Senior Professional, Ethics and Investigations

Job description / Role

The Compliance and Investigations Department, with administrative reporting to the Office of the President, is an independent unit functionally reporting to the Board of Directors, and responsible for the development and implementation of policies and guidelines focused on integrity, regulatory compliance, ethics, and business conduct. The Investigations and Ethics Division leads the execution and resolution of administrative and third-party investigations related to issues of misconduct and other prohibited practices, and complaints in NDB-financed projects. The Division also leads the development and implementation of the accountability mechanism and provides advisory services on ethics and investigation-related matters. These services are critical to ensuring that NDB is able to project itself as a fair and equitable institution while remaining committed to ethical business practices and standards.

The Senior Professional, Ethics and Investigations is responsible for adapting advice, investigation approaches, and ethics-related policies, guidelines, and mechanisms to enable the organization to respond to complex allegations of misconduct and wrongdoing. The ability to demonstrate adaptive capacity in addressing emerging trends and evolving challenges enables the Bank to sustain and uphold its organizational values while ensuring alignment to ethical standards and best practices.

Duties And Responsibilities

Purpose
• Adapt design and implementation of accountability and grievance mechanisms reflecting best practices in anti-fraud, investigative, whistle-blower, and confidentiality activities to enable the organization to respond to complex issues related to misconduct/wrongdoing.
• Tailor investigation techniques and approaches to effectively examine complex allegations of misconduct and provide targeted recommendations to address unethical behaviors and practices in the Bank.
• Adapt ethics-related advice reflecting a deep understanding of changing operational demands and priorities across the Bank to effectively mitigate ethical risks and sustain organizational integrity.
• Develop awareness-raising initiatives and products that strengthen ethics and accountability mechanisms, reduces the risk of unethical and illegal practices, and fosters a culture of integrity across the organization.

Engagement
• Advise managers and staff on the evolution of ethical standards and policies, including their interpretation and application towards each function to ensure alignment of inputs and outcomes.
• Engage with counterparts in other international institutions, law enforcement, and other bodies, to share best practices, emerging trends, and solutions to complex ethical challenges.

Delivery
• Sustain the delivery of adapted outputs resulting from investigations and accountability mechanism initiatives against wider business planning and implementation cycles.
• Devise tools and processes to integrate ethical considerations into Bank policies and initiatives to sustain transparency, integrity, and accountability across all areas of operation.
• Sustain quality and relevance of ethics and accountability mechanism reviews and investigations through changing operational demands to sustain the Bank’s credibility.

Substantive Knowledge

• Demonstrated capacity gained through education and experience in administrative investigations and ethics reflecting conceptual understanding in an operational setting.
• Understand the program framework and the integration of different programmatic elements into the project/service portfolio.
• Develop and execute program plans across a range of well-defined and established programmatic elements aligned with broader organizational objectives.

Communications Skills

• Demonstrated Skill gained through exposure/experience in relationship management.
• Advise team on possible impediments to sustaining delivery standards to develop strategies.
• Engage clients proactively to define expectations/needs and builds an informed framework for service delivery.

Execution Skills
• Demonstrated Achievement in the consistent delivery of programs/services through adaptation.
• Meet consistently the program delivery standards on timing and the deployment of resources.
• Meet consistently program delivery standards in terms of quality/relevance.

Requirements
• Master’s degree in law, criminology, audit, accounting or closely related fields.
• Certified Fraud Examiner is desirable.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience.
• Specialized experience in executing and/or adapting investigation techniques and approaches in complex matters and ethics-related advice, policies, and guidelines in response to changing business conditions/client needs.
• Fluency in English essential to communicate in writing and speaking. Knowledge of a second language (preferably from one of the member countries) desirable.

About the Company

The New Development Bank (NDB) is a multilateral development bank (MDB) established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) with the objective of financing infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS and other emerging economies and developing countries. NDB’s work complements the efforts of multilateral and regional financial institutions, toward global growth and development.

Our work is centered around maximizing the impact of development in a fast, flexible and efficient manner. To catalyze the kind of development we envisage, we are always keen to listen, learn and collaborate with other MDBs, governments, financial institutions and social organizations.

To fulfill its purpose, the Bank supports public or private projects through loans, guarantees, equity participation and other financial instruments.

Our headquarters is in Shanghai, China. The geographic distribution of NDB’s operations is becoming increasingly balanced as the Bank develops its capacity to identify and prepare projects in all member countries. The first regional office of NDB – the Africa Regional Centre (ARC) – was opened in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2017. In July 2019, NDB began to build the Americas Regional Office team, based in São Paulo, Brazil, with a sub-office in Brasília. NDB and the Government of Russia signed the Agreement on the Hosting of the NDB Eurasian Regional Centre in Moscow, Russia on the sidelines of the 11th BRICS Summit in Brasília in November 2019.