Specialist: Ethics

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to Manager: Ethics, the successful incumbent is responsible to implement all ethics initiatives at the operational level across all RAF offices.

Key Performance Areas

Ethics or Values Awareness

• Plan, organise and facilitate ethics or values and related policies awareness campaigns.
• Coordinate ethics or values awareness campaigns with ethics ambassadors.
• Conduct training needs analysis on ethics or values.
• Arrange and facilitate ethics induction for new and promoted employees.
• Manage and evaluate the effectiveness of training initiatives
• Manage ethics knowledge base by assisting in the drafting of ethics articles for publication in the Ethics Newsletter.   
• Drafts Ethics Office communications and directives for issuing to staff.

Facilitate the Development and Implementation of Ethics Framework and Strategies or Plans

• Assist in the development of ethics programme of action.
• Coordinate and plan ethics events.
• Implement Ethics Ambassador’s programme.
• Assist in the development of the Ethics Policy and SOP.
• Be able to conduct trend analysis.

Foster Relationships with Internal and External Stakeholders

• Participate in collaborative initiatives with other business units and combined assurance service providers on ethics or values awareness
• Plan, organise and conduct ethics desks and talks for employees.
• Provide continuous support to ethics ambassadors’ programme.
• Drafts ethics reports for combined assurance and ethics ambassadors’ forums as required.

Continuous Ethics Research

• Conduct research on best practices on ethics management and fraud awareness.
• Liaise with employees to obtain suggestions for required changes to Ethics Policy and SOP.

Management of Case Management and Conflict of Interest

• Manage internal conflict of interest controls.
• Track, attend and follow up on reported unethical cases.
• Perform case management.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Reporting

• Provide inputs for the report submitted to the EXCO.
• Prepare compliance reports, discuss with Management and obtain comments on the area reviewed.
• Develop reports/ procedures and guide the process through the alignment of the documents to the overall RAF’s Strategy.
• Develop functional reporting systems, for management, projects or performance reporting.

Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders proactively and progressively manage the relationships.
• Manage relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.
• Communicate with all levels of stakeholder contact.
• Assist in drafting of different ethics reports for timeous submission to relevant stakeholders on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.

Management Support

• Support line management on addressing all ethics related matters.
• Advise line management on emerging ethics risks.
• Assist line management in managing conflicts of interests.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Risk Management/ Internal Audit/ Public Administration/ Legal related qualification.
• Ethics Officer Certification by The Ethics Institute/ Certified Fraud Examiner is a requirement.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in Ethics/ Compliance/ Risk/ fraud investigation environment.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.