Senior Ethics Advisor

Responsibilities

• Tasks include but are not limited to:
• Advise, coach, and educate all levels of personnel on a wide range of ethics and business conduct questions and issues that are complex, highly confidential, extremely sensitive, and have frequent, critical deadlines.
• 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, including planning, interviewing, gathering and analyzing evidence, and writing investigation reports.
• Evaluate and analyze employee outside activities and other COI disclosures to identify risks, determine appropriate action, and ensure compliance with policy; conduct other internal ethics reviews as needed.
• Support the development and implementation of ethics communications, training, and awareness programs; conduct ethics training as needed.
• Formulate, review, maintain, apply, and disseminate ethics-related policies and procedures to employees across the Laboratory; oversee ethics requirements and related processes, ensuring consistency with government and industry standards.
• Contribute to database management and drafting of quarterly Ethics Office performance reports, including the collection and reporting of data and metrics; identify trends and risks; prepare reports and presentations for management on critical, highly complex topics.
• The incumbent is expected to conduct themselves ethically and with the utmost integrity in carrying out their responsibilities.

Requirements

• 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.
• Significant and demonstrated experience 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 ex

Additional Information

Job Details New ideas are all around us, but only a few will change the world. That's our focus at JPL. We ask the biggest questions, then search the universe for answers-literally. We build upon ideas that have guided generations, then share our discoveries to inspire generations to come. Your mission-your opportunity-is to seek out the answers that bring us one step closer. If you're driven to discover, create, and inspire something that lasts a lifetime and beyond, you're ready for JPL. Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence.

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