Regional Ethics and Compliance Officer

**Title**: Regional Ethics and Compliance Officers, Middle East

**Department**: Ethics & Compliance

**Location**: Home-based in US, UK, Turkey, Kenya, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon or Yemen (Travel at approximately 25% of time)

**Reporting to**: Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, with dotted-line to Regional Director

**Direct reports**:Country Office Focal Points (dotted line)
- This role is classified as requiring standard/ advanced pre-employment checks

**ABOUT Relief International.**

Relief International (RI) is a leading non-profit organization working in 16 countries globally to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and chronic poverty.

RI combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact and resilience. We focus on health/nutrition, education, economic opportunity, and water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) programming while integrating protection, environment/climate change, and conflict mitigation in partnership with the communities we serve. We empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

RI includes the three corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, and MRCA/RI-France. Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure.

**About our Programs**

RI is currently active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.

RI employs about 5,000 staff and auxiliary workers.

97% of staff are local nationals and there are about 90 international (expat) staff.

2021 programs budget is about $125M

RI receives funding from a broad range of institutional donors - US, UK, Europe, and the UN, to delivery life-saving and resilience building programming with communities and local and international partners. RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change.

**About our Country Program/ Regional Programs**:
**Middle East Region**

RI in the Middle East has programs in six countries - Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Yemen, with a focus on the 4 main RI sectors: Health, WASH, Education and Economic Opportunity.

Relief International currently employs 3900 staff (direct and indirect) in the region and has a range of emergency response and development programs valued at 70 million USD on an annual basis

**Africa/ Asia Region**

RI currently operates in eight countries in the Africa/Asia region: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, South Sudan, and Sudan, with a focus on the four RI sector pillars: Health, WASH, Education and Economic Opportunity.

RI currently employs more than 3,000 staff (direct and indirect) in the Africa/Asia region and implements a range of emergency response and development programs valued at approximately $50 million USD on an annual basis.

**Position Summary.**

Relief International is seeking two Regional Ethics and Compliance Officers, one for the Middle East and one for Africa and Asia Region to develop, implement and lead ethics and compliance initiatives. The positions will be part of the Global Ethics and Compliance team and work in close collaboration with colleagues at the global, regional, and country levels to drive compliance with RI’s code of conduct and related policies within RI’s country missions. The positions will report directly to the CECO but have a dotted line to the Regional Director as this position will also be integrated within the regional team.

Your role will be to help ensure RI’s compliance program is designed and implemented effectively based on the unique risks, needs and challenges of each country within the region. While reporting directly to the CECO, the role will be a member of the regional team and a key liaison to both country leadership teams and GSO functions (including awards management, legal, finance, supply chain and operations and human resources). The Regional Ethics and Compliance Officer will also support other regional and global compliance program needs as requested.

**Key Responsibilities and Duties.**
- Establish and mentor Ethics and Compliance Focal Points in each country. This will include having bi-weekly one-on-one meetings with these focal points to support and monitor progress towards initiatives.
- Lead on the roll-out of global compliance initiatives and trainings for the country offices
- Serve as focal point for monitoring and tracking of compliance performance for all country offices, reporting to