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Skopje, North Macedonia

• Manage project budget in compliance with donor’s regulations and guidelines, including creating budgets for planned activities, tracking expenditures, reporting and advising senior project management and subcontractors/partners on best approaches for delivery;• Ensure that all financial transactions for the country office are in compliance with IFES and donor’s regulations and policies by submitting complete, accurate and timely financial reports;• Sustain the quality of the financial management of the project, including through adaptation to changing operational demands and organizational capacities;• Maintain office accounting, including submitting funding requests, managing bank account reconciliations and local staff and consultants’ payroll, petty cash accounts, expense reports, vendor payments;• Coordinate with IFES HQ and/or support the preparation of financial reports and accruals, and assume responsibility for submitting financial reports and tax reporting in timely manner;• Under IFES HQ guidance, manage all procurement, HR and other administrative processes;• Oversee and provide necessary guidance with regard to the financial management and procurement processes in the frame of the project, including subaward/subcontract/grant agreements (disbursements, compliance, and financial reporting);• Provide guidance and mentoring support to project team and partners/subcontractors on financial management in line with IFES rules and procedures and donor’s compliance;• Build collaborative relationships with project stakeholders, service providers and partners, local banks and tax authorities;• Prepare for and facilitate audits, both internal and external; ensure that audit findings are appropriately addressed;• Oversee all office administration, logistical and travel arrangements.

Skopje, North Macedonia

Providing support in maintenance of the tracking/financial system with overview of the procurements, expenditures and relevant information. Managing the financial and procurement operations of NDI’s Afghanistan support program in the period of November 2021 – September 2023. Responsible for reviewing and preparing the payment packages for the services conducted by the vendors involved in the Afghan Support Program. Wide knowledge in NDI procurement and financial reporting aspects and compliances. Working on senior processes and interactions in regard to reconciliation and reporting procedures for the Afghan Support Program ensuring financial and narrative report submissions. Responsible for wire requests and expenditure estimations for the Afghan Support Program. Experienced in reimbursement procedures for the payments conducted through approved claims. Knowledge in development and establishing databases for effective tracking and oversight of the expenditures. Experienced in conducting comparison analysis for different scale of procurement procedures and providing support to FM and DAO on financial processes. Senior understanding of specific donor’s requirements and procedures in compliance with their internal regulations.

Macedonia

Manages, maintains and monitoring the progress of the project activities across various channels. Supervision of the Council procurement procedures for services and goods. Responsible for creation of program budgets, monitoring and payment of invoices, documentation of expenses and financial operating of the organization. Responsible for maintaining and updating press complaints and adjudications database. Involved as moderator and providing presentations and sessions on workshops. In charge for press complaint mediation process between the involved parties. Conduct press complaints data analysis and quarterly reports for the Press Complaints Commission members and the Managing Board. Coordination of logistics with external vendors on more difficult issues. Manages communication, collaboration and positive working relations with relevant state institutions, stakeholders and media members of the Council. Involved in preparation and submission of annual reports.

Skopje, Skopski, North Macedonia

Provides guidelines on behalf of Council of the Media Ethics (CMEM) to the Service Provider for the processes in supporting of the CMEM’s adjudications database development. Involved in the database design process by providing inputs and suggestions to the Service Provider. Monitoring the implementation of tasks from technical perspective, facilitate communication on behalf of CMEM with both, the Service Provider and the Mission’s Communication and Media Relations Unit (CMRU) Department. Prepares excel file(s) with existing complaints and adjudications data for smooth and quick database integration. Supervise data migration, coordinating the database handover and propose improvements of all functionalities of the private and public modules of the new platform. Facilitates delivery of the training for maintaining and administering the database to the employees from CMEM’s local office.

Macedonia

Macedonia

Responsible for the overall assistance in management of the Literacy and Numeracy Assessment component activities; responsible for component data entry operations and records details of component financial budget progress; assist in preparations of quarterly reports; providing market research and procurement procedures; provide input and write minutes during work group meetings for adjustment and improvement of EGRA (Early Grade Reading) and EGMA (Early Grade Mathematics) assessments; organizing travel, accommodation and logistics for trainings conducted for representatives from all primary schools in the country; assist in preparation of manuals for EGRA and EGMA assessment administration; preparing of presentation materials for trainings; deliver trainings for more than 700 school support staff and early grade teachers together with the component coordinator; assist in monitoring and evaluation of the assessment administration process in schools; responsible for the technical support for more than 700 assessors from all primary schools regarding tablet computers usage during the administration process; assist in conducting focus groups for both assessors and observers; responsible for preparing (narrative and excel graph) reports based on remarks from assessors and observers; assist in presentation of the collected data from the assessment process in front of stakeholders from relevant educational institutions; documents and reports the cost share and contributions of Step by Step for other projects; responsible for project data base maintenance; responsible for creating online questionnaires; communication with representatives from state educational institutions; responsible for organization of public events such as: “Reading and Math are Fun” and “Magic Literacy Library Van” together with public figures in schools and other venues; provide administrative and logistic support to all project staff.

Macedonia

Assist the Literacy and Numeracy Assessment component Coordinator, following the project time line; providing logistic support for trainings organized within the component; preparing of presentation materials for trainings; educate school representatives about the usage of the application created for EGRA and EGMA administration through trainings; write minutes and reports from work group meetings for adjustment and improvement of EGRA and EGMA instruments; classifying, archiving, record keeping and document filing; maintains and update project data base; providing technical support for tablet computers to assessors from 103 primary schools; assist in preparation of manuals for EGRA and EGMA assessment administration; assist the communication officer in organization of public events such as: “Reading and Math are Fun” and “Magic Literacy Library Van” together with public figures in schools and other venues; assist in creating online questionnaires, responsible for the logistic organization of focus groups; main contact person during the absence of Coordinator of the component, following – up on any emergency with appropriate in-house staff; providing logistic and technical support to all project staff.

Macedonia

Engaged in following projects: (Strengthening the Independent Analytical and Comparative Research Capacity of the National Assembly through the establishment of the Parliamentary Institute; Strengthening Legislative Oversight to the Parliamentary Women’s Club (PWC) and Constituent Relations; Strengthening Citizen Involvement in the Legislative Process; Strengthening Roma Involvement in the Democratic Process).Main activities and responsibilities: Provision of administrative, financial and program assistance to NDI’s Resident Director, Program Director, Program Managers and Program Officers including: assisting in the development of project timelines and the organization, delivery and evaluation of project activities; organizing, attending and providing input into meetings with project partners; responsible for organizational press clippings; development of press releases; media advisories; organizing, filing, classifying and archiving documents for NDI’s Finance Manager; providing substantial support and direct engagement in the organizing of high profile events, seminars, workshops and regional initiatives; producing and assisting in presentations for the Resident Director to be presented at high profile events; organizing and managing field work programs related to all aspect of the Code of Conduct Campaign for the 2013 Municipal Elections; administrative and communication support for the NDI’s team responsible for organizing high profile TV debates with nominated municipality mayor candidates for the municipal election process 2013, (mentoring support provide by Marty Slutsky – Executive Producer for the US presidential debates); engaged in drafting the procedures, systematization and selection process of potential candidates for the establishment of Parliamentary Institute - Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia.

Tetovo, Macedonia

Assist in coordinating the application process for the international short film festival “Watch Out!”; assist in the process of informing the media about events on organizational level (workshops, debates and exhibitions); build strong and active relationships with the media to increase organization profile; plan and implement communications and marketing campaigns to raise awareness about improving civil society environment; assist to ensure compliance of activities with project communication strategy by donors guidelines; develop key promotional messages in consultation with the project team and partners; dissemination of communication materials to relevant stakeholders; participate in donor visits for showcasing project progress and achievements; maintain documentation management system.

Tetovo, Macedonia

(Partner Organization of USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project)Planning and implementation of joint student activities and monitoring the implementation of activities; support visits and meetings with representatives from selected primary and secondary schools from ethnically mixed areas; participation on numerous training modules for the proper and efficient realization of program activities; providing evaluation reports to the implementers of the project; providing logistic support for workshop or seminars organized for representatives relevant for the project; collaborating and communication with key stakeholders from educational institutions and municipalities.

Tetovo, Macedonia

Managing all aspects of the company including: the financial management and work responsibilities for 8 staff; negotiating with customers; recording and registering revenues and expenses; dealing with suppliers and general promoting the business.

Tetovo, Macedonia

The internship dealt mostly with financial accounting; recording and registering revenues and expenses; computerized accounting; recording the company’s net losses and net incomes, including the balance sheets; registered transactions in the general journals; filing of deposit slips, withdrawal slips, and cash payment slips for banks.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Activities and Societies: Corporate Finance, Project Management, Principles of Financial Accounting, Strategic Management, Business.

Master'S Degree, Management Of Strategic Communications

Activities and Societies: - Modalities of strategic communication; - financial issues; - methodologies for research; - specifics.