Under the direct supervision of the General Coordinator, the Administrative Coordinator is in charge of the overall management of HR and financial, accountancy, budgetary, administrative and legal aspects of the projects in order to guarantee rigorous and transparent procedures and to fulfil the objectives of the mission and to respect MdM and donors’ guidelines. 

S/he will be particularly involved in organization of the administrative department, accountancy implementation, and support to the operational project.

The Administrative Coordinator works in close collaboration with the technical advisers in the HQ.

1. Accounting-Budget planning & monitoring

• Is responsible for the accounting, budget planning & monitoring of programs implemented.
• Develops and implements the administrative procedures and guidelines and ensures it is updated with the evolvement of MDM and donors’ regulations.
• Improving and adapting the accountancy and financial monitoring systems in line with MdM Spain and MdM Germany tools and procedures, being the main focal point for financial controllers and accounting officers at HQ level.
• Cash management & monthly fund requests:
• Is responsible for the cash provision between the different programs/bases.
• Organizes and supervises all aspects of cash flow including security of cash, ensures sufficient separation of responsibility and level of control over transactions.

• Supervision of the accounting and invoices & allowance payment
• Responsible for the accountancy of all sites: quality of documents, respect of procedures, accounting & donor allocation. Coordinates the closure of monthly accountancy and links with the HQ financial department.
• Supervises the archiving of the accounting documents in the field and its transmission to the HQ.
• Ensures preparation of external or internal audit

• Budgetary monitoring
• Prepares annual and donor budgets in coordination with the team.
• Monitors overall budget consumption with respect to donors’ constraints creates and updates regularly allocation board.
• Communicates with the financial controller at HQ and the coordinators about the budget follow up
• Identification and analysis of any discrepancy.
• Prepares financial reports to donors

2. Funding & donors

• Ensures when needed and by delegation of the General Coordinator the representation of MdM in discussions with donors
• In charge of due diligence process with donors for aspects related to HR/ accountancy /finances/ audit
• Ensures appropriate follow-up of the current funding plan, as well as MdM commitments to donors
• In coordination with the General Coordinator, negotiates financial elements and prepares answers to contractual obligations fixed by donors and counterpart.

3. Human resources management

• Administrative management of the national staff:
• Implements the HR policy regarding the context: keeps internal regulations and Conditions of Employment up to date, in respect with the local labour and tax law
• Supervise the update of the database for the monthly salary payment
• Ensures the application of MDM rules for the national staff (administrative formalities, recruitment process, contracts, constitution of individual files, briefing of new employees, confidentiality of HR information …)
• Ensures that the general HR administration procedures are in place
• Coordinates and validates the recruitment processes of the national staff
• Is the warrant of the MdM wage and appraisal policies implementation
• Shares and compares with other NGOs conditions of employment and rules
• Leads the staff review process and update of the organigramme of the mission

• Administrative management of the expatriate staff:
• Support drafting and/or revision of job profiles validated by the technical coordinator when necessary
• Ensures the application of local legislation concerning the expatriate personnel (visa).
• Participates in the definition of living rules and working conditions.
• Supervises the constitution of individual files.
• Makes arrival and departure briefings about the administrative and contractual aspects.
• Supervises the payment of monthly per-diem for expatriate
• Follow-up administrative aspects for expatriate with HQ: modifying flight tickets when necessary, etc

4. Team management

• Recruits, supervises and train of the administrative staff
• Provides regular evaluation to the team under his/her responsibility.
• Support the coordinators and the field staff for any administrative, HR, accountancy and financial issue
• Takes disciplinary measures when appropriate
• Provides trainings on HR and financial management to the staff of the MdM mission to increase their level of knowledge and capacities in planning
• To support line managers in development of individual action plans for the staff under their responsibility
• Ensures that a training plan is created and implemented on the mission

5. Legal framework

• Regarding to the position of MDM in the country, establish all formalities that may be required by the local authorities, within the times allowed
• Supervises the preparation of the various contracts (rental contracts, service providers...)
• Checks on the existence, monitoring and the archiving of all documents and contracts (rental contracts for instance, …)
• Work with the HQ and the general coordination on all issues linked to registrations in country

6. Communication ; Reporting ; Knowledge capitalization

• Contributes to the monthly sitrep
• Participates to the weekly base meeting; to coordination team meetings.
• Ensures that copy or originals of all legal documents and contracts are timely sent

This list of activities is not exhaustive and may change depending on the situation.