Reference No: REC/106/22

Job title: Head of Compliance

Location: Addis Ababa with travels to the field sites

Reports to: Systems Director & CD

Closing date: June 10, 2022                                      

About GOAL

GOAL’s mission is to work with the most vulnerable communities to help them respond to and recover from humanitarian crises, and to assist them to build transcendent solutions to mitigate poverty and vulnerability.

GOAL is a non-for profit organization that has been working in Ethiopia for over 30 years across all the region of the country towards ensuring the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental rights of life, including but not limited to adequate shelter, food and livelihoods, water and sanitation, nutrition, healthcare and education. GOAL implements a range of multi-sectoral development, resilience, recovery and humanitarian responses Programmes by being sensitive to cross-cutting issues including gender, accountably, child protection, HIV/AIDS.

We envision a world where poverty no longer exist, where vulnerable communities are resilient, where barriers to wellbeing are removed and where everyone has equal rights and opportunities. GOAL Ethiopia’s main donors are Irish Aid, USAID/OFDA, EHF, ECHO and other private donors.

ABOUT THE POSITON:

Head of Compliance is responsible for working to maintain organisation’s legal and ethical integrity. He/she will play the major role of ensuring that the policy laid down by the donors, government and organisation are strictly followed and adhered to by all department members, partners and that the messaging and the behavior of the organisation reflect the rules and regulations of the organisation. The role holder is responsible in providing leadership and management of risks, internal controls and compliance and fraud management functions of the organisation. Similarly, the role holder is required to carry out several important daily tasks such as identifying hidden risks that the organisation may face and come up with effective suggestions or recommendations to handle them. The role entails designing compliance plans, guiding, and informing the management and staff on compliance matters, updating knowledge on recent regulatory changes, and responding in case of donors or government investigations.

 Key Areas of Accountability/Duties

·        Facilitate donor audit/assessment process through HQ responsible person or as directed by Country Director in country

·        Create and oversee control systems to deal with or prevent violations of internal policies and guidelines, evaluate the efficiency of controls, and continuously improve them, and revise procedures, reports, etc. on a periodic basis to identify hidden risks or non-conformity issues.

·        Conducting and overseeing internal compliance reviews periodically to ensure that compliance procedures are followed

·        Conducting or directing the internal investigation of compliance issues

·        Conduct periodic review of procurement process and overall efficiency in line with the organizational guidelines and advise management with list of recommendation to take appropriate mitigations measures.

·        Informing, educating, and training employees on matters that are associated with regulations and organisation’s practices

·        Evaluating business activities such as investments (assets, funding etc.) to evaluate or assess compliance risk

·        Come up with effective plans to manage compliance violation

·        Staying up to date with internal standards and business goals

·        Working cooperatively with internal and external auditors when needed

·        Preparing appropriate compliance reports as per schedule

·        Discussing arising compliance issues with management, department heads or employees

·        Ensuring and verifying that all regulatory policies and procedures have been documented, implemented, and communicated.

·        Champion a culture of compliance throughout the country office and guide appropriate execution of compliance requirements and related internal, donor and government policies and procedures.

·        Ensure best practices, raise awareness, and play an advisory role in risk and compliance across the country office.

·        Responsible to continuously assess and review policies and procedures of risk & compliance management.

·        Promotes accountability for risk identification, measurement, monitoring, assessment, and control, according to the risk register.

·        Lead the development of an organisational culture that reflects its values and behavior. 

·        Ensure that the operations and business transactions of the organisation follow all relevant legal and internal rules by developing and implementing an effective and efficient legal compliance program; proactively compliance review processes, documentation, and practices, and informing department heads.

·        Oversees administration of grant management meetings (GMM). This includes preparation of the annual GMM schedule; review of sample finance, HR, Logs, Procurement, and Programme documents; update on any change in the compliance environment, prepare presentation, present by representing compliance department, take and distribute minutes of the meetings and with all action points arising at each GMM.

·        Review donor project proposals, budget, agreement and amendments to ensure adherence to the donor requirements or areas that needs further discussions with the donor (in coordination with legal department).

·        Oversees the partnership/sub grant management processes are conducting as per guideline

·        Oversees the capacity building and training requirement plans based on the due diligence process for local/international/private sector partnership with the compliance team

Review bi-annual compliance task report to ensure the reports are prepared as per the guideline and submit via SharePoint.

·        Tracking of compliance trends including emerging and recurring risks

Develop Compliance Strategy and Plan

·        Based on the risk assessment study, identify, and prioritize internal/external compliance requirements, and develop the compliance strategy and plan.

·        Understand the objectives of the business/organisation and align those objectives to the internal/external compliance strategy and plan.

·        Assist the management in bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes. 

Case Investigation

·        As required by the Country Director, support in designing and undertaking of investigations into occurrences and incidents that have materialized and where controls, policies and procedures may be found to have been inadequate. This includes, but is not limited to, allegations of fraud.

·        Attend as procurement/tender committee observer where the procurement value and process deemed necessary by the CD

·        Carry out investigation as deemed necessary in identification, prevention and mitigation of unprecedented compliance and risk.

 Staff Management

·        Line management responsibility of Compliance Manager, Partnership & Sub-Grant Manager and Senior Compliance Officer based in Addis Ababa; communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives and workplans, providing regular and timey feedback to continue their professional development.

·        Strengthen and build the capacity of the compliance team

 Departments Support:

·        Making sure that the organisation and its employees comply with the donor, government and organisation’s regulations and internal policies.

·        S/he will support in the review of donor, partner, and government agreements refencing to the relevant country laws

·        Provide advice on compliance matters to the management and departments

·        Work collaboratively with departments/sectoral heads to ensure compliance

·        Support with ATSCs screening/reviews , administer all the ATSCs system and provide training for initial reviewer, reviewers 1 and senior reviewer

 Safeguarding:

·        To foster an inclusive working environment which is non-threatening and safe for all. An environment that addresses safeguarding adequately in its processes and where the barriers to raise and discuss concerns about safeguarding issues are identified and where possible mitigated.

 Work Schedule:

The job of Head of Compliance is full time job and requires him/her to work in accordance to the organisation working hours and may be required to work after working hours

 Values & Behaviors:

·        Strong commitment to upholding and promoting GOAL’s values; Respect, Integrity, Courage, Partnership and Humanitarianism.

 Other duties:

·        Network with GOAL Global Compliance departments to keep informed of partners, donor, and organisation compliance matters (related to compliance)

·        Ensure all processed information go along with data protection requirement

Any other task assigned by the line manager.

Job Requirements

JOIN US

Do you want to join an exciting organization that brings high level impact to the community and add value to your professional advancement? Then join us if you have:

·        A minimum of 6-7 years' relevant work experience in management and leadership positions with experience in INGO/UN and corporate sector.

·        A Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a business-related subject, preferably in accountancy, from a reputable University.

·        Ability to capture and respond favorably to suggestions for change and improvement

·        Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and analytical skills in written and spoken English. Attention to detail and ability to use own initiative.

·        Excellent IT skills; strong computer competency with Microsoft Office 365, word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.

·        Discretion in handling confidential matters and proactive approach to problem solving.

·        Excellent interpersonal skills which enable a head of compliance to work effectively with all department members, and to collaborate with internal and external auditors when needed

·        Adequate experience in risk management

·        Experience in dealing with institutional donors such as USAID/BHA, ECHO, EU, Irish Aid, UN Donors, Private Donors among other donors

·        Willingness to travel to field sites on a regular basis and work in challenging environments

Desirable qualities, skills and competences:

·        Professional certification such as Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP)

·        Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures

·        Proven ability to have a highly strategic focus, whilst dealing competently with operational matters

·        Proven experience of fraud detection and investigation

·        Excellent business partnering and relationship building skills

Note: This description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties and responsibilities associated with the position.

 REMUNERATION and BENEFITS:

• GOAL will pay a competitive basic salary based on the salary grading with addition benefits.
• A chance to develop tangible experience.
• Being part of a team who continue to make a real difference to the lives of the most vulnerable people. 

Commitments:

GOAL’s recruitment procedure is fair and transparent which is also in line with the organization’s commitment to its integrity, honesty and culture. GOAL is committed to ensure that, its performance complies with the terms and conditions of relevant agreements, applicable laws & regulations. Hence, pre-employment background checks will be conducted, and employees are required to read, understand, sign and implement different polices including safe guarding and child protection policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and abuse policy, sexual harassment policy, code of conducts and any other rules and regulation of the organization. GOAL is strongly committed not to harm the people under its care.

GOAL Ethiopia is committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety of people who involves in its work and demands all staff exhibit the highest commitment. GOAL Ethiopia will verify skills and commitment of the candidate in the assessment process and perform Background reference check.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can apply using THIS LINK

Note: GOAL strongly encourages female candidates to apply! Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview and exam. Shortlisted candidates will need to submit other supporting documents upon request at later stage. GOAL is not able to contribute towards any costs incurred by candidates during the recruitment process.