Risk and Compliance Specialist

Strengthens UNICEF Pacific’s risk, compliance and internal-control framework through assessment, mitigation, assurance and reporting. The specialist coordinates risk reviews and mitigation measures; promotes adherence to policies, delegated authorities and governance requirements; supports fraud prevention and management advice; provides oversight to senior management; develops staff capacity.

• Coordinate risk assessments mitigation and assurance reviews
• Promote internal controls and adherence to policies procedures and governance
• Support fraud-risk prevention and anti-fraud measures
• Provide strategic oversight and risk-informed advice to management
• Build staff awareness and capacity in ethics compliance and safeguarding
• Support regional risk and compliance reviews and knowledge sharing

• Advanced degree in business administration financial management operations management strategic management risk management audit investigation internal control statistics or related field
• At least five years of risk and compliance or directly relevant experience including internal audit
• Financial-management and financial-control-system experience
• Proficiency in English
• Donor relationships resource mobilization and complex-grant-management experience

• Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language
• Fraud-prevention anti-fraud ethics or accountability framework knowledge
• Dashboard and risk-analytics data-analysis and reporting skills
• Developing-country small-island-state or Asia-Pacific experience
• Emergency or humanitarian-context familiarity
• Data-analysis or accounting certifications
• NGO or UN experience
• Country-level development fragile-setting or humanitarian-context experience

• Risk Management
• Compliance
• Internal Controls
• Fraud Prevention
• Audit
• Financial Controls
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Capacity Building