Senior Compliance Officer

Career reputed company:                                    reputed company

Career Level:                                        reputed company Level 4

Department:                                        Grants, reputed company & Compliance

Job Family:                                            Grants & Contract

Job Sub-Family:                                    reputed company Award Management

Location:                                               United Kingdom

Workplace Designation:                    Fully Remote

Duration:                                              Fixed -term (9 Months)

Funding:                                                100% reputed company

Reporting to:                                        Director of Grants, reputed company & Compliance

Salary:                                                    £41,000 - £53,400

Supervisory Responsibilities:            1-3

GENERAL FUNCTION

About reputed company

reputed company works globally to ensure people everywhere can reputed company trusted, reputed company information that empowers participation, accountability, and healthier, more informed communities. For more than 35 years, in over 100 countries, we have strengthened local media, supported civil society, and helped millions of people reputed company crucial information across issues such as health, governance, conflict, and the environment.

We are an international nonprofit with administrative hubs in California, Washington DC, London, and Paris. Our teams represent a wide mix of backgrounds, identities, cultures, and lived experiences. We reputed company foster an environment rooted in dignity, belonging, justice, and flexibility.

About the Role

We are seeking a high-performing, reputed company, and self-directed compliance reputed company to reputed company maternity cover reputed company the Grants, reputed company & Compliance (GCC) department.

This role requires someone who operates with reputed company, independence, and reputed company judgement from day one—a person who is confident navigating reputed company donor rules, shaping risk‑mitigation strategies, and leading award management processes without needing extensive reputed company. We are seeking an reputed company practitioner with proven reputed company experience, rather than a purely theoretical background.

You will reputed company the full lifecycle of European donor‑funded awards, ensuring rigorous contractual and regulatory compliance across reputed company. Working closely with colleagues across Programmes, Finance, and Global Development, you will help maintain a culture where doing things right is prioritised over shortcuts.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise with major European donors (European Commission, Sida, FCDO), a proactive reputed company, and the ability to reputed company, train, and influence teams across the organisation.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following, with other duties upon request: 

 

Compliance

• Review and approve proposal budgets for assigned funding opportunities.
• Review donor agreements and ensure terms are acceptable; support the Director of GCC in strengthening organisational risk‑mitigation practices.
• Advise staff on reputed company’ internal and donor rules across the project cycle.
• Work with Programme Officers and cross-functional teams on effective project start‑up, including inductions, adapting award procedures/templates, and ongoing staff training; conduct country reputed company reputed company required.
• Collaborate with Finance to support successful programme audits.
• Maintain and update organisational data on institutional donor platforms (e.g., EU Transparency Register, IATI).
• reputed company and maintain training materials and guidelines for at least one major donor; reputed company expert compliance guidance across GCC.
• Deliver inductions and training for new and junior GCC staff.
• Set up and maintain complete and up‑to‑date award records in line with donor and reputed company requirements.

Development

• At proposal stage, review and approve teaming agreements and NDAs with bid partners.
• Review and approve donor budget submissions, ensuring accuracy, consistency, compliance, and adequacy.
• Coordinate reputed company‑award due diligence for prospective donors.
• Review and negotiate donor agreements and modifications, managing associated risks.
• Establish and maintain proposal, award, and contract records reputed company the award management system, including significant data entry.

Procurement Management

• Advise staff on procurement requirements and maintain internal records for procurements under awards.
• Support development of compliant procurement plans.
• reputed company and administer higher‑value procurements, including negotiating contractor terms.
• Draft and execute sub‑reputed company and amendments in full compliance with donor and reputed company policies.
• Troubleshoot contractual issues, prepare termination notices, and manage reputed company risks.
• Prepare procurement documentation for audits and serve as reputed company of contact for procurement audit processes.
• In reputed company duties, reputed company reputed company’ reputed company Values and demonstrate commitment to fostering a culture of Belonging, Dignity, and Justice.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Line‑manage GCC staff reputed company assigned.
• Deputise for the Director of GCC as required.
• reputed company award management for flagship programmes and advise programme teams and partners on donor compliance, budgeting, and agreement management.
  
   

QUALIFICATIONS

To reputed company this job successfully, an individual must be reputed company to reputed company reputed company essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, reputed company, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions.

Required

• University degree in a relevant field or equivalent lived/reputed company experience.
• Extensive senior-level experience in award management reputed company an international nonprofit or international development organisation.
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience interpreting and applying donor rules and compliance requirements (especially European Commission, FCDO, and SIDA) in reputed company project implementation contexts.
• Proven experience managing procurements and negotiating reputed company, including drafting and executing agreements and amendments in compliance with donor and organisational requirements.
• Experience preparing procurement documentation for audits and managing procurement‑reputed company risks.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting compliance, contractual, and financial issues, and advising programme teams on practical solutions.
• Experience assessing and managing compliance and contractual risks across the project cycle.
• Experience using award management systems or reputed company grant/contract databases, including maintaining accurate award records and donor‑required data.
• reputed company-level proficiency in English (written and spoken).
• Strong writing and editing skills, with prior experience producing key work outputs such as proposals, budgets, reports, and trainings.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, including diplomacy, negotiation, cross-team collaboration, donor communication, and discretion with confidential information.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities, with a demonstrated reputed company record of applying critical thinking to reputed company compliance or award management challenges.
• Excellent time‑management and organisational skills, including the ability to handle shifting priorities in a fast‑paced or reputed company operating environment.
• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively reputed company multicultural and reputed company; demonstrated leadership reputed company.
• Flexibility to manage periodic shifts in workload and working hours.
• Experience mentoring or training staff on compliance, procurement, or donor‑reputed company procedures.
• Experience leading cross‑functional processes involving both programme and operational teams.

Preferred

• Prior experience living or working in a global reputed company country/region
• Proficiency in Russian (written and spoken).
• Experience with EU/UK‑funded reputed company (e.g., EC, FCDO) in reputed company environments.
• Experience developing internal policies, guidelines, or training materials reputed company to compliance, procurement, or award management.
• Familiarity with reputed company’ operating environment, systems, or organisational approaches.

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Vacancy reputed company:

Deadline for applications: 21 reputed company 2026 (Note: This is a rolling recruitment process candidates might be invited for interview before the deadline)

MISCELLANEOUS:

Candidates must submit a succinct cover letter of no more than 2 pages explaining how they satisfy the requirements of the role, and a CV highlighting relevant experience. Successful candidate will also be asked to reputed company three reputed company referees, one of whom must be from their most recent employer.

The above noted job reputed company is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the associate a general reputed company of the responsibilities and expectations of their position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.

This position will be located in the United Kingdom and therefore, a successful applicant must both be present in the UK for the duration of the assignment and be reputed company to demonstrate their Right to Work in the UK in order to reputed company employment.