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What we are looking for

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is looking for an experienced, dynamic, and highly strategical individual to take up the role of Regional Head Risk and Compliance for Latin America who will is responsible for leading the region’s efforts to effectively manage risks, monitoring and improving Country Offices (COs) compliance within high-risk areas and fostering a risk management culture in the region.

What you will do

1. Ensure Compliance to and adherence with NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
2. Direct Management of the Risk and Compliance staff and resources at Regional office
3. Ensure technical supervision of Risk and Compliance staff in COs
4. Ensure that COs receive advice and support for implementing compliance improvement measures related to identified high-risk areas/issues.
5. Act as the focal point for institutional donors’ audits, which includes coordinating the work among the different COs to respond to external audits initiated by institutional donors and facilitating the follow up of these audits’ recommendations.
6. Ensure that COs and the RO receive training, support and advice on the following: i) Areas of expertise held by the Risk Management Section (RMS) at HO (Risk management, compliance, Anti-corruption, Data Protection, Code of Conduct, legal and complaints management) and ii) compliance with regulations not specific to a given function (i.e. SSD, COTER, sanctions).

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position.

What you will bring

• Minimum 5 years of experience from working as a senior management position (s) at country, regional or similar level of responsibility in an international organisation
• Minimum 3 years of experience from working as manager in compliance, auditing or risk management functions.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Knowledge and skills in the international regulatory context applicable for INGOs.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
• Knowledge and skills in any of the following**: safeguarding, accountability to affected populations or Code of Conduct/Code of Ethics related matters.**
• Knowledge of the regulatory context in the Latin America Region, including counter-terrorism legislation and sanctions on humanitarian assistance.
• Fluency in English and Spanish, both written and verbal.
• International experience in, and knowledge about the regional context is and countries supported is highly desirable.

What we offer

• Duty station: Bogotá, Colombia
• Contract: national or international, 12 months, extendable
• Travel: up to 30%
• Salary/benefits: grade 10 on NRC’s regional salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions for international contracts
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

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Important information about the application process

• Internal candidates only: please click on the suitcase icon labelled “I am an employee” to be redirected to NRC’s internal careers site.
• When creating your profile, include your full name as given on your passport. Complete all the system-required fields for experience, employment history and education.
• Submit your application and CV in English, taking care to attach your latest CV.
• Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We receive many applicants for each vacant position.
• If you have any questions about this role, please email aela.recruitment@nrc.no with the job title as the subject line.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organization helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

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The Latin American (LA) region faces multiple complex emergencies, including the internal and regional impact of the crisis in Venezuela, the humanitarian consequences of the armed conflict in Colombia, and the pervasive high levels of generalised violence in the North of Central America and in Mexico. These conditions produce some of the highest forced displacement numbers in the world. According to UNHCR, there are over 15 million displacement-affected people, including some 7,4 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across NRC country programme coverage in Latin America. The LA region also witnesses record numbers of transcontinental population movements generating significant protection risks as people are obliged to cross borders often through routes where conditions are dramatic. Restrictive asylum and migration policies also create flows of deportees and returnees, who struggle to re-integrate in their communities and often face violence, retaliation, discrimination and exclusion. Those phenomena are accelerating across the region.

NRC has been operating in Latin America in a total of 8 countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico with an overall regional budget of approximately 60 million USD and 1,100 dedicated colleagues across the continent. Given the increasing number of displaced people in need of humanitarian assistance in the region, NRC decided to establish a Regional Office in Latin America from early 2024 to oversee the country programmes in the region, and provides strategic guidance and oversight across core programme, advocacy and support functions.

Aiming at strengthening the organisation’s risk management capacity, in 2019 NRC decided to establish a risk management and compliance (R&C) function across the organisation. This function is responsible for i) enabling NRC to manage risks by supporting the organisational efforts to identify, assess, prepare for and respond to risks; ii) fostering a risk management culture by institutionalising processes and systems that embed risk management into operations and build capacity and awareness on risk throughout NRC; and iii) improving organisational effectiveness by streamlining compliance practices and enabling better prioritisation of support resources to highest-risk issues

At regional office (RO) level the risk management and compliance function has been tasked with supporting regional risk owners in their efforts to manage risks, working with COs in the region to provide assurance to the regional management team on regional (COs) compliance within high-risk areas/issues, promoting a risk management culture in the region through training and communication, and contributing to the development of NRC’s R&C frameworks. In addition, this position will lead and manage the investigation’s function for the region.

We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.
• join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.

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