Partner Risk & Compliance Coordinator

A leading international non-government organization, World Vision has been providing humanitarian support to vulnerable people throughout the world for over 70 years.

World Vision’s focus is helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

World Vision is committed to safeguarding children and adult beneficiaries believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation and expects all employees, interns, volunteers and all WV affiliates share the same commitment. WV takes diligent measures to screen out all people who might seek to use WV to harm children or adult beneficiaries, or whose past actions indicate an unacceptable risk of such harm. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedures include extensive identification checks prior to employment or engagement with WV in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Requirements

• At least 2-3 years of work experience, preferably in humanitarian organizations or government or risk & compliance or legal or audit or grant management or any other relevant field.
• Some experience working with local and national organisations.
• University degree in a relevant field.
• High proficiency in oral and written English and Ukrainian. Knowledge of Russian or Romanian is an added advantage (this role will also work with partners in Moldova, hence why).

Responsibilities

• Work with the Partnerships Unit, Operations Team, Grant Acquisition & Management Unit, Finance Department and other key compliance stakeholders to ensure that donor regulations and requirements; World Vision policies and standards; humanitarian principles, standards and expectations; and legal and statutory requirements are communicated simply and clearly to all partner organisations.
• Support the Partnerships Unit in the development and review of partner agreements, ensuring alignment to donor, WV, humanitarian and legal/statutory requirements.
• Assess risk and compliance knowledge gaps among partners organisations and develop a plan to address them. Ensure coordination with the Partnerships Unit for any capacity sharing activities planned with partner organisations.
• Contribute to strengthening the process to track partner maturity (progress made over time and impact of World Vision’s work with the partner organisations).
• Raise awareness with partner organisations on incident management, especially on reporting (tools to use, and timeliness
• Regularly collaborate with stakeholders within the World Vision, and with partner organisations to identify common themes of risk and action appropriately.
• Undertake analysis of risks, compliance issues and incidents and develop insightful and actionable reports to partners, operations and UCR leadership.

Additional Information

• Full-time in office presence Travel up to 25% is likely
• Only candidates with Ukrainian citizenship or authorization to work in Ukraine will be considered
• Submit resume and cover letter IN ENGLISH