Compliance and Accountability Officer

Major Responsibility

• Plan and implement compliance activities to ensure program accountability is ensured, requirements are met and result are delivered as per humanitarian principles, standards and procedures.
• Support in improving monitoring systems, revise tools and mechanisms to establish quality commodity management in terms of warehousing, documentation, overall commodity flow and food transfer.
• Plan and conduct field visit to verify evidences and close open findings reported through regular live food distribution observations, end use check, and post distribution monitoring.
• Lead compliance works in cooperation with food resource management, food monitoring, and field offices.
• Review and discuss findings observed by food monitoring team and prepare a follow up matrix sheets for follow up to close findings in timely manner.
• Active representation in any risk monitoring meetings and compliance sessions like technical working group.
• Build and develop the capacity of the field staff in commodity management and implementation standards to ensure compliance is sustainably and effectively maintained.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• BA/BSc in social work, law, supply management and other social sciences related fields of studies.

Required Professional Experience

• 5 and above Years of experience in food assistance / food programs, and development related fields related to compliance management/response .

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Strong knowledge and working understanding on Emergency Food resource management;
• Experience and knowledge of USAID/BHA funded emergency food assistance projects, Red Cross code of Conduct, SPHERE Standard and HAP standard;
• Comprehensive experience on WFP funded food program interventions (knowledge of WFP & WV commodity management policy) is mandatory
• Formal training in Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data Management, Kobo, Core Humanitarian Standard, Data Quality Assurance (DQA) is an asset.
• Skills and experience conducting data verification, analysis, reporting, and monitoring.
• Technical knowledge & skill advantageous particularly on LMMS, CCTS, JAM, CTP, environmental compliance, emergency safety & security;
• Good understanding of humanitarian standards
• Good knowledge of local context
• INGO experience
• Ability to work in high tension and high security risk situations
• Ability to work in and contribute to team building environment