West Africa Regional Compliance and Logistics Business Partner 28 views2 applications

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for humanitarian compliance and robust logistics
management? Tearfund is seeking a Regional Compliance and Logistics Business Partner to join our West
Africa team. In this dual-focused role, you will spend 40% of your time ensuring the region meets
required standards of compliance regarding Tearfund policies and global systems, and 60% of your time
providing critical logistics advice, monitoring, and training to staff and partner organisations.
Duties and Key Responsibilities:

1. Compliance Support for the Region (40%)
• Provide direct processes and systems support to country teams with regard to Global Process Systems (GPS), grant management, and budgeting tracking.
• Ensure correct electronic filing and compliance baseline tracking for all proposals, approvals, and partner information records across the regional systems.
• Monitor and track partner action logs, elevating visibility for high-risk partners to the corporate risk register.
• Act as the Safeguarding Focal Point for West Africa Country Offices and partners, ensuring policies are implemented, risk assessments are reviewed, and required safeguarding training is delivered.

• Complete mandatory Counter-Terrorism checks using specialised software for partner
organisations, suppliers, new staff, and sub-grantees.
• Facilitate archiving processes and guarantee data protection compliance in line with GDPR
requirements.
• Follow up on country office scorecards, perform spot checks, and review safety and security plans
alongside Country Directors.

2. Logistics Business Partnering (60%)
• Deliver responsive logistics advice and technical support to Tearfund staff, regional partners, and active emergency or disaster response operations.
• Review regional procurement requests and coordinate delivery schedules to destination points smoothly.
• Conduct direct training for Tearfund and partner staff on complete logistics core components,
including procurement, asset management, fleet management, stock management, freight, and customs.
• Support regional training and post-rollout utilization of "Coupa," our dedicated procurement and stock management software.
• Accompany country and regional management teams in tracking compliance, managing risks, and monitoring adherence to global logistics policies.
• Review and scrutinise the budgeting of logistics requirements within incoming funding proposals during Project Development Meetings.
Who We Are Looking For (Person Specification)

Skills & Personal Qualities
• Languages: Fully fluent in both French and English with exceptional cross-cultural interpersonal
and report-writing skills.
• Highly organised, resilient, solution-focused, and capable of balancing a wide range of operational
priorities under tight deadlines.

Successful applicants must be committed Christians who are willing to sign up to Tearfund’s evangelical statement of faith.

Applicants must be committed to Tearfund’s Christian beliefs.

Please note: The candidate should have the right to live and work in either Togo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad. The candidate should have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English , good interpersonal skills to work in a cross-cultural setting. Proficiency in French Language is required.

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.