Description
GiveDirectly is hiring a Risk Management Program Manager (DRC) based in Goma/Bukavu/Kinshasa, DR Congo. The Risk Management Program Manager is responsible for preventing, detecting, mitigating and investigating the field-based risks associated with delivering millions of dollars to thousands of poor households across a portfolio of countries. The Program Manager (PM) will work with the Internal Audit Director and the wider Internal Audit team to design innovations to manage the risks associated with cash transfers. Supports overall Global Internal Audit (IA) strategy. Main responsibilities: • Project Design (25%) • Represent IA in country project design conversations, including development of strategic risk management measures. • Owning development of project-specific Internal Audit proposals detailing audit rates, audit approaches, e.t.c. for new projects and discussing these with CD. • Oversee community risk scoping exercises and ensure full scoping report is submitted to IAD and CDs for all new projects. • Ensure that customized risk registers are created for all new projects; ensure that risk registers for ongoing projects are updated regularly. • Review implementation tools, e.g. enrollment surveys, to better align them to risk detection, mitigation and prevention. • Systems Orientated risk monitoring (45%)
About GiveDirectly
What if the most effective way to fight poverty was also the simplest: give people money and trust them to decide what they need? Since 2011, GiveDirectly has proven that idea at scale.
Requirements
Internal audit / risk management background - 3+ years leading audit, compliance, or risk functions, ideally in a role that combined strategy design with hands-on fieldwork (not just desk audits). Fraud investigation experience - has personally led or overseen sensitive/high-risk investigations, not just routine checks. People management - directly managed a team, including hiring, performance reviews, and conflict management. Cross-country or multi-site portfolio experience - managed risk/audit across several countries or regional units simultaneously, since this role owns a country portfolio. Field-based operations exposure - comfortable with in-person field visits (at least 1x/year per country) in low-resource or humanitarian/development settings, not purely office-based audit work. Stakeholder management - experience liaising with external partners and internal cross-functional teams (Safeguarding, Programs, Tech). Data/analytics fluency - experience using data to detect fraud trends, build KPIs/metrics, and monitor risk reporting, plus openness to AI/tech-driven fraud prevention tools. Program/project design experience - has contributed to project design, risk registers, and proposal creation, ideally in an NGO, cash-transfer, or development-sector context. Report writing at a senior level - track record producing strategy documents, quarterly reports, and retrospectives for leadership. Fluency in both English and French.
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