Senior Internal Auditor

Reports to : ICARDA Head of Internal Audit Unit (IAU)

Location : Amman, Jordan, or New Delhi, India, or Beirut, Lebanon

Main purpose of the position

ICARDA seeks to recruit an experienced Senior Internal Auditor to deliver independent, risk-based assurance and advisory services. Reporting to the Head of the Internal Audit Unit, the role will enhance governance, risk management, compliance, and internal controls across ICARDA’s research and operations activities.

The Senior Internal Auditor will be responsible for the performance and high-quality delivery of assigned assurance / advisory engagements, focusing on implementing a risk-based audit methodology across various organizational risks to improve ICARDA's general, research, technology, and business control environments. This responsibility includes developing the audit scope, performing internal audit procedures, and preparing reports reflecting the work results. Work performed will include covering functional and operating units and focusing on financial, IT, research, and operational processes.

Additionally, the Senior Internal Auditor follows up on outstanding internal audit issues. S / he will also assist with the internal audit management and periodic reporting to ICARDA's Audit, Finance, and Risk Committee, developing a regularly updated internal audit plan and championing internal control and corporate governance concepts throughout the business. S / he may sometimes direct and review the work performed by other CGIAR internal audit personnel, including external assurance resources.

About ICARDA

The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is a treaty-based international non-profit research organization supported by CGIAR.

ICARDA's mission is to reduce poverty and enhance food, water, nutritional security, and environmental health in the face of global challenges, including climate change. We do this through innovative science, strategic partnerships, linking research to development, and capacity development that consider gender equality and the role of youth in transforming the dry areas. ICARDA works in partnership with governments, universities, civil society, national agricultural research organizations, other CGIAR research Centers, and the private sector. With its temporary Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, ICARDA operates in regional and country offices across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. For more information : www.icarda.org .

Main responsibilities

The role of the Senior Internal Auditor includes, but is not limited to :

Assurance / Advisory Strategy Delivery and Operation

• Actively participate in systematically developing a risk-based assurance / advisory work plan relevant to addressing the risk challenges confronting ICARDA.
• Contributes to planning and executing risk-based assurance / advisory services of existing and planned processes, products, systems, and services, including identifying risks and vulnerabilities and assessing their relevance, impact, and probability.
• Document relevant business risks in detail, including assessing ICARDA's risk management activities within a specific function, technical area, or project.
• Plans, organizes, and conducts assurance / advisory services for assigned domains and cross-functional areas across ICARDA's value chain.
• Confirms understanding of the scope and objectives of specific assurance / advisory activity with management, ensuring its alignment with organizational priorities.
• Determines appropriate methods to achieve the assurance / advisory objectives.
• Investigates problems in systems, processes, and services, including analyses of patterns and trends that challenge ICARDA's internal control architecture.
• Assists in monitoring improvement actions, including collaboration with other stakeholders responsible for implementing agreed remedies and preventive measures.

Risk and Change Management

People and Skills

Knowledge Management, Relationships, and Engagement

Requirements

Essential qualifications and competencies

Benefits

Terms of appointment, salary, and benefits

This is a nationally recruited staff position for which ICARDA offers an attractive compensation package including a competitive salary, medical insurance, 30 days of annual leave, five months’ maternity leave, 15 days’ paternity leave. The successful candidate will be offered an initial contract of 3 years, renewable subject to continued need for the position and satisfactory performance. The first year will be a probationary period.

Please be advised that ICARDA accepts applications only in English, the organization's standard communication language. Applications in other languages will not be considered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.