WHAT DO WE DO …
Available : August 26, 2024
Duration: 6-month internship
Location: Position based in Toulouse (with possible occasional travel to other bases)
Solidarités International is a humanitarian association that works with vulnerable populations, mainly victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters. Specialized for over 40 years in covering vital needs, it supports emergency and then reconstruction programs.
The Solidarités International (SI) project in France helps people in precarious situations living in precarious housing sites (such as shanty towns or squats) around Toulouse, Lille, Nantes, Marseille as well as in Ile-de-France and Mayotte. The difficulties of the target populations are characterized by the barriers they encounter in accessing essential services (in particular cleaning and hygiene products as well as access to water) and by severely degraded housing conditions that do not allow for decent living conditions due to a very degraded environment. SI meets the needs of the targeted populations by installing infrastructure for access to drinking water, sanitation infrastructure and the distribution of hygiene kits.
THE MISSION
The assistant participates in accounting management, management of the Toulouse base’s assets and the supply of goods and services necessary for the proper functioning of current projects; He/she provides support to the logistics and administrative manager of the southern zone as well as to the support coordinator.
DESCRIPTION OF THE OFFER
Internship objectives:
- Discover how a mission within an NGO works and its constraints.
- Understanding the different professions in the field.
- Discover activities in the field by traveling in mainland France to the various intervention sites.
- Understanding the relationships between different humanitarian actors.
- Discover and put into practice the different purchasing procedures.
- Put into practice the use of different logistics and financial monitoring tools.
List of main responsibilities:
- Familiarizing yourself with the market and updating purchasing tools in compliance with donor rules
- Assist the log-fin manager in studying French markets and searching for suppliers and donations.
- Ensure program and logistics orders as well as follow-up until receipt of purchases
- Ensure the proper management of stocks and equipment at the Toulouse base
- Assist in the implementation of distributions, travel to the field to participate in distributions
- Seeking donations for the creation of kits
- Ensure the packaging of the kits, the transport and storage of the kits prior to distributions
- Travel to the field to participate in the distribution of kits
- Ensure the archiving and centralization of logistics documents
- Participate in the compilation of logistics documents during final reports
- Archive purchasing file documents on the LINK platform
- Ensure the updating of accounting journals and the archiving of accounting documents
- Facilitate the movement of equipment, members of its base and coordination
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- Participate in the verification of the mission’s budgetary monitoring
- Cross-check the OFU (Operational follow up) and LFU (Logistics follow up) with the entries made in accounting
- Assist in the preparation of financial audits
- Help the support coordinator to assign the various head office accounting entries
GENERAL
- Participate in weekly and monthly meetings of the office and the various departments worked in
- Find providers for the Program teams if necessary
- Reply to various emails
- Provide support to all areas based on demand
YOUR PROFILE
- From a background in humanitarian logistics, accounting and/or financial management, project management, development, international relations, political science
- Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Office pack – mainly Excel
- Very good analytical and writing skills
- Good synthesis and prioritization skills
- Proactivity and critical thinking
- Organization and anticipation
- Social skills
- Ability to work under pressure and independently
- Interest in the context: access to water on French territory
- Commitment to the principles and work of Solidarités International
- Driving license B is mandatory
IF YOU WILL OFFER THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS
- Six (06) month internship based in Toulouse
- Compensation: 4.90 euros/hour
- The gratuity is calculated in proportion to the actual hours of presence during the month. (On average 1 month = 154 hours, or 22 days of 7 hours/day)
- Public transport covered 50% by SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
- Meal vouchers at €8.90/day of actual training, with 60% participation from SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
HOW TO APPLY
Do you recognize yourself in this description?
If yes, send us your CV and cover letter.
Applications containing only CVs will not be considered.
Solidarités International reserves the right to close a recruitment before the deadline of the announcement. Thank you for your understanding.
And to find out more about Solidarités International: www.solidarites.org
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Solidarités International (SI) is committed to preventing and combating any type of abuse – any act of sexual exploitation, abuse and/or harassment (SEAH) against members of beneficiary communities or its collaborators, harm to persons and/or property, fraud, corruption, undeclared conflict of interest, financing of activities that violate human rights – that could be perpetrated in the context of its interventions. SI applies zero tolerance to any type of abuse, particularly acts of SEAH.
Solidarités International is a fair employer that fights all forms of discrimination. SI will never ask for any remuneration in order to participate in a recruitment process.