Compliance Officer

About CRS  

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.  

Job Summary:

You will conduct compliance-related activities for the country program (CP), ensuring the CP adheres  to CRS policies, local laws, and donor regulations to support effective delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable .  Your knowledge and skills will help reduce risk to staff, to the effectiveness of our programming and to the people we serve through the application of the principles of stewardship, integrity, transparency, and accountability.

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Roles and Key Responsibilities:  

• Collaborate with the Compliance Manager and CP leadership on strengthening internal control systems and processes.
• Support the planning and performance of internal audits, control reviews and compliance assessments, conduct audit activities as applicable. Help analyze results and provide recommendations.
• Support external audits and the coordination of action plans to close out audit findings.
• Help identify issues and challenges related to project compliance and create solutions to address them.
• Ensure grant and procurement activities comply with CRS Policies, USAID Rules and Regulations, Mission Order 21, and other relevant regulations.
• Assist in collecting necessary information to support the accurate data submission and maintain paper and electronic compliance records for grants and procurement activities. Collaborate with procurement and project staff to ensure vendors tracking records aligns with the donor's regulations.
• Perform other administrative tasks as required.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration or other relevant Bachelor’s strongly preferred. Accounting and other relevant certification(s) a plus.
• Minimum of 3 years work experience, ideally with an international organization, with progressive responsibility in operations and/or programming. At least 2 of these years entailing managing USG funded project agreement compliance and   Knowledge of audit standards and compliance regulations and familiarity with international standards for internal control..

Required Languages - Fluent English and Arabic

Travel - Must be willing and able to travel up to 10 %. Within the West Bank  

 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good relationship management skills
• Good analytical, organizational, and systems thinking skills
• Ability to make sound judgment
• Ethical conduct in accordance with recognized professional and organizational codes of ethics
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Familiarity with accounting systems.
• Proficient in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio) and information management systems.

APPLICATION INSTUCTIONS: Interested candidates with relevant education and work experience are invited to complete an application which addresses the positions requirements. In order to be considered for the position, candidates must submit both a CV and a cover letter, in English. Applications which fail to meet these requirements will not be considered. Applications must be submitted online at http://jobs.crsjwbg.org and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. This posting will remain open until filled, however, submission by March 16, 2024 is strongly advised.