Donor Audit Advisor

Donor Audit Advisor

Our vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. We believe that no-one should have to live in fear that they won’t have a home to sleep in or enough food to feed their children. For over 50 years we have been working with the world’s poorest people to transform their lives.

Today we are a team of over 4,400 highly skilled and dedicated professionals from 50 countries who share an exceptional depth and diversity of experience.

Concern offers in-house management and leadership courses and tailored organisation-wide learning opportunities both in-person and online. We are committed to providing our staff with the skills needed to excel in their jobs. All employees are required to undertake training in equality, diversity and inclusion; the Code of Conduct; and safeguarding, along with any other training required for the role.

Our culture is values driven and friendly. A global engagement survey conducted in 2022, responded to by 3,577 of our staff, showed that 89% of our staff would happily recommend Concern as a great place to work and 94% are proud to tell people that they work for Concern.

Our head office is located in Dublin 2 and we are currently working a hybrid model (50% remote working) and offer flexi time. This role will be based in our Dublin office.

Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application.

The job:

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the Grant Compliance Unit of Concern Worldwide. The Donor Audit Advisor will provide support to Concerns country teams on donor audit issues and play a key role in managing and supporting HQ donor audits. They will work with the Head of Grant Compliance to ensure both donor and organisational policies are adhered to through the development of donor guidelines, training material and documenting lessons learned.

This role will involve travel to overseas fields (potentially 20%).

If you join us, this is what you will be doing:

• Work with our Head of Grant Compliance and the Donor Compliance Advisors to provide practical guidance and training on issues identified during donor audits and key donor compliance areas.
• Act as main focal point for head office donor audits.
• Support the country teams on donor audits occurring in field locations.
• Review and document donor audit recommendations and findings for organisational learning.
• Support the Grant Compliance Units helpdesk to provide assistance in day to day donor related queries.
• Represent the compliance team in cross functional projects.
• Participate in relevant external networks and develop contacts with peer agency counterparts to facilitate sharing, learning and best practice.
• Conduct support visits to our field offices.
• Carry out other tasks as required within the Grant Compliance Unit.
• Uphold and promote Concerns values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion values.

Essential skills:

• Three years auditing experience
• Knowledge of Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• Fluent spoken and written English
• Training and staff development experience
• Excellent organisational and planning skills
• Strong report writing and research skills
• Ability to work under pressure often to strict deadlines
• Flexible and adaptable
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with cross functional teams
• Cross cultural awareness and empathy with organisational goals

Desirable skills:

• Professionally Qualified Accountant ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CPA
• Knowledge of accountancy packages
• Experience of reporting to and/or managing audits by large institutional donors such as USG, EU, ECHO, Irish Aid, UN and FCDO (highly desirable)
• Experience in working overseas in the international development sector
• Knowledge of French (highly desirable)

You will report to the Head of Compliance and work with all Concern HQ Directorates

The full time salary range for the Donor Audit Advisor is 51,402 to 60,472 (band 5). This is a 2 year fixed term contract.

We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality.

If this role sounds right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter at https://jobs.concern.net. We will respond to every applicant. Please be aware we may offer positions before the closing date.

If you have any concerns about our recruitment process and need particular assistance – for example if you have a visual impairment or are neuro-divergent – please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Important information:

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organization, and the standards of behavior expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concerns core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.

Your Personal Data

During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.

Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).

Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.

By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned lists

In certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them – so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.

For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.

You have certain rights under data protection legislation. For more information on how to exercise those rights please visit www.concern.net/about/privacy

Please only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.