Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Fraud Oversight and Investigation: Set up policies for handling allegations, do investigations, and write reports
• Internal Audits and Reviews: Plan and carry out audits, reviews of controls, and checks for compliance
• Audit Liaison: Make sure that action plans are in place for audit results
• Risk Management and Compliance Implementation: Be in charge of getting people to use the Risk Management and Compliance Model
• Donor Requirements and Safeguarding: Make sure that you follow the rules for fraud and safeguarding set by your donors
• Monitoring Partner Operations: Check to see if partners are following the rules for managing money
• Managing Talent and Supporting Teams: Keep an eye on how your team works together, give them instruction, and evaluate their performance

Academic Requirements

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• At least five years of relevant work experience, with at least three years in finance, compliance, risk management, and audit
• Familiarity with COSO's Internal Control Framework, IIA standards, or audit standards
• Good at data analytics, MS Office, and accounting systems
• Good at talking to people, analyzing things, and managing relationships
• Being honest and being able to travel 25% to 40% of the time
• Must be fluent in English; knowing other languages is a plus

Competencies for the whole agency

• Being responsible for yourself
• Does the right thing
• Builds and Keeps Trust
• Works with other people
• Willing to Learn

Skills for Agency Leadership

• Be the Change
• Grows and gives credit to others
• A strategic way of thinking

Supervisory Duties

Oversee the Senior Risk and Compliance Officer and the Senior Safeguarding Officer

Important Work Relationships

• Internal: The Head of Operations, the Head of Programs, the Chiefs of Party, the Country Representative, the Risk & Compliance Unit, the Safeguarding Team, the Regional Directors/Deputy Directors, the Uganda Country Office staff, and the Safeguarding Working Group
• External: Caritas International, partner staff, donor compliance, and points of contact for protection

Deadline for Applications

02/09/2025, 5:00 PM

How to Apply

Fill out the application at https://form.jotform.com/252301721335546

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Important

Only candidates who are on the shortlist will be contacted. Only Ugandan citizens can apply.

About Catholic Relief Services

The Catholic community in the U.S. has an official international humanitarian agency that works in over 100 countries on issues like emergency response, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding