Risk and Compliance Manager

We are looking for a Risk and Compliance Manager to lead our Risk and Compliance Unit in Ukraine. As a consultative member of the CMG and the leader of the risk and compliance function in the Country Office in Kyiv ( CO ), the Risk and Compliance Manager is responsible for: leading the CO’s efforts to effectively manage risks; promoting a risk management culture; ensuring the CO’s compliance within high-risk areas and with regulations not specific to a given function (i.e. SSD, COTER, sanctions); and responding to any issues or questions that arise relating to the CO’s work on PSEA, DPR, legal, Code of Conduct and complaints management.

The candidate must have the following skills:

• Strategic Thinking – Developing appropriate strategies based on contextual and political understanding, assessments and NRC’s governing documents.
• Influencing – Promoting ideas, seeking consensus and balancing conflicting interests through careful consideration and discussion.
• Initiating action – Making decisions by analysing relevant information, developing appropriate solutions, providing reasons for decisions and taking action
• Managing performance and development.
• Analysing – Having a strong capacity for absorbing large amounts of information, verifying critical elements and communicating conclusions rationally.
• Communicating with impact and respect – Presenting the actual situation by keeping superiors and teams informed about both positive and negative information, but always respecting confidentiality of sensitive information

Background

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 country office (CO) level, the R&C function has been tasked with supporting risk owners in their efforts to manage risks, providing assurance to the Country Management Group (CMG) on CO compliance within high risk areas/issues, promoting a risk management culture in the CO through training and communication, ensuring CO’s compliance with standards and regulations that fall outside the scope of existing CO functions (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Data Protection (DPR), Code of Conduct, Securing Supporting Documentation, COTER and sanctions) and ensuring that complaints from external and internal stake holders are properly handled and responded to.

What you will do:

1. Support the CMG and the Country Director (CD) by ensuring:
2. That risks in the CO’s operations are identified, assessed and controlled effectively; and
3. CO’s compliance within high-risk areas/issues, by:
   • • identifying such high-risk areas/issues;
       – conducting regular compliance checks on the said areas/issues (e.g. spot checks);
       – reporting regularly to the CD and the CMG on compliance issues; and
       – leading the implementation of compliance improvement measures throughout the CO.Ensure that risk management and compliance related CO registers, namely the CO Risk Register, Waiver Register, Recommendations Tracker and Standards Operating Procedures (SOPs) Register are complete and up to date.
4. Advise and support in-country function leaders (Head of Support, Area Managers, Head of Programmes, Health Safety and Security Manager) in implementing compliance improvement measures related to high-risk areas/issues.
5. Ensure that SOPs in the CO are aligned with policies and regulations, are coherent with other SOPs throughout the CO and NRC and follow basic quality principles.
6. Ensure that mechanisms to report, process and respond to complaints on staff behaviour from internal stakeholders (whistleblowing) are in place in the CO and in line with existing NRC requirements.
7. Provide advice, training and support to CO staff on the following: i) 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 ii) compliance with regulations not specific to a given function (e.g. SSD, COTER, sanctions).
8. Contribute to the development of NRC’s RM framework by documenting lessons learned and best practices in the CO.
9. Management of staff and resources of the R&C function at CO.

Specific responsibilities

• Assist managers in establishing mitigation plans and contingency plans while dealing with uncertain and unpredictable current challenges.
• Provide oversight and support on cross cutting risk and compliance issues such as corruption, data security, sanctions, proof of aid delivery, and supply chain disruption

What you will bring:

• Minimum 3 years of experience from working as a manager in compliance, auditing or risk management functions or from working assenior 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.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Knowledge of the operational and regulatory context in Ukraine
• Fluency in local working language, highly desirable

What We Offer

• Duty Station – Kyiv
• Approximately 50% travel
• Contract length: 1 year (with possibility of extension)
• Salary: Grade 9 in NRC’s salary scale. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

We encourage you to learn more about this role please click here to access the Detailed Job Description

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.
• Nationals from Central & Eastern Europe are highly encouraged to apply. EU nationals and those with the right to work in Ukraine will be prioritized.
• For any inquiry please reach out to [email protected] including the “Job Title” as a subject.

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.

NRC is very grateful to those who have responded thus far and continue to heed to our calls for support. This is going a long way in addressing the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns currently affecting the people of Ukraine.

Due to large response, NRC will not provide feedback to those candidates who do not meet criteria and/or not follow the application process.