The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a vibrant and cosmopolitan university, anchored in Africa and driven by a powerful strategy focused on attaining global excellence and stature (GES). With an emphasis on independent thinking, sustainable development and strategic partnerships, UJ is an international university of choice. The University is guided by the Vice-Chancellor’s vision of “Positioning UJ in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in the context of the changing social, political and economic fortunes of Africa”.

•  Coordinate ethics risk and opportunity assessments to create an ethics profile

•  Ensure that the ethics profile is converted to an ethics management strategy and ethics management plan in order to actively manage ethics in a way that contributes to the establishment of an ethical culture.
•  Foster organisational leadership involvement in ethics initiatives and organisational culture building that will promote integrity and ethical behaviour in the organisation.
•  Provide guidance to the board of directors and senior management on issues related to ethics as it pertains to the core values of the organisation.

•  Implement codes and policies to ensure that structures, systems, and processes are in place to familiarise the board, management, and all employees with the organisation’s ethical standards.
• Coordinate all activities that contribute to providing content to codes and policies and ensure consistent alignment and application of ethics-related policies, procedures, and practices intervention.
• Provide advisory and safe reporting facilities that allow employees to have various courses of action on ethical issues to avoid compromising their official responsibilities.
• Design and implement an ethics communication strategy to monitor, follow up and protect all actions taken concerning whistle-blowers and related parties.
• Conduct ethics-related investigations to ensure legal and regulatory compliance.
•  Manage conflicts of interest, with particular attention to the record-keeping, analysis and evaluation of issues relating to:

• Oversee consequence management through reward and discipline to ensure personal accountability to ethical practices is promoted.
• Develop, implement, and oversee ethics awareness and other ethics training programmes for current and new employees that translate organisational values into visible and measurable behaviours.
• Alignment of ethics management interventions to HR systems and interventions to ensure that ethics is a criterion in the selection, promotion, and performance management of employees.

• Monitor ethics management performance by the analysis of systems, interventions, ethical culture, ethics risks and trends to foster good governance practices at all levels in the organisation.
• Manage a register of all employees under investigation and those disciplined for unethical conduct in order to monitor the adherence to ethical standards and compliance with regulations and guidelines.
• Provide ethical leadership and guidance to the governing body and executive management by regularly reporting on ethics performance and challenges.

• Honours NQF 8 qualification
• A certified Ethics Officer
• Minimum 4 years of experience as an ethics officer or a similar role
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a supervisory/managerial role
• Experience in providing advisory-role expertise to internal and external stakeholders on ethics
• Experience in organisational ethics governance and management to initiate and coordinate the implementation of all elements of an ethics management programme
• Experience in project management to identify and implement ethics-related projects, such as awareness and training programmes
• Knowledge of relevant international and national guidelines laws, regulations, codes, and guidelines to evaluate ethical matters
• Knowledge of latest developments impacting ethics

• Ability to work well in a team environment and to coordinate multiple inputs with tight deadlines with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Must be analytically minded and have excellent writing skills
• Must have the ability to compile insightful and user-friendly reports
• Communication and change management to reach out to the institutional community
• Facilitation