Chief (Professional Practices), P-5, Fixed Term, #00114284, Office of Internal Audit & Investigation, NYHQ
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to extract relevant content from posting.
We have a lot of text: description of UNICEF, role description, duties, minimum requirements, desirables, competencies, benefits etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove things like "For every child, the right to a Calling How can you make a difference?" maybe part of intro but not needed? It's not boilerplate but maybe part of description; we can keep as prose under About the role? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can combine.
We need sections: About the role (maybe a brief overview), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (maybe education and experience), Qualifications (maybe certifications?), Skills (list of skills), Benefits (if stated), Pay (if stated), Schedule (if stated). The posting mentions benefits: "We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities." Also mentions reasonable accommodation throughout recruitment process. Also mentions medical clearance, visa, inoculation requirements. Those could be considered benefits? They are more conditions. But we have a Benefits section if posting actually states them. It does state benefits: paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, reasonable accommodation. So we include Benefits.
Pay: Not mentioned. So we should NOT include Pay section.
Schedule: Not mentioned. So no Schedule.
Qualifications: Could be education and experience? The posting has Minimum Requirements (Education, Work Experience) and Desirables (certifications, experience). Could treat Requirements as education+experience, Qualifications as certifications? But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But we have to follow headings list; we can include both if content present. However we should avoid thin sections. Let's see: Requirements: Education (advanced degree) and Work Experience (10 years). Qualifications: Professional certifications (CIA etc) highly desirable, plus other desirables. Could be separate.
Skills: list of skills: demonstrated experience in leading QAIP, risk-based planning, audit performance frameworks, audit management systems, data analytics, technology, analytical, conceptual, communication, language fluency, etc.
We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each bullet point? Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to turn lists into
- . For prose, use
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We must not repeat job title. No heading for Job ID etc.
We need to remove boilerplate: duplicated lines, legal, EEO, etc. The posting includes many lines about UNICEF values, competencies, etc. Those are substantive? They are part of the posting; we should keep them maybe under About the role or Qualifications? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep the values and competencies text. However they might be considered boilerplate? They are part of the job posting describing UNICEF's values and competencies required. Likely we should keep them.
We also need to remove duplicated lines: there are repeated phrases like "For every child, the right to a Calling" appears twice? Actually appears at start and later "For every Child, you demonstrate..." We'll keep but maybe deduplicate identical lines? Not required but we can.
We need to remove application instructions: lines like "If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD_Chief (Professional Practices)_P5" and "Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly..." etc. Those are application instructions; we should remove them.
Also remove "Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF." That's maybe generic but not application instruction; could be considered boilerplate? It's about UNICEF; maybe keep as part of About the role? Might be okay.
We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. There's a lot of EEO text at the end: "UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence." That's EEO; should remove. Also lines about UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children, zero-tolerance policy, background checks, medical clearance, visa, inoculation, etc. Those are legal/conditions; maybe they are not boilerplate but are part of posting; but they might be considered legal boilerplate. The instruction says remove legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we should remove those sections. However some of those are conditions like medical clearance, visa, inoculation; they might be considered part of the job posting but likely considered legal. Safer to remove them.
Thus we keep: introductory description about UNICEF, role description, duties, minimum requirements, desirables (certifications etc), competencies, benefits (paid parental leave etc). We'll exclude the EEO and legal paragraphs.
Now structure:
About the role
... prose summarizing UNICEF mission and role context? We need to preserve all substantive info, not summarize away detail. If we put prose, we must not lose detail. Could we include the full description as prose? That would be lengthy but okay. However we also have lists for duties etc. We could put the role overview as prose, then responsibilities as list, requirements as list, qualifications as list, skills as list, benefits as list.
We must not invent or summarize away detail: if we convert detailed bullet points into list items, that's fine. For prose sections we can keep paragraphs as is.
Let's extract:
About the role: The initial paragraphs about UNICEF mission, OIAI, Internal Audit Section, Professional Practices function, Chief (Professional Practices) leads function, supervision, etc. That's substantive. We'll put that as
maybe multiple paragraphs.
Responsibilities: The "Key Functions, Accountabilities And Related Duties/tasks" with bullet points each with percentages. We'll turn each bullet into
- . Keep the percentages? They are part of detail; we should keep them. Eg: "Lead the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP) (25%)- Provide strategic leadership..." We'll keep as list item.
Requirements: Minimum Requirements: Education, Work Experience. We'll list as
- .
Qualifications: Desirables: Professional certifications, experience in planning leading supervising internal audit engagements, strong knowledge of UN system, proven experience in preparing for external quality assessments, demonstrated leadership and influence, relevant experience at country level. We'll list as
- .
Skills: The list under Skills: Demonstrated experience in leading or managing professional practices functions..., Extensive experience in risk-based audit planning..., Demonstrated experience in driving audit quality..., Strong experience in audit management systems..., Demonstrated ability to leverage technology..., Excellent analytical..., Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Desirables Language: Knowledge of another official UN language... We'll treat language as part of skills? Could be separate but we can include in skills list.
Benefits: "We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities." Also maybe mention reasonable accommodation throughout recruitment process. We'll list as
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We must not include Pay or Schedule.
Now ensure we removed boilerplate: Remove lines about "For every child, the right to a Calling How can you make a difference?" maybe keep as part of About the role? It's a tagline; could be considered boilerplate but it's part of posting. I'd keep it as part of About the role prose.
Remove duplicated lines: there is a line "For every Child, you demonstrate..." later; we can keep but maybe it's duplicate of earlier? Not identical; keep.
Remove application instructions: "If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD_Chief (Professional Practices)_P5" remove. Also "Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly..." remove. Also lines about accessibility email button etc remove. Also lines about UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children etc remove. Also lines about background checks, medical clearance, visa, inoculation etc remove. Also lines about "Remarks As per Article 101..." remove. Also lines about government employees resign etc remove. Also lines about UNICEF reserves right to withdraw offer etc remove.
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About the role
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling. UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package. Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF. For every child, the right to a Calling How can you make a difference? The Office of Internal Audit and Investigations (OIAI) is a key component of UNICEF’s independent internal oversight system, providing assurance and advisory services to strengthen governance, risk management, and control processes. OIAI reports functionally to the Executive Board and administratively to the Executive Director. Within OIAI, the Internal Audit Section delivers risk-based assurance and advisory services across UNICEF’s global operations. In this context, the Professional Practices function plays a critical leadership role in ensuring that the Internal Audit function is strategically aligned, high‑performing, risk‑informed, and continuously evolving in response to organizational priorities, emerging risks, stakeholder expectations, and the Global Internal Audit Standards. The Chief (Professional Practices) leads this function and serves as the central authority for audit quality, methodology, professional standards, risk‑based planning, and performance insights across the Internal Audit Section, driving continuous improvement, innovation, and the long‑term effectiveness and credibility of internal audit activities. Under the supervision of the Deputy Director, Internal Audit, Chief (Professional Practices) is responsible for leading and governing the quality, strategic alignment, performance, and continuous transformation of the Internal Audit function. The position provides leadership over the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP), audit methodology and standards, risk‑based planning frameworks, audit universe management, assurance mapping, audit performance measurement, and the modernization of audit practices through data, technology, and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP) (25%)- Provide strategic leadership and full ownership of the Internal Audit Section’s Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP), ensuring it covers all aspects of the audit activity and aligns with the Global Internal Audit Standards. Establish and enforce quality frameworks, methodologies, and performance criteria across all audit engagements.
- Lead audit strategy, risk‑based planning, and assurance mapping (25%)- Lead the development and continuous enhancement of the audit universe, risk‑based planning frameworks, and strategic audit priorities, ensuring alignment with UNICEF’s evolving risk profile, organizational transformation initiatives, and stakeholder expectations.
- Lead audit performance, analytics, and strategic insights (20%)- Establish and manage a comprehensive audit performance and analytics framework, including key performance indicators, dashboards, and data‑driven monitoring of audit activities. Analyze cross cutting findings, systemic risks, trends, and emerging
- . For prose, use
. We must not repeat job title. No heading for Job ID etc. We need to remove boilerplate: duplicated lines, legal, EEO, etc. The posting includes many lines about UNICEF values, competencies, etc. Those are substantive? They are part of the posting; we should keep them maybe under About the role or Qualifications? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep the values and competencies text. However they might be considered boilerplate? They are part of the job posting describing UNICEF's values and competencies required. Likely we should keep them. We also need to remove duplicated lines: there are repeated phrases like "For every child, the right to a Calling" appears twice? Actually appears at start and later "For every Child, you demonstrate..." We'll keep but maybe deduplicate identical lines? Not required but we can. We need to remove application instructions: lines like "If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD_Chief (Professional Practices)_P5" and "Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly..." etc. Those are application instructions; we should remove them. Also remove "Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF." That's maybe generic but not application instruction; could be considered boilerplate? It's about UNICEF; maybe keep as part of About the role? Might be okay. We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. There's a lot of EEO text at the end: "UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence." That's EEO; should remove. Also lines about UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children, zero-tolerance policy, background checks, medical clearance, visa, inoculation, etc. Those are legal/conditions; maybe they are not boilerplate but are part of posting; but they might be considered legal boilerplate. The instruction says remove legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we should remove those sections. However some of those are conditions like medical clearance, visa, inoculation; they might be considered part of the job posting but likely considered legal. Safer to remove them. Thus we keep: introductory description about UNICEF, role description, duties, minimum requirements, desirables (certifications etc), competencies, benefits (paid parental leave etc). We'll exclude the EEO and legal paragraphs. Now structure:
About the role
... prose summarizing UNICEF mission and role context? We need to preserve all substantive info, not summarize away detail. If we put prose, we must not lose detail. Could we include the full description as prose? That would be lengthy but okay. However we also have lists for duties etc. We could put the role overview as prose, then responsibilities as list, requirements as list, qualifications as list, skills as list, benefits as list. We must not invent or summarize away detail: if we convert detailed bullet points into list items, that's fine. For prose sections we can keep paragraphs as is. Let's extract: About the role: The initial paragraphs about UNICEF mission, OIAI, Internal Audit Section, Professional Practices function, Chief (Professional Practices) leads function, supervision, etc. That's substantive. We'll put that as
maybe multiple paragraphs. Responsibilities: The "Key Functions, Accountabilities And Related Duties/tasks" with bullet points each with percentages. We'll turn each bullet into
- . Keep the percentages? They are part of detail; we should keep them. Eg: "Lead the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP) (25%)- Provide strategic leadership..." We'll keep as list item. Requirements: Minimum Requirements: Education, Work Experience. We'll list as
- . Qualifications: Desirables: Professional certifications, experience in planning leading supervising internal audit engagements, strong knowledge of UN system, proven experience in preparing for external quality assessments, demonstrated leadership and influence, relevant experience at country level. We'll list as
- . Skills: The list under Skills: Demonstrated experience in leading or managing professional practices functions..., Extensive experience in risk-based audit planning..., Demonstrated experience in driving audit quality..., Strong experience in audit management systems..., Demonstrated ability to leverage technology..., Excellent analytical..., Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Desirables Language: Knowledge of another official UN language... We'll treat language as part of skills? Could be separate but we can include in skills list. Benefits: "We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities." Also maybe mention reasonable accommodation throughout recruitment process. We'll list as
- .
We must not include Pay or Schedule.
Now ensure we removed boilerplate: Remove lines about "For every child, the right to a Calling How can you make a difference?" maybe keep as part of About the role? It's a tagline; could be considered boilerplate but it's part of posting. I'd keep it as part of About the role prose.
Remove duplicated lines: there is a line "For every Child, you demonstrate..." later; we can keep but maybe it's duplicate of earlier? Not identical; keep.
Remove application instructions: "If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD_Chief (Professional Practices)_P5" remove. Also "Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly..." remove. Also lines about accessibility email button etc remove. Also lines about UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children etc remove. Also lines about background checks, medical clearance, visa, inoculation etc remove. Also lines about "Remarks As per Article 101..." remove. Also lines about government employees resign etc remove. Also lines about UNICEF reserves right to withdraw offer etc remove.
Now produce HTML.
We need to ensure we don't include any markdown fences.
Let's craft.
About the role
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling. UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package. Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF. For every child, the right to a Calling How can you make a difference? The Office of Internal Audit and Investigations (OIAI) is a key component of UNICEF’s independent internal oversight system, providing assurance and advisory services to strengthen governance, risk management, and control processes. OIAI reports functionally to the Executive Board and administratively to the Executive Director. Within OIAI, the Internal Audit Section delivers risk-based assurance and advisory services across UNICEF’s global operations. In this context, the Professional Practices function plays a critical leadership role in ensuring that the Internal Audit function is strategically aligned, high‑performing, risk‑informed, and continuously evolving in response to organizational priorities, emerging risks, stakeholder expectations, and the Global Internal Audit Standards. The Chief (Professional Practices) leads this function and serves as the central authority for audit quality, methodology, professional standards, risk‑based planning, and performance insights across the Internal Audit Section, driving continuous improvement, innovation, and the long‑term effectiveness and credibility of internal audit activities. Under the supervision of the Deputy Director, Internal Audit, Chief (Professional Practices) is responsible for leading and governing the quality, strategic alignment, performance, and continuous transformation of the Internal Audit function. The position provides leadership over the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP), audit methodology and standards, risk‑based planning frameworks, audit universe management, assurance mapping, audit performance measurement, and the modernization of audit practices through data, technology, and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP) (25%)- Provide strategic leadership and full ownership of the Internal Audit Section’s Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP), ensuring it covers all aspects of the audit activity and aligns with the Global Internal Audit Standards. Establish and enforce quality frameworks, methodologies, and performance criteria across all audit engagements.
- Lead audit strategy, risk‑based planning, and assurance mapping (25%)- Lead the development and continuous enhancement of the audit universe, risk‑based planning frameworks, and strategic audit priorities, ensuring alignment with UNICEF’s evolving risk profile, organizational transformation initiatives, and stakeholder expectations.
- Lead audit performance, analytics, and strategic insights (20%)- Establish and manage a comprehensive audit performance and analytics framework, including key performance indicators, dashboards, and data‑driven monitoring of audit activities. Analyze cross cutting findings, systemic risks, trends, and emerging