Job description

Company culture :

Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR) operates within a strongly performance-driven and competitive culture, where ambition, academic excellence and institutional reputation are key success drivers. This environment is reinforced by a significant innovation dimension, promoting research, experimentation and the development of high-impact projects. The culture is further supported by a collaborative approach, encouraging team engagement, knowledge sharing and close leadership. To a lesser extent, structured processes help ensure operational efficiency and reliability across academic and administrative activities.

As a Senior Risk Officer, you will be involved with UIR, Foncière UIR (FUIR), and UIR Hospital (HUIR). In a context of building the function, you will contribute to setting up the risk management system, then ensure its deployment and animation. You will support management in identifying, assessing, and controlling their risks. As a close point of contact for operational staff, you will provide the Presidency and the Audit and Risk Committee with a consolidated view of risks and the level of control, and disseminate a risk culture within the entities.

As a Senior Risk Officer, your main responsibilities are:

Setting up the system and risk mapping

• Contribute, under the responsibility of the Director of Internal Audit and Risks, to defining the risk management policy, methodology, and risk framework,
• Develop the risk map of business processes (academic and student life, research, continuing education, hospital activity, real estate projects, support functions) according to the chosen approach (top-down, bottom-up, or combined), and then ensure its updating,
• Facilitate workshops for identifying and assessing risks (probability, impact, level of control) with risk owners,
• Design the system's tools: incident database, key risk indicators and alert thresholds, dashboards, and reporting models,
• Contribute to writing procedures and defining the roles of stakeholders (management, risk correspondents, committees),

Supporting management

• Advise management on the risks of their major projects, before their launch,
• Support management in defining risk control measures and in their implementation,
• Support management in implementing first-level controls and assessing their effectiveness,
• Support teams in reporting incidents and operational losses and in analyzing their causes,

Monitoring and reporting

• Monitor key risk indicators and alert in case of exceeding thresholds,
• Produce risk dashboards and prepare committee files (Presidency, Audit and Risk Committee),
• Act as the interface with the Risk departments of partners and shareholders,

Specific Risks

• Contribute to the development of the business continuity plan, then to its periodic testing and crisis management exercises,
• HUIR: support teams in identifying and monitoring risks specific to hospital activity,
• FUIR: support project teams in monitoring risks related to real estate projects (deadlines, costs, contracts) and building security,
• Monitor compliance risks (personal data protection, contractual obligations, health regulations),

Risk culture and coordination with audit

• Disseminate the culture of risk and internal control within UIR, FUIR, and HUIR, through awareness and training actions for employees,
• Establish and then manage a network of risk correspondents in the departments,
• Feed the risk-based audit plan and integrate audit findings into the mapping

Profile sought:

• With a Master's degree (Bac +5) in finance, risk management, or audit (business or engineering school) or equivalent, you have 5 to 8 years of experience in risk management, in banking, insurance, audit or consulting firms, or large corporations, including experience in setting up or redesigning a risk management system,
• Furthermore, you master top-down (strategic risks, interviews with management) and bottom-up (by process, workshops with operational staff) mapping approaches; experience in healthcare, real estate, or higher education is a plus,
• Furthermore, you demonstrate a supportive and pedagogical approach, project-oriented in a developing environment, strong interpersonal skills with management, conviction, rigor, and analytical and synthesis skills.

Required Skills:

• Mastery of risk management frameworks (ISO 31000, COSO ERM),
• Mapping methods (top-down, bottom-up), key risk indicators, business continuity, and crisis management,
• Good understanding of internal control and information systems,
• Advanced Excel; reporting tool (Power BI or equivalent) appreciated,
• Perfect speaking and writing skills,
• Risk management certification appreciated.