The Risk and Compliance Officer will be responsible for facilitating complaints and feedback from program staff and beneficiaries in the field, ensuring the integrity of information received. This role involves providing assistance on handling Risk, Internal Control and Compliance, Internal Audit and Fraud in the Project Office. In addition, he/she is responsible for overseeing an organization’s compliance with donor laws and regulations. Their duties include facilitating with company management to identify potential risks, implementing policies and procedures to uphold laws and regulations and monitoring the company’s adherence to those policies and procedures in close coordination with the risk and compliance Coordinator and other managements.

Worker Sub-Type

• Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Primary Location

• Gorro, Ethiopia

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitor food aid resources in JEOP operational Woredas’ warehouses and ensure the commodities are stored in line with the standard. Ensures that all warehouses are keeping proper warehousing standards set by Donor. Monthly inspect all warehouses, take physical inventory and forward all findings to the immediate supervisor. 

• Assist and monitor the field commodity teams in the proper management of food aid resources in line with the commodity management guide.  Follow up that the allocated foods have arrived in each distribution site and necessary food packages are in place before projects call beneficiaries for distribution.

• Ensure an adequate filing system is in place in all warehouses and easy to access them when required. 

• Conduct regular commodity end use check, PDM, etc. in its designated woredas after the completion of each food distribution round to check and verify beneficiaries have received their entitlements as per the determined rations sizes and verify other relevant information on JEOP food beneficiaries

• Review relevant food transaction documents to check and provide feedback on   practice of standard recording and documentation and reconciliation between different commodity transaction recording documents

• Check and ensure if control procedures are adequate at each stage of JEOP food handling and distribution process to prevent corruption and misappropriation 

• Constantly report to management concerning the organization’s compliance with laws and regulations.

Job Requirements

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• Experience:  2 - 3 years’ experiences on food assistance projects

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• MA/MSC, BA/BSc Degree in social science fields such as Development studies, Agriculture, Economics, Accounting and other related fields

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Ability to perform field assignments and willingness to travel for long period of time in difficult terrain, harsh and demanding conditions. Computer literacy is an added advantage

Number of positions: Two (Goro bale and Goro East Bale)

World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.

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How to Apply

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