Professional Capability Lead (Internal Audit)

Our successful candidate will have;

• Practical experience of delivering internal audits effectively, ideally both managing audits in addition to delivering individual audit assignments.


• Experience of designing flexible and blended learning solutions that meet the needs of a wide variety of target audiences, from those new to internal audit to senior management.


• Excellent writing and presentation skills, able to communicate accurately, clearly and concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders with differing levels of experience and knowledge and to adapt training dependent on audience.


• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, able to work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels both within the organisation and across wider government in relation to the development and delivery of training using knowledge and skills rather than the exercise of authority.


• Highly organised, able to complete multiple tasks to tight timelines and with minimal supervision to a high quality.


We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and we welcome applications from candidates who wish to work flexibly, for example, part-time, term time or job share.

Hybrid Working is available to GIAA colleagues. This means a combination of office working and working from home. This includes time spent in our GIAA office locations and can also include any time spent attending our customers' sites.

Salary: £53,661 - £62,572
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: This post is available on a full time, part time or job share basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated.
Location: We will consider applications from people able to access the following offices: Birmingham, Blackpool, Bootle, Bristol, Coventry, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle and Swansea

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Audit Profession and Practice who is responsible for driving consistency and quality across GIAA via the audit methodology, audit management system and quality assurance work.

About the Team

The Audit Profession and Practice team sets standards, monitors compliance against those standards and shares best practice to promote continuous improvement. It also supports development and capability for internal auditors within GIAA.

About the Job

This new role provides an excellent opportunity to support GIAA in enhancing its internal audit capability, through supporting and developing its people and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and professional learning and development.

The role focuses on developing professional learning and development solutions for internal auditors that add value to GIAA's learning portfolio, responding to and reflecting the changing landscape of internal audit., GIAA colleagues are expected to work in an office location for two days a week on average (40%). Naturally, this expectation will be applied on a pro-rata basis for people who have a part-time or compressed hours working pattern.

Benefits of working for the Government Internal Audit Agency

• Competitive salaries and in year rewards


• Flexible working


• Competitive contributory pension scheme with employer contributions starting from 26.6%.


• Discounts on big brands and supermarkets, online shops and on the high street.


• Paid volunteering days


• Season ticket loans/Cycle to work scheme


• Free eyesight test


• Family friendly HR policies


• 25 days annual leave, increasing one day each year to 30 days after 5 years' service