Risk Management Program Manager

🔥 1 hour ago

🇲🇿 Mozambique – Remote

💵 $67.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

🗣️🇧🇷🇵🇹 Portuguese Required

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GiveDirectly

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $1M Grant on 2018-03

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing direct cash transfers to individuals in need around the world. With a mission to help people living on less than $2. 15 per day, GiveDirectly empowers recipients to make their own financial decisions by delivering unconditional cash directly to them, leveraging mobile money technology. Their innovative approach has led to broad recognition and has been studied in numerous research projects. By bypassing traditional aid mechanisms, GiveDirectly aims to efficiently and scalably transform lives, offering targeted assistance in regions such as Bangladesh, Kenya, and the United States, among others.

📋 Description

• Support the overall Global Internal Audit strategy • Serve as overall risk manager for countries in the assigned portfolio • Develop country Internal Audit strategies with Country Directors • Support project design from inception through closure, including risk registers and risk management • Lead country syncs with Country Directors • Provide HR oversight for portfolio countries • Lead sensitive and high-risk investigations • Manage Internal Audit for each portfolio country, including direct management of Internal Audit Managers • Oversee country Internal Audit administration, procurement, spot checks, and documentation • Analyze data and develop methods to detect and reduce fraud • Coordinate with Safeguarding, Programs, Tech, and external telecommunications partners • Visit each portfolio country at least once per year • Develop project-specific audit proposals, risk-scoping reports, and risk registers • Own Internal Audit metrics, KPIs, project workbooks, risk classifications, escalation protocols, and risk reporting • Lead investigations and support community-based fraud intelligence monitoring • Build in-country relationships with fraud-management stakeholders and track project deliverables • Produce quarterly productivity reports and project retrospectives • Hire, manage, review, and develop Internal Audit Managers • Build team capacity, manage conflicts, promote team culture, and support professional development • Deliver annual fraud and safeguarding mitigation training • Support Global Internal Audit strategy, AI and technology initiatives, external audits, and other country operations

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years leading audit, compliance, or risk functions • Experience leading or overseeing sensitive/high-risk fraud investigations • Direct people management experience, including hiring, performance reviews, and conflict management • Experience managing risk/audit across several countries or regional units simultaneously • Experience with in-person field visits in low-resource or humanitarian/development settings • Experience liaising with external partners and internal cross-functional teams • Experience using data to detect fraud trends, build KPIs/metrics, and monitor risk reporting • Openness to AI/technology-driven fraud prevention tools • Experience contributing to project design, risk registers, and proposal creation • Track record producing strategy documents, quarterly reports, and retrospectives for leadership • Fluency in both English and Portuguese • Alignment with GiveDirectly Values and demonstration of emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity • Requirement to overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours • Willingness and ability to conduct field visits at least once per year per country • Successful completion of safeguarding and pre-hire screening, which may include reference, criminal background, and sanctions checks

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities for advancement • Demonstrated commitment to staff development and growth • Competitive salary • Bonus at target performance: 10% (~$6,740 with potential for upside) • Robust health benefits plan (exact details vary by country) • Unlimited PTO • Benefits stipend, usable to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income • $500 referral reward for a Manager role, paid if the referral is hired • Reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process and for essential job functions

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