Palestine Finance Manager

Place: Based in Amman – Jordan, with possible visit in West Bank if feasible
Starting date: 1st April 2026
Duration of contract: 6 months - extendable
Closing date for applications: 24th March 2026

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organisation works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Since its creation in 1982, HI has run development & humanitarian projects in more than 55 countries and responded to numerous emergencies. Today, we have a budget of approximately 200 million euros, with 4,000 employees worldwide

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JOB CONTEXT:
Since October 2023, Gaza has been plunged into an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by mass destruction, displacement, and loss of life. By October 2025, 67,173 Palestinians were killed and 169,780 were injured while 90% of the population—2.1 million people—had been displaced multiple times. The health system is on the verge of collapse, humanitarian access remains extremely limited, and the entire population faces crisis or worse levels of food insecurity, with nearly half a million people at risk of famine. Attacks on hospitals, schools, and shelters continue, while widespread explosive ordnance contamination endangers civilians and obstructs humanitarian operations. Approximately 25% of the injured—around 22,500 people—require immediate and long-term rehabilitation, including thousands of children who have suffered life-changing injuries, with Gaza now home to the largest group of child amputees in modern history.

HI Palestine is currently operating under the authority of the Emergency Division, with a dedicated governance framework adapted to the scale and complexity of the crisis.

This arrangement, confirmed until the end of 2026, is intended to provide the structural flexibility and operational responsiveness required in the current context, while also anticipating and preparing for a transfer back to the Region of Mashreq. Palestine Coordination is split between Ramallah and Amman, with a West Bank area office located in Ramallah and a Gaza area office in Zuwayda. In Gaza, HI operates three offices: one in the central area (Zuwayda), one in the north (Gaza City), and one in the south (Khan Younis).

The mission's operational strategy relies on 4 pillars: Health (Rehabilitation and P&O), Armed Violence Reduction, Atlas Logistics, and Education. Cross-cutting components include IHA, MHPSS, Protection Mainstreaming, and DGA. The total budget for 2026 is expected to range between 8 and 12 million EUR.

HI is among the organizations that have not received registration from the Israeli authorities for the year 2026. As such, significant challenges and uncertainties remain to be addressed at the program level.

YOUR MISSION:
Reporting to the Country Director, the Palestine Finance Manager is responsible for leading the finance teams, ensuring compliance with HI’s standards and local rules in the finance field, financial strategy and steering and operational financial management within his/her area of responsibility. 

Team managed: Finance Department.
Interacts with:

·       Country head of department / SMT;

·       Emergency division: Finance Specialist;

·       Regional  program: Finance & accounting team;

·       Country Director, Area Managers, Operations manager, Log team, finance & accounting teams, project team.

Mission 1: Management

• Embodies HI's values on a daily basis (Manager as a role model).
• Understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his or her team, leads the necessary changes.
• Gives meaning to each management action.
• Encourages inter and intra departmental exchanges of practice and encourages innovation and risk-taking (Manager as coach for meaning).

Mission 2: Strategy and Steering

• Contributes towards the drafting, revision and implementation of the financial section of Operational Strategy (StratOp) within his or her area of responsibility area and in line with HI’s financial policies;
• Oversees the breakdown of financial strategy into action plans and advises on financial issues.

Mission 3: Standards and Expertise

• Oversees the deployment and monitors compliance with all of HI’s financial policies, processes and tools within his or her area of responsibility and, if necessary, develops specific financial tools overseen by his or her line and functional management;
• Directs and controls HI's compliance with the legal framework of the country or countries of intervention and monitors changes in standards and case law and in the practices of other stakeholders working in the finance field.

Mission 4: Operational Implementation
Responsibility 4.1: Ensures financial and budget management

• Supervises the drafting of budgets and verifies that HI’s funds are being used in an optimal manner in her or his area of responsibility;
• Analyses the financial aspects of partnership agreements and checks the accuracy and conformity of partners’ accounts and documentation before payment.

Responsibility 4.2: Ensures accounts management

• Is the focal person on accounting issues.
• Ensures the accuracy and updating of accounts information and coordinates the process of reporting and compiling accounts information in accordance with the financial calendar;
• Directs the development of all accounting processes under his or her responsibility, ensuring their compliance with the accounting reference framework (procedures, tools) and their incorporation into of the accounting information system (IS);
• Consolidates, checks and validates all entries and documents for the monthly and annual closing of accounts, in particular bank reconciliations, justification of payable and receivable accounts and monitoring of fixed assets.

Responsibility 4.3: Ensures the financial management of institutional funding in compliance with “donor” guidelines and contractual obligations

• Directs the drafting of funding proposals for institutional donors and the construction of funding schedules;
• Controls monitoring expenditure against funding and reports to the budget holders. Monitors consumption rates, issues alerts in the event of a risk of non-compliance with the flexibility rules and anticipates slippage by preparing contractual amendments with his or her interlocutors;
• Supervises and coordinates the production and quality of financial reports for donors by checking compliance with donor guidelines;
• Coordinates responses to requests from internal and external auditors and ensures the successful conclusion of audits, defining any corrective actions to be implemented.

Responsibility 4.4: Ensures cash-flow management

• Is the focal person on cash-flow issues.
• Examines, formalises and optimises requests for funds in order to ensure the availability of cash in cash boxes and bank accounts and meet the financial needs of the mission.
• Ensures the provisioning of cash boxes, contributes to bank reconciliation operations, carries out cash box/safe inventories for monthly and annual closings;
• Provides any documents relating to cash management requested by internal and external auditors, as well as the documents required to meet banking compliance requirements within his or her area of responsibility.

Mission 5: Profession facilitation

• Puts in place and monitors the elements of his or her profession that fall within his or her area of responsibility: dissemination, use and contribution to revisions of standards, monitoring of recommendations for the skills development of the teams, etc.

Mission 6: Emergency preparedness and response:

• Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure HI’s quick and efficient response.

Requirements

YOUR PROFILE:

• Bachelor Degree in Finance or Accounting;
• Minimum 5 years experience in financial management, including administrative and legal aspects of organization financial management;
• Knowledge and experience of international donors procedures (USAID, UN, EU, UK, GFFO, GAC, ECHO, FCDO, BMZ);
• Excellent diplomatic, presentation, interpersonal communication skills.

Benefits

CONDITIONS:

At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission: Join the team

• 6 months International contract starting from 1st April 2026;
• The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:
• Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals;
• Pension scheme;
• Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution;
• Repatriation insurance paid by HI;
• Salary from 2757€ gross/month upon experience;
• Perdiem:
• 642€ net/month – Jordan rate, paid in the field
• 812€ net/month – Palestine rate, paid in the field
• Hardship:
• 0€ while in Amman;
• 500€/month when in West Bank;
• Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
• R&R: 1 day per month + possible transport/package support;
• Position:
• Unaccompanied;
• Housing: Collective, taken in charge by HI;
• If you are resident in the country: local package.