Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Conduct ethics risk assessments for low-risk departments and create risk profiles accordingly.
• Work closely with departments to develop ethics plans to address identified risks in the departments and monitor the implementation thereof.
• Provide ethics training and create awareness to address identified risks.
• Analyse the information emanating from the declaration processes (e.g. gifts as well as employee compliance and conduct) for the determination of conflicts of interest. 
• Establish trends from the declaration processes data to mitigate and/or manage ethical risks in the SARB Group. 
• Verify declaration information for accuracy and completeness. 
• Collate, analyse and report on ethics risks.
• Develop and monitor the implementation of an ethics operational plan.
• Provide guidance to employees on ethical dilemmas and conflicts of interest. 
• Manage stakeholder relationships (internal and external) in order to manage ethical risks effectively.
• Keep abreast with new developments within the area of ethics risk management and make recommendations for improvement to processes.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• the minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Risk Management or Internal Audit, or an equivalent qualification; and 
• the minimum of 5–7 years within an audit, risk compliance or ethics management environment.

The following would be an added advantage:

• certification as an Ethics Officer.