Deadline: 24 April, 2021
Location: Cairo, Egypt
World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the role of Compliance and Risk Assistant.
The primary role of WHO is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations system.
Responsibilities
- Provide support and assist in the coordination of risk assessment and risk reporting
- Administer EMRO and business centre risk registers on a periodic basis as required by WHO policy
- Provide support and assist in training provided to budget centres on risk management topics and risk management processes
- Prepare and perform compliance controls on selected organisational processes and areas such as inter alia procurement, human resources, programme implementation modalities, finance and budget, and travel
- Administer the issuance and creation of periodic reports to budget centres and EMR senior management on compliance
- Assist and actively cooperate with budget centres on analysing and consolidating compliance data and statistics, identifying bottlenecks and proposing corrective measures
- Advise colleagues about possible solutions to various compliance and risk management issues
- Ensure effective review and analysis of various transactions and reliable financial reporting
- Provide sound advice on administrative and project/programme management information and GSM workflows and processes
Requirements
- Secondary education supplemented with accounting, auditing, risk management, or governance training
- University degree in Finance, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Law, or a related field is an asset
- Eight years, minimum, of experience in administrative management, audit, internal control and/or compliance
- Relevant experience in the UN system
- Experience in the design and use of accountability mechanisms
- Experience in developing, monitoring, assessing, and managing compliance and risk management programmes
- Excellent knowledge of WHO rules, manuals, practices, procedures and general accounting principles
- Knowledge of internal control and risk management concepts, methods and techniques
- Excellent analytical skills with strategic focus
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including strong skills to interact with tact and diplomacy
- Ability to maintain good working relationships with colleagues and other stakeholders
- Expert knowledge of English and Arabic
- Intermediate knowledge of French
To apply and for more information, click here.
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