Finance Archivist Intern, WCA Regional Office
SUMMARY
7 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026 - 23:59 UTC
Senegal
Finance
Permanent
Full-time
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Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Finance Archivist Intern to join our WCA Regional Office team
Team and Role Purpose
Team Purpose
The Finance Department of the WCA Regional Office is responsible for ensuring transparent, compliant, and efficient financial management in line with Save the Children International’s policies and procedures. As part of the office relocation, the Finance team must organize, secure, and update all financial archives to ensure business continuity and compliance with internal and external audit requirements.
Role Purpose
As part of the relocation of the Regional Office, Save the Children is recruiting interns to support the physical and electronic archiving of financial documents. The intern will contribute to organizing, structuring, and securing financial archives to ensure accessibility, compliance, and integrity of records. This role is essential to support the office move and to ensure readiness for future audits and compliance reviews.
Job Title: Finance Archivist Intern,
Reports To: Finance Programming officer WCA
Work Pattern: On-site
Location: Dakar, Senegal
Required Time Zone: GMT
Contract Length: 2 months
Contract Type: Internship
Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment
Language Requirements: French
Principal Accountabilities
The Finance Archivist Intern has responsibility to support with the archiving (physical and electronic) of all financial documents and provide an Occasional support on cash register and bank management.
Archiving:
Collect and control existing physical and electronic archives within Finance.
Maintain filing of monthly accounting vouchers, journals, spreadsheets, and other finance documents.
The Intern will be responsible for assisting the Finance Team of the Regional Office in archiving, documentation management and archives management.
The Intern will also be responsible for the verification, codification, classification and search of documents and all other activities concerning the management of archives and documentation.
Including electronic filing of Rental Agreements, Consultancy Agreements, and any other type of parts to be filed and archived.
Physical/electronic archiving and classification of the documentation present and not yet archived
Inventory and codify the content of archived documents by developing research or codification instruments to facilitate physical and electronic archiving.
Preserve and protect archived documents for dissemination in due course
Experience and Skills
Essential
Experience in administrative archiving from 0 to 6 months mandatory.
Fluency in spoken and written French; English is an asset.
Have knowledges on computer tools (word, excel, database, SharePoint, network, internet, outlook, etc... any other important software in the framework of the work of NGOs).
Be available and motivated to work with Save the Children.
Be able to work in project mode and be professional.
Ability to manage stress and to work under difficult conditions.
Organizational skills, teamwork skills, empathy, and flexibility.
Education and Qualifications
Essential
Undergraduate degree or BTS-level studies in finance, accounting, records management, administration, or related field.
Basic understanding of document management or strong willingness to learn.
Desirable
Training in archiving or records/document management.
Previous internship or volunteer experience with an NGO.
Working at Save the Children International
Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.
We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.
Application Information
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found at SCI Careers. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.
Our Recruitment Process
Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks
We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-Harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
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