Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

Compliance

• Manage the implementation and continuous improvement of CIFF’s compliance framework, policies, and procedures.
• Provide day-to-day advice to programme, operations, and country teams to ensure compliance with CIFF’s standards and regulatory requirements.
• Work with the CIFF Legal Team and external lawyers in other jurisdictions to understand and map compliance matters relevant to CIFF in those jurisdictions.
• Work with the respective Directors leading on Legal Risk & Compliance and Safeguarding to define and articulate CIFF’s approach to compliance across its operations, offices and structure.
• Assist in managing compliance-related incidents on CIFF programmes and advising CIFF on its compliance obligations in relation to such incidents.
• Ensure compliance reports and risk reports and updates are periodically prepared for the Executive Team and Board.
• Promote awareness of compliance obligations across CIFF through clear communication, guidance and training.
• Help identify and implement technology to help CIFF monitor and manage relevant regulatory updates in key jurisdictions.
• Work collaboratively with the Director, Legal Risk & Compliance to maintain CIFF’s organisational risk framework.
• Monitor and update risk mitigation plans and escalate significant risks to the Director, Legal Risk & Compliance and Executive Team as appropriate.
• Support the integration of compliance and risk considerations into CIFF’s governance and operational planning.
• Contribute to the design and delivery of risk management training and awareness sessions for staff.
• Help identify and implement technology with CIFF’s DTS Team to help CIFF monitor and manage risk in key jurisdictions.
• Deliver or coordinate induction and refresher training on compliance topics for CIFF staff and partners.
• Support the development of e-learning and training resources to embed a strong culture of compliance and risk.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to staff to strengthen compliance and risk knowledge across teams.
• Conduct periodic reviews of compliance and risk systems and controls to identify and implement process improvements.
• Support internal audits and due diligence exercises to ensure partner compliance with CIFF standards.
• Monitor changes in relevant laws and best practices, advising on and updating policies and procedures accordingly.
• Contribute to CIFF’s continuous learning agenda by identifying emerging compliance and risk management trends.
• Ensure that compliance issues are built into learning from a programme design perspective.
• Work collaboratively with programme teams to ensure compliance requirements (and learnings) are embedded throughout the grant lifecycle.
• Provide compliance-related guidance to grantees and implementing partners when required.
• Liaise with external advisors, regulators, and networks to share best practices and stay informed of emerging standards.
• Represent CIFF at relevant compliance and risk forums when delegated.

Compliance and Risk Manager

General Counsel

• As a legal expert, provide up-to-date, professional advice to the Sector Teams, on a variety of matters relating to programme issues, legal and regulatory concerns, programme governance issues, conflicts of interest, commercial contracts and consultancy contracts., to support the development of initiatives.
• Advising on appropriate legal structures for programmes, including work with external counsel and other stakeholders where appropriate.
• Leading the contract drafting and negotiations process with CIFF’s grantee organisations in children’s development and climate change, as well as related service activities (monitoring and evaluation contracts, consultants) and commercial transactions.
• Advising and supporting on governance and programme management issues, particularly project approval processes (including our grant management software).
• Managing CIFF’s suite of standard contract templates and where relevant and as needed updating them to reflect business need or changes to laws.
• Provide input to any specific legal strategies that are developed as part of projects or more generally as party of CIFF’s strategy and business plan.
• Closely collaborating with the Head of Programme Governance to review legal compliance and risk on programmes and designing appropriate legal structures for programmes, including work with external counsel where appropriate.
• Closely collaborating with the respective Director leading Legal Risk & Compliance on matters related to compliance and risk
• Take the lead, when required, on corporate, cross-cutting initiatives and projects, as required by the Executive Team, General Counsel or other stakeholders.
• Supporting due diligence on CIFF’s proposed grantees.
• As a recognised legal expert, provide advice and specialist guidance to colleagues (within and beyond the Legal team) to deepen the skills, capability and professionalism of the organisation.
• Conducting staff training sessions, developing know-how and streamlining processes, ensuring that everyone in the organisation is kept informed of regulatory and compliance matters that affect their work but may also enable more efficient programme design and delivery.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with CIFF’s law firms across the world and staying updated on changes to laws / legal development effecting CIFF and its work.
• Developing knowledge sharing relationships with CIFF’s key partners, including grantees and co-funders.
• Participating in cross-organisation groups and committees on behalf of the Legal team.
• Assisting the General Counsel from time to time on arrangements related to CIFF’s financial endowment and investment management relationships.
• Keeping abreast of legal developments and issues that could be relevant to CIFF and its work by horizon scanning, maintaining information gathering network relationships and channels to deepen professional knowledge and skills.
• Providing added value, commercial and legal advice on relevant aspects of programme design and delivery.
• Providing advice and support to sector teams in the context of relationships with partners and other stakeholders to ensure they remain effective and collaborative.
• Ensuring compliance with Charity Commission audit and financial best practice.
• Review the processes and procedures in place across the Legal team, to identify and implement improved ways of working that increase operational effectiveness and efficiency.

Compliance and Risk Manager

Legal Counsel