Professional Standards & Investigations Manager

Overview

In this role you lead investigations for the IRC, driving professional standards and ensuring timely, high-quality outputs. You will enforce appearance and office standards, foster fairness and mutual respect, and build safeguards against corruption and staff conditioning. You coordinate investigations end-to-end and raise quality across reports and findings. You also train and support staff in high‑pressure environments, pushing managers to own discipline and standards. This position combines governance, people safety, and change leadership to strengthen integrity and operational resilience.

Responsibilities

• Set and enforce standards of appearance and professional upkeep of office spaces
• Embed professionalism to ensure consistency, fairness, decency, and mutual respect in daily operations
• Proactively identify, prevent, and address risks related to corruption and staff conditioning
• Design and deliver support mechanisms, guidance and training for staff facing high-pressure environments
• Manage and coordinate internal investigations from initiation to closure to avoid delays
• Review and professionalise investigation outputs to high standards
• Challenge managers to own their responsibilities around staff discipline and standards
• Deliver targeted improvements to address vulnerabilities and evolve the role with organizational changes

Key requirements

• Proven Leadership
• Standards & Discipline understanding
• Oversight Capability
• Change Management ability
• Excellent Communication

• leadership
• excellent communication
• ability to challenge and influence at all levels
• oversight capability
• process coordination
• quality assurance

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