Country: Norway
Closing date: 23 Mar 2019
All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s values. To be dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable are attitudes and beliefs that guide our actions and relationships.
Background
NRC is committed to expanding focus, capabilities, and resources on organisation-wide risk management, both as part of our 2018-2020 strategy and for the long-term future. NRC has decided to establish a global risk management section to drive new processes and behaviours to enable us to better manage risks, foster a risk management culture, and improve organisational effectiveness.
Role and responsibilities
The Director of Risk Management will be responsible for setting vision, developing key capabilities, and ensuring oversight of all risk management systems, procedures, and activities at NRC. This role will be in the Senior Management Group, which together with the Board is the main governing body of NRC.
The Risk management section will likely include global experts in Legal, Code of Conduct, Data Protection, Anti-Corruption, PSEA, Investigations, and Compliance. The Director of Risk Management will also work very closely with risk management and compliance staff at the regional office level (and by extension related staff at the country office level), via a matrix relationship.
2019 will be dedicated to tasks for establishing the new section at NRC Head Office. Key activities to include:
- Finalise a role mandate for the Risk Management section, together with the Deputy Secretary-General
- Determine holistic operating model and any resource or responsibility shifts needed vis-a-vis existing functions
- Work with Regional Offices (RO) to prepare for the establishment of dedicated risk management and compliance operations at RO and Country Office (CO) level across all of NRC in 2020
- Develop and pilot risk-based decision and escalation criteria, building off revised governing documents
From 2020 onward, this role will be responsible for organisation-wide risk management activities such as:
- Ensure risk appropriate awareness and understanding in the organisation
- Enable effective risk identification and assessment in the organisation
- Support leadership in mitigating risks and responding to risk issues as they arise
- Overseeing expert risk functions (such as legal, data protection, code of conduct, etc.)
- Overseeing operational compliance throughout the organisation
Qualifications
- 5+ years of executive-level professional experience in risk management / compliance functions
- 5+ years of humanitarian management experience, including an oversight and control role
- Documented/proven results related to organisation-wide risk management efforts
- Documented/proven results in designing and leading a major organisational transformation
- In-depth knowledge of issues relating to risk and compliance relevant to a complex international aid agency, such as institutional donor compliance, geopolitics, sanctions, and reputational risk, as well as knowledge of the application counter-terrorism laws and sanctions on humanitarian assistance
- Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills, especially regarding framework development, analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, and ability to prioritise systematically
- Knowledge and understanding of a wide range of relevant disciplines (including finance, HR, ICT, logistics/procurement, security, grants management, programme design / implementation)
- Experience working in complex and dynamic contexts, preferably those in which NRC operates
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Who are you?
The opportunity to build shared vision and trust across a diverse range of stakeholders excites you – you are experienced and have succeeded in major change management efforts before!
You have demonstrated your ability to be a proactive self-starter and succeed in open-ended contexts. You willingly take on challenges and persevere in pursuing them. You have an analytical mindset. As for leadership, you take sincere interest in the leader role and you thrive on working with, and through, people.
We offer
A highly engaged, international job environment in a meaningful context!
The position is a permanent position based at Head Office, central Oslo, terms as per national contract.
Please note that you are required to enter geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location.
Only CVs and applications written in English and entered into Webcruiter will be assessed. NRC reserves the right to conduct a full background check on shortlisted candidates.
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