Compliance and Risk Management Officer

The incumbent will provide assessments to country office leadership of operational, political, programme, and reputational risks facing the country office(s) including compliance with regulatory organizational systems. The incumbent will provide proposals, measures, and guidance to mitigate risks and ensure the accountability, transparency, and compliance of the office(s) with WHO administrative rules and regulations.
Duties:

• Work in coordination with, and under the technical guidance of functional units and departments at headquarters and regional levels, under the supervision of the Senior Operations Officer and Head of the WHO office.
• Deliver consistent, high quality, and professional, risk- and compliance-based country-office assessments, including of the managerial Key Performance Indicators.
• 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 office with actionable recommendations.
• Support country office leadership in the assigned country office on integrating risk management into decision-making, programme design and planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and contingency activities.
• Identify constraints to transactional compliance and facilitate organizational support, if required.
• Support the head of the WHO office to implement internal and external audit recommendations and follow up on open findings and recommendations.
• Promote a country-office culture of risk awareness, accountability and compliance in programme and administration through education, training, and knowledge generation.
• Contribute to the development of corporate knowledge products on compliance and risk management.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Required Qualifications:
Education
Essential:

• A university degree (bachelor’s) in a relevant field (such as business or public administration, law, finance, economics, risk management, accounting).

Experience:
Essential:

• A minimum of five years of work experience relevant to the position (in general management, oversight and/ or implementing internal control or accountability frameworks and related monitoring processes and systems in complex public and private-sector organizations)

Skills:

• Implementation and/or monitoring of accountability frameworks in WHO or other United Nations or international, public-sector organizations.
• Statistical analysis tools and techniques.
• Implementation of risk assessment/risk management and/or compliance tools or systems for international organizations.
• Verbal and written communication, and training skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative work style, including internal consulting skills.
• Ability to extract and analyse all relevant types of evidence and to draw reasonable inferences and conclusions.

Language Skills:
Essential:

• Expert knowledge of English

Source:  https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2401896