Global Compliance Advisor

About Us

GOAL has responded to the world’s major humanitarian crises since its founding in 1977, working with vulnerable communities in 15 countries across the globe with a dedicated team of 3,500 personnel. While GOAL continues to be an agile first-responder to humanitarian crises, it is also committed to working with vulnerable communities to help them survive crises and support them on the road to recovery.

Job Purpose

The Global Compliance Advisor is a key role within GOAL to ensure that GOAL remains compliant with donor and GOAL standards.

As Global Compliance Advisor you will drive and support the development of a culture of compliance including further development of the policy framework, procedures, and behaviours to ensure consistency across the GOAL organisation.

As Global Compliance Advisor you will work with relevant functional teams across the GOAL global business.

You will be responsible for designing training workshops on donors’ requirements and GOAL’s Compliance Framework (including GOAL’s Code of Conduct and Anti­Fraud, Conflict of Interest and Whistleblowing policies) for GOAL and implementing partner (IP) staff both in country offices and in headquarters in Dublin (HQ).

You will be responsible for delivering training workshops in GOAL HQ and may be required to deliver training in overseas offices from time to time.

Working closely with and managing GOAL’s Compliance Officer and Compliance Support Officer, as Global Compliance Advisor you will also be responsible for reviewing, providing feedback on consolidating quarterly compliance reports from each country office.

The role may require some travel to overseas offices from time to time.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Compliance Capacity Building

• The HQ Compliance Advisor will lead the development of training materials relating to GOAL and GOAL’s donors’ processes, policies, rules, and regulations. Training materials will be required for a variety of subjects and for use in GOAL country programme offices, including for partner staff, as well as HQ including on­line versions. As Global Compliance Advisor you will be responsible for ensuring relevant staff in country offices have the necessary tools/information to deliver training workshops in country.
• The Global Compliance Advisor will be the main training resource for GOAL’s HQ on donor requirements (including procurement, logistics, finance, and programming/ operations rules) and GOAL’s Compliance and Ethics policies (Anti­Fraud, Conflict of Interest, Code of Conduct, Whistleblowing).

Compliance Assurance

• The Global Compliance Advisor will manage the quarterly compliance reporting process by ensuring timely submission by each country, reviewing each report and the accompanying action point trackers, providing feedback, and preparing a consolidated report to be presented to SMT and to GOAL’s Staff.

This report includes testing of GOAL internal controls particularly around procurement, logistics, finance and HR. You will review the quarterly reporting process and make suggestions for improvement and make any necessary changes to the process.

• Responsible for ensuring the global Anti-Terrorism and Sanction System is maintained with up to date functionality including coordination with the Donor Compliance Officer and third party supplier, and providing training, guidance and support where required to HQ departments and country programmes.

Support the Donor Compliance Officer in preparation and review of enhanced due diligence for potential new donors, partners and other stakeholders including screening (ATSCs) where required and preparation of reports for management decision making.

• With the Donor Compliance Officer, liaise with Legal, Internal audit, Investigation, Safeguarding and Risk teams to review common themes, trends and risks relating to donor compliance, providing reporting to management; updating templates as necessary and develop training as required.

Donor Programme Lifecycle

• As Global Compliance Advisor you will familiarise yourself with and keep up to date with GOAL internal policies and procedures and donor rules and regulations (including USAID, ECHO, EuropeAid, FCDO, UN Agencies, CharityWater, NORAD, Irish Aid, etc.).
• You will provide advice to departments within GOAL, including finance, procurement, logistics and programmes, on various donor and GOAL requirements throughout the lifecycle of a project. This will include advising and collaborating with departments at proposal stage, Donors and Partners agreement signing, partnership development, and during implementation. You will report on all stages to ensure specific donor requirements are taken into consideration and/or understood by GOAL staff at the various stages of a programme grant.

Partnerships

• Through reviewing the quarterly compliance reports you will ensure that countries are up to date with their partner pre­award assessments and interim reviews.
• You will ensure that partnership tools such as assessment tools, interim review tools, agreement templates etc. are up to date and relevant.
• You will advise on the development of partnership agreements.

Head Office Compliance Support

• You will advise on internal policy updates when necessary to ensure policies are compliant with relevant donor or other regulatory requirements.
• You will assist with the review of any additions/amendments to GOAL’s internal manuals, assessing compatibility with donor regulations and input as required to the revision of the manuals.

Ad­hoc tasks

• As Global Compliance Advisor you will attend and facilitate/present at GOAL conferences (e.g., Systems Managers Meeting, Department Management Meeting, New Joiners Inductions, etc. ) on matters of donor compliance.
• You will attend and represent GOAL at international and national level peer networks on Compliance and donor rules.

The Person:

Essential Criteria:

• 2-3 years in an Audit/Compliance/Regulatory/Quality Assurance Function
• Experience and Demonstrated ability to communicate technical requirements in an accessible manner
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Criteria:

• Experience in an International Non Governmental Organisation a distinct advantage
• Experience in drafting contracts/agreements between business partners
• Experience in designing e-learning modules and/or providing trainings to various stakeholders
• Arabic or Spanish an advantage

Accountability within GOAL

• A commitment to GOAL values and GOAL’s integrity framework is critical to working with GOAL. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

1) Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols;

2) Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area;

3) Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

**GOAL offers staff flexible working with our hybrid model, we require our HQ employees to work 2 days per week from our office in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin**

GOAL is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees. We know that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling GOAL’s commitment to equal employment opportunity and equal treatment. GOAL does not discriminate against any employee or volunteer; or any applicant for employment or volunteering on the basis of age, gender identity, ancestry, political opinion, civil status, medical condition, ethnic background, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

Accountability within GOAL

A commitment to GOAL values and GOAL’s integrity framework is critical to working with GOAL. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability: 1) Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols; 2) Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area; 3) Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with GOAL as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

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Careers – GOAL Global