• Monitor and assess changes in donor regulations, local laws, and internal policies to mitigate compliance risks and ensure alignment with GOAL’s operational and strategic objectives.
• Provide consultative guidance to functional departments and field offices, enabling teams to interpret and apply compliance requirements effectively across all programming and operational areas.
• Support the Compliance Coordinator (CC) in designing and delivering an effective compliance training program tailored to GOAL staff and implementing partners/sub-grantees.
• Lead and deliver training sessions, including compliance onboarding for new hires and ongoing refresher trainings for all staff and managers, ensuring understanding of donor rules and internal policies.
• Develop and monitor corrective action plans in collaboration with relevant departments, ensuring timely resolution of compliance gaps and documentation of follow-up actions.
• Collaborate with other departments (e.g., Internal Audit, HR, Procurement, Logistics, Programmes) to resolve issues raised in Compliance Quarterly Reports (Turkey and Syria), and ensure effective communication of findings and solutions.
• Lead process improvement initiatives, by reviewing and enhancing the Compliance Quarterly Reporting mechanism, incorporating lessons learned and stakeholder feedback.
• Staff Management: working closely with CC to:
  • Work closely with the CC to set objectives and performance targets for compliance staff.
  • Assign tasks strategically, ensuring efficiency and effective workload distribution.
  • Build team capacity through targeted training on donor regulations (e.g., ECHO, USAID, BHA, SIDA) and partnership management.
• Ensure the availability and awareness of all relevant donor templates, tools, and formats in-country, and support contributing teams in meeting compliance obligations at every stage: proposal, kickoff, amendments, reporting, close-out, and audit.
• Coordinate and support external audits, liaising with auditors, compiling requested documentation, and ensuring accurate and timely responses to findings.
• Assist the CC in preparing and participating in GMMs (Grant Management Meetings), ensuring compliance aspects are represented and actioned.
• Serve as the compliance focal point for country office and field team queries, addressing matters within the Compliance Manager's scope and escalating critical issues to the CC as needed.
• Oversee and optimize the use of digital tools and platforms—especially SharePoint—for storing, organizing, and accessing compliance documentation, donor guidelines, and training resources.
• Enhance knowledge management and document control processes through effective use of SharePoint’s automation and collaboration features
• Contribute to annual planning, helping to identify departmental objectives, track progress, and ensure that compliance activities are aligned with organizational goals..
• Any other duties as requested by CC.

Sub Awards Management:

• Reviewing partnership funding agreements.
• Identify Partnership capacity building on compliance issues (donor rules, Ethics & Compliance Policies, etc)
• Work with program staff to ensure relevant donor requirements are effectively communicated and understood by implementing partners
• Work with Partners Compliance Team on reviewing The Financial Reports and Finalizing the Partners Compliance Report
• Assist CC in review implementing partner assessments, reviews, and other internal or external audit reports and ensure any issues and action points for GOAL or the partners to address are clearly documented and communicated with the relevant people in GOAL. Ensure that management and staff follow up on these issues and close any action points in a timely manner

Vetting:

• Gathering and checking all the required information for the Vetting Application.
• Uploading and checking all the required information in the Vetting Information.
• Keeping a tracker for all the vetting requests and follow up on any changes for the KIVs.