Overview
The Risk and Compliance Officer will support periodic checks of partner due diligence documents, capacity assessments, and risk management capacity building. The role also involves ensuring the creation and maintenance of strategic partnerships and monitoring projects for appropriate resource use.
Key Responsibilities
- Support periodic checks of partner’s due diligence documents to ensure compliance and support partners with updating their due diligence documents on Grant Management System (GMS).
- Support with the capacity assessments of prospective partners, including training desk review of documents and on-site visits for verification.
- Develop and facilitate risk management capacity building (including fraud and sexual exploitation an abuse, among others).
- Support with the implementation and editing of organizational risk-related policies.
- Support with incident management (including reviewing and analysing incident reports).
- Ensure creation and maintenance of strategic partnerships with humanitarian partners, focusing on establishment of new and strategic partnerships with humanitarian organizations in line with compliance requirements.
- Attend cluster and other humanitarian coordination fora as required and conduct regular follow-up with partners to ensure compliance.
- Monitor projects to ensure the appropriate use of resources, promote learning and best practices, and ensure the implementation of projects in compliance with SHF policies and guidelines, when required.
- Ensure effective coordination support to the relevant stakeholders, focusing on supporting the HFU with the review and revision process of project proposals through consultation with cluster leads, when required.
- Support on the collection of information and preparation of information products such as dashboards, newsletters and/or interim and annual reports.
- Support trainings / workshops / technical reviews and Advisory Board meetings.
Required Experience
Minimum 2 years with a Master’s degree or 4 years with Bachelor’s degree of relevant experience in humanitarian affairs, emergency relief management or development work or other related disciplines; is required. Former working experience with a UN agency or NGO providing humanitarian assistance is required. Advance usage of Microsoft Office is required. Knowledge and/or experience in Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) is required. Experience in the implementation of organizational policies is required. Experience in the editing of organizational policies is desirable. Proficiency in the use of web-based grants management system is desirable. Experience working in vetting or assessment of NGOs is highly desirable. Experience in developing and facilitating training is desirable. Experience working with humanitarian financing is highly desirable. Experience project design, management, implementation or monitoring and evaluation is desirable.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in humanitarian affairs, emergency relief management or development work or other related disciplines. OR A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
