West Africa Regional Compliance and Logistics Business Partner at TearFund

Job Summary

• Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for humanitarian compliance and robust logistics management?
• Tearfund is seeking a Regional Compliance and Logistics Business Partner to join our West Africa team.
• In this dual-focused role, you will spend 40% of your time ensuring the region meets required standards of compliance regarding Tearfund policies and global systems, and 60% of your time providing critical logistics advice, monitoring, and training to staff and partner organisations.

Duties and Key Responsibilities
Compliance Support for the Region (40%):

• Provide direct processes and systems support to country teams with regard to Global Process Systems (GPS), grant management, and budgeting tracking.
• Ensure correct electronic filing and compliance baseline tracking for all proposals, approvals, and partner information records across the regional systems.
• Monitor and track partner action logs, elevating visibility for high-risk partners to the corporate risk register.
• Act as the Safeguarding Focal Point for West Africa Country Offices and partners, ensuring policies are implemented, risk assessments are reviewed, and required safeguarding training is delivered.
• Complete mandatory Counter-Terrorism checks using specialised software for partner organisations, suppliers, new staff, and sub-grantees.
• Facilitate archiving processes and guarantee data protection compliance in line with GDPR requirements.
• Follow up on country office scorecards, perform spot checks, and review safety and security plans alongside Country Directors.

Logistics Business Partnering (60%):

• Deliver responsive logistics advice and technical support to Tearfund staff, regional partners, and active emergency or disaster response operations.
• Review regional procurement requests and coordinate delivery schedules to destination points smoothly.
• Conduct direct training for Tearfund and partner staff on complete logistics core components, including procurement, asset management, fleet management, stock management, freight, and customs.
• Support regional training and post-rollout utilization of "Coupa," our dedicated procurement and stock management software.
• Accompany country and regional management teams in tracking compliance, managing risks, and monitoring adherence to global logistics policies.
• Review and scrutinise the budgeting of logistics requirements within incoming funding proposals during Project Development Meetings.

Who We Are Looking For (Person Specification)

• Languages: Fully fluent in both French and English with exceptional cross-cultural interpersonal and report-writing skills.
• Highly organized, resilient, solution-focused, and capable of balancing a wide range of operational priorities under tight deadlines.
• The candidate should have the right to live and work in either Togo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad.
• The candidate should have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, good interpersonal skills to work in a cross-cultural setting. 
• Proficiency in French Language is required.
• Successful applicants must be committed Christians who are willing to sign up to Tearfund's evangelical statement of faith.  
• Applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.