Christian Aid Recruits Compliance Officer

SENIOR COMPLIANCE OFFICER, AFRICA
BASED: NAIROBI, KENYA, WITH SOME TRAVEL IN AFRICA A significant part of Christian Aid’s income in Africa comes from government and institutional donors. In this important role you will ensure that grants and contracts comply with donor regulations and requirements and thereby play a key part in ensuring that funds are directed to the world’s poorest people.

EFFECTIVENESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Describe your experience of working with institutional donors.
What are some of the key areas of compliance?
How do reporting requirements of different donors differ?
COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION
Tell us about how you have successfully shared information or trained people on a complex and detailed subject with a diverse audience.
What information where you communicating to whom?
How did you try to tailor your communication to achieve its purpose?
How did you ensure that people had understood and were able to put in practice what they had learnt?
INTERNAL AUDIT, RISK AND POLICY
Describe a situation where you have identified and mitigated financial risks for an organisation or a project in a complex environment.
How were the risks identified?
Initiative
Tell us about a time when you used your initiative to take the most of an opportunity or address a problem.
What opportunity/problem did you see?
How did you act on it?
Were you successful?
Why?
We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organization, so you can expect a range of rewards and benefits that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.
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TO APPLY
Please download an application pack and email your completed International application form to:   nairobi@christian-aid.org quoting the reference number.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted and that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
JOB REFERENCE: PFD/039/JG
CLOSING DATE: 5pm, Friday 7 January 2011
INTERVIEW DATE: Week commencing 24 January 2011
Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.