Chief of Unit, Risk Management and Compliance

Leads UNSOH’s risk management and compliance function by coordinating external audits, advising mission leadership on recommendations, maintaining the risk register, integrating controls into operations and reporting risk, delegation-of-authority indicators and internal controls.

Department: Risk Management and Compliance Unit

• Lead the unit workplan and allocate resources against risk and compliance priorities
• Coordinate external oversight assignments, audit visits, documentation and mission responses
• Evaluate audit findings and advise mission leadership whether to accept recommendations or propose alternatives
• Track implementation of audit, security, fire and aviation-safety recommendations and report status
• Maintain the mission risk register and integrate risk responses into strategic and operational planning
• Guide mission components on risk data collection, analysis and reporting methodologies
• Produce mission risk reports, delegation-of-authority indicators and the Statement of Internal Control
• Analyse operational data and present trends through charts, tables and reports for management decisions

• Advanced degree in finance, accounting, business administration or a related field, or a first degree with two additional years of relevant experience
• Seven years of progressively responsible experience in administration, auditing, finance, accounting or a related area
• Experience in a United Nations field operation or comparable international organisation
• Three years of formal risk or compliance management experience
• Three years managing and reporting key performance indicators
• UN Level III reading, writing, listening and speaking in both English and French

• Temporary deployment is planned for three months and depends on formal funding and staffing approval
• Professional-category applicants cannot be nationals of the duty-station country