Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has had an operational presence in Nigeria since 2015. DRC Nigeria is the largest DRC country mission in the West Africa region and one of the largest DRC country missions globally. Currently, DRC delivers life-saving assistance and protection to vulnerable, conflict-affected populations including internally displaced persons, returnees and host communities in the areas of armed violence reduction, humanitarian mine action, livelihoods, nutrition and food security, protection, shelter and non-food items (NFI) and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in 30+ Local Government Areas (LGAs) across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in northeast Nigeria.
Overall purpose of the role:
The Risk and Compliance Manager (RCM) is responsible for supporting the Country Director (CD) with all aspects of designing, planning, and implementing the risk management strategy throughout the DRC Nigeria country programme – including the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), Code of Conduct (CoC), and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA).
This function is responsible for.
i) enabling DRC to manage risks by supporting organizational efforts to identify, assess, prepare for, and respond to risks.
ii) fostering a risk management culture by institutionalizing processes and systems that embed risk management into operations and build capacity and awareness on risk throughout DRC.
iii) improving organizational effectiveness by streamlining compliance practices and enabling better prioritization of support resources to highest-risk issues
Responsibilities:
Under the management and direction of the CD, the RCM will:
• Design, implementation, and monitoring of effective risk management practices (including risk-based internal controls).
• Develop and implement the various training (Code of Conduct and Anti-Fraud/PSEA) as per the action plan for all DRC Nigeria full-time, casual, and volunteer staff.
• Strengthen the existing mechanisms at DRC Nigeria and ensure that adequate measures are implemented at field level, ensuring that all beneficiaries, stakeholders, and community members understand the DRC accountability framework, Core Humanitarian Standards, Code of Conduct, and how to access the feedback, reporting, and complaints mechanisms.
• Support and manage DRC Nigeria Risk and Compliance staff, including development of a training and capacity building plan and regular field trips to provide technical support and guidance.
• Take the lead in Risk Management process e.g., identifying risks, risk assessments and updating the risk register matrix including monitoring and follow up with various risk owners.
• Conduct Spot checks on High-Risk priority areas and share improvement plan with the relevant staff e.g Finance, HR, Procurement and Programs.
• Ensure the SOP developed are aligned with DRC Global polices and regulations and they follow basic quality principles.
• Coordination of internal audits, external audits, and donor audits. Follow up on the recommendations and action plan with the relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct Investigations as per DRC Code of Conduct Reporting Mechanism and ensuring confidentiality is maintained.
• Registrar of the intake committee, convene meetings to assess Reported Suspected Misconduct and maintain the online tracking tool.
Experience and technical competencies:
• At least 5 years of professional experience working with humanitarian / development organizations with responsibilities for risk and compliance and/or program quality functions.
• Knowledge of relevant sectoral areas implemented by DRC Nigeria programs – including protection, Economic Recovery, WASH, Shelter and Humanitarian Disarmament and Peace Building.
• Highly developed skills and demonstrated capacity developing risk and compliance strategies and mechanisms, including implementation and training in related principles and practice.
• Advanced knowledge and demonstrated ability of principles and practices related to confidentiality, protection, and interviewing of extremely vulnerable individuals in a humanitarian context.
• Demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural environment with competing priorities, tight deadlines, and in a complex emergency context.
• Ability to live and work in an insecure and high stress environment.
Behavioral Competencies
These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. The following are essential for this position:
• Strategic Thinking – Developing appropriate strategies based on contextual and political understanding, assessments, and DRC’s governing documents.
• Influencing – Promoting ideas, seeking consensus, and balancing conflicting interests through careful consideration and discussion.
• Initiating action – Making decisions by analyzing relevant information, developing appropriate solutions, providing reasons for decisions, and taking action
• Managing performance and development.
• Analyzing – Having a strong capacity for absorbing large amounts of information, verifying critical elements, and communicating conclusions rationally.
• Communicating with impact and respect – Presenting the actual situation by keeping superiors and teams informed about both positive and negative information, but always respecting confidentiality of sensitive information.
Education:
• University degree in a relevant field such as social sciences, development studies, international / humanitarian law, communications or similar;
• Professional humanitarian qualifications / recognised training certificates in Accountability-related areas (CHS, PSEA, investigations, etc).
Languages:
• English – fluent
• Hausa and other languages used in northeast Nigeria an asset, but not essential to the position
Key stakeholders: (internal and external)
• DRC Nigeria beneficiaries, community leaders, and stakeholders.
• DRC Law firm.
• PDQ units, SMT (Country Director, HOSS, HOP, Area Managers), Program/Sector Managers.
• West Africa Regional Office and Headquarters CoC and Accountability focal points.
General Regulations
- The employee shall follow DRC instructions on safety, confidentiality and ethical guidelines, including the Code of Conduct and the Humanitarian Accountability Framework.
- Employee should not engage in any other paid activity during the DRC contract period without prior authorization.
- Employee should not engage in any activity that could harm DRC or the implementation of any project during the DRC contract period.
- Employee should not give interviews to the media or publish project-related photos or other material without prior authorization.
- Employee shall return all borrowed equipment for the project to DRC after the end of the contract period or upon request.
Application Process
Are you interested? Then apply for this position on line: www.drc.dk/about-drc/vacancies/current-vacancies. All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English.
DRC provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.
DRC encourages all applicants to apply and does not practice any discrimination in any recruitment process.
However, all applicants shall take into consideration that DRC cannot offer an international work contract to a citizen of the country of assignment (in this specific case, Nigeria)
Applications close on the 5th of July 2022 at midnight (GMT-time). Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.
Due to the urgency of the position, DRC has the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.
DRC as an employer
By working in DRC, you will be joining a global workforce of around 8000 employees in 40 countries. We pride ourselves on our:
- Professionalism, impact & expertise
- Humanitarian approach & the work we do
- Purpose, meaningfulness & own contribution
- Culture, values & strong leadership
- Fair compensation & continuous development
DRC’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. DRC conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks as part of the recruitment process.
If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please visit drc.ngo/about-us/job-and-career/support-for-job-seekers.
Danish Refugee Council is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and positive work environment based on mutual respect for all employees. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to race, age, ability, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other factor. At DRC we celebrate diversity and appreciate our employees for the people they are and their unique skills, backgrounds, and perspectives. We encourage all interested candidates to apply!
