Senior Specialist: Compliance

4 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa TechnoServe Full time

**Enterprise, and Supplier Development Program**

**South Africa, March 2023**

**Role Title**:Senior Specialist**:Compliance**

**Reports to**:M&E Manager

**Grade**: 8

**Location**:Johannesburg, South Africa

**Travel**:Occasional travel within target geography will be required.

**Company Background**

In 2021, TechnoServe’s work helped improve 2.3 million lives, increasing the revenues of 407,000 farms, businesses, and employees by $250 million. Each of our interventions increases the impact on women, who represented 41% of beneficiaries globally in 2021 Our commitment to sustainable impact earned us the designation of the #1 non-profit fighting poverty in 2019 by ImpactMatters, the independent charity ratings agency.

In South Africa, we supported 779 beneficiaries in 2021 to gain $24,9 million (R396m) in increased revenue and wages as a result of our work. A large proportion of the beneficiaries were SMMEs and 43% of those with increased revenue who are women or women-owned businesses.

**Program Background**

TechnoServe delivers an Enterprise, and Supplier Development program at the client’s operations. The initiative offers the opportunity to deliver transformative economic change by supporting local enterprises to grow their businesses to the next level. The initiative looks to drive broader development across the mining, agricultural, tourism, and retail sectors to support local economic development. In the first four years the initiative supported 10,000 jobs across 8 locations. This global flagship initiative proves the impact of shared value initiatives: namely how business can make investments that both deliver value to shareholders and deliver meaningful impact to individuals and communities in their areas of operation. TechnoServe is delivering this Enterprise, and Supplier Development initiative through a network of hubs, operating under the client’s brand name. The hubs are located across 4 provinces in South Africa. TechnoServe employs a team of 7-8 staff to operate each hub. Each hub delivers business acceleration services (training, mentorship, business development, access to finance, linkages to market opportunities, etc.) to eligible entrepreneurs within a 50-kilometer radius of the hub.

TechnoServe is embarking on a 2-year extension of this successful initiative and we are currently seeking an experienced Compliance Senior Specialist to oversee the regulatory compliance requirements for all project activities.

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**

The purpose of the Compliance Senior Specialist is to ensure that the program complies with all regulatory requirements and furthermore to work with and support program teams to develop, improve and manage compliance activities to ensure that compliance activities become part of the program culture.

**Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Compliance**

In consultation with the M&E Manager and hub teams, develop and implement a BBBEE compliance strategy, including but not limited to:

- Develop and management of an annual BBBEE implementation plan
- Refine and implement BBBEE policies and procedures to ensure program compliance with implementation plan
- Train staff on program compliance and BBBEE requirements
- Review, consolidate and report BBBEE verifications by beneficiary, hub and wave
- Manage the central repository of MOVs
- Monthly and quarterly reporting against BBBEE implementation plan to the Program Management Office (PMO).
- Manage annual BBBEE audit for all business units.

**Program Implementation Compliance (Key Performance Indicators)**

Manage the verification process of beneficiary performance results, including but not limited to:

- Onboarding Verification:

- Regular, random audits of sampled applicants/beneficiaries to provide assurance on the accuracy of data capturing
- Review and approval of all Means of Verifications (MOV) for beneficiary baseline data (which becomes the departure point from where progress is measured), for each wave and within approved timeframes.
- In consultation with hub teams, ensure all compliance requirements are met within the required timeframes, including BBBEE compliance (as per above)
- In consultation with Hub Administrators and hub teams, manage anomalies and queries to ensure ultimate accuracy when beneficiaries are on boarded on the program.
- Intervention Verification:

- Manage a central repository of program MOVs including training registers, and other program documentation as and when activities are delivered.
- Monthly compliance reports submitted to hubs, M&E Manager for ultimate submission to PMO.
- Manage a ‘real time’ database of hub progress
- Together with Hub Administrators, report on hub progress in
- Graduation Verification:

- Review and approval of all Means of Verifications (MOV) for beneficiary end line data, reporting on final performance of each beneficiary, wave and pillar within approved timeframes
- In consultation with hub teams, ensure all c



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