Risk Officer

Provides WFP country offices with specialized risk-management support that strengthens risk-informed decisions, compliance and donor assurance. The role identifies and escalates operational, safeguarding and contextual risks; develops mitigation plans and controls; and deploys during emergencies to advise management, improve accountability and protect programme delivery.

• Identify, assess, monitor and escalate operational, fiduciary, programmatic, safeguarding and contextual risks
• Develop and improve country risk assessment and management plans, mitigation measures and escalation mechanisms
• Support country offices to meet donor assurance, accountability, compliance-monitoring and performance-reporting requirements
• Implement controls for beneficiary targeting, partner oversight, commodity and cash tracking, safeguarding and anti-fraud measures
• Support incident reporting, investigation follow-up, root-cause analysis and corrective-action tracking
• Deploy during emergency responses to conduct rapid risk assessments and advise management on mitigation strategies
• Train Risk Officers, focal points and country-office teams on risk management, reporting and mitigation planning

• Advanced university degree in business or public administration, finance, accounting, international development, audit or a related field, or a first university degree with additional relevant experience or training
• Relevant postgraduate professional experience in risk management, audit, monitoring or related fields
• Fluency in English at level C
• Intermediate knowledge of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish or Portuguese

• Experience in enterprise risk management, internal controls, compliance, audit follow-up or assurance functions
• Experience supporting humanitarian field operations
• Experience with monitoring systems, community feedback mechanisms, incident management or investigation follow-up
• Familiarity with cash-based transfers, partner management, safeguarding, PSEA, fraud controls and donor compliance
• Ability to deploy rapidly in multicultural and high-pressure operational environments

• Enterprise Risk Management
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Reporting
• Donor Assurance
• Incident Management
• Internal Controls
• Compliance Monitoring
• Fraud Risk Assessment
• Risk Mitigation
• Emergency Risk Assessment

• Risk Assessment and Management Plans
• Risk Registers

• Job holders are located in Country Offices and report to the Country Director or designate with functional oversight from the Risk Management Division
• The role may deploy to emergencies, sudden-onset crises and operational scale-ups