About GOAL

GOAL’s mission is to work with the most vulnerable communities to help them respond to and recover from humanitarian crises, and to assist them to build transcendent solutions to mitigate poverty and vulnerability.

GOAL is a non-for profit organization that has been working in Ethiopia for over 30 years across all the region of the country towards ensuring the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental rights of life, including but not limited to adequate shelter, food and livelihoods, water and sanitation, nutrition, healthcare and education. GOAL implements a range of multi-sectoral development, resilience, recovery and humanitarian responses Programmes by being sensitive to cross-cutting issues including gender, accountably, child protection, HIV/AIDS.

We envision a world where poverty no longer exist, where vulnerable communities are resilient, where barriers to wellbeing are removed and where everyone has equal rights and  opportunities. GOAL Ethiopia’s main donors are Irish Aid, USAID/OFDA, EHF, ECHO and other private donors.

About the Position:

The Roving Risk & Compliance Advisor will work to identify risks that could impair the organisation reputation, information security, or general operations and suggest ways to mitigate or eliminate them entirely. The role will ensure that GOAL Ethiopia remains fully compliant with relevant donors, and country regulations as well as GOAL internal processes and policies where relevant and ensure an understanding of the necessity of compliance with those rules and regulations. As a Roving Risk and Compliance Advisor, s/he will be expected to show strong leadership and organisational skills and have expert-level knowledge of applicable compliance practices. S/he also need to have prior experience working in Risk Management or a Compliance-related role.  The role will manage risks arising from non-compliance including that of implementing partners. Roving Risk & Compliance Advisor role is two-fold, with both an advisory and an assurance and reporting aspect. On the assurance side, the Roving Compliance Advisor will be responsible to support in the completion of quarterly compliance reviews of transactions, consolidating action points, and submitting to the Head of Compliance for review before the reports are shared with country management and HQ (Dublin) Compliance department.

Key Areas of Accountability/Duties

·         Perform risk assessments and establish organisation’s tolerance for risk

·         Support the Head of Compliance in revising the manuals due to the approved deviations.

·         Support the Compliance Head in reviewing basic operating guidelines on Finance, HR, Logistics, Procurement, Compliance, and other manuals to address any compliance changes due to revisions on principles and practices of Donor, GOAL and Government offices.

·         Review organisation current compliance policies and procedures to identify areas of improvement

·         Draft new and update existing internal risk and compliance policies so that they match the organisation, donor, and other stakeholders’ standards

·         Conduct regular internal checks to ensure compliance procedures are followed across the organisation

·         Maintaining records of compliance practices

·         Establish relationships with important external bodies and stay up to date on the changes in business requirements and all relevant regulations

·         Organize workshops and training sessions to educate and update employees on the organization’s, donors and stakeholders’ compliance policies, regulations, and processes

·         Support the country management in the review of the risk register reports based on internal reviews and advise the executives on risk mitigation measures and implementation of adequate compliance plans

·         Risk Identification and Assessment

·         In collaboration with the Head of Compliance, provide functional expertise to support the organisation’s risk identification and assessment processes. Utilize detailed knowledge of the organisation’s risk appetite to ensure that it is fully embedded and operationalized within the organisation. The Roving Risk & Compliance Advisor will:

·         Be country specialist in GOAL risk framework tools and techniques (including risk register and quarterly compliance checks)

·         Provide knowledgeable insight support to award risk assessments

·         Facilitate risk management processes and sit on Country Risk Management Committee

·         Anticipate and identify potential and perceived risk issues and challenges and the most appropriate solutions to address them.

·         Identify and effectively manage organisational risks to maximize achievement of organisation’s objectives

·         Oversee the process of conducting annual organisation-wide risk assessments to measure the likelihood and impact of identified risks, i.e., developing parameters, methods, and tools for evaluating, categorizing, and prioritizing risks- likelihood, risk consequence, and thresholds to trigger management action, in summary creating/updating internal compliance risk assessment matrix

·         Risk Prevention/Control and Mitigation  

                 Provide expert support to ensure risk prevention measures are fit for purpose.

·         Provide training to staff on key control and compliance risk prevention measures

·         Train staff/partners on fraud prevention

·         Provide expert support on internal control/ mitigation design for new projects or processes

·         Provide surge support for risk prevention expertise to major humanitarian incidents

·         Support the Partnership and Compliance Manager in the management of partnership process and implementation of action plans by sub-recipient

·         Provide advice on donor, government and organization guidelines and policies and compliance queries during programme implementation.

·         Control & Mitigation Testing Compliance

·         In Collaboration with the Head of Compliance, provide compliance checks/ audit reviews to provide assurance on key risk management controls

·         Annual workplan of compliance / spot checks/audit reviews on key management controls e.g., field office audits, vetting spot checks

·         Review/attend key control meetings/ process and ensure that they are working & provide professional input e.g., attending Finance/Logistics/Procurement/Programme/ICT/HR control compliance meetings

·         Support the Compliance Head in reviewing the waiver requests from various departments.

·         In collaboration with Finance and Programme/Support departments review the basic spending trend of individual projects and flag major underspend, overspends, disallowances for the management.

·         Tracking of compliance trends including emerging and recurring compliance issues

·         Incident Response/Investigations (Fraud/Multifaceted)

·         In collaboration with the Head of Compliance, provide independent reporting of risk, incidents & investigations

·         Support in designing and undertaking of investigations into occurrences and incidents that have materialized and where controls, policies and procedures may be found to have been inadequate. This includes, but is not limited to, allegations of fraud.

·         Independent reporting of risk appetite and management of escalations as appropriate

·         Independent reporting of incidents using GOAL exiting tools that affect ability of the organisation to hit its objectives

·         Lead /coordinator of fraud & multifaceted investigations

·         Fraud - focal point/ investigation training

·         Whistle blowing service provision & follow up

·         Action Tracking and Assurance (In Collaboration with the Head of Compliance)

·         Track progress of risk actions so that heads of departments can provide appropriate assurance on risks.

·         Track audit/ investigation findings

·         Coordinate assurance documentation and risk appetite status to complete Risk Register

·         Review of sample Finance, HR, Logs, Procurement, ICT, Programme and Partners documents; update on any change in the compliance environment, distribute findings from the sample test action points as well as follow up with the respective departments on the updates

Skills and Behaviours

Values & Behaviours:

Strong commitment to upholding and promoting GOAL’s values; Respect, Integrity, Courage, Partnership and Humanitarianism.

Ambition

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development

Widely shares their personal vision for GOAL, engages and motivates others

Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration

builds and maintains effective relationships, with the team, colleagues, members and external partners and stakeholders

Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity

Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity

Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Departments Support

Making sure that the organisation and its employees comply with the donor, government and organisation’s regulations and internal policies.

S/he will support in the review of donor, partner, and government agreements referencing to the relevant country laws

Work collaboratively with departments/sectoral heads to ensure compliance

Safeguarding:

To foster an inclusive working environment which is non-threatening and safe for all. An environment that addresses safeguarding adequately in its processes and where the barriers to raise and discuss concerns about safeguarding issues are identified and where possible mitigated.

Work Schedule:

The job of Roving Risk & Compliance Advisor is full time job and requires him/her to work in accordance with the organisation working hours and may be required to work after the normal working hours

Other duties:

• Network with GOAL Global Compliance departments to keep informed of donor and organisation compliance matters (related to compliance)

• Ensure all processed information go along with data protection requirement

• Any other task assigned by the line manager.

REMUNERATION and BENEFITS:

• ·         GOAL will pay a competitive basic salary based on the salary grading with addition benefits.

  ·         A chance to develop tangible experience.

  ·         Being part of a team who continue to make a real difference to the lives of the most vulnerable people.  

  Commitments:

  GOAL’s recruitment procedure is fair and transparent which is also in line with the organization’s commitment to its integrity, honesty and culture. GOAL is committed to ensure that, its performance complies with the terms and conditions of relevant agreements, applicable laws & regulations. Hence, pre-employment background checks will be conducted, and employees are required to read, understand, sign and implement different polices including safeguarding and child protection policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and abuse policy, sexual harassment policy, code of conducts and any other policy, rules and regulation of the organization. GOAL is committed to safeguarding and protection from sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (PSEAH). Staffs, partners and other who are in contact with GOAL work are expected to adhere to GO’L's PSEAH Policy and make ethical decisions to ensure the protection of people particularly children and vulnerable adults from sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.

Job Requirements

Do you want to join an exciting organization that brings high level impact to the community and add value to your professional advancement?  Then join us if you have:

·         A minimum of 5 years' relevant work experience with progressive responsibility in operations and/or programming with experience in INGO/UN and corporate sector. And at least 3 of these years entailing compliance and risk management experience

·         A Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a business-related subject, preferably in accountancy, Business Administration from a reputable University

·         Knowledge of compliance regulations; knowledge of internal control framework

·         Proven, extensive experience in financial statements preparation

·         Experience and understanding of financial audit methodologies

·         High level of numeracy, accuracy, and analytical skills

·         Proficient in Microsoft Office 365, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and information management systems

·         Adequate experience in risk and compliance management

·         Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and analytical skills in written and spoken English. Attention to detail and ability to use own initiative.

·         Excellent interpersonal skills which facilitate to work effectively with all department members, and to collaborate with internal and external auditors when needed

·         Experience in dealing with institutional donors such as USAID/BHA, ECHO, EU, Irish Aid, UN Donors, Private Donors among other donors and experience of their reporting requirements and guidelines.

·         Willingness to travel to field sites on a regular basis and work in a challenging environment

Desirable quality, skill and competence

·         Professional certification such as Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP)

·         Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures

·         Knowledge of GOAL accounting systems and principles

How to Apply

Submit ONLY once their non - returnable application with CV for one vacancy. The vacancy reference number along with the title & Duty station need to be written in the application letter

Applicants can directly apply through THIS LINK

GOAL strongly encourages female candidates to apply!

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview and exam.

Shortlisted candidates will need to submit other supporting documents upon request at later stage.

GOAL is not able to contribute towards any costs incurred by candidates during the recruitment process.