Ethics and Compliance Advisor

UNOPS is committed to fostering an organisational culture of ethics and a harmonious and inclusive work environment, anchored in the values of integrity, accountability, transparency, respect and professionalism. The Ethics and Compliance Office is integral to this effort, and it has an overall mandate to act as an independent organ pursuant to SGB (2007/11). The office is working under the leadership of the Ethics and Compliance Officer who will report to the Executive Office.

Under the overall supervision of the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, the Ethics & Compliance Advisor will provide ethics and compliance support to UNOPS on a wide range of matters, including the following specific activities:

1. Standard setting and policy support

• Support the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer Executive Office in the development or policies and
• guidance on ethics matters for UNOPS.
• Provide guidance on UN code of conduct (as outlined in the relevant staff regulations and rules, the
• Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service, and applicable administrative issuance).
• Review, advise and support standard setting and policy support activities of other departments.
• Monitor current developments and best practice in organisational ethics to ensure the currency of
• UNOPS’ ethics programme.

• Lead the ethics risk assessment process to identify and track key ethical compliance issues facing UNOPS operations - including project managing the assessment, facilitating meetings and interviews with key stakeholders and preparing reports on findings.
• Assess organizational risk of non-compliance within the scope of the Ethics Office and make recommendations on action plans.
• Conduct deep dive analysis into key, high ethical risk issues in particular bribery and corruption risk and develop and implement programmes to manage them.

3. Training and Communications

• Develop and implement a communications strategy for raising awareness on the Ethics and Compliance programme including core values, ethical standards and expected professional conduct within UNOPS.
• Develop communications and information materials for use internally and externally, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
• Lead the ethics training and learning programme for UNOPS including assessing learning needs,
• developing training plans and content and delivering training to relevant UNOPS personnel through orientations, induction programs, specialized briefings and annual refresher sessions.
• Contribute to institutional capacity for providing ethics training and learning opportunities.

4. Ethics advice

• Provide guidance within the organization on relevant policies, procedures and practices, and to management to reinforce and promote the ethical standards called for under the UN Charter.
• At the request of the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, support on requests for protection against retaliation and assist the Senior Ethics Advisor on responding to requests received via the Ethics Helpline.

5. Compliance

• Support the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer in the development and implementation of the compliance framework to strengthen UNOPS Governance, Risk and Compliance programme.
• Support in preparing reports to the Senior Leadership Team and other supervisory bodies and stakeholders on ethics and compliance matters.

• An Advanced University Degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in law, criminology, relevant social sciences, relevant humanities, business or public administration, psychology, economics, commerce, corporate ethics or related field is required
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s Degree) in combination with 2 additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. 

• Minimum 7 years of experience in ethics, compliance, regulatory, investigative and/or related work is required.
• Extensive working experience in organisational ethics and compliance with an international organization (UN system, international development) or the private sector highly desirable.
• Specific experience in managing bribery and corruption risk is required.
• Experience with Google-Suite will be an asset
• Experience with presentation software applications will be an asset.
• Recognized relevant certification and knowledge of current industry best practices relating to ethics or compliance management would be an asset.

• Fluent in English with proven ability to express well verbally and in writing is required.
• Knowledge of French will be an advantage

Contract type: IICA 

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.