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Job Title: Risk Management and Compliance Officer
Scale: NMS 4S
Reporting to: General Manager. Location of the job: Entebbe Purpose of the job.
The office bearer shall work with functional managers in establishing effective risk management in their areas of responsibility. The officer shall have the resources to effect enterprise risk management across departments, functions and activities of the corporation. He/She shall have the responsibility for monitoring progress and assisting man¬agers in reporting relevant risk information up. down and across NMS.
Key Accountabilities/ Key Result Areas;
1) Establishing enterprise risk management policies including defin¬ing roles and responsibilities and participating in setting goals for implementation
2) Framing accountability and authority for enterprise risk manage¬ment in functional units
3) Promoting an enterprise risk management competence through out the organization, including facilitating development of techni-cal enterprise risk management expertise and helping managers align risk responses with NMS risk tolerance.
4) Guiding integration of enterprise risk management with other busi-ness planning and management activities.
5) Establishing a common risk management language that includes common measures around likelihood and impact and common risk categories.
6) Overseeing development of NMS business specific risk tolerances and working with managers to establish control activities and recommending corrective action where necessary.
7) Facilitating managers in developing protocols, including quantitative and qualitative thresholds and monitoring and reporting process.
8) Reporting on progress and outliers and recommending actions as needed.


Job requirement

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
A bachelor's degree in commerce or business administration
A full professional qualification of ACCA, CPA, CIMA or an equivalent

Experience and Technical Skills
• An understanding of corporate governance requirements
• Project planning and management skills
• Analytical and facilitation skills
• A healthy balance of risk rather than extreme risk taking or avoidance behaviors
• Risk transfer, quantification and modeling techniques
• At least two years relevant experience in risk management and or monitoring.
• Basic Information Technology skills


How to apply

All applications should be addressed to the Head of Human Resource and Support Services, National Medical Stores, P.O Box 16 Entebbe. Applications should reach him not later than 5 p.m on 23rd May 2011.
Mode of application:
Interested candidates should submit their CVs with written applica¬tions specifying the position one is applying for and giving three ref¬erees with their full time telephone contacts and postal addresses indicated on the application letter. Photocopies of the original aca¬demic documents should be attached. Please note that National Medical Stores reserves the right to verify photocopies of the aca¬demic documents attached with the relevant awarding institutions to authenticate their validity. Only candidates who meet the specifica¬tions indicated for the jobs will be

Note: If you do not hear from us within three weeks from the closing date,, consider yourself not to have been successful.