Internship at Restless Development February 2025

About Restless Development

Restless Development is a global non profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) bound together by our vision for youth power.

We run youth-led programmes to tackle the issues that young people care about the most. We also run the Youth Collective – a growing network of over 5,000 local youth-led organisations in 185 countries. We are committed to creating an agency that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.

More information about Restless Development:

Restless Development Strategy
Youth Collective
Power Shifting Checklist
We Are Restless Blog

Our Approach to Safeguarding

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, volunteers and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic, committed and passionate individual to join our Finance unit in the role of Finance and Administration Intern. The Finance and Administration Intern will be based in the Dar es Salaam office; they will support the Finance team during Organisational and Project budget setting and in assisting in the preparation of the organisational annual audit .

Qualifications

Holds relevant Bachelors Degree level Accounting & Finance qualifications
6months -1 year Volunteering experience in financial management and administration role/s
Good experience of computing packages, particularly Microsoft Excel – experience working with Salesforce financial software is of added advantage
A self-starter who can work unsupervised or as part of a team.
Eligible to work in Tanzania.

Desirable

Previous experience in supporting the preparation of budgets and external audits
Experience using online payment platforms for mobile money and bank
Fluent written and spoken English
Solid understanding of donor funded projects and operations
Track record of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

Equal Opportunity

Restless Development is an equal opportunities employer and invites applications from all segments of the community. Restless Development will guarantee that no applicant faces less favourable treatment based on gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be demonstrated to be relevant to performance.