Assistant Assurance and Compliance Officer

Assistant Assurance and Compliance Officer

• Band 2 - £37,000
• Full Time, part time and flexible working. The role may include occasional out-of-core-hours working.
• Permanent
• Security checks required

About the role

The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) is an independent organisation established to provide information on Troubles-related deaths and serious injuries to families, victims, and survivors while promoting reconciliation.

From becoming operational on 1 May 2024, the Commission’s caseload continues to move at pace. This is an exciting opportunity to join an inclusive, innovative team where you will work with competing deadlines and emotionally challenging content, while delivering for the public good through this historic work.

Our values—integrity, impartiality, openness, accountability, and respect—guide our work and recruitment processes. We invite applications from people across all backgrounds to help deliver this important mission.

Key responsibilities

• Supporting the Operational Assurance and Compliance Officer in assuring that Case Support and Information
• Recovery and Findings teams adhere to the Commission’s promulgated policies, and in reporting individual areas of non-compliance to senior leadership for immediate rectification.
• Support the Operational Assurance and Compliance Officer in setting up a monitoring process which supports the Assurance and Compliance Framework.
• Support the Operational Assurance and Compliance Officer in devising reports for the Investigations Oversight
• Committee (IOC), Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and any other group as may be required.
• Working with all team members in the collection of information for quality performance reporting.
• Assist in undertaking audits and other data collection processes in support of specific projects; inputting, monitoring and checking data.
• Arrange, co-ordinate and attend meetings of specific committees/groups (e.g. IOC/ELT and other groups as may be required): including booking meeting rooms, producing and circulating agendas and reports, taking and producing minutes for the meeting and monitoring or undertaking any follow up actions.
• Liaise with the ICRIR Communications Team to ensure that the most up-to-date controlled documents are available, accessible and check appropriate publication.
• Demonstrating and actively promoting the Commission’s values.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate good understanding of the work of ICRIR, its aims and objectives.
• Experience of effectively communicating between teams and providing information and advice in a timely manner.
• Ability to concentrate for frequent periods of time where work pattern is predictable, with the ability to deal with unforeseen interruption.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience of setting up and using internal databases and systems, regularly maintaining and accurately updating them to enable ongoing review.
• Be able to work under pressure and exercise initiative to organise own workload within constraints or defined deadlines and changing priorities.
• Demonstrate the values set out in the ICRIR Code of Conduct.
• Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance, if not already cleared.

Desirable criteria

• Experience or awareness of inspection, assurance or governance processes.

Our offices are in Belfast and London, with travel and hybrid working arrangements available.

For detailed job descriptions and application details, visit the Career Opportunities section on our website via clicking APPLY NOW.

Closing date: 5pm 16 December 2024

Help us build a values-driven organisation dedicated to reconciliation and information recovery.