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Christian Aid is a Christian organisation that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We provide urgent, practical and effective assistance where need is great, tackling the effects of poverty as well as its root causes.

About the Role:

Christian Aid is looking to strengthen its Internal Audit Department with the appointment of an additional Senior Internal Auditor to work in a regional role in Africa. Working in a small team of 2 reporting to the Head of Internal Audit and Risk Management, you will be responsible for planning and delivering a schedule of approved audits covering (but not restricted to) country programmes and individual grants, primarily in the Africa region. You will also be responsible for supporting the promotion of risk management in the region.

About You:

You will be a qualified accountant and experienced internal auditor with a good understanding of risk management and internal control and how these should be applied within core business processes in the INGO sector. You will have a proven ability to work autonomously, have strong analytical skills, the ability to assimilate a variety of complex and potentially unfamiliar legal, financial and other technical issues quickly and to evaluate the effectiveness of the related control processes. You will be an effective communicator both orally and in writing.

Further Information:

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based. The position can be based in any country where Christian Aid has an office. This includes DRC, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Burundi, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Zimbabwe.

The salary will be the local equivalent Christian Aid pay scale of the UK salary quoted.  Please see attached the salary for Christian Aid country offices. 

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Impact and Influence: Describe a situation where you have identified a complex issue that impacted a number of different stakeholders and made appropriate recommendations in a credible and persuasive manner.  How did you go about it and what difference did your input make to the situation that you had identified?

Customer Focus:  In a recent role, what steps have you made to proactively develop relationships with people outside of your immediate team.  How would these stakeholders describe you?

Effectiveness & Accountability:  Describe a time when you have had to deal with competing priorities.  How did you prioritise and what were the consequences of your decision?