ETHICS AND INTEGRITY OFFICER

Department

University of Venda -> Vice Chancellor and Principal -> University Registrar

Job Title

ETHICS AND INTEGRITY OFFICER (D101)

Post Level

Grade 7

Job Type

Support - Univen Funded

Closing Date

24/10/2026

Job Requirements

Requirements:

• Relevant Honours degree or NQF 8 Qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Ethics and/or Integrity.
• Ethics Officer Certification will be an added advantage.

Duties:

• Coordinate the development of the University's ethics risk and opportunity assessments to create an ethics profile.
• Coordinate the development of the University 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.
• Manage conflicts of interest, with particular attention to the record-keeping, analysis and evaluation of issues relating to:

(a) Financial disclosures related to employees

(b) Gift registers.

• 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.
• Provide ethical leadership guidance and insights by regularly reporting on ethics performance, challenges and remedial action.
• 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.
• Conduct compliance requirements and controls training in the divisions.
• Ensure alignment of ethics management interventions to HR systems and processes regarding the University Code of Conduct.
• Ensure alignment of Corporate Ethics and Research Ethics processes to prevent duplication or gaps.