Job Title: Finance Officer – EYDCD Program
Organization: Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: CRVPF-EYDCD, Program Coordinator and CRVPF Regional Finance & Grant
Coordinator
ABOUT CHILDREN RIGHTS AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION FUND (CRVPF)
Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF) is a regional child rights and social
justice intermediary organization. CRVPF advances the safety and rights of children and youth in
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. CRVPF partners with community organizations to prevent
violence including sexual violence against children and youth. We build children and youth power
and agency to make the right choices and decisions and facilitate access to safe and dignified
employment opportunities.

CRVPF works with community organizations as an effective avenue for reaching vulnerable
children, youth, families, and communities because these organizations have closer proximity,
adaptability, trust with communities, efficiency, and can contextualize interventions. The
community organizations and their leaders are the basis for building community movements that
advocate for children and youth issues. CRVPF also collaborates with a diverse range of, local
NGOs, media organizations, training, and research institutions working at community levels to
prevent violence and advance the rights of children and youth. These partners reflect our values
through local ownership of change, using funds responsibly, and working with long-term
sustainability.

About the program
CRVPF is implementing the Empower Youth throughData and Community Development(EYDCD)

program. At the individual and institutional levels, by strengthening and leveraging community-
based structures. This program aims to improve the lives of young men and women in

disadvantaged communities in Uganda by providing technical market-facing skills and capacity
building for entrepreneurship, and employment. To consolidate these efforts, the program will
support them get involved in or establishing where non-existent self-governed groups also
known as Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and Saving and Credit Cooperative

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Organizations (SACCOs) composed of young people/entrepreneurs while leveraging digitization
for efficiency and added services.

At a system level, the program aims to foster financial inclusion & promoting digital identity for
young people (invisible and bootstrappers enterprises) by leveraging mobile transactions
alternative data working with the biggest telco companies in Uganda – Airtel and MTN to enable
data-driven credit decisions using credit scoring. This becomes an asset to assess their
creditworthiness – for the distribution of affordable credit, devices, among other digital financial
products and services. This will serve both young people and their community-based savings
groups, i.e., VSLAs or SACCOs who have for long been seen as expensive to serve and reach.
THE POSITION
Reporting to the CRVPF-EDYCD Program Coordinator and working with the CRVPF Regional
Finance and Grants Coordinator, the Finance Officer-EYDCD Program will support the Program
team and partners to oversee all financial aspects of the program at CRVPF and partner levels.
This will include conducting including due-diligence, budget monitoring, technical support to
partners, ensuring controls, contracting, financial reporting, and analysis.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Work with the EYDCD team to oversee the program financials and those of partners i.e.,
conduct budget checks during application reviews, take partners through the financial
due diligence checklist and report, make budget reviews and amendments during
partner project implementation, field monitoring, etc.
• Offer technical guidance to EYDCD partners on financial management starting at award,
through implementation, reporting, and compliance with the award guidelines and
Uganda laws.
• Provide financial expertise and advice internally to the program team.
• Provide ad-hoc data and support for learning and evaluation activities, including
program outputs and value-for-money analysis.
• Maintain accurate and timely EYDCD program financial documentation and report on
contract commitments, disbursements, and cash flow projections.
• Review all partner EYDCD finance reports and financials in the MIS and ensure that
these are well aligned including source documents. (Financial reported in the MIS by
partners should tally with source documents received)
• EYDCD Budget monitoring at program and partner levels to ensure that financial
resources are put to proper use and that proper controls are in place and fully operational.
• Ensure that EYDCD financials are compliant with the partner’s requirements and
international standards.
• Compile quarterly reports and supporting documents to the partner.
• Attend to all financial reports and feedback from the partner.
• Compile EYDCD financial data when needed for internal and external presentations as
guided by the program team and Executive Director.
• Provide input into the CRVPF finance planning processes wherever requested.
• Be part of processes aimed at sourcing external support for the EYDCD program
including consultancies.
• Represent the EYDCD program at partner engagements wherever requested.
• Any other tasks/Projects that may be required occasionally.
• Identify opportunities to improve and standardize processes within Finance.
• Maintain a proper filing system for all partner reports, grant agreements and relevant
communication
Qualifications and other relevant skills
• A bachelor’s degree in a finance and accounting field.
• A recognized accounting qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, ICA, CMA, or any other
CA qualification is required.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in financial roles and 5 years within a
not-for-profit organization
• A Ugandan national
• Experience with budgeting, reporting & analysis.
• Working knowledge of Financial Internal Controls Management.
• Strong Analytical skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Proficiency with MS Office specifically Excel
• Skills in project management, microfinance, and youth inclusion.
• Previous work with young women, youths in slums, and refugee communities.
• Conflict resolutions, mediation, and cluster partnerships support.
• Ability to work with a small team and deliver results with or without close supervision.
• Ability to travel to the field more than 30% of work time.
• Maintain all EYDCD finance-related files.
• Demonstrate a commitment to CRVPF work.
The deadline for Applications is October 23rd, 2026. Send your application to careers@crvpf.org