Head of Confidentiality and Due Diligence Desk

Leads INTERPOL confidentiality, vetting and due-diligence operations, including access rights and confidential information workflows. The role sets strategy, policies, procedures, risk assessments and awareness work for the Confidentiality Desk.

Department: Confidentiality and Due Diligence Desk

• Lead daily operations, strategy, budgeting and resourcing for the Confidentiality Desk
• Define and maintain the INTERPOL Confidentiality Regime, including access rights, security vetting and client due diligence
• Validate risk assessments and escalate higher-classification assessments to the Classification Panel
• Develop standard operating procedures for vetting, access rights management, due diligence, escalation and appeals
• Supervise compliance audits, access-right reviews, control testing and clear desk policy reviews
• Liaise with information security, data protection, security, legal, procurement and information services teams
• Lead training, capacity building and communication on confidentiality requirements

• University degree or equivalent, preferably in a related discipline such as information security
• Relevant professional qualifications or training in information management, client due diligence, Know Your Customer risk, security vetting, ethics, governance and oversight or professional standards
• Minimum eight years of experience working in a security domain
• Five to ten years of management experience, preferably in an international environment
• Experience leading a team of independent specialists from different professional backgrounds
• Proven experience managing and leading a strategic improvement related function, setting a confidentiality regime or a similar function
• Experience developing and embedding organisational risks and assurance practices, classification regimes, due diligence procedures, policies, data protection or similar activities
• Fluent written and spoken English

• Secondment role
• Enhanced security screening