Risk and Compliance Officer

Our package

We offer flexible working, a competitive benefits package:

Department: Business Partner Services

Grade: Grade D (£36,000 per annum), adjusted for local cost of living according to location

Location: Global, with travel. Applicants must be resident and possess the legal right to live and work in the country where they are based.

Fixed term contract: Full-time; one year with possibility of extension, depending on availability of funding and performance.

Responsible To: Internal Audit Manager

HelpAge International is seeking to recruit a Risk and Compliance Officer, to work collaboratively with teams and ensure that the organisation is successfully meeting all compliance requirements, both donor as well as local legal requirements.

Job Purpose

In collaboration with your colleagues, you will be able to shape and design specific activities that are relevant at any point in time. We want you to work creatively to deliver impact and respond to relevant opportunities.

With your colleagues, you will develop your team workplan to drive initiatives, develop ideas, as well ensure there is space for cross organisational working and short-term tasks. From this you will devise your individual workplan that will form the basis of your day to day activities and your performance reviews.

Let’s talk about you

You will be someone with:

You will be someone with the following experience, professional qualifications, skills and attributes:

• Membership of one of the accounting, legal or compliance bodies or similar
• Experience of Risk and / or Compliance work
• Ability to design risk-based reviews
• Experience of risk appraisal and management techniques
• Experience international organisations with overseas offices
• Experience in ensuring compliance with donor requirements
• Experience in ensuring compliance with statutory requirements in other countries
• Experience in the finance function of a not-for-profit or charitable organisation.
• Experience of writing financial procedures
• Legal experience
• Excellent communication and reporting skills (verbal and in writing)
• Planning & analytical skills
• Negotiating and influencing skills
• Proactive, co-operative and supportive team player
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Experience of working across cultures
• Ability and willingness for overseas travel, including to conflict affected areas
• Good mastery of the English language.
• Ability and willingness to travel overseas, including at short notice.

The Organisation

HelpAge International is entering into an exciting phase of its evolution as we fundamentally transform what we do, how we do it and how we are organised. Driven by our commitment to the localization agenda, we are evolving the way we partner and deliver value at the country and local level. In the coming 3 years, we will localize our country offices and programmes, and develop new and diverse forms of partnerships globally.

We seek to give primacy to local agents for change. To this end, we will replace all programmes delivered by HelpAge staff and resources on the ground with implementation by partners. This will apply across all our work -humanitarian and long-term development. Going forward, our value is framed around supporting, convening and thought leadership.

A key way of creating value and bringing impact is collaborating across boundaries and by bringing different perspectives, skills and talent together. We will deliver our work through agile teams and a global operating model, with regional roots, to focus on impact and maintain the relationships at the national level to help build collaborations and support others to set their own agendas.

Our Values

At HelpAge International we work hard to achieve our goals together as a team with a clear shared purpose. Our values inform how we work together:

Inclusive

We respect people, value diversity and are committed to equality.

Impact

We value and recognise the contribution of our staff and network members, as we put older people at the center of everything we do.

Partners

We work alongside network members and others to increase reach, influence and impact. We are committed to a culture of collaboration and building positive relationships.

Learning

We are passionate about learning, accountable and work together to find creative solutions.

Safeguarding

HelpAge International is committed to safeguarding the communities with which we work, our partners, staff and any others who we come into contact with.

Therefore, you will also be responsible for:

• Preventing harm and abuse from our people, operations and programmes to anyone that encounters our work.
• Reporting all safeguarding incidents you see, hear, hear about or suspect, using our internal reporting mechanism.
• Complying with all safeguarding framework policies and practices
• Completing mandatory training courses relating to our safeguarding policy framework and complying with HR vetting procedures.

Equal Opportunities

HelpAge International is committed to creating an inclusive working environment, promoting and providing equal opportunities and respecting diversity in employment. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.