New Job Opportunity at IRC Tanzania – Senior Compliance Manager
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Jobs in Tanzania 2021: New Job Vacancies at International
Rescue Committee (IRC), 2021
Senior Compliance Manager
Requisition ID: req13915
Job Title: Senior Compliance Manager
Sector: Compliance
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
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Job Description
Background
The
International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst
humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.
Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers
life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee
from war or disaster. At work today in more than 30 countries and in 22
U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are
uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.
The
IRC has been present in Tanzania for 25 years, supporting refugees and
Tanzanians with health, education and protection. With a National Office
in Dar es Salaam and field offices in Kasulu, Kibondo and Kigoma, the
IRC serves over 200,000 people each year.
The IRC currently has
over 200 staff and employs a further 2,000 refugee workers to enable the
frontline delivery of its programmes. Together, we aim to provide the
best possible impact for some of the most vulnerable children, women and
men. In all that we do, IRC strives to deliver through IRC’s core
values of Integrity, Accountability, Service and Equality. This role is
at the heart of that challenge.
Job Overview/Summary:
The
Senior Compliance Manager will support the Country Director and senior
staff to oversee ethics and compliance related functions across the
country program. The core purpose of the role is:
To build a safe and
compliant working environment within IRC, through proactive prevention
initiatives to reduce wrongdoing and timely, coordinated action where
behaviour is suspected to be inconsistent with IRC values and policies.
The role will have a range of responsibilities, all aimed to promote
ethics and compliance in the behaviour of staff, our refugee workers and
other stakeholders, including partners and suppliers. The role will
coordinate consistent and effective follow up as needed when there are
allegations of misconduct.
The role will work closely with all
senior staff in the IRC country program, particularly with the CD and
Field Coordinators, the HR department, finance controller and technical
leads.
The role will also work directly with IRC’s Global Ethics and
Compliance Unit (ECU) based in New York including safeguarding and fraud
prevention staff and with regional investigators based in East Africa.
Broadly, the role covers:
Prevention:
Working
across stakeholders to promote a culture that adheres to IRC values and
is fully compliant with our policies, procedures, and the law. This
includes developing an appropriate control environment and ensuring
standard operating procedures and IRC policies are followed. Where
weaknesses in controls or their application is identified, the Senior
Compliance Manager will recommend appropriate risk mitigation in
consultation with relevant stakeholders and will also ensure appropriate
reporting to central risk owners (including HR, Finance, Supply Chain,
ECU, Field Coordinators, and the CD) to ensure central support
remediation.
Promoting a strong understanding of IRC values and
a culture of integrity working with others to support training and
communications on IRC’s Code of Conduct (IRC Way) and issues including
fraud and corruption and safeguarding (exploitation and sexual
harassment and violence against staff and clients).
Promoting
an expectation and culture of reporting suspected misconduct into the
ECU for any suspected forms of abuse or wrongdoing, to allow for proper
follow and action as required.
To develop and manage aspects of the
country program’s risk management process, relating to ethics and
compliance, to include fraud, corruption, safeguarding and sexual
harassment and exploitation or violence.
Misconduct Allegations and Investigations
The
Compliance Manager will work with IRC’s global Ethics and Compliance
Unit (ECU), to ensure that the local staff and partners are aware of the
IRC’s reporting mechanisms; and shall timely support the ECU on
investigations as appropriate in accordance with the IRC’s
investigation’s process
The Senior Compliance Manager will report to
the Country Director (CD), and, in the cases of investigations, to the
Ethics and Compliance Unit’s Senior Director of Investigations (SDI).
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Major Responsibilities:
Prevention: Create a safe and compliant environment
Support
the development and monitoring of a country level risk register
including identification of risk mitigations for ethics and compliance
related concerns.
In coordination with and under the guidance and
direction of the Country Director and the Global Ethics and Compliance
Unit, act as focal point for IRC policies and ECU initiatives to be
integrated at the country level
- Coordinate a training and awareness programme for all staff on ethics
and compliance issues. Work with many stakeholders (HR, gender
champions, finance, supply chain and organizational leadership) to
roll-out policies and initiatives and consistently refresh training
provided. - Strengthen the use of the risk register (created
pursuant to IRC’s risk framework) for the country program across
operations and programs. - Coordinate and conduct ethics and
compliance risk reviews of IRC, partner and sub-partner activities to
assess adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls, risk management
and compliance. Aim to build the capacity of partners wherever possible. - Using a range of innovative strategies promote a culture of ethical and compliant behaviours across all sites
- Support the development or adaptation of policies designed to create a safer working environment.
- Promote
a culture of reporting on ethics and compliance concerns, providing
appropriate feedback to staff, partners and complainants, working
closely to ensure support and follow up is provided. - Produce
consolidated internal reports (ethics and compliance) with findings and
issues identified during these reviews, give appropriate recommendations
on improvements to the country program and related partners’ processes,
systems and procedures where appropriate. - Work with ECU and
IRC’s Safeguarding focal point(s), HR and local staff to ensure
implementation of IRC’s global safeguarding strategy addressing
prevention of and response to Safeguarding misconduct. - Working
across the agencies in Kigoma region in developing strategies for
prevention of SEA and safeguarding violations by participating in PSEA
taskforce within Kigoma, initiating discussion on measures to address
some behaviors around the sectors and implementation of the agreed
strategies within the country program.
Misconduct Allegations and Investigations
The
Senior Compliance Manager will work with IRC’s global Ethics and
Compliance Unit, to ensure that staff and partners are aware of the
IRC’s reporting mechanisms; and shall timely support the ECU on
investigations as appropriate, in accordance with the IRC’s
investigations process.
Contribute to investigations on a case
by case basis under the guidance of ECU (Sr Director of Investigations).
This may include:
- By agreement
with ECU, support or undertake investigations of alleged fraud, waste,
financial corruption, safeguarding misconduct, and ensure objectivity,
impartiality and fairness throughout investigative processes in
accordance with generally recognized international investigative
standards, and IRC guidelines; - Prepare reports and ad hoc briefs pertaining to investigations in coordination with ECU and country leadership
- Undertake
investigation assignments in the local area at the direction of, and in
coordination with ECU, keeping country and regional management informed
consistent with any investigation confidentiality constraints
Liaise
closely with ECU and HR as needed on fraud and corruption, employee
relations, and exploitation and abuse of beneficiaries and staff.
Act
as a Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Focal person for all cases reported
at IRC where the subject is an IRC staff or another organization staff.
Immediate referring SEA cases to UNHCR and/ or other stakeholders as
relevant and provide updates on the referred cases whenever required by
another agency or IRC.
Other
- Perform other tasks as requested by the CD as required.
- Conduct any ad-hoc internal investigative/ crisis related assignments
as requested by the Country Director and in coordination with ECU or HR
or in response to donor specific queries.
Professional Standards
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles
outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are
Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these
values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection
from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace
Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
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Qualifications
- A degree in a relevant discipline- Legal HR, Social science studies or
any other related field or demonstrable equivalent work experience. - Good understanding of Accounting and Internal Control standards.
- Previous investigation experience, whether on safeguarding, fraud or corruption matters.
- International
experience within NGOs or in the development / humanitarian sector,
with knowledge of donor rules and regulation, is desirable. - Strong planning, organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent analytical, presentation, and reporting skills.
- Ability to respond to changing priorities.
- Ability to work independently on own initiative
- Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing, in Kiswahili and English (French will be added advantage)
- Evidence of successful experience in compiling and conducting training workshops is an advantage.
- Excellent IT skills in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel.
- Strong commitment to IRC’s mission, purpose, and values.
- Scrupulous
personal integrity, including rigorously confidentiality and an
unstoppable determination to ensure IRC programmes and staff are working
in accordance with IRC values. - Decision making skills on complex issues whenever required.
- Strong reporting writing skills- to include investigation reports, activities report, and donor reports as required.
- Knowledgeable in risks management- identification, assessment, analysis, and management of the risks.
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Equal Opportunities:
IRC
is an equal opportunity employer and considers all job applicants on
the basis of merit, without regard to race, nationality, tribe or place
of origin, colour, national extraction, social origin, political or
religious opinion, gender, pregnancy, marital status or family
responsibility, sexual orientation, disability, HIV/Aids, age, or
station of life.
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the
values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional
Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In
accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on
Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding,
Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.MODE OF
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