Programme Finance Manager

The Programme Finance Manager (PFM) is responsible for providing strategic financial leadership and stewardship for the programme in Tanzania, ensuring that financial planning, controls, compliance, and reporting effectively support high-quality programme delivery in a complex, multi-partner environment.

Operating as a key member of the country programme leadership team, the PFM translates HQ financial frameworks and donor requirements into robust, fit-for-purpose country-level systems, while enabling adaptive, value-for-money programme implementation. The Programme Finance Manager plays a critical role in strengthening partner financial capacity, safeguarding programme resources, and ensuring that financial decision-making supports both accountability and impact.

This role requires strong professional judgement, a proactive problem-solving mindset, and the ability to lead financial management through change, ambiguity, and evolving programme delivery contexts.

Duties & Key Responsibilities:

1. Country programme finance leadership:
   • Provide strategic financial leadership to the country programme, ensuring financial considerations are fully integrated into programme planning, delivery, and decision-making.
   • Act as a trusted finance partner to the Senior Programme Manager, supporting evidence-based decisions on resource allocation, risk management, and programme adaptation.
   • Contribute to country-level programme planning processes, ensuring alignment between technical priorities, budgets, and delivery realities
2. Budgeting, forecasting and financial planning: 
   • Lead the development, consolidation, and ongoing management of country programme budgets in line with approved grants, donor agreements, and HQ financial frameworks.
   • Produce accurate forecasts and variance analyses, proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and required corrective actions.
   • Where needed - support reprogramming and budget revisions in response to contextual shifts, donor requirements, or programme learning.
3. Financial controls, compliance and risk management:
   • Ensure strong financial controls are in place and consistently applied across the Tanzania programme and implementing partners.
   • Maintain full compliance with donor financial regulations, Amref policies, and statutory requirements.
   • Identify, assess, and proactively manage financial risks, escalating issues appropriately and proposing practical mitigation measures.
4. People & Performance:
   • Provide coaching and guidance to country finance staff to support sound judgment and accountability; ensure consistency of controls while respecting local operating contexts.
   • Champion a culture of accountability, learning, and ethical financial management within the country programme.
   • Lead and support change initiatives related to financial systems, donor requirements, or organisational processes; drive continuous improvement of country-level financial processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency, transparency, and usability.
   • Uphold Amref and programme values and code of conduct, modelling ethical leadership and zero tolerance for fraud, abuse, or misconduct.
5. Partner (Sub-grantee) financial management and capacity strengthening:
   • Provide oversight and support to sub-grantees on financial management, reporting, and compliance.
   • Review partner financial reports, verify expenditures, and ensure timely resolution of queries; build implementing partner financial management capacity through coaching, guidance, and system strengthening, in line with Amref’s partnership approach.
   • Work closely with Grants and Programme teams to embed financial compliance into delivery workflows.
   • Build financial understanding and trust among non-finance stakeholders, translating financial requirements into practical guidance that enables effective collaboration and problem-solving.
6. Financial Reporting and Donor accountability:
   • Lead the preparation and submission of accurate, timely, and high-quality country programme financial reports.
   • Work closely with the Grants Manager and MEL colleagues to ensure financial reporting is coherent with narrative and results reporting; support audits and financial reviews, ensuring findings specific to the country programme are addressed and lessons integrated into tangible practice.
7. Entrepreneurial financial leadership and delivery enablement:
   • Apply an entrepreneurial and agile approach to financial leadership, enabling timely decision-making that supports country programme delivery while maintaining strong governance, accountability, and compliance.
   • Anticipate and respond rapidly to emerging financial risks, constraints, or opportunities, providing practical options and solutions that allow programme teams to maintain momentum; ensure financial controls protect the programme without creating unnecessary bottlenecks that delay delivery or innovation.
8. Strategic cost insight & value for money:
   • Provide strategic leadership on country-level costing by designing robust cost models and interrogating key cost drivers; generate high-value cost insights that strengthen understanding of unit costs, efficiency, and value for money.
   • Support country-level decision-making on programme design, delivery models, and resource allocation.

Qualifications

1. Nine (9) years of relevant experience, with at least three (4) years of senior leadership experience in social enterprise, international development, or mission-driven organisations;
2. Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. A postgraduate qualification in a related field is an added advantage.
3. CPA(K), ACCA, CFA, CMI, CA, or other internationally recognized professional qualification(s) required, and membership and good standing with a professional accounting body;
4. Demonstrable project management skills, including budgeting, costing, planning, and attention to operational detail. PMP® or PRINCE® is an added advantage.
5. Demonstrable experience applying professional accounting standards in multi-partner, multi-country, donor-funded programme environments, including practical understanding of country-level financial operations and regulatory contexts
6. Demonstrable experience in managing country financial operations, regulatory tax, and banking environments, demonstrating practical understanding of how country-level finance realities affect programme delivery; has worked with multiple currencies and fiscal calendars, and managed the associated risks and reconciliations;
7. Demonstrable experience managing finances for donor-funded programmes, including restricted funding, donor-specific cost rules, and financial reporting requirements;
8. Practical experience in leading donor financial audits, responding to audit queries and implementing corrective actions where required; and a footprint in supporting, supervising, and strengtheningcountry-level finance teams, providing hands-on guidance, coaching, and oversight at a country programme level; and
9. Must be a Tanzanian citizen, a legal resident, or possess work authorization documents.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

1. Driving execution: Translates strategic priorities into operational reality; aligning communication, accountabilities, resources, capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results. Interprets complex information, balances trade-offs, and makes sound, timely decisions within governance frameworks. Acts decisively with incomplete information, using evidence, experience, and values.
2. Driving innovation and entrepreneurship: Open to new ideas and experiences; collaboratively creates and tests solutions and adapts quickly within a complex multi-country and multi-partner context; applies sound financial and operational judgment to balance an entrepreneurial mindset with accountability - enabling responsible risk-taking to support programme delivery.
3. Facilitating change: Encourages others to implement better approaches to address problems and opportunities; leads the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace. Maintains effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structures, programme priorities, or culture); adjusts effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make change successful.
4. Driving for results: Setting high goals for personal and team accomplishment, using measurement methods to monitor progress towards goals; tenaciously works to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement or continuous improvement. Takes initiative to accomplish work goals; takes action to achieve results beyond what is required; is proactive.
5. Creating an inclusive environment: Makes decisions and initiates action to ensure that programme policies leverage the capabilities and insights of individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, styles, abilities, and motivations.
6. Delegation and empowerment: Identifies and leverages opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks to individuals or their own team with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up, with the intent of involving others in agreement, for successful outcomes.
7. Innovative leadership: Creates a culture that inspires people to generate novel solutions with measurable impact for existing and potential stakeholders (internal and external); encourages experimentation with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differential solutions.
8. Proactive Learner: Identifies own strengths and shortcomings that impact organizational and programme results; actively pursues development experiences that will enhance own impact on long-term organizational outcomes.

Additional Information

If you meet the above qualifications and wish to apply, please submit a single document that includes both your application letter and CV. Be sure to state your current position, provide a daytime telephone number, and include the names and contact details of three referees. The interviews will be conducted at the Amref offices in Dar es Salaam. All applications must be received by 16:30 hours on April 02, 23, 2026

Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.

Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is is dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.