African Development Bank Job in Nigeria for a Principal Integrity Officer
African Development Bank (AfDB) established to strengthen dialogue
between the Bank and the Government, is recruiting to fill the below
position:
Job Title: Principal Integrity Officer (Capacity Building & Awareness Raising)
Reference: ADB/16/016
Location: Nigeria
Grade: PL-4
Position N°: 50078448
Objectives
The Integrity and Anti-Corruption Department (IACD) is responsible for:
- Developing preventive measures to proactively reduce the
potential for misconduct, fraud or corruption within Bank Group financed
operations.
- Conducting investigations into allegations of fraud and corruption and other sanctionable practices in Bank financed operations.
- Conducting investigations into allegations of fraud, corruption
and misconduct involving Bank Group Staff with regard to Bank
operations, corporate procurement, or administrative budgets, and the
misuse of Bank resources.
- In this context, the Integrity and Prevention Division (IACD.1)
of the Department shall maintain the highest standard of professional
proficiency and integrity; and shall be guided by ethos of
confidentiality and due diligence. To achieve its mandate, the Division
is directly supervised by the Manager, IACD.1, who reports to the
Director, IACD.0, and shall be empowered to:
- Provide policy support in the review and development of the
department’s (IACD) internal procedures and manuals, including
management of sanctions and cross-debarment issues, maintenance of IACD
database of sanctioned and cross-debarred entities.
- Assess compliance with conditions for non-debarment and release
from debarment in line with imposed sanctions. In consultation with the
Investigations Division (IACD.2), provide support for maintenance of
IACD’s record management system and in sanctions and cross-debarment
activities. Also, in consultation with the Investigations Division
(IACD.2), prepare key performance indicators, work plans, progress
reports, and the department’s annual reports.
- Monitor and report regularly to the Director, on planned
activities and programs developed for prevention work, as well as
performance of any other tasks as instructed by the Director in
consultation with the Investigations Division (IACD.2); review
transactions or investigations to ensure that operations financed by the
Bank Group comply with Bank Group policies and applicable international
conventions.
- Develop and implement tools and proactive measures, including
campaigns and outreach programs, to train and assist operational staff
and other partners of the Bank Group, in order to proactively reduce
integrity violations, misconduct, fraud or corruption within Bank
Group-financed Operations; Conduct fraud and corruption awareness and
publicity programs in Regional Member Countries (RMCs) as well as
relevant training of Bank’s employees and external partners.
- Develop and maintain knowledge management database and
information sharing network for best practices and lessons learned in
integrity, prevention, detection and investigations of misconduct;
Provide expert advice to management and field offices on significant
integrity concerns and assess whether the potential risk is acceptable
to the Bank Group, in accordance with the Bank Group’s procedures and
guidelines.
- Develop tools to enhance due diligence practices and
recommendation of measures or institutional reforms to close loopholes
in order to ensure compliance with Bank Group policies and applicable
international conventions;
- Develop and maintain risk assessment strategies and processes to
strengthen and reduce vulnerability. In consultation with the
Investigations Division (IACD.2), design tests to help disclose the
existence of fraud, corruption or abuse;
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Division Manager, IACD.1 the
Principal Integrity Officer shall carry out the following duties and
responsibilities:
- Developing and implementing a Training and Awareness Raising
Plan for the training, capacity building and sensitization of staff and
regional member countries in the prevention of fraud and corruption in
bank financed activities.
- Designing and developing innovative training tools and modules
using information on project integrity reviews, data mining, media
analysis and compliances review to enhance knowledge and expertise of
bank staff and key stakeholders on the prevention of fraud and
corruption in bank financed activities.
- Engaging departments on lessons learned and findings of IACD programmes for improving integrity in project implementation.
- Developing presentations, seminars workshops and other awareness
raising and sensitization in the prevention of fraud and corruption in
bank financed operations.
- Assisting in the mainstreaming of anti-corruption in bank policy documents.
- Assisting in the preparation of annual activity report on the
activities of the Division and assist in its publication on the Bank’s
website.
- Contributing to the Department’s Annual Integrity Reporting.
- Leading special initiatives/projects and undertake other ad hoc assignments upon demand.
- Organizing and overseeing the implementation training/capacity
building, awareness raising and sensitization activities of the
department for the prevention of fraud and corruption in bank financed
activities.
- Identifying and organizing collaborative partnership with
selected regional and international trainers or capacity development
experts, including professionals for the sustainability of our training
programs for staff and key stakeholders in regional member countries for
the prevention of fraud and corruption.
- Facilitating the network of countries level anti-corruption
experts on training and capacity building for fraud and corruption
prevention activities.
- Initiating platforms for the development relevant partnerships
for the sharing of information, experiences, knowledge and skills and
the dissemination of information both within the bank and its external
stakeholders on fraud and corruption prevention in bank wide activities.
Selection Criteria
Including desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- A minimum of a Master's Degree or its equivalent in Social
Sciences, Business Administration, International Development, Public
Policy and Administration or a related field.
- Professional qualification as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Internal Auditor.
- A minimum of 6 (six) years’ experience in the area of
governance, anti-corruption and anti-fraud in government, private, civil
society sector, a multi-lateral development financial institution or
relevant development organization.
- Excellent planning, organizational and analytical ability;
attention to detail and ability to work independently and manage
challenges.
- Integrity and strong interpersonal skills, with and proven ability to work in a team to develop trust and demonstrate fairness.
- Ability to communicate and write effectively in English and/or French with a good working knowledge of the other language.
- Competence in the use of the Bank’s standard software applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Practical experience in training, and capacity building, awareness raising and sensitization strategies.
- Ability to develop training manuals, tools and online training materials.
- Strong time management and document management skills with fine attention to detail
- Experience in working and living in Africa.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- Strong and proven ability to write, present and report clearly.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
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Application Deadline 18th February, 2016.