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About the Organisation
Kijani Forestry is a social enterprise striving to become the world’s largest, most effective, and most impactful tree planting company. We are purposefully built to scale Nature-Based Solutions to address the changing climate and extreme poverty. Our model provides significant and valuable benefits to thousands of smallholder farmers while giving attractive financial returns to investors.
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Gulu, Uganda
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Full Time
Deadline:
13 Mar 2025
Job Title
Data Entry Assistant job at Kijani Forestry
Kijani Forestry
Job Description
Kijani Forestry seeks a dynamic and experienced data entry assistant to oversee the day-to-day operations of our agro-forestry organization. The data entry assistant will play a pivotal role in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations, will be responsible for reviewing and verifying farmer data and incentive payment forms to ensure accuracy and compliance with company guidelines. This role is essential in maintaining the integrity of our payment system, ensuring that farmers receive the correct incentives based on verified data.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
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How to Apply
Receive and Verify Payment Forms: To ensure that all forms submitted for payment approval are properly received, both in hard copy and soft copy formats.
Align Soft and Hard Copy Forms: To ensure that the information in the soft copy forms is fully aligned with the hard copy submissions. This includes capturing any changes, such as name updates or changes in the number of confirmed trees that are surviving. The individual will be held liable for any incorrect entries resulting in financial loss to the company, with the total loss deducted from their monthly pay.
Record Discrepancies: To identify and log any discrepancies in the issues log, as per the provided training, ensuring accurate documentation of all irregularities.
Convert and Format for Finance: To convert aligned forms into the approved finance format with the highest level of accuracy, being fully responsible for ensuring no errors that could lead to financial losses.
Sign Off on Cleared Forms: To sign off each form after verifying and clearing the forms for payment by including your name and date to confirm the information is correct and ready for submission
Weekly Report of Cleared Groups: To compile a list of all groups cleared for payment by the end of each week and submit the list before Monday of the following week.
Key Result Area: A total of 80 forms to be submitted to the Finance Department on a weekly basis.
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QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Minimum of a Diploma in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or a related field is required
Experience with record keeping and management including auditing, data management, reporting etc.
Excellent use of MS Excel, Ms Word and Ms Access
Minimum of 1 years of work experience in managing data or record keeping and or data auditing
Strong report writing and communication skills.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the bigger picture and take proactive steps to achieve company goals.
Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills to identify challenges and implement effective solutions.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Project Management: Expertise in overseeing large projects and initiatives with cross-functional teams.
Leadership Style: Strong communicator with an inclusive leadership style. Able to inspire and lead cross-functional teams towards common goals.
