Chamber News

VCCI is looking for a new Senior Accounts Officer to join our team. What we want to find is the right person, to upskill to Finance Manager for VCCI. This will take an ongoing collaborative commitment between VCCI and the chosen candidate. Main responsibilities: Under the supervision of the General Manager, the Senior Accounts Officer’s main responsibilities are: 1- Financial Management and Reporting Accurate daily input into financial system of all invoices and bank reconciliations Producing financial reports related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses etc; Reviewing and monitoring budgets; Ensuring that internal accounting and finance operations comply with Vanuatu’s standards and donor obligations; Supervising administration of the finance function at VCCI; Complete financial reporting to donors to ensure that these are timely, complete,…

Dear members, Based on your feedback and requests for support with Business financials, VCCI has prepared an  intensive workstream to support businesses with Financial Management that will be available to business license holders in August. This is run over a 3-week period. In the first week, clients attend four half day group workshops to learn all the basic skills, in the second week they attempt to implement these in their business, and in the third week, if they wish, they may attend some one-on-one coaching to get support with challenging parts of the implementation. We encourage business owners, managers and/or supervisors of existing business that are running for more than 3 – 4 years to apply by clicking HERE to download an application form. All…

Dear members, In the lead up to the borders opening at the end of the week, we are hard at work providing Safe Business Operations workshops and hospitality staff preparedness workshops across Santo and Efate, including a cohort of over 200 small business owners this Friday on Ifira. Following on from our successful AGM last week we are putting out the call for nominations for the Agriculture and Women rep seats for VCCI’s Council, more info below, and we are proudly launching our business development program in partnership with the Global Green Growth Institute. More on that to come! NOMINATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE AND WOMENS REPRESENTATIVE SEATS ON THE COUNCIL OPEN NOW! As per the CCIV Act, at the first Council meeting after the AGM the…

VCCI is looking to fill two positions to assist in its services delivery – Project Supervisor, and a Finance Coach. Project Supervisor role We are currently operating in Shefa and Sanma, with plans for de-centralisation of services permanently to Tafea and Malampa in the next 18 months. What we are focusing on now is building the right team. In this role, the supervisor will be responsible for the management of service delivery staffing and their workplans, and ad-hoc project implementation when required in Port Vila, Santo and Tanna, and potentially other islands. We are looking for someone who can manage people, activities and budgets, and who can contribute to the strengthening of development and implementation of donor funded programs. To download the TOR click here….

Yesterday was our Council member Carolyn Ernst’s last day as representative for Small Business at the Chamber. Carolyn has been a valued member of the Chamber since 2014, representing tourism, women in business and small business over the years. Running multiple businesses in tour operations and agriculture over her 40+ years in Vanuatu, she has worked with and trained dozens of local staff from her surrounding community in Rentapau. Today she gave her time to join Velenie Jacob (Council member for Women) and Adrian Toka (VCCI Business Information Officer) at FM107 for the lunchtime talk back show to share her experiences and to promote our upcoming AGM on 23 June. We thank you Carolyn for all you have contributed to VCCI and look forward to…

Dear members, We have an extensive newsletter to share with you today, including information about SBO training in Tanna next week, free soft skills training support on offer for our businesses in Tourism, an update on our work supporting the IDF grant program and a reminder of our AGM in 2 weeks’ time. More detail can be found below: Join the Council – ‘Be the Change’ VCCI is holding its Annual General Meeting in Port Vila on 23 June. This year we have 8 seats available on the Council representing the following industry sectors: Tourism, Construction, Small Business (2), Large Business, Finance and Land Transport. To promote the event we have created a short video, please click here to watch two of our Council members Christoph…

On Friday 29 April MFEM announced the launching of the new ESP3 – a Small Business Grant (SBG) and Wage Subsidy Scheme (WSS), aimed at helping inject much needed cash into the local economy in 2022. What is it? To simplify, this is an extension of the existing ESP2, both the SGB and WSS schemes will be extended for another 6 months (March until August 2022). Please note, if you were successful in applying for SBG in 2021, you will automatically be paid the SBG for 2022. You do not need to re-apply. For the WSS, the same principal applies. If you were successful in applying for the WSS in 2021, you will automatically be paid the WSS for 2022. You will need to continue…