Chief - Internal Audit at The United Nations Development Programme

Job Description

Under the guidance and supervision of the Deputy Director (Audit), OAI, the Chief, RAC-ESA manages the internal audit function with a portfolio of 23 country offices. He/she develops working relationships with management and stakeholders in order to improve governance, risk management and controls and to promote the effectiveness and efficiency of operations. He/she supervises six Audit Specialists and one Audit/Administrative Associate. The location of the offices covered by the RAC-ESA may include areas with hardship or hazardous working conditions.

General Management:

As a member of the OAI management team, contributes to new strategic initiatives, and to the continuous improvement of processes and methodologies.

As Chief of the Regional Audit Centre, effectively manages the human resources assigned, including; providing support to staff in the achievement of their career goals, ensuring appropriate learning, training and development, and actively participating in planning and assessing staff performance.

General accountabilities include:

• Achieving the results and outputs for the Centre, as documented in OAI Annual Work Plan.
• Establishing and maintaining effective quality control over the activities and outputs of the Centre, to ensure that they conform to professional practices and standards of OAI, the Institute of the Internal Audit and UNDP in general.
• Managing within delegated authority, the human, financial and other resources of the Centre.