Compliance Officer - Emergency Response ( Repost)

Background:

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self-reliance.

International Medical Corps: provides safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient centered care; offers needs-based response according to the context and type of Sudden Onset Disaster and/or outbreak in the affected nation: adopts a human rights-based approach to their response; ensures they are accessible to all sections of the population affected by the SOD and/or outbreak particularly the vulnerable; and treats patients in a medically ethical manner consistent with the World Medical Association Medical Ethics Manual.

International Medical Corps is accountable to: patients and communities; host government, Ministry of Health; our organization and donors. International Medical Corps commits to a coordinated response under the national health emergency management authorities. International Medical Corps collaborates with the national health system, the cluster and the humanitarian community.

Job Purpose:

This position will support International Medical Corps' emergency response delivering outpatient clinical care to disaster effected populations by Beirut Blast.

The Compliance Officer will provide support to effectively conduct the tasks and requirements of International Medical Corps field-based compliance department in the country of operation.

Field Compliance is independent of all country program management and the Compliance Officer is expected to maintain a professional and ethical demeanor beyond reproach and to always protect confidentiality.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist management to effectively identify, document and mitigate compliance risks associated with program and operations activities.
• Assist in investigations upon request and approval of the Regional Compliance Coordinator.
• Develop an Issue Log for management agreed upon action plan that includes compliance, internal and external audit recommendations to track their timely implementation. Exemplify the role model behavior when it comes to ethics and organizational values.
• In collaboration with the country program management team, assist in conducting periodic reviews of applicable local laws (i.e labor law, taxes, registration, etc.) to ensure compliance.
• Periodic review of International Medical Corps warehouses to ensure compliance with stock, storage, receiving and exiting procedures.
• Sample review of procurement transactions to ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures and donor regulations.
• Sample review of payroll transactions to ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
• Review of budget vs. actual for projects.

Sample review of recruitments, inductions, separations, performance appraisals and local handbook manuals to ensure their compliance with organizational policies and procedures, local laws and donor regulations as applicable.

Competency:

Familiarity various business controls (HR, Finance, Procurement, Logs, I.T, Program).

General specifications for all positions:

• Experience in working closely with community members throughout a program cycle
• Experience in or understanding of program accountability principles
• Knowledge of, respect and empathy for the communities we are working with
• Commitment to championing community and partner points of view
• Strong understanding of the project cycle and of M&E systems
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills
• Non-discriminatory and readiness to involve men, women, girls and boys from diverse backgrounds, particularly the most marginalized segments of the community
• Very good listening and facilitation skills – capable of managing and facilitating group discussions with program participants, local officials, partners and all levels of staff
• Ability to mobilize people – to develop and maintain relationships with staff and communities to ensure their participation in International Medical Corps ways of working