Compliance Assistant – Gaziantep

General Description of the Programme:

GOAL an International Humanitarian Organisation has had a presence in Turkey since 2013 and has been contributing to the migrant response since 2016 with a focus on responding to needs in protection and self-reliance of vulnerable and marginalised migrants and host community members in southern Turkey.

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL Syria implements multi-sector programmes in Northwest Syria (NWS) addressing the multiple vulnerabilities that households and communities are facing after a decade of conflict. At the household level, the program design creates links between its multi-donor funded emergency response program to its food security, winterization, and shelter programming, and complements food assistance programming with basic needs assistance via Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA). At the community level, GOAL supports bakeries facilitating the provision of affordable bread to large catchment areas in Idleb and North Aleppo. GOAL has a large-scale WASH infrastructure support programme that provides water throughout large areas of Idleb governorate.

GOAL has been working in North Aleppo Governate since 2019, through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, as well as emergency support for recently displaced household.

GOAL has two projects (ECHO funded LINK and Irish Aid) in Türkiye, LINK program targets refugees from nomadic / semi-nomadic backgrounds and those engaged in seasonal agricultural labour. LINK has been designed to address and mitigate protection concerns of the vulnerable / marginalized refugees through provision of critical information and raising their awareness on their rights, obligations and services available in Türkiye, by sensitization/capacity building (targeting key stakeholders and service providers, etc.) activities, and Case Management (CM) and Individual Protection Assistance (IPA) services to enable highly vulnerable refugees to access to basic, social and protective services available under the provisions of Temporary and International Protection regulations in Türkiye. On the other hand, Irish Aid grant is targeting earthquake survivors and providing humanitarian assistance to affected families.

Job purpose:

The primary function of this position is to ensure that GOAL Turkey/ Syria program is fully compliant with GOAL and its donors’ rules and regulations. H/She will work across all GOAL departments, including programs, finance, logistics, HR, and GOAL’s internal partnership support team, and will work under the supervision of the Compliance Coordinator (CC).

Duties, objectives and competencies

• To stay informed of and ensure adherence to the standard of GOAL and Donor procedures and policies concerning Logistics, Finance, HR, and Programmes as set out in the following:
  • GOAL Donor Compliance Manual
  • Donor grants agreements
  • GOAL Partnership Manual
  • GOAL Logistics Manual & GOAL Syria Procurement & Authorization Levels Chart
  • HQ Finance Manual & GOAL Syria finance procedures and policies
  • GOAL’s Training guidelines
  • GOAL Turkey HR Manual
  • GOAL Grant Management Guidelines
  • GOAL Dublin HQ proposal/interim / final report checklists
  • HQ Safety & Security policies & GOAL Turkey Security Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Assist CC in conducting ATSC as initial review, and make sure that the ATSC SP list is up to date,
• File maintenance and administration tasks as required,
• Assist the CC in external audit preparation,
• Assist the CC in completing the quarterly Compliance report,
• Working closely with CC on other Compliance staff,
• Timely and effective communication and filing of all results and findings of the above.

Any other tasks as requested by CC.

Requirements (essential)

• Turkish Citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree from business administration, finance, or equivalent/ related field.
• At least 2-years professional experience in NGO sector.
• At Least 2- years of professional experience in finance or Compliance or Audit.
• Excellent English language skill (spoken and written), Arabic and/or Turkish an advantage.

Requirements (desired)

• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to learn new systems and IT software quickly and effectively.
• Organised and flexible, ability to respond to changing priorities.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills while interacting with colleagues.

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Accountability within GOAL

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

Thank you.