With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Risk Management

Facilitate the identification, analysis, evaluation, treatment, and monitoring of partner organisational and project risks. Actively support partner organisations with risk assessments.Support the partner organisations to develop and maintain organisational and project risk registers.Support partner organisations conduct monthly monitoring of the risk controls & treatments of their risk registers.Monitor and analyse risks within the internal and external context to conduct comparative analysis with incident data and other sources of risk data for a holistic view of the risk profile in partner organisations and partner project activities. Share findings with partner organisations, project managers and UCR management.Capture key partner related risks and WV functional/departmental risks on the UCR Risk Register on Riskonnect – World Vision’s enterprise risk management platform. Ensure regular updates, as changes occur.

Compliance Management

Work with the Partnerships Unit, Operations Team, Grant Acquisition & Management Unit, Finance Department and other key compliance stakeholders to ensure that donor regulations and requirements; World Vision policies and standards; humanitarian principles, standards and expectations; and legal and statutory requirements are communicated simply and clearly to all partner organisations.Assure that partner activities are carried out in compliance with donor regulations and requirements. Collaborate with other compliance stakeholders to undertake quality assurance and compliance spot checks, targeting risky functions and activities in partner organisations.Ensure that relevant compliance violations are documented, actioned, and resolved. Escalate any unresolved issues to relevant Project Manager, Operations Director and Risk & Compliance Director.Provide support to partner organisations to identify areas of improvement in compliance management.Support the Partnerships Unit in the development and review of partner agreements, ensuring alignment to donor, WV, humanitarian and legal/statutory requirements.Legal advisory to partner organisations regarding compliance to Ukrainian and Moldovan laws and statutory requirements. Escalate and follow up on any major requests to Risk & Compliance Director, and to external legal firms as will be advised.

Capacity Sharing

Assess risk and compliance knowledge gaps among partners organisations and develop a plan to address them. Ensure coordination with the Partnerships Unit for any capacity sharing activities planned with partner organisations.Organise and facilitate training of partners on enterprise risk management principles, framework, standards, tools and practices. Leverage risk and compliance capacity in partner organisations to support any training opportunities.Support compliance stakeholders in ensuring that partners are trained on relevant compliance requirements (donor regulations, humanitarian standards, WV policies and standards, and legal and statutory requirements).Facilitate risk and compliance capacity sharing within partner organisations and World Vision. This includes learning from partner organisations, organising learning events and information sharing, facilitate a network of risk and compliance focal points among partner organisations.Contribute to strengthening the process to track partner maturity (progress made over time and impact of World Vision’s work with the partner organisations).

Incidents Management Coordination

Raise awareness with partner organisations on incident management, especially on reporting (tools to use, and timeliness).Provide support to partners on reporting incidents as needed. Escalate key incidents to management as required.Provide administrative support to the Risk & Compliance Director and Principal Investigators in investigation of incidents and following up as required.

Coordination & Collaboration

Regularly collaborate with stakeholders within the World Vision, and with partner organisations to identify common themes of risk and action appropriately.Represent World Vision, as needed, in coordination mechanisms on risk and compliance matters.Closely collaborate with operations, grant acquisition & management, risk & compliance management, partnerships, finance, humanitarian accountability, safeguarding, data protection, monitoring & evaluation, supply chain, people & culture and other compliance-focused departments to identify common areas of risk or compliance violations.

Analysis & Reporting

Undertake analysis of risks, compliance issues and incidents and develop insightful and actionable reports to partners, operations and UCR leadership.Ensure that significant and fast-moving risks are escalated to leadership on a timely basis.

KNOWLEDGE AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

At least 2-3 years of work experience, preferably in humanitarian organizations or government or risk & compliance or legal or audit or grant management or any other relevant field.Some experience working with local and national organisations.University degree in a relevant field.Risk and compliance, governance, audit or fraud certification will be considered an advantage.High proficiency in oral and written English and Ukrainian. Knowledge of Russian or Romanian is an added advantage (this role will also work with partners in Moldova, hence why).Some knowledge in various aspects of the project management cycle, donor regulations and compliance.Strong organisational and analytical skills, and attention to detail.Interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work well with other people.Ability to work effectively under pressure and handle multiple tasks.High proficiency and productivity in use of computers and applications, specifically Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and working online. Ability to learn new systems and applications quickly.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only