INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
For
SENIOR AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE OFFICER
Country Office: Ethiopia
Work Base: Addis Ababa
Availability: As Soon As Possible
Salary Scale: EMS07
Salary and other benefits: Gross salary ETB 27,000 up to ETB 30,912
Insurance - (Life, Group Personal Accident and Medical Insurances are covered upon the organization policies).
Seniority Allowance – paid depending up the years of service.
Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply for this position.
About Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger was founded in 1979 as an international non-governmental organization that fights against hunger in the world. Our mission is to save lives by eliminating hunger through preventing, detecting and treating undernutrition, especially during and after emergencies related to conflicts and natural disasters.
The international network of Action Against Hunger has offices in France, United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, USA, India and Belgium. Teams in the field combat hunger on four fronts: Nutrition and Health, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS).
About Action Against Hunger - USA
As the world’s hunger specialist, our primary goal is to create a better way to deal with hunger. For more than 40 years, we led the global movement that aims to end life- threatening hunger for good within our lifetimes. With 7,500+ staff, our teams have been on the front lines, treating and preventing malnutrition across more than 45 countries, assisting more than 21 million people.
We save the lives of children and their families. We are there for them before and after disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and for whole communities to prosper. We constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing our knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change.
About the Country Program in Ethiopia
Action Against Hunger has been operational in Ethiopia since 1985 responding to both chronic and acute needs through a multi-sectoral strategic approach where Nutrition and Health, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) are integrated in order to maximize impact on people’s resilience.
Action Against Hunger currently operates in 5 different regions with an anticipated 2020 yearly portfolio of $20M of emergency and resilience building programs, research and innovation. We have a country team of about 550 staff working out of 18 field offices and sub offices across Ethiopia.
Our main donors in Ethiopia are ECHO, Europaid, UNHCR, OFDA, BPRM, SIDA, EHF, WFP, UNICEF and others.
General Assignments / Scope of the Role:
Senior Audit and Compliance Officer is responsible for the overall implementation of compliance and audit activities. He/she will be responsible for protecting Action Against Hunger from potential compliance and audit risks by ensuring the organization documentation and procedure complies with the internal measures, donors as well in country regulations. He/ She will be working together with other officers from other departments to deliver an integrated response and requirement.
The Senior Audit and Compliance Officer’s role purpose, engagement and delivery is:
Objective 1: Adhere to Quality Production and Action Against Hunger, its Donors and Local Regulations Expectation:
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Objective 2: Identify Organizations Potential Risks and Suggest Different Mitigation Measures
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Objective 3: Develop the Auditing Plan as per Donors Grant Agreements and Guidelines
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Objective 4: Ensure the Mission has Accurate, Complete Financial, and Supporting Documentations
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Objective 5: Working with Line Manager to improve internal control mechanisms and ensure implementation.
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Objective 6: Act as Support when Capacity Assessment and Audit is required for External Auditing
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Objective 7: Lead Compliance/Fraud/Financial mismanagement Investigations at the Bases’ level with the support from HR Dept.
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Educational / Professional Background
Required skills:
Communication (listening and observation skills), experience in teamwork, Counselling and training aptitudes, coordination skills, ability to establish good relations with other people. organization and activity supervision skills, capacity to manage priorities, precision, autonomy, creativity, flexibility, good knowledge of the area and local customs, knowledge of the local languages of the working areas (fluent), and English language (fluent), sense of confidentiality.