Risk and Compliance Manager
London
Salary of circa £48,000 per annum
The Organisation
Our client is a unique membership organisation.
When large-scale catastrophes strike countries that lack the resources to respond, they bring members together to raise funds quickly and efficiently. In times of crisis, their mission is to save, protect, and rebuild lives through effective humanitarian action.
Working as one, they coordinate the UK public’s response to overseas catastrophes. They raise the alarm with the UK public and make donating as easy as possible, with most funds raised within the first two weeks of an appeal.
They are now looking for a Risk and Compliance Manager to join them on a full-time, permanent basis.
Non-contractual Benefits- Paid mobile phone allowance @ £15 per month
- HealthCare Cash Plan, providing an array of health services (£1,660 cash value per year)
- Gym Pass – discounted access to various health club providers
- Discount schemes via Reward Gateway and BHSN Extras (for various retailers and businesses)
- Discounted tickets for events
- Season ticket loan (post probation)
- Cycle-to-work scheme (post probation)
This is an influential opportunity for a detail-driven risk and compliance professional to join our client’s passionate humanitarian organisation.
Your expertise will help shape risk management strategies to ensure they are compliant in managing contracts and relationships that enable them to be efficient with their financial resources. You will guide and advise colleagues engaging with an array of people and organisations, to support various assignments and journeys with or on behalf of the organisation.Our client has a collegiate culture that is respectful, where colleagues share a commitment to ethical governance.
The Role
As Risk and Compliance Manager, you will oversee all aspects of risk management, compliance, and internal controls.
This role is critical in fostering a secure and ethical working environment while implementing risk management strategies both within and outside of appeal periods.
Ensuring our client operates within legal and regulatory frameworks, you will identify and mitigate potential risks through risk assessments, internal audits, and the management of insurance policies.
You will oversee compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, including data protection, anti-money laundering, and safeguarding, while supporting governance through board-level reporting and fraud prevention measures.
Additionally, you will:
- Manage contract negotiations, supplier relationships, and procurement processes
- Oversee travel risk management and incident reporting to ensure staff safety
- Support the monitoring of fraud prevention within our client’s organisation and member agencies
- Implement environmental and social governance (ESG) initiatives
- Develop and enforce policies on gifts, hospitality, and whistleblowing
- Deliver risk management training and update key compliance policies
About You
To be considered as a Risk and Compliance Manager, you will need:
- Experience mitigating legal risks and liabilities and identifying contractual hazards to reduce or eliminate their financial impact
- Experience guiding employees to negotiate contractual matters in a legal and ethical manner
- Experience developing policies and compliance documentation
- In-depth legal knowledge of regulatory and statutory requirements affecting the UK non-profit sector
- A Level 6 qualification in Risk Management, Law, Finance, Business Administration, or related field
The closing date for this role is 9am, Monday 24th March 2025.
Other organisations may call this role Charity Compliance Manager, Governance Manager, Risk and Governance Manager, Governance and Compliance Manager, or Senior Compliance Advisor.
Our client is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults and participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, they will request information from successful applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
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