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SOUTH AFRICAN FORESTRY COMPANY (SAFCOL) - SPECIALIST: ETHICS
SOUTH AFRICAN FORESTRY COMPANY (SAFCOL)
Specialist: Ethics
Status: Permanent
Location: Pretoria/Nelspruit Office
Grade: D1
Reporting Line: Senior Manager: Risk & Compliance
Role Mandate
Develop and institutionalise an ethical culture in the SAFCOL Group (including all its subsidiaries), supported by visible ethical leadership aligned to SAFCOL’s values, by implementing and continuously improving a comprehensive Ethics Programme. Incorporate the activities of all related functions, operations, assurance processes, as well as Board, Shareholder, and external legal requirements. Manage and coordinate the activities of SAFCOL’s Ethics Coordinators and advise on ethical decision-making and ethical behaviours across all levels in SAFCOL, including its external stakeholders.
Key Accountabilities
• Develop, implement, and maintain the Ethics Policy, Ethics Framework, Annual Ethics Plan, supporting processes, systems, and templates in accordance with ethics best practice and latest innovation.
• Conduct and coordinate ethical risk and opportunity assessments, aligned to Board and Shareholder requirements to determine SAFCOL’s ethics focus areas and outcomes to meet the Board and Shareholder’s expectations.
• Integrate ethics in SAFCOL’s Corporate Strategy and Plan by providing timeous inputs into scenario planning, strategy, budget, and operational planning processes.
• Provide ethics inputs to improve SAFCOL’s policies and processes in other operational and functional areas, including, but not limited to, Forestry Operations, Processing, Ecotourism, Company Secretariat, Human Capital, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Internal Audit, Combined Assurance, Risk Management, Compliance, Safety, Health and Environment (including Climate Change), Transformation (including Corporate Social Investment) and Land Reform (including land claimant communities incorporated into SAFCOL’s value chain).
Key Accountabilities
• Develop, implement, and maintain the Ethics Policy, Ethics Framework, Annual Ethics Plan, supporting processes, systems, and templates in accordance with ethics best practice and latest innovation.
• Conduct and coordinate ethical risk and opportunity assessments, aligned to Board and Shareholder requirements to determine SAFCOL’s ethics focus areas and outcomes to meet the Board and Shareholder’s expectations.
• Integrate ethics in SAFCOL’s Corporate Strategy and Plan by providing timeous inputs into scenario planning, strategy, budget, and operational planning processes.
• Provide ethics inputs to improve SAFCOL’s policies and processes in other operational and functional areas, including, but not limited to, Forestry Operations, Processing, Ecotourism, Company Secretariat, Human Capital, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Internal Audit, Combined Assurance, Risk Management, Compliance, Safety, Health and Environment (including Climate Change), Transformation (including Corporate Social Investment) and Land Reform (including land claimant communities incorporated into SAFCOL’s value chain).
• Compile detailed monthly and quarterly reports to the Executive Committee, Board and Shareholder on the status of SAFCOL’s ethical culture and Ethics Programme, including challenges, solutions, and outcomes.
• Research and develop a comprehensive ethics compliance universe and ensure compliance with anti-fraud, anti-corruption, human rights, and related compliance requirements, including any statutory reporting that may be required, taking into account SAFCOL’s strategy to export to other countries (i.e., include global and regional specific international legal requirements).
• Align the Ethics Programme cost-effectively with agreed ethics outcomes and deliver within budget.
• Provide progressive ethics advice, training and awareness to the Board, Executive, all levels of management, employees, service providers, suppliers, customers, communities, and stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to the Board, Executive, all levels of management and employees on ethics-related issues (planned and ad-hoc).
• Develop, implement, and continuously adjust/improve an extensive communications, awareness, and training campaign (i.e., plan, development, and delivery) that is appropriately targeted for each internal and external category in SAFCOL’s ethics stakeholder universe, including verbal, written, audio/video delivery methods in relevant languages across SAFCOL’s South African and Mozambican operations.
• Monitor and report on the return on investment of the campaign on SAFCOL’s ethics culture and dynamic operating environment.
• Continuously analyse SAFCOL’s workplace (operations, functions, and subsidiaries) and external stakeholder environments to respond to workplace ethics complaints and trends through appropriate ethics interventions, projects, and activities.
• Define, monitor, and dynamically update the ethics universe to ensure all possible areas of internal and external unethical behaviours affecting SAFCOL, are visible and can be appropriately included in the Ethics Programme.
• Develop and conduct appropriate ethics climate surveys for each internal and external stakeholder category and align needed interventions with the Annual Ethics Plan.
• Identify unethical behaviours or transgressions of SAFCOL’s Ethics Policy and ethics related requirements, and develop appropriate ethics interventions, projects and activities that will contribute to embedding a long-term ethical culture.
• Facilitate effective delivery/implementations of ethics interventions, projects and activities across all operations, functions, and subsidiaries (e.g., changes to policies, processes and plans in other Executives’ areas of control) through appropriate channels.
• Research and develop a comprehensive ethics compliance universe and ensure compliance with anti-fraud, anti-corruption, human rights, and related compliance requirements, including any statutory reporting that may be required, taking into account SAFCOL’s strategy to export to other countries (i.e., include global and regional specific international legal requirements).
• Align the Ethics Programme cost-effectively with agreed ethics outcomes and deliver within budget.
• Provide progressive ethics advice, training and awareness to the Board, Executive, all levels of management, employees, service providers, suppliers, customers, communities, and stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to the Board, Executive, all levels of management and employees on ethics-related issues (planned and ad-hoc).
• Develop, implement, and continuously adjust/improve an extensive communications, awareness, and training campaign (i.e., plan, development, and delivery) that is appropriately targeted for each internal and external category in SAFCOL’s ethics stakeholder universe, including verbal, written, audio/video delivery methods in relevant languages across SAFCOL’s South African and Mozambican operations.
• Monitor and report on the return on investment of the campaign on SAFCOL’s ethics culture and dynamic operating environment.
• Continuously analyse SAFCOL’s workplace (operations, functions, and subsidiaries) and external stakeholder environments to respond to workplace ethics complaints and trends through appropriate ethics interventions, projects, and activities.
• Define, monitor, and dynamically update the ethics universe to ensure all possible areas of internal and external unethical behaviours affecting SAFCOL, are visible and can be appropriately included in the Ethics Programme.
• Develop and conduct appropriate ethics climate surveys for each internal and external stakeholder category and align needed interventions with the Annual Ethics Plan.
• Identify unethical behaviours or transgressions of SAFCOL’s Ethics Policy and ethics related requirements, and develop appropriate ethics interventions, projects and activities that will contribute to embedding a long-term ethical culture.
• Facilitate effective delivery/implementations of ethics interventions, projects and activities across all operations, functions, and subsidiaries (e.g., changes to policies, processes and plans in other Executives’ areas of control) through appropriate channels.
Minimum Requirements
• A relevant bachelor’s degree in in Business Administration, Law, Finance, or business-related field or equivalent (NQF Level 7) qualification
• Registration as a Certified Ethics Officer with the Ethics Institute South Africa
• Professional membership of The Ethics Institute South Africa
• Professional membership of the Compliance Institute SA, the Institute of Risk Management SA, and/or the Institute of Directors SA – will be an added advantage
• A relevant honour’s degree or equivalent (NQF Level 8) – will be an added advantage
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in ethics management, corporate governance, risk management and/or compliance, of which at least 3 years should be on a management level
• Knowledge of GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) and the ethics principles in King IV and the Companies Act
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office applications
• Experience in implementation of Group programmes in multi-national companies – will be an added advantage
• Professional standing and credibility as a recognised ethics champion – will be an added advantage
• Experience in the Public Sector (preferably a Schedule 2 entity in terms of the Public Finance Management Act) – will be an added advantage
• Fluency in more than one South African official language
• Valid driver’s license
• A working knowledge of Portuguese (operations in South Africa and Mozambique) – will be an added advantage
Leadership Competencies
• Strategic Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Driving Change
• Operational Delivery
• Self-Awareness
• Leading Others
Behavioural Competencies
• Influencing/Persuasiveness
• Integrity
• Problem Analysis & Solving
• Decision-Making (Value-Based Approach)
• Ethics
• Innovation
Technical Competencies
• Principles & Techniques of Ethics Management
• Project & Stakeholder Management
• Presentation & Facilitation Skills (Advanced)
• Report Writing (Advanced)
SAFCOL Group is an equal opportunity company with the focus on gender equality and people with disabilities.
Employment Equity will be taken into consideration in terms of all appointments within SAFCOL
By submitting your CV to SAFCOL, you hereby give permission to circulate your information to the interview panel members for this vacancy only. Your information will not be used for any other position/purpose and will be disregarded after an offer has been made.
Interested qualified individuals can e-mail a concise CV with relevant copies of qualifications in confidence to: Ms. Sandra van der Walt, Human Capital Practitioner, sandrarecruitment@safcol.co.za, contact number 012 436 6378/082 079 1092
Closing date: 2 September 2021
Should you not have received a response within 30 days of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.