Chief Risk Officer

The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) will be responsible for identifying, analysing and mitigating internal and
external events that could negatively affect the organisation. The CRO will be responsible for
promoting effective corporate governance and maintaining a strong compliance culture. This
individual is the executive accountable for enabling the efficient and effective governance of
significant risks and related opportunities.
This role is responsible for assessing and mitigating significant competitive, regulatory, legal and
technological threats. The CRO is responsible for the organisation’s overall risk management
operations including proactively managing, identifying, evaluating, reporting and overseeing the
organisation’s risks externally and internally through the implementation of an effective Enterprise
Risk Management programme.
Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully the individual must be able to perform the following:
• Provide risk expertise while working closely with senior management to identify and
measure enterprise risk for the organisation;
• Provide risk guidance for projects;
• Ensure appropriate data management, validation and testing within the risk management
system;
• Establish reliable risk and compliance management tools for monitoring of sub-recipients
(SRs);
• Establish an internal audit charter within the organisation;
• Review, analyse and distribute new award notices related to sponsored projects to SRs and
leadership staff including detailed analyses regarding terms and conditions for all awards;
• Develop, organise and conduct new award briefings with the Technical Lead, management
teams, finance teams, field staff and other stakeholders to ensure proper commencement of
new projects;
• Oversee knowledge management requirements for assigned awards and maintain complete
award documents (electronic) including submission and transmittal of grant deliverables
(programmatic, financial or audit related);
• Identify potential contractual disputes between Prime, SR and SSR;
• Support the development and management of sub-award agreements;
• Monitor award implementation, reporting and procurements to ensure donor compliance;
• Perform such other functions as authorised by the CEO in carrying out official duties and
responsibilities of the position;