Risk and Compliance Technical Officer Palestine Gaza

Overview

Ensure adherence to NRC policies, handbooks, guidelines and donor requirements.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant university field (economics, administration, law or similar)
• Previous experience in compliance, audit and partnerships
• Experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Considerable knowledge of policies, procedures, regulations and laws
• Excellent knowledge in Microsoft Office specially in Excel
• Fluency in English and Arabic, both written and verbal
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Handling insecure environments
• Planning and delivering results
• Working with people
• Analyzing
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Coping with change

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.

At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.

Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:

• treat everyone with respect and dignity

• contribute to building a safe environment for all

• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)

• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH

The position is justified due to the following reasons:

1. The SSD compliance situation in Gaza is critical due to the lack of supporting documentation for several transaction, especially since the hostilities began, which creates a high-risk of ineligible costs.
2. The current access situation limits the presence of the R&C unit in the area, for which a local staff member for the unit is necessary.
3. The GPC was for years the main receptor of funds for NRC in Gaza for which several audits are expected to happen in the future, including from main donors such as ECHO.

Qualifications

1. Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant university field (economics, administration, law or similar)
• Previous experience in compliance, audit and partnerships.
• experience from working in complex and volatile contexts

Context related skills; knowledge and experience (shall be adapted to the specific position):

• At least 2 years of experience working in Compliance, partnerships and audit preferably with humanitarian/recovery context or internationals NGOs.
• Considerable knowledge of policies, procedures, regulations and laws.
• Excellent knowledge in Microsoft Office specially in Excel
• Fluency in English and Arabic, both written and verbal
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.

2. Behavioural competencies (max 6)

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies and the following are essential for this position:

• Handling insecure environments
• Planning and delivering results
• Working with people
• Analyzing
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Coping with change

What we Offer?

You will be working in an international and diverse organization with a dynamic atmosphere.

You will receive support and opportunities to expand your skills and enhance your expertise.

You will be working in our Office in Gaza.

This position is Grade (06) Step (01). Salary & Benefits are based on Gaza Duty Station.

Reports to: Risk & Compliance Manager.

Number of positions: 1 position.

Recruiter: Recruitment Team.

Contract Duration: 6 months (renewable based on funding and performance)

E-mail: PS.Recruitment@nrc.no

Applications are only accepted if submitted through NRC website.

Applications won't be considered without a Resume and a Cover Letter in English.

For more information about NRC's work in Palestine, please check: https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/fact-sheets/2024/factsheet-palestine-nrc_202405.pdf

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

Responsibilities

Generic responsibilities:

1. Ensure adherence to NRC policies, handbooks, guidelines and donor requirements
2. Implement NRC’s systems and procedures at area level
3. Ensure proper filing of documents.
4. Ensure adherence to NRC policies and the national labor law in all processes and procedures
5. Ensure the compliance aspects of the donor contracts and NRC guidelines
6. Contribute to implementation of Safe and Inclusive Programming Minimum Standards.

Specific responsibilities:

• Support on the consolidation of the filing structure for the GPC transactions within NRC PS archiving structure.
• Collect, archive and secure the supporting documentation that is missing during and after the closure of the GPC and ensure its compliance with NRC’s SSD procedures, Emergency Procedures and EEOCs when applicable.
• Carry out spot-checks of relevant project transactions in order to identify the lack of compliance with minimum requirements for supporting documentation.
• Update reports with possible losses due to lack of supporting documentation.
• Support the Audit R&C Coordinator with the response of audits related to the area office during the time that the position is in place.
• Give ad-hoc support regarding anti-corruption issues when requested by the R&C Manager.
• Support with training in R&C’s cross-cutting issues especially to teams in the area.
• Support with the identification of development of technical areas related to R&C within the Gaza context.
• Other related to the position’s overview and to the R&C unit needs.

Critical interfaces

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

• GPC partners.
• NRC’s implementing partners in Gaza area.
• Area Support and Programme Managers in Gaza.
• Area Manager.
• HAS unit in Gaza.
• R&C unit.

Scale and scope of position

Staff: NA Stakeholders: Area Management Team, partners, implementing partners, R&C unit. Budgets: NA Information: SharePoint Legal/Compliance: NRC internal policies and donor compliance requirements. NRC’s Terms of Employments and contract.

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Added 10 months ago - Updated 7 months ago - Source: nrc.no