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POSTING DATES

Opening Date: 2nd January 2023 Closing Date: 17th January 2024 (Midnight, East African/Kenyan Time)

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Somalia Country Office (CO) is recruiting a Risk Officer (Incident Management) to fill a new position that will be responsible for proactively managing complaints and allegations of fraud and corruption that are received from external sources.

The Risk Officer will develop and implement fraud incident management procedures and tools to support end-to-end coordination, follow up with 1st, 2nd and 3rd line actors, trend analysis and recommendations for control strengthening actions, and manage all internal and external reporting requirements. The successful candidate is a self-starter with experience in fraud prevention, case management and risk and compliance. The officer will be expected to develop the capacity of WFP staff in each area and field office, as well as Cooperating Partners to ensure that the organization is fully equipped in the prevention of aid diversion.

The Risk Officer reports to the Head of Risk & Compliance. This position requires regular travel to WFP field offices, the incumbent will be expected to spend 25% of their time supporting Area and Field Offices.

WHAT WILL YOU DO? (not all-inclusive)

End-to-end issue management, including intake, tracking, and mitigation strategy development with field operations teams and management.

• Develop risk incident management standard operating procedures (SOPs) and guidance for the country office (CO), with protocols for escalation as well as disseminate SOPs and guidance to field offices through training.
• Create and fully utilize an information management structure to track issues and complaints received through various channels outside of the Community Feedback Mechanism.
• In consultation with management and field offices, support case management requirements for all issues related to fraud and corruption, including follow-up with other teams to collect facts related to each incident.

Launch and regularize incident reporting and analysis for internal and external stakeholders.

• Closely coordinate with the county office government partnerships unit to ensure that impacted donors are identified and notified of critical incidents impacting their awards in a timely manner and ensure that donor reporting requirements are adhered to.
• Develop and implement a regular (monthly) donor reporting methodology for issues and incidents to improve visibility among the Humanitarian Donor Group and individual donors on issues impacting the broader WFP operation.
• Prepare ad hoc incident reports for internal and external audiences on request, including briefing materials for WFP or UN Principals on demand.

Strengthen coordination with 2nd and 3rd line oversight bodies and independent offices on issues and incidents.

• Coordinate with WFP’s Office of Investigations (OIGI) on incident reporting, ensuring the applicable timelines are followed for escalation and reporting of fraud, corruption and other wrongdoing.
• Establish and maintain an information management system to ensure key documents and evidence related to issues and incidents is available.
• In line with WFP’s Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Policy and OIG Charter, support the collection and clarification of facts related to reported issues and incidents to support independent investigations conducted by OIGI or another recognized United Nations investigative body.
• Ensure that follow-up communication between the Somalia country office and OIGI is streamlined, promoting timely effective case review & closure.
• Contribute to global policy and procedural discussions with WFP’s Risk Management Division, Office of the Inspector General, global donor offices, and other key stakeholders to ensure experiences/lessons in Somalia help to inform global standards on issue management and reporting.

Promote continuous learning and build staff capacities through the dissemination of key findings and analysis to country office and field office teams.

• Drawing upon corporate systems, data points and dashboards, develop regular trend analysis for key issues and incidents.
• Define key process and control gaps related to identified issues and incidents and make recommendations for enhancing controls that prevent fraud and corruption.
• Regularly consult with and brief Area Offices on key trends that impact their area of operation to raise awareness of key issues and promote a culture of consultation, action and accountability on incident management.
• Build the capacity of staff in Field and Area Offices in addressing trends which lead to measurable prevention action and cooperating partners in building trends and learning in prevention of aid diversion.
• Promote knowledge management initiatives on fraud risk through regular briefings to country office and field operations management teams.

WHAT WILL YOU HAVE?

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree in risk management, accounting, business administration, data science, law, political science, or related studies.

Experience:

• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience in a humanitarian or public sector organization in one or more of the following areas: programme operations, supply chain management, risk management and fraud prevention, internal audit, investigations, or similar role.
• Previous working experience in Somalia is an advantage.

Language:

• International Professional: Fluency (level C) in the English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language is an added advantage.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• A recognized certification in project or programme management is preferred.
• Practical knowledge and experience in fraud and corruption, incident and loss management in humanitarian and development contexts.
• Demonstrated capacity to deliver high-quality work and meet demanding timeframes independently.
• Process mapping expertise is an advantage.

APPLICATION GUIDELINE

• Create your profile on E-Recruitment, apply and submit your application.
• Please note, the only documents required at this stage is your CV and cover letter.
• Applications that do not meet the above requirements will be disregarded.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• This is an international position and candidates must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment. (Female candidates are encouraged to apply)
• This position is based in Mogadishu, the selected candidate will be required to relocate to take up the assignment.
• The contract duration is 11 months (initial)

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Closing Date: 17th January 2024 (Midnight, East African/Kenyan Time)

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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.