Responsibilities
• Identifies possible risks and opportunities related to the ICRC’s objectives in the context, at delegation level and for key process risks, prioritizes them and advises on appropriate mitigation measures.
• Provides technical expertise and recommendations to risk owners to implement risk responses in compliance with operational policies, tools, methodologies, procedures, processes, and controls activities.
• Conducts learning and communication activities with managers, staff, and key partners to equip them in their responsibilities to identify and manage key risks and implement effective control measures.
• Provides risk information and analysis to the delegation’s management and contributes to institutional reporting on risk and assurance activities and escalates significant risks.
• Designs/strengthens systems for monitoring ICRC program activities including those implemented with/through partners.
• Conduct relevant and appropriate controls and assure that they are integrated in program planning, implementation, and monitoring.
• Ensure proper controls are integrated in partnership agreement, and clear plans for monitoring of implementation and follow up is in place; foster learning from mitigation weakness, reinforce controls, compliance without critically impact on operations.
• Conducts field visits to program sites to understand the context and assess effectiveness of risk mitigation measures and advises the delegation for the improvement of risk management practices and controls.
• Lead the Risk & Assurance unit and supervise a team of risk and assurance officers and other staff directly assigned to field risk mitigation measures.