Risk Analytics Lead

Would you enjoy strategizing and leading a team that is capable of monitoring and preventing risk globally? Are you detail orientated and analytical in your approach? Read on to hear more about our Risk Analytics Lead role!

The Company

Tiko inspires futures where girls and young women take charge of their sexual and reproductive choices, with the freedom to shape their lives. Founded in 2014, Tiko is an African nonprofit organisation that enhances the potential and fosters the resilience of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Sub-Saharan Africa by addressing the critical “Triple Threat”: early pregnancy, HIV, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Tiko has developed its own unique girl-centric technology platform to unite an ecosystem of existing, established partners to provide an environment enabling girls to choose when, where and how they meet their health and wellbeing needs. Leveraging this technology-enabled, community-driven approach, Tiko collaborates with local and national health systems to drive sustainable, transformative change. Tiko operates in seven countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young, and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here.

We will happily accept applicants from South Africa, Portugal, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

The Job

The Risk Analytics Lead plays a critical role in safeguarding the integrity of our service delivery mechanisms. This role is responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks related to the verification and authenticity of services provided in our ecosystem. The Risk Analytics Lead shall use fraud risk understanding, data analysis, visualization and data modeling techniques to guide risk analysts and auditors to key areas of focus to manage fraud and other platform risks effectively. This shall be used to provide insight, identify risk trends and recommend a response action to the risk director and the team.  In addition, the Risk Analytics Lead shall supervise and provide day-to-day technical support to the risk analysts.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy and leadership
  You will ensure that the risk analytics team's priorities and activities align with the risk goals and the trusted results strategy. This shall also include the team’s resourcing, engagement, collaboration with other teams, and allocation of work to achieve organizational needs. 

• Risk analysis and dashboarding
  You continuously ensure new risks and patterns are identified, documented and thoroughly investigated through data analytics (data-driven reports)  and continuously automated. This includes creation and maintenance of updated risk dashboards for local programmes and reporting needs, automated analysis of data utilising all available sources to ensure efficient identification of risk patterns.

• Process and control improvements

           Following risk analysis, you will recommend and follow through with the implementation of new processes and controls to improve our ability to       

           respond to risks to the platform and our programs.

• Routine activity management
  You will ensure that routine risk activities such as data verification, analysis, risk flagging, monitoring of tools such as biometrics flags, actors' payment data review are carried out on time and accurately to ensure that day to day expectations of the team are met.

• Compliance management
  You will ensure that the platform actors' risk management SOP is implemented and complied with both by the risk team and the operations teams by carrying out regular reviews for compliance and communicating findings to both the risk director and to operational teams.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with the Tech team to integrate risk management into business processes and decision-making

• Other projects

           You run, get involved with and help out colleagues on other projects as needed.

About you:

You are a people person and great at dealing with problems and frustrations. You are someone who pays attention to detail and has excellent analytical skills. You have an extremely thorough approach to their work, and ensure that tasks are followed up on and completed in a timely manner.

Requirements:  

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Risk Management, Data Science, Information Systems or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a risk analysis or data integrity role
• Experience working with biometric technologies, GPS/location-based data, or digital identity verification systems
• You have knowledge of fraud detection systems, technologies, and machine learning for risk modeling
• You have excellent analytical, presentation, and communication skills
• You are a logical thinker and a practical problem solver
• You have an eye for detail and follow through on tasks
• Familiarity with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, POPIA) and ethical handling of personal data

The Rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The gross monthly salary bracket for this position is € 2 073 – 3 109 in Ethiopia, R 51 148 – 76 723 in South Africa,CFA988,916, UGX7,940,918 -  UGX11,911,377 in Uganda, €2,568 - €3,853 in Portugal
plus benefits. We will offer you a salary in this bracket depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues.

In addition to your monthly salary, we offer you:

• Comprehensive benefits and allowances based on location.
• Flexible work arrangements, including remote or hybrid options where applicable.
• A personal development budget of €500 to support professional growth, including training, certifications, and career advancement opportunities.
• Unlimited holidays – as long as you coordinate with your team, you’re good to go!
• The chance to shape a growing and impactful product and leave your mark on how we do things.
• A vision that we trust that you will do your job without us having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations.

The Details

Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

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Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click
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