compliance Coordinator contributes to strategic planning, financial analysis, risk management, and adaptive decision-making, supporting transparent and equitable financial governance across the consortium.
Job Requirements
Experience
Minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in financial management and compliance within humanitarian or development programs. Demonstrated experience managing large, multi-partner and multi-country project budgets, working with institutional donors such as AfD, EU, or ECHO, and supporting partner capacity strengthening. Experience in fragile or displacement-affected contexts is an asset.
Technical Skills and Competencies
Strong knowledge of donor compliance frameworks and financial regulations, advanced Excel and financial analysis skills, strong organizational and analytical abilities, high integrity and accountability, and the ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders. Experience with GAAP, IFRS, and ERP systems is required.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field is required. Postgraduate qualifications and accounting or financial certifications are an advantage.
Languages
Full professional proficiency in English is required. Arabic and or Amharic is strongly preferred.
Contract Details
Contract Length: 12 months
Contract Type: National Contract
Band: G1, Non-Management
Duty Station: Benishangul Gumuz or Gedaref (TBD), with frequent travel to Addis Ababa
Start Date: ASAP
Salary and benefits in accordance with Danish Refugee Council Terms of Employment for National Employees
How to Apply
All applicants must submit a cover letter and an updated CV of no more than four pages in English. Applications submitted by email will not be considered.
Application Link: https://drc.ngo/job?id=175194
Closing Date: February 13, 2026
Equal Opportunity and Gender Equality
Danish Refugee Council is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. All applicants are considered strictly on merit.