Investigation Officer in ACTED

ACTED is a French NGO founded in 1993 that supports vulnerable populations affected by humanitarian crises around the world. ACTED provides ongoing support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and preparedness for the long-term challenges facing populations to break the cycle of poverty, promote development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Our employees are always ready to respond to emergency situations, support and restore sustainable development through 450 projects in 43 countries.

OBJECTIVES

1. Investigation functions: contribute, under the supervision of the Transparency and Compliance manager, to follow-up on (i) investigations conducted at Country level (ii) implementation of lessons learned from investigations.
< li> Training, lessons learned and best practices: contribute to training sessions to reinforce anti-fraud awareness, as well as screening requirements awareness at the level of country teams and implementing partners, propose improvement to ACTED's current procedures against fraud and corruption, based on lessons learned and best practices.

For each of the above points: make sure that alerts are immediately escalated to the Investigation Manager. Subsequently, all credible alerts must be reported to the HQ Investigation Unit. All the information managed by the staff as a member of the Investigation Unit must be handled with the utmost care and confidentiality.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Investigation:

The investigation officer will participate, under the direct supervision of the investigation manager, in the evaluation and processing of fraud alerts. S/he will contribute to:

• Analyzing data, and reporting it to the HQ Investigation Unit:
  • The development of reports and statistics (e.g. monthly report to HQ Investigation Unit);
• Follow-up of cases:
  • Determination of an investigation plan and follow-up with the field teams, for validation of Country Director and HQ Investigation Unit;
  • Conducting investigations (following the validation of the investigation plan) and drafting of investigation reports;

• Closing of cases, in link with HQ Investigation Unit (final communication to the field, final update on the headquarters server; final update on the Transparency Line);

• Recommendation and lessons learned
  • Contribute to the follow-up of recommendations concerning the internal control system in relation to the services concerned in order to reduce vulnerability to fraud and abuse;
  • Contributing to the development of processes and systems to follow up on findings related to failures, weaknesses and gaps in internal systems and recommendations for corrective action identifyd during fraud investigations.

2. Trainings (anti-fraud sensitization trainings, fraud investigation methodology, screening process):

S/he will contribute to the develop and deliver trainings.

1. Sensitization of ACTED staff and implementing partners on anti-fraud mechanisms, in close collaboration with functional departments;
2. Sensitization of ACTED staff and specific implementing partners to the ACTED third-party screening process;
3. Contribute to the development of training materials on fraud investigation methodology for country coordination and senior management;

3. Reporting, support and other tasks:

1. Translation of documents, reports, memos upon request of the line manager;
2. Support to the TCI team in HQ on request of the line manager and depending on needs;
3. Any other tasks as requested by the line manager.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS  

Investigation:

1. Percentage of cases / investigations contributed to and properly reported to the HQ Investigation Unit;
2. Delay to manage transparency alerts from the date they reach the transparency channel;

Trainings:

1. Number of trainings successfully delivered as per the training plan on investigation & screening.

Увага! Згідно чинного законодавства, при працевлаштуванні військовозобов'язані громадяни України зобов'язані надати військово-облікові документи та оновити свої військово-облікові дані.

Attention! Per current legislation, individuals subject to military service duty must provide updated military registration documents while being employed.

Ми пропонуємо

• Офіційне працевлаштування;
• Регулярний перегляд зарплат;
• 28 календарних днів відпустки на рік;
• Дружня мультикультурна команда;
• Комфортний офіс у центральній частині міста;
• Кар'єрний ріст;
• Медичне страхування після випробувального терміну (3 місяці).

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