Description
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Roving Compliance Officer to support the Compliance Department of IRC Kenya. The officer will be responsible for fostering a culture of integrity, ethics, and accountability across the organization, promoting ethical conduct among staff, ensuring prompt and consistent handling of misconduct allegations, and implementing proactive prevention strategies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Screen and assess incoming complaints to determine appropriate course of action
- Draft investigation related documents and communications
- Conduct interviews with complainants, subjects, and witnesses
- Identify, collate, and analyze potential evidence to support investigation findings
- Prepare comprehensive investigation reports and present findings and recommendations
- Support and follow up on the implementation of corrective action plans
- Conduct system reviews in collaboration with relevant departments to identify compliance gaps
- Monitor the implementation of risk mitigation measures and track progress
- Coordinate with relevant departments to ensure timely responses to compliance audit requirements and recommendations
- Champion a culture of reporting on ethics and compliance concerns
- Support partnership management by reviewing and evaluating partner processes from a compliance perspective
- Review partner agreements and contracts to ensure alignment with IRC policies and procedures
- Design and facilitate training sessions that promote a culture of integrity, ethics, and compliance
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant social science (e.g. Criminal Justice/Criminology, sociology, law, finance)
- Five years' experience
- Proven ability to analyze data to report critical information
- Strong planning, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing, in English and Kiswahili
- Excellent analytical, presentation, and reporting skills
- Ability to respond to changing priorities
- Ability to work independently on own initiative
- Excellent IT skills in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
- High level of integrity, professionalism, self-motivation and sense of urgency
- Strong commitment to IRC's mission, purpose and values