Remote Internal Audit Field Consultant

Summary

Join GiveDirectly as a full-time Internal Audit Field Consultant to provide key services for ensuring that GiveDirectly delivers a gold standard product to donors and recipients. The IA - FC will perform services entirely independently and separately from the rest of the program teams, guiding a program audit team who monitors, detects, and resolves program-related risks like fraud and safeguarding violations.

Responsibilities

• Assess underlying causes of risks related to GiveDirectly’s unconditional cash transfer programs
• Take the lead in investigating suspected fraud and abuse, including communicating appropriate matters to the Program Manager for the necessary escalation and / or resolution
• Lead the internal program audit team in detection of risks such as safeguarding, fraud, abuse, undeclared conflicts of interest; by ensuring confidential reporting, proactive detection, in-depth investigations and case management of the risks whenever they occur
• Provide the lead in examining the quality of the program team’s data against set GD data quality standards and report any cases of inconsistency
• Develop and own team workplans for all projects
• Work with other GD global data teams to develop survey tools required to perform the function
• Conduct team quality checks through field and remote calls shadowing and data reviews of team investigations and case notes
• Ensure cases and issues open for investigation are resolved as per the set timelines
• Create and maintain reports and dashboards that reflect team performance in relations to the set team target
• Model ethical behavior that encourages the team to adhere to GD policies and to also report misconduct within staff, full-time consultants, partners, community and recipients
• Conduct staff career growth needs assessments (through structured surveys and 1:1 sessions) and liaise with the country HR Manager to deliver robust professional development sessions internally and externally
• Identify, interview, hire, onboard and retain high capacity program audit country teams
• Develop a team with a high capacity for problem solving, critical thinking, and strong analytical and communication skills
• Work with country support teams - Human Resource, Finance, Administration to ensure your team has everything they need to perform their work
• Maintain an active, visible and consistent commitment to the standard of behavior and ethics that is required throughout every aspect of the organization as stipulated in the Code of Conduct Statement