Compliance and Risk Management Specialist

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Description

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• Work in coordination with, and under the technical guidance of functional units and departments at headquarters and regional levels, under the supervision of the head of the WHO office.
• Manage and deliver consistent, high quality, and professional, risk- and compliance-based country-office assessments, including of the managerial Key Performance Indicators. Provide inter-country analyses, with trends and emerging risks.
• Determine office compliance with WHO rules, regulations, and procedures, including the optimal use of resources, in line with global compliance programmes.
• Present on a scheduled basis to head of the WHO office and senior management the analyses, reports, and results of the systematic assessments of risks and issues of non-compliance in the country offices, with actionable recommendations.
• Guide country office leadership in the assigned country offices on integrating risk management into decision-making, programme design and planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and contingency activities.
• Identify constraints to transactional compliance and recommend corrective strategies, approaches, or measures including facilitating organizational support.
• Propose innovative solutions for business strategy, risk management and compliance challenges grounded in regulatory expertise.
• Guide the head of the WHO office to implement internal and external audit recommendations and follow up on open findings and recommendations.
• Propose measures, policies, and procedures, to enhance the performance and effectiveness of WHO’s risk management and compliance programme.
• Promote a country-office culture of risk awareness, accountability and compliance in programme and administration through education, training, and knowledge generation, adapting corporate tools.
• Operationalize measures and tools to mitigate organizational risk and enhance compliance with accountability frameworks in emergency settings.
• In collaboration with the Compliance and Risk Management network, propose enhancements to the risk management accountability frameworks.
• Contribute to the development of corporate training tools, policies, procedures, and knowledge products on compliance and risk management. 

• Advanced university degree (master’s level or above) in a relevant field (such as business or public administration, law, finance, economics, accounting).

• A minimum of seven years of work experience, with international exposure, relevant to the position (general management, oversight and/ or managing internal control or accountability frameworks and related monitoring processes and systems in complex public and private-sector organizations), with some of it obtained in an international work environment.

• Implementation and/or monitoring of accountability frameworks in WHO or other international organizations.
• Implementation of measures, tools or systems to address deficiencies in risk management and compliance systems.
• Statistical analysis tools and techniques.
• Implementing creative responses or solutions to identified programme or operational risks, particularly in emergency settings. 
• Ability to extract and analyse all relevant types of evidence and to draw reasonable inferences and conclusions.
• Design, implementation or management of risk assessment/risk management and/or compliance tools or systems for international organizations.
• Strong verbal and written communication and training skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative work style. 

• Excellent knowledge of English

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