Overview
The Strategic Risk Coordinator provides global leadership, coordination, and managerial oversight for the implementation of IFRC’s strategic and operational risk management framework. The role drives consistency, quality, and effectiveness of risk management practices globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation and coordination of strategic risk management at global level.
- Provide line management, supervision, and performance management to operational risk managers.
- Lead and support a global community of practice for risk management.
- Ensure quality assurance and coherence of risk assessments, risk registers, and reporting.
- Oversee and guide global strategic risk assessments.
- Support and constructively challenge risk owners on mitigation strategies.
- Identify, monitor, and analyze emerging and crosscutting strategic risks.
- Coordinate the timely reporting and escalation of strategic risks.
- Contribute to organizational risk reporting.
- Support the preparation, consolidation, and quality assurance of global risk reporting to the Audit and Risk Commission.
- Track and monitor ARC recommendations and decisions related to strategic risks.
- Act as a global advisor on strategic risks.
- Design and oversee global risk capacity building initiatives.
- Ensure that risk management is embedded into planning, programme design, project management, and emergency response processes.
- Work in close coordination with the Ethics, Risk and Compliance Department.
- Collaborate with functional leads.
- Support National Societies in strengthening risk management capacities.
- Be responsible for the overall annual operational plan and budget of the risk management function.
Required Experience
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in risk management, internal controls, or assurance functions within complex, decentralized or humanitarian organizations.
- Demonstrated experience in building and applying structured risk management frameworks across programmes, projects, emergency operations, and/or organizational functions.
- Proven managerial and leadership experience, including line management and/or matrix management of geographically dispersed staff, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and team capacity development.
- Strong experience working with senior management and governance bodies.
- Demonstrated experience in managing complex multi-stakeholder processes.
- Proven experience in designing, delivering, and facilitating risk management trainings.
- Proven experience working in humanitarian, development, or mission driven organizations.
- Experience working in a RC/RC National Society and/or Federation/ICRC.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master's level or equivalent) in risk management, business administration, international development, humanitarian affairs, or a related field; or a first-level university degree combined with extensive relevant experience.
- Formal training or certification in risk management, internal controls, assurance, or enterprise risk management (e.g. ISO 31000, COSO ERM, PRINCE2 Risk, PMI-RMP).
