Senior Ethics Advisor

Responsibilities

• Advise, coach, and educate all levels of personnel on a wide range of ethics and business conduct questions and issues.
• Work closely with business partners, such as Legal, Security, HR, Caltech Internal Audit, and Acquisition, on ethics-related issues.
• Lead investigations of potential and known violations of ethics and business conduct standards raised by employees, business partners and other third parties.
• Evaluate and analyze employee outside activities and other COI disclosures to identify risks, determine appropriate action, and ensure compliance with policy.
• Support the development and implementation of ethics communications, training, and awareness programs.
• Formulate, review, maintain, apply, and disseminate ethics-related policies and procedures to employees across the Laboratory.
• Contribute to database management and drafting of quarterly Ethics Office performance reports.
• Utilize knowledge of, and experience with, information technology systems, concepts, and practices, as well as advanced techniques for the use of technology in leading investigations and conducting other internal ethics reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in business, social sciences, human resources, or related discipline with a minimum of 9 years of related work experience.
• Master’s degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 7 years of related work experience.
• PhD in similar disciplines with a minimum of 5 years of related work experience.
• Wide-ranging experience and advanced knowledge of one or more of the following areas: human resources, personnel security, internal audit, acquisition, or other compliance-oriented field.
• Able to identify and resolve a conflict of interest.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, active listening, critical thinking, multi-tasking and time management skills.
• Extensive experience dealing with confidential information appropriately and a successful track record for exercising good judgment and discretion.
• Proven ability to provide authoritative advice on ethics issues, supervise and conduct reviews and investigations, write reports, and facilitate corrective action.
• Experience planning and conducting internal investigations.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver ethics and related compliance training.
• Strong business acumen, professional presence, interpersonal skills, and ability to interact effectively with all levels of personnel; ability to exercise extraordinary tact, diplomacy, discretion.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, database applications.
• Excellent organization skills and the ability to work under varying deadlines and ability to remain flexible as demands and priorities change.
• Ability to work independently, manage heavy workloads and balance conflicting priorities.