Ethics and Integrity Officer Job at University of Venda

Job Requirements
Requirements: 

• Relevant Honours degree or NQF 8 Qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Ethics and/or Integrity.
• Ethics Officer Certification will be an added advantage.

Duties:

• Coordinate the development of the University's ethics risk and opportunity assessments to create an ethics profile.
• Coordinate the development of the University Ethics Management Strategy and Ethics Management Plan in order to actively manage ethics in a way that contributes to the establishment of an ethical culture.
• Manage conflicts of interest, with particular attention to the record-keeping, analysis and evaluation of issues relating to:
• (a) Financial disclosures related to employees
• (b) Gift registers.
• Monitor ethics management performance by the analysis of systems, interventions, ethical culture, ethics risks and trends to foster good governance practices at all levels in the organisation.
• Provide ethical leadership guidance and insights by regularly reporting on ethics performance, challenges and remedial action.
• Develop, implement, and oversee ethics awareness and other ethics training programmes for current and new employees that translate organisational values into visible and measurable behaviours.
• Conduct compliance requirements and controls training in the divisions.
• Ensure alignment of ethics management interventions to HR systems and processes regarding the University Code of Conduct.
• Ensure alignment of Corporate Ethics and Research Ethics processes to prevent duplication or gaps.