Compliance Coordinator at International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Major Responsibilities

• Prevention: Create a safe and compliant environment
• 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 the local integration of IRC Organizational Policies and co-ordinate a training and awareness programme for staff on ethics and compliance issues.
• Ensure compliance tapplicable Nigerian laws and donor guidelines and regulations governing grants.
• Participate in grant start up and closure meetings for grants.
• Conduct compliance reviews as appropriate, prepare reports for the SMT and ensure that recommendations are implemented.”.
• Follow up with Unit heads/BHs in ensuring timely response tcompliance audit requirements and recommendation.
• Partnership management – oversee the transparent selection process of the partners, the reviews and evaluation the processes. Review the partners agreements or contract and ensuring compliance tIRC policies and procedures.
• Provide on need basis, capacity building and trainings tpartners or sub recipients on compliance.
• Actively monitor the status of mitigation measures tbe implemented by the Country Program related tits Enterprise Risk Management Risk Report Card.
• Using a range of innovative strategies tpromote a culture of ethical and compliant behaviours across all sites.
• Support records management and archiving processes tassist with the proper filing of documentation
• Maintain an audit finding tracker tcentralize findings and monitor implementation of corrective actions and identify trends for areas tstrengthen
• Promote a culture of reporting on ethics and compliance concerns, providing appropriate feedback tstaff, partners, and complainants, working closely tensure support and follow up is provided.
• Work with Safeguarding focal point(s), HR, and local staff tensure implementation of IRC’s global safeguarding strategy.

Misconduct Allegations and Investigations

• The Compliance Coordinator works with IRC’s global Ethics and Compliance Unit and Country leadership, tensure that staff and partners are aware of the IRC’s reporting mechanisms.
• Provide timely support tthe ECU on investigations as appropriate, in accordance with the IRC’s investigations process.
• Contribute tinvestigations on a case-by-case basis under the guidance of ECU (Sr Director of Investigations). This may include the below:
• By agreement and in conjunction with ECU, support or undertake investigations of breaches of IRC Way including alleged fraud, waste, financial corruption, and safeguarding misconduct while ensuring objectivity, impartiality, and fairness throughout the investigative processes in accordance with generally recognized international investigative standards, and IRC Investigation Guidelines.
• Prepare investigation reports (in English) and ad hoc briefs pertaining tinvestigations in coordination with ECU.
• Liaise with ECU tensure identification of impacted donors on allegations of misconduct. 
• Undertake investigation assignments in the local area at the direction, and in coordination, with ECU, keeping country and regional management informed, when appropriate, consistent with any investigation confidentiality constraints.

Other

• 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 tdonor specific queries.
• Work in collaboration with and support MEAL Coordinator on client’s responsiveness.
• Assess risks and manage the resolution of clients’ feedbacks and complaints in confidential manner, within given timescales. Escalate issues from local client responsiveness mechanisms tCD/ECU when appropriate. Ensure local accountability staff are trained in what tescalate and how tdso.
• Perform other tasks as requested by the CD as required.

Job Requirements

Essential

• Qualified internal auditor or compliance management experience (Graduate of finance, accounting, or a related business field with professional qualification-ACA, ACCA, CPA or CIA)
• Minimum of 10 year working experience with 5 years+ related work experience with a not-for-profit organization.
• Proven experience in investigation planning/execution/documentation and risk-based auditing.
• Be highly accurate, detail-orientated, and able tcomplete multiple projects, with conflicting priorities, on a timely basis.
• Excellent English report writing skills
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and relationship building.
• Willingness tundertake high amount of travel within the NIGERIA IRC field locations (40%) and work with minimum supervision under difficult conditions in some of the most underdeveloped, insecure, and remote parts of NIGERIA.
• Strong cultural awareness and be able twork well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Demonstrate standards of ethics and integrity.
• Commitment tInternational rescue Committee values

Desirable

• INGexperience or have worked in a commercial/public sector international organization.
• Familiarity with grant requirements of major donors such as USAID (BHA), EC/ECHO, FCDO, and the UN
• Good financial analysis aptitude
• Experience of ERP financial software’s
• Experience of audit
• Counter fraud experience
• Ability tlook at the bigger picture when assessing organizational performance and risk.