TradeMark East Africa Risk and Compliance Director Jobs in Kenya

The position of Risk & Compliance Director leads TMEA’s efforts to manage risk effectively by ensuring that effective risk and compliance strategies, policies and frameworks are in place through securing sound legal advice, ensuring effective governance arrangements, enforcing compliance with approved policies and

procedures, and promoting ethical behaviour.


Roles and responsibilities


Legal

Ensure that the Council, Board of Directors and SLT receive appropriate, timely, and professional legal advice (whether through in-house provision or from an external adviser).

Ensure full compliance with all legal requirements faced by TMEA.

Oversee the progress of all litigation involving TMEA.

Submit quarterly report to the Board summarising the position of all litigation involving TMEA.

Governance

Ensure that excellent support is provided by the Governance Support Manager to the Council, Board of Directors and SLT to facilitate the effective governance of TMEA.

Risk

Develop and maintain the Risk Vision and Risk Strategy, the Risk Management Policy, and Risk Appetite Statement on behalf of the Board of Directors.

Provide support and training to staff in the development of their control frameworks and definition of risk appetite for each risk category.

Report annually to the Board on the overall effectiveness of the Risk Management Policy.

Provide quarterly reporting to the Board Audit, Finance & Risk Committee and the Board of Directors on risk exposures and the effectiveness of mitigating actions.

Define the requirements for the annual Risk Review process to confirm organisation-wide operational implementation of the Risk Management Policy.

Commission periodic reviews to ensure that the business is managing risk within the agreed appetite and in line with the requirements of the Risk Management Policy.

Compliance & Ethics

Monitor the implementation of and check the compliance with TMEA’s conflict of interest policy.

Review and provide guidance on all declarations of conflict of interest.

Liaise closely with Internal Audit to ensure complementarity of the work of the two units.

Provide support and training to staff across TMEA on compliance and ethics.

Design and implement real-time checks to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.

Provide guidance and direction to the Risk & Compliance team, including agreeing work-plans, budgets and priorities for the team.

Quality assure the work of the Risk & Compliance team.

Oversee and support the professional and inter-personal development of all members of the Risk & Compliance team.

Lead teams in regular informal and formal reflection, knowledge sharing and learning events.

Quality-assure tools and procedures to document and share knowledge, incentivise staff/teams and enforce compliance and standards.

Apply the highest standards of controls and risk management practices and behaviours and embed a positive risk and control culture.

Oversee the annual process of declaration of interests and gifts/hospitality

by staff and maintain the required registers.

Demonstrate prudence, sound judgement and appropriate and timely escalations in management of all types of risk (including fraud risk) applicable to my role.

Understand and comply with the relevant end-to-end processes including applicable risks and controls.

Seek to identify, understand and escalate risk events/incidents/ issues on a timely basis focusing on fixing root-causes and taking ownership of identified mitigating actions.

Complete all relevant mandatory trainings within the stipulated timelines.

Promote and adhere to TMEA’s core values, and ensure compliance with organisational policies and procedures.

Maintain zero tolerance to bribery, fraud and corruption, and ensure the immediate reporting of any corruption or suspect behaviour that threatens TMEA’s reputation.

Adhere to the safeguarding policies and procedures and immediately report any safeguarding concerns.

Any other related responsibilities that may be assigned by the line manager from time to time.


Qualifications

Undergraduate degree holders will have at least 12 years’ of relevant working experience in one or more of the core areas of the job (postgraduate degree holders will require at least 10 years’ of relevant
working experience).

Five years’ leadership experience in one of the main focus areas of the unit is essential.

Technical skills and behavioural competencies

The ability to provide professional, independent advice confidently, and propose recommendations efficiently and effectively.

The ability to deal with information confidentially and sensitively.

The ability to handle competing priorities and a challenging workload.

An understanding of the development sector.

Willingness to continuously develop skills and knowledge to remain current with good risk and compliance practice.

Strong strategic thinking, formulation and implementation skills including the ability to communicate strategy and impact concisely and simply.

Strong leadership and management skills. Demonstrate personal qualities and credibility to lead, develop and motivate staff.

Strong presentation, communication and personal effectiveness skills, with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives and gain consensus and collaboration.

Sound decision-making and judgement capabilities, as well as good problem solving and analytical skills.

A self-motivated individual who requires minimal supervision


How to apply


Interested candidates should apply online by 3rd August, 2018


For more information and job application details, see; TradeMark East Africa Risk and Compliance Director Jobs in Kenya


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