Regional Risk and Compliance Adviser – Poland – flexible (subject to discussion)

Background

The Norwegian Refugee Council has been present in Ukraine since 2014, helping more than 700,000 people with food, shelter, water, sanitation, and legal assistance. Following the escalation of conflict since 24 February 2022, NRC is scaling up its efforts inside Ukraine and in neighbouring countries to provide aid to tens of thousands people forced to flee. NRC has launched a humanitarian response plan for the next six months to support 800,000 people inside Ukraine and neighbouring countries. NRC will respond, largely through local partners, through an integrated approach combining our sectoral areas of expertise such as education, protection, legal aid (ICLA) and shelter. NRC is operational in Ukraine and is also in the process of setting up country operations in Poland and Romania and Moldova and potentially other countries subject to regional context developments

Aiming at strengthening the organisation’s risk management capacity, in 2019 NRC decided to establish a risk management and compliance (R&C) function across the organisation. This function is responsible for i) enabling NRC to manage risks by supporting organisational efforts to identify, assess, prepare for and respond to risks; ii) fostering a risk management culture by institutionalising processes and systems that embed risk management into operations and build capacity and awareness on risk throughout NRC; and iii) improving organisational effectiveness by streamlining compliance practices and enabling better prioritisation of support resources to highest-risk issues

At regional office (RO) level the R&C function has been tasked with supporting regional risk owners in their efforts to manage risks, working with COs in the region to provide assurance to the regional management team on regional (COs) compliance within high risk areas/issues, promoting a risk management culture in the region through training and communication and contributing to the development of NRC’s R&C frameworks.

In the Central and Eastern Europe Regional Office (CEERO), the Risk & Compliance Adviser is expected to work closely with country offices and regional programme & support specialists to identify key areas of programme delivery & reporting that expose NRC to risk and to work with them to design enhanced delivery & support mechanism that can reduce & manage risks over time.

What you will do:

The Regional Risk and Compliance Adviser is responsible for overseeing and supporting the risk management efforts of an assigned list of COs, monitoring and improving compliance within high risk areas in the assigned COs, and promoting a risk management culture in the region by training, communication and advice.

• Advise and support COs in implementing compliance improvement measures related to high-risk areas/issues
• Facilitate coordination among COs and the RO to respond to external audits initiated by institutional donors and follow up of audits recommendations.
• Operate a helpdesk function providing timely responses to technical questions from staff in the RO and COs related to the following:
  • Areas of expertise held by the R&C function at HO (Risk management, compliance, Anti-corruption, Data Protection, Code of Conduct, legal and complaints management); and
  • Compliance with regulations not specific to a given function (i.e. SSD, COTER, sanctions).
• Support the Regional Head of R&C in providing assurance to the Regional Management Group (RMG) on COs’ compliance within high-risk areas/issues by facilitating their identification; conducting regular CO compliance checks on those areas/issues; and following up on recommendations from checks.
• Provide training, guidance, support to risk, and compliance staff in COs on their role and responsibilities and on the implementation of the Risk Management Framework, NRC’s approach to compliance, the Code of Conduct and complaints management.
• Support the development and revision of verification & compliance methods that other functions implement.
• Document lessons learned and best practices in the region’s R&C assurance efforts.
• Operate and maintain the systems to receive process and respond to complaints on NRC’s performance and staff behaviour from internal and external stakeholders in the RO.
• Support the technical supervision of R&C staff in COs by participating in their recruitment and performance management when requested.

What you will bring:

• Minimum 3 years of experience from working as a manager in compliance, auditing or risk management functions in an international organisation/company or from working as senior manager in the humanitarian sector.
• Knowledge and skills in the international regulatory context applicable for INGOs.
• Knowledge and skills in any of the following: safeguarding, accountability to affected populations or Code of Conduct related matters.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of the regulatory context in the Central and Eastern Europe Region
• Fluency in working language of any of the region’s COs (if necessary)
• Experience of working within humanitarian context is desirable.
• Risk or compliance professional qualification is desirable.

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Please note:

Kindly submit your CV and application in English and include your full name as written in your passport. Please include all relevant employment history and education when completing your application. Uploaded CV’s will not be considered.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

To be dedicated in what we do;

To be innovative with our solutions;

To act as one unified and inclusive team;

To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible;

the people we exist to serve; and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

What we provide:

• Type of contract and Duration : 1 year (Renewable)
• Salary/benefits: According to NRC salary scale, terms and conditions.
• Duty station: Warsaw, Poland or flexible (subject to discussion)
• Travel: up to 20% (subject to discussion)

About Us

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.