Job Opportunity in Jordan as a Donor Compliance Assurance Manager at Care

Care offers a job opportunity in Jordan as a Donor Compliance Assurance Manager. You will assess CARE systems, processes, and behaviors at the CO, Regional, and HQ (including Program Unit) levels to identify compliance risks, and issues, and report back accordingly with insights and corrective action recommendations. You will use a structured approach based on data analytics and information from available data streams on areas to focus on. You will be responsible to achieve the objectives of the compliance assurance team and work with and supporting country offices and other units to identify and address any compliance risks and issues by carrying out regular compliance health checks for COs and programs that have been identified by the team on yearly basis.

You will coordinate and communicate with relevant stakeholders in carrying out their duties. This will be achieved through the following broad departmental mandate:

• Monitoring and detecting deviations from policies, internal controls, and procedures, donor regulations, local laws, and regulations.
• Recommending and monitoring improvements to current systems, processes, and procedures.
• Fostering a culture of an ethical, transparent, and accountable working environment.
• Escalating critical compliance gaps to senior management. 
• Develop a yearly compliance plan.
• Review existing data streams including IAD Annual CO assessment, Audit reports, ROAR, SSC reports, and IPO reports.
• Seek feedback from various stakeholders such as IPO, RMU, IAD, Fraud Team, SSC, and Program Units to help in understanding the bigger picture about the COs.
• Identify countries that should be in focus for the compliance annual plan.
• Work with the team to develop a detailed compliance plan for countries in focus, the plan will identify what will be in scope for the compliance health check, tools used, timing, and method.
• Carry Out Compliance Health Checks.
• Request Supporting documents (in person, virtually) to examine the status of each compliance area.
• Draft a report and a plan of action to address any insights and identified gaps. The action plan will identify the compliance area, the agreed solution with the CO, the timing for the solution, and the responsible person in the CO.
• Escalate issues or risks to management.
• Regularly follow up on the progress of recommendation implementation.
• Set up regular follow-up meetings to discuss progress towards the identified solutions in the CO compliance action plan.
• Request supporting documents to show evidence of progress.
• Collaborate with AMS, IPO, and HQ Program Unit colleagues to ensure that the CO progress is being recognized and appreciated.
• Escalate issues and risks to management especially lack progress as deemed appropriate.
• Update the Compliance Dashboard.
• Contribute to the development of a dashboard V.1 that will transition to an online dashboard.
• Manage feedback about the dashboard to help improve it in the future.
• Data and information management.

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You must have:

1. A Bachelor´s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Risk Management, or similar. An equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
2. Strong verbal and written communication skills, fluency in English with a proven ability to express yourself well verbally and in writing.
3. Fluency in French (one position) and fluency in Arabic (one position).
4. Ability and willingness to travel to country program locations as needed, often at short notice 35% of your time.
5. A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is preferred.
6. Certification in auditing, grants management, risk, and/or compliance management.
7. Experience in high complex humanitarian crises such as Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Myanmar ..etc. 
8. Experience in risk management, compliance, and/or audit is preferred.
9. Proven knowledge and working experience with donor regulations such as USAID, EU, FCDO, and other donors.
10. Basic understanding of internal control framework related to key functions and business processes such as Human Resources, Program Management, Financial Management, Supply Chain Management, sub-grants management, Information Technology, etc.).
11. A minimum of five years of relevant experience working in a related field of compliance or audit with similar organizations.
12. Eight years of experience in compliance or auditing fields.
13. Expert knowledge in organizations’ internal control frameworks.

About Care:

For 75 years, CARE has led the way to a better life for the world’s most vulnerable people. In 2020, CARE worked in over 100 countries, reaching more than 90 million people through 1,300 projects.

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