Risk and Management Consultant

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

Background

The Play Matters initiative reimagines childhood for 800,000+ refugee and host community children across Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania whose education and social development have been affected by displacement and trauma. Building on the amazing resilience of children, Play Matters is helping to cultivate holistic learning through play experiences for children aged 3-12+ for them to bounce back, recover, learn, and thrive.

Play Matters is seeking to improve holistic learning outcomes by supporting learning through play pedagogies in educational settings, by supporting families to engage in playful interactions with children in the home, by advocating for policy change to integrate and strengthen learning through play into curriculum and training, and by working to bring refugee education and national education policy into alignment.

Play Matters is being implemented by a consortium led by the International Rescue Committee, and includes Plan International, War Child Holland, Innovations for Poverty Action, and the Behavioural Insights Team in partnership with the LEGO Foundation.

Purpose

Play Matters regional project team manages the fund on behalf of LEGO foundation and thus entrusted to provide technical oversight to the implementation of the project across all the project work streams. Given that Finance forms a key component of project implementation, the regional finance team conducts periodic reviews, monitoring of partner finance, budgeting, and spending patterns in addition to ensuring that partner risk exposure is low or non-existence.

The Regional Finance team therefore seeks to be trained in a high impact and skills development on risk management and fraud detection and prevention. The trained finance team will become TOTs that will cascade the skills acquired and knowledge to the rest of consortium partner finance and compliance teams.

Objectives.

1. To impart skills in risk management and fraud detection and prevention to the regional finance and compliance teams. 2. To equip practical skills on how to identify red flags in the kind of set up we are operating in with relevant examples. 3. To equip practical skills of developing the risk register and come up with risk mitigation measures. 4. To equip staff with skills on the applicable laws that aid during prosecution. 5. To equip staff with the skill of gathering evidence in case of fraud. 6. Learning from case stories of fraud and its manifestation, prevention, and mitigation from different similar Organizations. 7. Current Fraud trends and the new fraud tricks/methods being used in the NGO world.

Scope of work.

A hands on five days training to cover the above indicated objectives will cover.

- Risk management. - Fraud detection, prevention, and red flag identification. - Risk matrix/ register development. - Evidence gathering skills.

Qualifications

Qualifications.

The lead consultant should possess:

- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Forensic and Risk or equivalent qualification in Economics and Commerce. - Master’s degree in business administration plus professional qualifications ACFE, CFCI, CRA with extensive experience in risk management, fraud detection. - Extensive experience in developing materials for training in areas of risk management, fraud detection and prevention. - A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible work experience in risk management, forensic audit. - Experience in making risk register for big organizations. - Excellent analytical, facilitation, presentation and writing skills in English. - Ability to provide and share a sample of similar work done.

Participants.

Regional finance and Compliance staff that will attend physically.

Mode of delivery – Presentations, practical work, group sessions, use of examples/scenarios and literature.

Outputs:

- TOT training guide developed for the project. - Certificates issued to TOTs trained. - All objectives are met.

Gender Equality & Equal Opportunity

We are committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer generous benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances. We welcome and strongly encourage qualified female professionals to apply.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request reasonable accommodation.

NB: This advert will close on 25th August 2023