Job Description
GiveDirectly (GD) aims to reshape international giving – and millions of lives – by providing cash grants directly to the world’s poorest. The Brookings Institution estimates that $70B of cash transfers would be required to eliminate the poverty gap; the aid sector currently spends $135B each year, much of it on evidence-free interventions. GiveDirectly wants to change that, establishing cash transfers as a benchmark for foreign aid – as the index fund is a benchmark for the financial industry – and in the process accelerating the end of extreme poverty.
GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011 and delivered cash to more than 2 million people in 15 different countries. We’ve also supported large-scale, experimental research that indicates strong recipient impact of our programs. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GD’s leading role within it) have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.
Our culture is candid, analytical, agile, and non-hierarchical. Our global team of ~150, and country operations teams of ~650, span 21 different countries and 69 languages. From software engineers to seasoned humanitarian workers, management consultants to public servants, researchers to field operations -- it’s an incredible group of people.
Our values are central and deliberately opinionated. We genuinely center the people we serve in our decision-making, and strive to build an ambitious, dynamic and high-performing environment. We strongly encourage you to read through our values carefully, if they reflect how you like to work and energize you, this could be a great fit.
We work hard to create an environment in which all our team members can thrive, succeed, and grow. We support high ownership, flexibility, take care of each other, have fun, and create professional growth opportunities.
The Internal Audit Field Manager will play a central role in ensuring that GiveDirectly delivers a gold standard product to donors and recipients. The Internal Audit Field Manager (IA FM) serves as the key eyes of the organization and the country leadership on the ground and will be responsible for regularly synthesizing updates on team key performance indicators (KPIs), data-backed project risk trends reporting, building and sustaining team morale and culture, as well as reporting on field successes and challenges.
The IA FM will work entirely independently and separately from the rest of the program implementation teams, while managing a team of Associate Field Managers (IA AFMs) and/or Field Officers (IA FOs) located in multiple project locations across the country.
The IA FM will lead a Programs audit team that is mandated to monitor, detect, and resolve program-related risks like fraud and safeguarding violations through a variety of workstreams, including field-based surveys, risk monitoring spot checks, risk trends review and analysis, and case management. They will own the overall program audit process, including tracking performance of their teams, achieving survey and case resolution targets, building a culture of team cohesion, mentorship and professional development, monitoring project risk trends and identifying opportunities for risk mitigation and process improvement.
This role will require sharp judgment on operational issues and challenges, strong communication and interpersonal skills, exceptional personnel management and a strong commitment to GiveDirectly's values, culture, mission and model. This role will require regular travel to the field locations where we are working.
The Internal Audit team is strictly anonymous, with related communications/correspondences being firewalled from GiveDirectly’s Program implementation team. The IA Field Manager is also anonymous and firewalled, and manages an anonymous team whose communications are also strictly firewalled. By joining as an IA FM, you must agree to do your work with a high degree of confidentiality, anonymity, and independence.
Location: Initial duty station will be Maputo city, with field travels to other Provinces within Mozambique. Later, the duty station will shift to any other province with active projects
Directly reports to: Internal Audit Program Manager
Directly manages: Internal Audit Associate Field Managers and Field Officers
Employment type: Contract
