Jobs at GiveDirectly

What you’ll do:

Procurement Leadership and Advisory

• Serve as GiveDirectly’s global procurement expert, advising leadership and country teams on procurement strategy, risk, and best practices.
• Oversee procurement activities for U.S. and global services, managing complex and high-value procurements when required.
• Support the annual procurement planning process across all country offices and global functions.
• Partner with Legal and Compliance to maintain up-to-date vendor prequalification standards, templates, and approval thresholds.
• Provide technical oversight and dotted-line mentorship to in-country OPMs; support recruitment, onboarding, and professional development of procurement staff.
• Participate in Procurement Committees as needed, ensuring transparency and adherence to policy.
• Collaborate with the Senior Manager, Legal, Risk & Compliance and Internal Audit to ensure procurement risks and controls are effectively tracked, tested, and improved.

Procurement Compliance and Risk Management

• Ensure all procurement activities comply with GiveDirectly’s policies, donor regulations, and local legal requirements.
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate procurement risks; ensure controls are in place to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse.
• Conduct periodic procurement audits, spot checks, and compliance assessments, recommending corrective actions as needed.
• Maintain centralized procurement data and ensure consistent documentation, reporting, and record-keeping across offices.

Procurement Systems and Knowledge Management

• Oversee the standardization of procurement policies, templates, and procedures across GiveDirectly’s global operations.
• Support implementation and optimization of procurement software or digital tools; ensure staff can effectively use procurement systems for planning, tracking, and reporting.
• Work with Legal and Risk functions to document and map procurement-related controls.
• Facilitate sharing of procurement innovations and lessons learned across countries and teams.

Training, Capacity Building and Staff Development

• Develop and deliver training programs and learning materials to strengthen procurement skills and awareness organization-wide.
• Conduct onboarding and refresher trainings for procurement staff and non-procurement colleagues engaged in sourcing or vendor management.
• Foster a culture of accountable and ethical procurement, where staff understand both the “how” and “why” of procurement integrity.

What you’ll bring:

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, supply chain management, international development, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5–8 years of progressive experience in procurement, ideally in an international NGO or multi-country organization.
• Proven experience with procurement governance, donor compliance, and vendor management in complex environments.

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What you’ll do:

Strengthen and formalize GiveDirectly’s enterprise risk and controls framework

• Build on prior Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) efforts to create a consistent, ERM organization-wide framework, refining existing tools and approaches into a cohesive system.
• Develop and maintain an organizational risk register that consolidates risks across functions, assigns clear owners, and tracks mitigation progress.
• Create and document a controls library in collaboration with IA, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and Operations – mapping key controls to risks and owners.
• Coordinate quarterly risk review cycles with leadership, surfacing key trends, mitigation updates, and emerging priorities.
• Partner with Internal Audit to align on control documentation, audit planning, and remediation tracking.

Integrate risk management into GiveDirectly’s legal and compliance systems

• Embed risk thinking into policy lifecycle management, compliance training, and contract governance.
• Work closely with the Director and Associate Legal Counsel to ensure the ERM framework reflects relevant regulatory and contractual obligations.
• Collaborate with Compliance to ensure ethical, anti-fraud, and privacy-related risks are effectively managed and tracked.
• Contribute to the development and rollout of compliance reporting tools and templates for staff and leadership.

Support ongoing Legal, Risk, and Compliance operations

• Maintain the risk register and control documentation as living tools – updating quarterly and integrating with departmental workflows.
• Prepare risk and compliance summaries for senior leadership
• Provide project-based support to Legal and Compliance teams on initiatives such as policy rollouts, contracting, governance documentation, and vendor compliance.
• Promote a culture of learning and accountability – helping teams view risk management as an enabler of effective, ethical delivery rather than a compliance burden.

Strengthen governance and cross-functional alignment

• Serve as a point of coordination between Legal & Compliance, Internal Audit, and Operations on governance and control matters.
• Facilitate consistent communication on risk themes and findings across teams.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of Legal & Compliance systems that underpin organizational accountability, transparency, and recipient trust.

What you’ll bring:

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
• Systems-thinking and pragmatism: You can design structures that bring clarity and consistency without adding unnecessary complexity – building systems people will actually use.
• Experience in risk, compliance, or legal operations: You’ve worked in environments where managing organizational risk and accountability mattered – ideally with exposure to enterprise risk, internal controls, legal compliance, or governance systems.
• Understanding of controls and assurance concepts: You know how risks link to controls, and how controls connect to organizational processes. You don’t need to test them (that’s Internal Audit’s role), but you can design and document them effectively.
• Cross-functional collaboration skills: You’re comfortable working with legal counsel, finance, operations, and internal audit – translating complex governance ideas into shared, actionable plans.
• Clear and concise communication: You can synthesize inputs from across the organization into structured risk summaries and governance reports for leadership.
• Judgment and discretion: You handle sensitive organizational and legal information with care, and know when to escalate or seek guidance.
• Follow-through and accountability: You turn frameworks into action – ensuring ideas become systems, and systems are maintained over time.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Law, Public Policy, Business, or related field (JD, MPA, MBA, or equivalent) strongly preferred. Equivalent professional experience in legal, compliance, or risk governance will also be considered.
• Experience: 3–5 years of relevant work experience in risk management, internal controls, audit, compliance, or governance functions.
• Experience working in nonprofit, donor-funded, or international organizations strongly preferred.
• Strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and documentation skills.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, early-stage, or cross-functional environments.
• Experience with insurance tracking, internal audits, or policy control environments is a plus.
• Language requirement: English (required).