Cashier

GLOBAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT DEVELOPMENT ETHIOPIA (GWEDE)

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

About GWEDE

Global Women Empowerment Development Ethiopia (GWEDE) is a national, women-led and community-rooted civil society organization established in 2022. GWEDE works to advance gender equality, women’s and girls’ empowerment, food and nutrition security, resilient livelihoods, inclusive economic empowerment, WASH, protection, peacebuilding, and sustainable community development in Ethiopia.

GWEDE envisions a future where gender equality, inclusion, and locally led leadership drive sustainable community progress. The organization works with women, youth, pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities, local institutions, government, CSOs, and development and humanitarian partners to strengthen local capacities, amplify marginalized voices, expand opportunities, and promote resilient and inclusive solutions.

GWEDE is committed to localization, equal opportunity, diversity, safeguarding, and accountability. Qualified women, youth, persons with disabilities, and candidates from Borena Zone and surrounding pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities are strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates with strong knowledge of the local context, communities, languages, culture, and development and humanitarian priorities are particularly encouraged.

GWEDE seeks competent, committed, and values-driven professionals who are passionate about community engagement and contributing to gender responsive, inclusive, locally led, and sustainable development outcomes.

About the Project

LEVEL UP is a three-year initiative designed to make Borena’s food system more inclusive, climate-resilient, nutrition sensitive, and market oriented by strengthening the economic participation, leadership, resilience, and agency of pastoralist and agro pastoralist women and female youth.

The project uses Market Systems Development, Gender Transformative, climate-resilient, nutrition-sensitive, and graduation approaches to strengthen women’s participation in three high-potential value chains: poultry, irrigation-based horticulture, and small ruminants.

LEVEL UP will work across Arero, Yabello, and Gomole woredas, strengthening women’s and female youth’s access to markets, services, productive assets, skills, leadership opportunities, and decision-making, while supporting institutions to adopt more gender responsive and inclusive practices.

The project seeks to create sustainable economic opportunities, stronger agency and leadership, and more inclusive market and institutional systems that enable women and female youth to participate in and benefit equitably from Borena’s evolving food economy.

Cashier

Purpose of the Position

The Cashier is responsible for the day-to-day handling, custody, and recording of cash and near-cash at the LEVEL UP field office, ensuring that all cash transactions are accurate, secure, properly authorized, and fully documented. Working under the supervision of the Field Accountant, the post-holder manages petty cash and payments, maintains the cash book, and safeguards project funds and cash-handling records. The role is essential to maintaining a controlled and transparent cash environment, with a clear separation between cash handling (Cashier) and record-keeping and authorization (Accountant), and directly supports the timely and accountable delivery of field activities and participant/event payments.

Key Responsibilities

• Handle daily cash and near-cash transactions at the field office, including receipts,
• disbursements, and payments, strictly on the basis of approved and authorized documentation.
• Manage the petty cash float, and prepare timely petty-cash replenishment requests supported by complete documentation.
• Prepare payment vouchers and receipts, obtain the required authorizations and signatures, and ensure recipients acknowledge payments correctly.
• Effect approved payments to suppliers, staff, and training/event participants (including per diems and allowances), ensuring correct identification, signatures, and attendance/payment records.
• Maintain an accurate, up-to-date cash book, record all cash movements daily, and reconcile physical cash on hand against records at the close of each day.
• Ensure the physical security and safekeeping of cash, the safe/cash box, cheques, and related financial instruments, and adhere to cash-holding limits and safe-custody procedures.
• Make bank deposits and withdrawals, collect bank statements, and support the accountant with bank-related transactions and documentation.
• Ensure correct application of tax and withholding deductions on relevant payments as instructed by the accountant, and issue the appropriate receipts/withholding documents.
• Organize, code, and file cash-related documents (vouchers, receipts, and supporting records) in an orderly and retrievable manner, and submit them to the accountant for review and posting.
• Support cash forecasting by providing timely information on cash balances and upcoming payment needs.
• Assist with the settlement and liquidation of advances by collecting and checking supporting documents from staff and activity leads.
• Support internal and external audits by making cash records and documentation available and participating in cash counts and verification.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of financial information and adhere to GWEDE financial policies, donor requirements, and code of conduct at all times.