Background

ABS Consulting Group is seeking a Compliance Officer for the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC). This role supports the implementation of the Commission's accreditation and compliance programs, ensuring adherence to accreditation standards and policies.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing and enforcing compliance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure adherence to national HIV and AIDS laws, coordination guidelines, and accountability standards.
• Monitoring and assessing compliance of MDAs, Local Governments, CSOs, and implementing partners with the National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan, UAC coordination requirements, and HIV mainstreaming guidelines.
• Conducting compliance audits, field assessments, and spot checks to verify proper use of HIV and AIDS resources and the integration of HIV priorities into sector and district plans, budgets, and programmes.
• Reviewing Institutional Development Plans, work plans, performance reports, and budgets to confirm that HIV and AIDS interventions are adequately planned, budgeted for, and implemented.
• Investigating and following up on cases of non-compliance, misuse of resources, reporting gaps, or violations of coordination and mainstreaming guidelines, and recommending corrective measures.
• Preparing and submitting compliance reports, audit findings, mainstreaming assessments, and risk analyses to UAC management and relevant oversight bodies.
• Advising and guiding institutions on compliance obligations, mainstreaming requirements, and statutory reporting responsibilities within the national HIV and AIDS response.
• Coordinating and facilitating capacity-building activities, sensitization workshops, and technical support sessions to strengthen compliance and HIV mainstreaming practices across sectors and districts.
• Monitoring and enforcing timely submission of HIV and AIDS performance reports, plans, budgets, and compliance audit responses from MDAs, Local Governments, and implementing partners.
• Tracking and ensuring implementation of audit recommendations, compliance action plans, and mainstreaming improvement measures across sectors and districts.
• Maintaining and updating compliance databases, audit logs, mainstreaming scorecards, and partner performance records for accountability and decision-making.
• Identifying and reporting emerging compliance risks, governance gaps, and weaknesses in mainstreaming HIV and AIDS, and proposing mitigation strategies.

Person Specifications:

(a) Academic Qualifications:

• An Honours Bachelor’s Degree in either Business Administration, Social Sciences, Public Administration and Management, Social Work and Social Administration, Law, or Actuarial Science, from a recognised University /Institution;

(b) Work Experience:

• Nil

(c) Required Competences:

(i) Technical Competences

• Strong understanding of relevant laws and regulations
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Risk assessment
• Planning, organizing, and coordinating
• Policy management
• Financial management
• Records and information management
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Information Technology

(ii) Behavioral Competences

• Ethics and integrity
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Leadership and management skills
• Flexibility
• Assertiveness and Self-confidence
• Networking
• Time management
• Accountability
• Result-oriented
• Negotiation and mediation

• Developing and enforcing compliance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure adherence to national HIV and AIDS laws, coordination guidelines, and accountability standards.
• Monitoring and assessing compliance of MDAs, Local Governments, CSOs, and implementing partners with the National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan, UAC coordination requirements, and HIV mainstreaming guidelines.
• Conducting compliance audits, field assessments, and spot checks to verify proper use of HIV and AIDS resources and the integration of HIV priorities into sector and district plans, budgets, and programmes.
• Reviewing Institutional Development Plans, work plans, performance reports, and budgets to confirm that HIV and AIDS interventions are adequately planned, budgeted for, and implemented.
• Investigating and following up on cases of non-compliance, misuse of resources, reporting gaps, or violations of coordination and mainstreaming guidelines, and recommending corrective measures.
• Preparing and submitting compliance reports, audit findings, mainstreaming assessments, and risk analyses to UAC management and relevant oversight bodies.
• Advising and guiding institutions on compliance obligations, mainstreaming requirements, and statutory reporting responsibilities within the national HIV and AIDS response.
• Coordinating and facilitating capacity-building activities, sensitization workshops, and technical support sessions to strengthen compliance and HIV mainstreaming practices across sectors and districts.
• Monitoring and enforcing timely submission of HIV and AIDS performance reports, plans, budgets, and compliance audit responses from MDAs, Local Governments, and implementing partners.
• Tracking and ensuring implementation of audit recommendations, compliance action plans, and mainstreaming improvement measures across sectors and districts.
• Maintaining and updating compliance databases, audit logs, mainstreaming scorecards, and partner performance records for accountability and decision-making.
• Identifying and reporting emerging compliance risks, governance gaps, and weaknesses in mainstreaming HIV and AIDS, and proposing mitigation strategies.

• Strong understanding of relevant laws and regulations
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Risk assessment
• Planning, organizing, and coordinating
• Policy management
• Financial management
• Records and information management
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Information Technology
• Ethics and integrity
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Leadership and management skills
• Flexibility
• Assertiveness and Self-confidence
• Networking
• Time management
• Accountability
• Result-oriented
• Negotiation and mediation

• An Honours Bachelor’s Degree in either Business Administration, Social Sciences, Public Administration and Management, Social Work and Social Administration, Law, or Actuarial Science, from a recognised University /Institution;