Risk & Compliance Manager

Core responsibilities:

• Maintain and develop the organisational risk register.
• Lead internal compliance reviews and donor compliance checks.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding, GDPR, anti-fraud, anti-bribery, sanctions and charity law.
• Oversee due diligence for partners, suppliers and contractors.
• Deliver compliance and ethics training for staff.
• Provide compliance input into programme design, proposals and reporting.
• Prepare regular risk and compliance reports for senior leadership and trustees.
• Support governance processes and statutory reporting.

This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in strengthening governance and accountability within a mission-driven organisation, ensuring the organisation operates with transparency, accountability and integrity while providing assurance to senior leadership, trustees and donors.

Required skills and experience:

• At least 3 years' experience in compliance, risk management or audit within the charity/NGO sector.
• Strong knowledge of UK charity regulation and donor compliance.
• Experience with risk registers, due diligence and compliance reviews.
• Confident reporting to senior management and/or trustees.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.
• High integrity, culturally aware and proactive in identifying risk.
• Compliance or risk qualification (e.g. ICA, IRM).

Salary: £40,000 per annum. Location is remote with occasional UK travel required.