Job Overview
Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis Ababa External Vacancy Announcement for the position of Controller Development Cooperation. The Embassy seeks a qualified professional to support financial management and oversight of development cooperation projects.
Key Details
- Location: Addis Ababa
- Deadline: May 4th, 2026
- Job Type: Full time fixed contract with 6 months’ probation period
Job Requirements & Description
Required Qualification and Experience
- Higher Degree in Finance/ Business Administration
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience from project financing/accounting/controller or similar roles, including at least 3 years in a financial management function
- Experience from similar role at embassy or international organization
- Experience with development cooperation is an advantage
- Knowledge of the grant recipients (civil society, UN, World Bank, Ministries) is an advantage
- Excellent English and Amharic (both spoken and written) are essential
- Good communication skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and capacity to work analytically and efficiently independently and as part of a team
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure
- Focused, methodical and able to deliver in a timely manner
- Readiness to take on new tasks and areas of responsibility, if and when required
Specific tasks:
- Assist and guide programme officers in reviewing relevant documents such as grant agreement partner’s budgets, disbursement requests, financial reports and audit reports for advice and quality assurance prior to entering into agreements and during their implementation phase
- Help ensure consistency with applicable rules and guidelines for financial management and reporting
- Provide technical assistance to programme officers with audit issues including analysis of project audit reports and recommendations on follow-up as well as control of and development of ToRs for audits
- Perform financial capacity assessment of partners when required in cooperation with programme officers, to assess agreement partner’s capacity and competence with regards to financial management (especially in appraisal stage), and advise on appropriate mitigating and capacity-building measures
- Carry out field visits and “spot-checks” by partners, in close collaboration with the programme officers
- Participate in donor group meetings for financial management and audit discussion, when relevant
- Focal person for the Ethiopian government’s Aid Management Platform for data registration and responsible to report on disbursements on quarterly basis
- Provide quality assurance to procurement process regarding consultancy contracts for grants to ensure the Embassy adheres to the Norwegian MFA procurement rules and procedures
- Assist the Head of Development Cooperation in financial planning and forecasting
- Any other duties assigned by the Ambassador
Required Skill: Corporate Finance & Valuation
How to Apply
Candidates who meet the stated requirements may forward their application consisting of a short motivational statement of up to 500 words describing why you want this job and CV by 4 May 2026 by sending it to: ethiopia.job@dfa.mfa.no
To be eligible for the position you need to respond to the following questions in the email:
- What is your minimum annual salary requirement for the position
- Do you have more than five years of experience, including experience from a role in financial management from a similar position at an embassy or international organization?
- Do you have a master’s degree in finance or an MBA?
Please write the following in the subject file: “Application – Controller”. Short-listed applicants will be invited to an interview, as well as a possible written examination. The result of the application process will be announced at the Embassy’s website.