Position Description – Accounts Assistant

Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA) is recruiting an Accounts Assistant. This is a full-time position based in Osino (Eastern Region), starting in February 2025.

Established in April 2016, ACA helps West African communities that are threatened by the destructive impacts of extractives-led development to take control of their own futures. We do this by working with communities to design their own sustainable development plans and to advocate to achieve those
plans. We also build networks of lawyers and other experts to help communities’ plans come to fruition. ACA has projects in communities in Ghana’s Bono East and Eastern Regions, in addition to collaborating and supporting programs for the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa
(PILIWA), a network of lawyers and legal advocates in nine West African countries.

Role
The Accounts Assistant will support ACA’s Community Driven Development (CDD) team as they add 45 communities to our portfolio over the next two years. Working under the Finance Manager and with support from the current Accounts Assistant in Osino, they will be responsible for the following
duties:
➢ Managing the filing system for financial documents for the Osino office.
➢ Compile receipts and invoices for the Osino office.
➢ Lead in the procurement of goods and services for the Osino office.
➢ Enter data into ACA’s computerized accounting system.
➢ Compile monthly financial reports on the Osino office’s operations, for submission to the head office in Accra.
➢ Liaise with the Accra Office in the implementation of organizational Finance and
Administrative policies.
➢ Any other duty the Executive Director and the Finance Manager will assign.

Duty Station
Osino, Eastern Region, Ghana. Please note that the candidate must reside in or be prepared to relocate to Osino immediately.

Required Qualification
➢ High National Diploma (HND) / Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or
related field.
➢ Minimum offour(4) years professional experience with a Finance/Accounting Department,
preferably with a Non-Governmental and Not for Profit Organization.
➢ High level of competence in Microsoft Excel
➢ Knowledge of QuickBooks Accounting software
➢ Fluency in the English language

Compensation
ACA offers compensation and benefits that are at least comparable to that of other non-profit organizations operating in West Africa. Exact salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Application Procedure
Submit to ACA’s Finance Manager, Eric Amamoo, at eric@advocatesforalternatives.org, with the subject header “ACA Accounts Assistant (Osino),” the following:
• Cover letter explaining interest and relevant experience
• Resume / CV
• List of at least two professional references
Application Deadline
31st December, 2024

Position Description – Community Development M&E Officer

Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), based in Accra, Ghana, is recruiting a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to support our community-driven development (CDD) work in West and Central Africa. This is a half-time position located in Accra or Osino (Eastern Region of Ghana) , to be filled as early as
possible. Established in April 2016, ACA helps West African communities that are threatened by the destructive impacts of extractives-led development to take control of their own futures. We do this by working with communities to design their own sustainable development plans and to advocate to achieve those plans. We also build networks of lawyers and other experts to help communities’ plans come to fruition. ACA has CDD projects in communities in Ghana’s Bono East and Eastern Regions, as well as in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. Our legal program works in nine West African countries and the DRC, often in concert with CDD programming.

Role
ACA functions as a laboratory for innovations in community-driven development and legal strategies. We then teach our lessons to partners throughout West Africa, helping them to implement our methods and serve an ever-greater circle of communities.
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As a member of ACA’s CDD team, the CDD M&E Officer will be responsible for collecting and analyzing data and supporting project staff to ensure quality data for strategic decision-making on ACA’s CDD projects outside of Ghana. He/she will work directly under the supervision of the CDD M&E Coordinator.

Under the supervision of the CDD M&E Coordinator, he/she will: 

• Assist ACA’s CDD partners outside of Ghana to design, implement, review, and revise M&E frameworks for their ACA-supported CDD projects. This includes the development of logical measurement frameworks, monitoring systems, and evaluation strategies, including community participatory monitoring and feedback mechanisms.
• Support facilitators and other partner staff in the collection of project monitoring and continuous learning data from CDD communities from ACA’s projects outside Ghana (currently, in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, but likely to include the D.R. Congo in the near future), providing technical support to the project team on issues encountered in the field or raised by the monitoring system.
•  Centralize data collected by CDD partner project implementers outside Ghana, process it, and analyze it in relation to the project’s key success indicators, to stimulate discussions on the effectiveness and efficiency of the project.
• Conduct periodic monitoring and spot-check field visits with program staff to track the progress of community-based projects and ensure that the data collected is of the right quality.
•  Conduct periodic audits of partners’ implementation data to verify accuracy and fidelity to data collection protocols and agreements.
• Analyze monitoring, evaluation, and research data and participate in discussions to present findings to partner organizations to stimulate discussions on project efficiency and effectiveness with partners.
• Contribute to the preparation of periodic reports to ACA regarding the progress of ACA partners’ CDD projects outside Ghana.
• Work with the partners and the CDD M&E Coordinator to document lessons learned and community successes on a quarterly basis regarding CDD and any ongoing pilots.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, quantitative discipline, economics, or other related field
• Minimum three years’ work experience in program/project monitoring and evaluation research or data management and analysis position.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and refining data collection tools
•  Experience in designing M&E frameworks for development projects
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection using mobile technology
• Demonstrated passion for community-led development projects/programs
• Experience in data quality assessments and oversight
• Ability to produce high-quality documents for different audiences
• Fluency in English and French
• Excellent writing skills, including for public/external audiences
• Willingness and authorization to live in Ghana
• Willingness and ability to travel widely across up to ten West and Central African countries, including to remote, rural areas lacking electricity and paved roads

 Compensation

For this part-time position, ACA offers a competitive starting compensation and benefits package, subject to negotiation based on relevant experience and skills.

Application Procedure

Submit to ACA’s CDD Director, Nana Ama Nketia Quaidoo, at nana.ama@advocatesforalternatives.org,
with the subject header “ACA CDD M&E Officer” the following:

• Cover letter explaining interest and relevant experience
• Resume/CV and list of relevant professional publications
• List of three professional references

If the application moves to the interview stages, each interview will be by teleconference.

Application Deadline

14 October 2025