Vacancies at GiveDirectly

What you’ll do:

Build and Execute GiveDirectly’s Corporate Audit Program

• Lead the design and implementation of a risk-based corporate audit plan, aligned with organizational priorities and the enterprise risk framework.
• Expand IA’s scope beyond field audits to include financial, operational, compliance, and governance reviews.
• Coordinate with the Senior Manager, Legal, Risk & Compliance to ensure risk data and control libraries inform audit planning.
• Conduct independent reviews of the design and effectiveness of internal controls across departments (Finance, HR, Legal, Operations, IT, Procurement, etc.).
• Manage end-to-end audits: scoping, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up.

Provide Assurance and Insight

• Assess whether systems and processes are operating effectively and efficiently, in compliance with internal policy and external requirements.
• Identify control weaknesses, inefficiencies, and risks – and recommend actionable solutions.
• Partner with management to track remediation plans, ensuring audit findings are resolved and controls strengthened.
• Present concise, high-impact audit reports and recommendations to the Director of IA.

Strengthen Governance and Control Systems

• Partner with GLC and Finance to review organizational policies, processes, and control design.
• Provide independent assurance on critical areas such as:
• Procurement and contract management
• Data privacy and security
• Financial management and reporting
• Regulatory and donor compliance
• Fraud prevention and ethics controls
• Identify opportunities to simplify and strengthen controls without creating bureaucracy.

Promote a Culture of Accountability and Learning

• Work collaboratively with departments to demystify audit – positioning it as a partner in improvement, not a punitive function.
• Support the development of audit readiness and control awareness across teams.
• Contribute to IA’s learning agenda by sharing insights, trends, and systemic lessons.

Conduct investigations

• Where necessary work with the IA team to undertake investigations when systems, processes or controls are found to have been violated 
• Present findings of these investigations to Senior Leadership 

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 required; advanced degree or certification (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA, ACCA) strongly preferred.
• 4-5 years of experience in internal audit, risk, compliance, or assurance — ideally within international NGOs, development organizations, or global enterprises.
• Proven experience designing or executing risk-based audits and evaluating internal controls across multiple functions.

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What you’ll do:

Grant management and administration

Ensuring compliance with the funders’ terms and conditions as well as GD’s organizational policies are key deliverables of this role. This mandate includes:

• Oversee the lifecycle of a portfolio of 30-50 active government, corporate and foundation funded grant agreements, in collaboration with the fundraising, finance, and operations staff in our global and country teams. This portfolio will include both prime grant agreements to GiveDirectly, and subgrant agreements issued by GiveDirectly
• Contribute to pre-award donor due diligence requests and grant application process including advising on & reviewing budgets
• Ensure and document that  due diligence and procurement protocols are successfully followed and documented for all subgrantees and subcontractors
• Support Sr. Manager of Grants Management in prime grant agreement negotiations and execution 
• Lead subgrant agreement and grant amendment negotiations and execution
• Utilize available tools for clear and accurate tracking of all post-award data, requirements and tasks
• Work closely with the Finance team to ensure accurate tracking of grant conditionality, purpose or restrictions, general ledger account creation and treatment within the annual audit and tax filing processes.
• Conduct award kick-off meetings with internal colleagues and external subgrantees as relevant, educating all on their responsibilities under each grant or subgrant
• Proactively monitor all active awards to ensure compliance with award terms and conditions, identifying and assisting with mitigating potential instances of misconduct or non-compliance.
• Ensure on time grant reporting through regular communication, supporting in the authoring and sharing with donor where appropriate
• Liaise with finance and project managers on budget tracking and appropriate spend down rates.
• Author prior approval, no-cost extension and amendment requirements as needed
• Coordinate external award audits, adverse event reporting, and the implementation of any associated follow-up action points.
• Coordinate and document appropriate award close out
• Maintain complete and audit ready grant files.

Organizational Capacity Development and Training

Under the guidance of Grants Management Leadership, support in Organizational Capacity Development and Training including:

• Cross functionally provide clear guidance on procedures, policies, and interpretation on donor rules and regulations
• Identify organizational gaps in funding oversight, internal controls and procurement practices
• Suggest processes and practices to mitigate issues and risks identified
• Track regulatory and institutional/multilateral policy changes
• Support in developing standard operating procedures and templates for managing grants and subgrants
• Suggest required changes to process and practices
• Implement trainings on appropriate lifecycle management of donor funds
• Create a culture of Grants Management and Donor Compliance across all teams

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.
• Language Requirement: Professionally fluent in English
• Language Preference: Professionally fluent in French or Portuguese
• A minimum of 4-6 years of experience in the administration of large, diverse grant portfolios including Foundation, Corporate, Institutional and Government funded awards and subawards, ideally including experience with US federal agency, EU and World Bank funded awards.
• Proven knowledge and understanding of US, EU, World Bank, Foundation and Corporate Funding Regulations and ability to interpret for lay audience as well as flexibly and creatively apply those rules and regulations
• A strong systems mindset with ability to identify and mitigate gaps and risks
• Excellent organizational skills and a willingness to take initiative and be proactive
• Clear and exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work effectively with diverse stakeholders internally and externally across a variety of global cultures
• Adept at drilling into the details without losing sight of the big picture
• Ability to autonomously manage multiple deliverables in time and with a high level of quality.
• Ability to work both under supervision and independently
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Suite
• Familiarity with Salesforce and Slack is a plus