Jobs at Action Against Hunger International

To execute quality internal audits, grants audits, special reviews and investigations in a timely manner through overseeing the planning and scheduling of the work, preparation of the reports, identifying the risk areas and making appropriate recommendations for improved governance, risk management and internal control.

Essential Role duties

Implement Internal Audits, Grant Audits, special reviews and investigations and ad hoc assignments as required, both at HEARO and across different countries within the region

• Primary responsibility for managing the day-to-day activities of the Internal Audit function in planning and performing financial, operational, and compliance audits.
• Research and assess the different countries’ governance, risk management and internal control processes effectiveness and appropriateness to achieve the Organization’s objectives and report on areas of improvement using the internal audit report
• Assist Regional Director with planning Country Offices’ Internal audits, grants audits, special reviews and investigations.
• Travels to Countries to conduct Internal Audits, grants audits, special reviews and investigations.
• Draft audit findings that clearly describe the conditions, criteria, cause and effect and recommendations to correct identified deficiencies. To work with various country management to develop action plans to address findings identified during Internal Audit, special reviews and investigations.
• Share draft internal audit reports with Countries Directors, Regional Director and the Audit and Risk Management Committee summarizing the work performed.
• Planning, monitoring and quality review of assurance engagements on key systems, processes, policies and controls carried out at the Country level.
• Carry out internal audit webinars for new staff as well as developing and reviewing training material relating to Compliance, Anti-Fraud, bribery and Corruption.
• Acts as link with external auditors when needed.
• Leads with follow up of fraud, bribery and corruption, misuse of resources allegations as well as conduct investigations of irregularities discovered by internal and external audit reviews
• To undertake non-audit work for management if required, e.g., a project, investigation or short assignments.

Development and review of Internal Audit department’s plans, processes and procedures.

• To ensure Internal Audit departmental processes and procedures are applied when carrying out assignments.
• Assist in continuously improving the Internal Audit function process through new/improved tools and techniques and staying abreast of changes in Global Internal Auditing standards.
• Play a critical role in the preparing and successful delivery of the Annual Audit Plan for HEARO for presentation to the HEARO Board and the Regional Director.
• To maintain adequate knowledge of technical developments in accounting, audit and corporate governance.
• Review of audit and compliance policies, procedures and processes.
• Ensure development of the annual objectives of the Internal Audit function in the region are in line with the Annual Audit Plan and HEARO Strategic Pillars.

Establish working relationships with management.

• To ensure that audits are carried out with professionalism and an appropriate level of communication with the relevant management team before, during and after the audit.
• Maintains relationships with senior management to develop and maintain an understanding of organizational and country processes, their challenges and risks and improvement initiatives;
• To promote a clear understanding of the role of Internal Audit function.
• Provide ad hoc advice and guidance to managers and staff at all levels, which can sometimes be done through delivering training sessions.
• Actively participates in Regional and other leadership meetings to provide strategic input on risk management

Gender Equality Commitments  

• Foster an environment that supports values of women and men, and equal access to information.
• Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
• Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion. race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status. 
• Value and respect all cultures. 

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with many interruptions.
• Must be able to proofread own work accurately so that only minor corrections are needed on an infrequent basis.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working Conditions, Travel and Environment

• The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.
• Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business travel as well as to the country offices if appropriate. Based on the country office needs, the time spent on field trips will be a minimum of 30% of his/her working time. While visiting the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as to infectious diseases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent. Accounting, Business Administration, Finance or Related Field
• CPA/ACCA or CIA qualification is an added advantage
• Membership with relevant professional body.
• At least 7years professional work experience in auditing, accounting, or the equivalent with exposure to various aspects of finance. Experience working with US government, EU, UN and other multinational donors preferred.
• Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential issues using well developed discretion and judgement. Ability to maintain absolute confidentiality of information and communicate only appropriate information to individuals at the appropriate time.
• Exposure to dealing with senior management.
• Highly developed inter-personal, analytical and presentational skills
• Proven ability to use relevant Data Analytics and Audit Tools
• Strong knowledge of a variety of control environments.
• Ability to think strategically and at the highest conceptual levels
• Experience of following up fraud allegations
• Strong interpersonal skills with sensitivity to different cultures and humanitarian principles
• The job holder must be willing to travel internationally for a minimum of 30% per year on two-to-three-week assignments

Closing: 22nd July 2022

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Summary of position

The Regional Advocacy and Communication Specialist will lead the Advocacy and Communications Unit to expand Action Against Hunger’s advocacy, partnerships and communication reach across national government and targeted regional decision-makers and position the organization as a leading voice on nutrition security. He/she will lead the integration of advocacy and communication efforts throughout organizational initiatives and programmes in accordance with the strategic plan. S/he will lead the development of evidence-based policy positions in close coordination with technical experts, coordinate policy and advocacy activities, and represent Action Against Hunger in regional and national networks and forums.

Purpose:

Formulate Action Against Hunger Regional Advocacy Strategy for Horn and East Africa, i strengthen the integration of advocacy and communications into programmes and build the capacity of staff to engage in advocacy communications at National, Regional and Global levels.

Engagement:

Engage with Local and Regional networks to collectively influence nutrition security policies and practices; Track Organizational engagement efforts and advise Management on opportunities to engage stakeholders and promote research and learning to influence policies.

KEY ACTIVITIES IN YOUR ROLE WILL INCLUDE

• Develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate Action Against Hunger East Africa regional advocacy, and partnership strategy and activities with the support of the technical team.
• Coordinate Action Against Hunger participation in advocacy working groups, networks and alliances, and external engagement with policy makers at regional level.
• Working in close collaboration with Action Against Hunger network advocacy colleagues, ensure complementarity and coherence of messages across National, Regional, and Global levels
• Lead on the development and implementation of Action Against Hunger regional communications strategy in collaboration with the New York Communications team.
• Produce high-quality content to support positive advocacy and communication of Action Against Hunger’s programs and advocacy activities in region.
• Support generation of high-quality communication and advocacy materials, especially stories, case studies, quotes, photographs, short videos, in partnership with the New York Communications team.
• Engage local and national media and journalists to support positive communication of Action Against Hunger’s programs and advocacy activities in region and countries.
• Manage regional advocacy grants, ensure activities are carried out and reported on in line with donor requirements.
• Lead the development of successful advocacy funding proposals, preparing narratives, log frames, and budgets in line with donor requirements, either as stand-alone proposals or integrated in larger regional grants.
• Provide technical assistance and training to Action Against Hunger country offices in order to enhance national advocacy capacity, ensuring complementarity between international, regional and national advocacy and coherence of messages across the Action Against Hunger international network.
• As part of the Senior Management Team of Regional Office, support management to articulate priority advocacy and communications objectives and integrate advocacy into all programs, strategies and initiatives.

Physical demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames in the context of a moderately noisy office with many interruptions. Must be able to proofread own work accurately so that only minor corrections are needed on an infrequent basis.

Working Conditions , Travel Requirements

• The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends if required.
• Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business purposes.
• While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high-security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as infectious diseases.

Gender Equality commitments & Zero Tolerance to Abuse

• Foster an environment that reinforces values of women and men, and equal access to information.
• Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
• Promote a safe, secure, and respectful environment for all stakeholders, particularly for children, beneficiaries, and members of staff.
• Help to prevent any type of abuse including workplace harassment and sexual abuse and exploitation.
• Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion, race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status.
• Value and respect all cultures.

Safeguarding Commitment

• Action Against Hunger holds strict Safeguarding principles and has zero-tolerance for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasize to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes.

Requirements

DO YOU MEET THE PROFILE REQUIRED CRITERIA ?

• You’re an experienced humanitarian professional
• You have a Masters’ degree in development studies, international relations/ affairs, social sciences, politics, or similar field.
• You have at least 10 years’ work experience in an Advocacy role or a role that involves Advocacy for an NGO.
• You have 2 years working experience in research and policy analysis, data collection, analysis and interpretation (both qualitative and quantitative data), writing and production of reports, policy briefs and publications .
• You have good knowledge of the humanitarian system, Food and Nutrition sectors and policies in emergency and post-emergency contexts.
• You have excellent knowledge of advocacy cycle and advocacy tools.
• You have strong and demonstrated expertise in humanitarian Advocacy and/or representation and influence of aid policies at a high level.
• You’re comfortable coaching & developing the skills of your direct reports, adapting your leadership to professionals who may, or may not, be familiar working in humanitarian action.
• Your knowledge of the donor community ensures projects respond to the most pressing humanitarian needs & that activities remain compliant with grant requirements.
• You have proven interpersonal and networking skills, are open minded and flexible, with strong negotiation skills.
• You are able to analyze changes in your context & discuss the implications with senior operational staff. You are comfortable communicating HQ decisions to your team & local partners.
• You intuitively adapt how you communicate context analysis, strategy, policies & procedures to suit different audiences - both verbally & in writing.
• You are diplomatic but tenacious. You recognize that advocating for change & innovative programming requires building strong relationships with donors, local authorities & other partners, while retaining the space to speak confidently about Action Against Hunger’s programs & our knowledge of the humanitarian needs.
• Previous experience working at a distance with partners or other team members (HQ or regional job, in-country coordination with several field locations & seldom field visits).
• Experience using M&E information for advocacy, campaign and dialogues with partners an

Closing: 5th August 2022