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Job Title: Associate Risk Management & Compliance Officer

Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Monthly net salary:  UGX 11,343,170 and UGX 14,809,420

About US:

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. UNHCR’s mandate under the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is to lead and co-ordinate action for international protection to refugees; seek permanent solutions for the problems of refugees and safeguard refugee rights and well-being. UNHCR has an additional mandate concerning issues of statelessness, as it is given a designated role under Article 11 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Assist the Operation/Bureau on risk management, compliance, and oversight matters, helping them in discharging their responsibilities and accountabilities to manage risks and comply with policies and procedures;
• Support the integration of risk management, ethical and integrity considerations into decision making, planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and contingency activities in the Operation(s)/Bureau under the Area of Responsibility (AoR);
• Promote the use of good risk management tools and approaches;
• Support the Operation/Bureau in the implementation of oversight recommendations to improve risk management, compliance and quality of outputs;
• Work with internal and external oversight entities, develop and implement procedures to collect relevant data and efficiently track and report specific issues, trends and cross-cutting matters representing a high risk to the Operation(s) under AoR;
• Prepare input to management reports to internal and external stakeholders;
• Support the coordination and delivery of relevant trainings, workshops and other capacity building initiatives relevant to risk management and compliance;
• Ensure that the risk register of the Operation/Bureau is kept up to date and correctly reflected in the on-line tool;
• Perform other related duties as required.

In-situ posts only

• Support the coordination and facilitation of the risk review exercises with functional experts and management to agree on the corporate risk register, and appropriate risk responses; facilitate, monitor and report on the implementation of agreed responses;
• Analyse risk management, compliance, and oversight findings and recommendations. Prepare summary reports, with recommendations, on significant matters requiring management action or intervention, or changes to corporate level policies/procedures;
• Monitor compliance against policies and procedures, advise management of areas of non-compliance and identify the root cause of this and appropriate corrective actions.

Bureau posts only

• Support the Senior Risk Management and Compliance Advisor in coordinating and quality assuring the risk review exercise in the operations under the AoR, monitoring that appropriate action is taken to mitigate the identified risks;
• Contribute to the implementation of the cross-functional risk-based regional monitoring plans of operations under AoR through missions and desk reviews;
• Analyse risk management, compliance, and oversight findings and recommendations. Provide inputs to a regional risk report on a regular basis, summarizing key oversight themes and using risk information (e.g. metrics, risk indicators, incidents) to highlight the highest risks at the regional level, identify lessons learnt and root causes.
• Participate in risk-based monitoring and support missions to countries under their AoR to assess the adequacy of risk management and compliance systems, structures, procedures and capacities – report back to the Senior Risk Management and Compliance Advisor in order to help improve enterprise wide risk management methodologies, tools and practices.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold a Business Administration, International Affairs, Political Science, Risk Management, or other relevant field.
• At least three years of relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate degree
• At least one year of experience in positions involving, amongst other things, responsibilities relating to risk management, compliance or quality of results.
• Demonstrated high level of integrity, objectivity, impartiality and fairness.
• Excellent judgement with proven ability to deal with complex interrelated issues and strong analytical and problem solving skills to develop solutions that address root causes.
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal and writing skills.
• Good working knowledge of UNHCR¿s mandate, field operations, organizational structure, and policies & procedures.
• Certification in risk management.
• Strong skills in collaboration, team building, capacity development and with ability to deliver quality results on time.
• Exposure to and experience in UN or humanitarian field operations and emergencies in various geographical locations and multiple functional areas.

How to Apply:

All candidates should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 13^th December 2021

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