Compliance Officer

The Compliance Officer will monitor, analyze, and report on humanitarian developments and compliance issues related to the occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Fund (oPt HF). The role involves coordinating with UN agencies and partners, providing risk management training, and supporting compliance and risk management activities to ensure effective humanitarian response.

Responsibilities

• Monitors, analyzes, and reports on humanitarian developments, disaster relief/management, or emergency situations in assigned countries/areas that may impact the performance of oPt Humanitarian Fund (HF).
• Organizes and prepares analyses on humanitarian, emergency relief, and related issues and organizes follow-up work management response related to audits and evaluations of the oPt HF.
• Establish and maintain contacts with other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other key stakeholders to enable early detection of compliance issues in oPt HF-funded projects and verify prevention and control mechanisms.
• Undertakes and provides support to technical assistance and other activities to provide risk management training and undertakes in-depth reviews.
• Prepares or contributes to the preparation of various written reports, documents, and communications, e.g. drafts sections of studies, background papers, policy guidelines, briefings, case studies, presentations, correspondence, etc. related to risk management and compliance in the context of Country-Based Humanitarian Pooled Funds.
• Serves as the primary focal point on compliance and risk management of the oPt HF, keeps abreast of latest developments, liaises with other humanitarian organizations, etc., and ensures appropriate monitoring and reporting mechanisms in line with global Country-Based pooled fund guidelines.
• Reviews and provides advice to the oPt HF manager on policy issues related to compliance and risk management.
• Organizes and participates in work groups, meetings, conferences, and consultations with other agencies and partners on humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters; participate in planning and actual field project monitoring.
• Participates in the request and reviews of partner capacity assessments and corresponding status updates in the Grant Management System (GMS).
• Follow up with updating the project monitoring timelines, results, and recommendations in the GMS.
• Plans and participates in trainings/workshops for implementing partners and other stakeholders.
• Performs other duties as required.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in business administration, public administration, Finance, accounting, or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in the areas mentioned above in combination with two years of relevant qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Up to (2) two years (with Master´s degree) or minimum (2) two years (with Bachelor´s degree) of progressively responsible experience in finance, project management, accounting, public administration, economics, or a related field, is required.
• Experience in Finance, and project management cycle, including performance monitoring is required.
• Experience in compliance and risk management is desirable.
• Experience in internal control systems, accounting tools, or related is desirable.
• Experience with the UN common system or equivalent international organization is desirable.
• Fluency in English and Arabic language both spoken and written is required.

Skills

• Finance
• Project Management
• Performance Monitoring
• Compliance
• Risk Management
• Internal Control Systems
• Accounting Tools
• Humanitarian Fund Monitoring
• Risk Management Training
• UN Common System Experience
• Public Administration
• Economic Analysis

Languages

English, Arabic