Deadline: 22 September, 2021
Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Chief Fiduciary Inspection Specialist.
AfDB’s mission is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs).
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of the fiduciary inspection policy, procedures and detailed guidelines on the processes to be followed by the inspection section
- Contribute to the designing of templates, such as surveys, questionnaires, to be used by the inspection section staff
- Conduct reviews on quality at entry of bank group operations to ascertain the adequacy and compliance of procurement and financial management arrangements with the relevant policies
- Conduct an independent physical verification on the ground of selected flagged bank projects to ensure that the disbursement corresponds to the physical progress on the ground and that the bank’s resources are used as intended and are bringing value to the beneficiaries they are intended to serve
- Analyse the results of surveys and questionnaires and interviews with the aim of ensuring that the bank’s resources are being used as intended
- Ensure, in close collaboration with concerned sectors and safeguards and compliance departments, that the borrower has taken measures to ensure that contractors on the ground are conforming to the conditions of the contract
- Support the procurement and sectoral functions by reviewing unit rates, the quality of the outputs of bank projects and support the FM function in ensuring that financial management arrangements are robust enough to capture weaknesses in implementing reliable and effective financial audit
- Review the findings of the supervision reports of the bank in relation to fiduciary functions and ensure they capture the progress and the challenges adequately
- Identify required technical expertise from within or outside the bank to contribute to the inspection in view of the type of project under consideration
- Contribute to the development of the inspection yearly report or the inspection input to the department’s annual report
- Provide technical guidance to the principal/senior inspection specialist and other staff of the section while performing their duties
- Design training material and deliver training on the inspection function when required
- Provide inspection-related information to other bank departments
- Provide inspection-related input to various bank reports when required and contribute to respond to any board enquiry concerning inspection
- Identify and recommend training and capacity building needs to the inspection staff
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Law, Procurement, Economics, or Accounting with a minimum of a professional accounting certification (CPA, CA, ACCA), or a related discipline
- Seven years, minimum, of relevant experience in providing procurement or financial management support and advice to sector departments supervising bank-financed operations or similar international institutions and conducting inspection, independent procurement reviews and audit
- Experience in working in multilateral development banks or similar international development institutions
- Experience in inspecting/auditing private sector operations
- Proven familiarity with and solid experience in procurement, financial management and operations using multilateral development bank guidelines and with the bank’s policy and procedures
- Ability to be flexible, open-minded with integrity, client and results-oriented for achieving both bank and borrowers’ objectives
- Competence in the use of standard MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint)
- Ability to communicate effectively (written and oral) in English or French
To apply and for more information, click here.
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