Risk Management Program Manager (Mozambique)

The role

The Risk Management Program Manager prevents, detects, mitigates, and investigates field-based risks for cash transfers across a portfolio of countries. This person will design risk management innovations and lead country-level internal audit strategies.

What you will do

• Supports overall Global Internal Audit strategy
• Acts as overall risk manager for assigned countries
• Leads development of country IA strategy in partnership with Country Director
• Supports project design, risk register creation, and project closure
• Leads country syncs with Country Directors
• Provides HR oversight for countries in portfolio
• Leads sensitive and high risk investigations
• Manages Internal Audit for each country in portfolio
• Manages Internal Audit Manager directly
• Conducts regular spot checks on country operations

Required qualifications

• 3+ years leading audit, compliance, or risk functions
• Experience leading or overseeing sensitive/high-risk investigations
• Experience directly managing a team including hiring and performance reviews
• Cross-country or multi-site portfolio experience
• Experience with field-based operations in low-resource or humanitarian/development settings
• Experience liaising with external partners and internal cross-functional teams
• Experience using data to detect fraud trends and build KPIs/metrics
• Experience in project design, risk registers, and proposal creation
• Track record producing strategy documents, quarterly reports, and retrospectives
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in Portuguese

Nice to have

• Experience in an NGO, cash-transfer, or development-sector context

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• Robust health benefits plan
• Unlimited PTO

Before you apply

• Systematically check with previous employers about any abuse or misconduct related matters
• May employ pre-hire screens including in-depth reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens

About the company

GiveDirectly delivers cash directly to people living in poverty and crisis. The organization uses a quantitative approach to performance measurement and rigorous research to fight poverty.