Specialist: Ethics at Road Accident Fund

Key Performance Areas

Ethics or Values Awareness

• Plan, organise and facilitate ethics or values and related policies awareness campaigns.
• Coordinate ethics or values awareness campaigns with ethics ambassadors.
• Conduct training needs analysis on ethics or values.
• Arrange and facilitate ethics induction for new and promoted employees.
• Manage and evaluate the effectiveness of training initiatives
• Manage ethics knowledge base by assisting in the drafting of ethics articles for publication in the Ethics Newsletter.   
• Drafts Ethics Office communications and directives for issuing to staff.

Facilitate the Development and Implementation of Ethics Framework and Strategies or Plans

• Assist in the development of ethics programme of action.
• Coordinate and plan ethics events.
• Implement Ethics Ambassador’s programme.
• Assist in the development of the Ethics Policy and SOP.
• Be able to conduct trend analysis.

Foster Relationships with Internal and External Stakeholders

• Participate in collaborative initiatives with other business units and combined assurance service providers on ethics or values awareness
• Plan, organise and conduct ethics desks and talks for employees.
• Provide continuous support to ethics ambassadors’ programme.
• Drafts ethics reports for combined assurance and ethics ambassadors’ forums as required.

Continuous Ethics Research

• Conduct research on best practices on ethics management and fraud awareness.
• Liaise with employees to obtain suggestions for required changes to Ethics Policy and SOP. 

Management of Case Management and Conflict of Interest

• Manage internal conflict of interest controls.
• Track, attend and follow up on reported unethical cases.
• Perform case management.

 Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Reporting

• Provide inputs for the report submitted to the EXCO.
• Prepare compliance reports, discuss with Management and obtain comments on the area reviewed.
• Develop reports/ procedures and guide the process through the alignment of the documents to the overall RAF’s Strategy.
• Develop functional reporting systems, for management, projects or performance reporting.

Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders proactively and progressively manage the relationships.
• Manage relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.
• Communicate with all levels of stakeholder contact.
• Assist in drafting of different ethics reports for timeous submission to relevant stakeholders on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.

Management Support

• Support line management on addressing all ethics related matters.
• Advise line management on emerging ethics risks.
• Assist line management in managing conflicts of interests.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Risk Management/ Internal Audit/ Public Administration/ Legal related qualification.
• Ethics Officer Certification by The Ethics Institute/ Certified Fraud Examiner is a requirement.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in Ethics/ Compliance/ Risk/ fraud investigation environment.