Risk and Compliance Officer

Job Title: Risk and Compliance Officer
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Job Type: Full-Time

Our purpose is to help people live healthier lives by focusing on the biological process of aging through advanced clinical care and research using precision diagnostics, lifestyle medicines, proven therapeutics to improve health span, performance and lengthen lifespan.

We are at the forefront of Healthy Longevity Medicine by combining advanced diagnostics with AI-driven risk prediction, digitally enabled clinical care with the highest quality of trained professionals in lifestyle and longevity medicine. We are at the frontier of how to keep people healthy, on the population level as well as tailored programs for individuals.

Our clinical practice—along with our research and innovation arms—are shaping the future of Healthy Longevity medicine, and we invite you to apply and explore these possibilities with us.

The Risk and Compliance Officer is responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of IHLAD's enterprise risk management and compliance programmes. The role ensures that the organization operates in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, accreditation standards, and internal policies while proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating enterprise risks.

The position plays a critical role in fostering a culture of integrity, accountability, and risk awareness across the organization and supports leadership in embedding effective governance, risk management, and compliance practices throughout clinical, operational, research, and corporate functions.

• Develop, implement, and maintain the organization's Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework.
• Establish and maintain an enterprise-wide risk register, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, documented, monitored, and regularly reviewed. This will involve working with department level risk holders to populate the enterprise-wide risks.
• Conduct risk assessments across clinical, operational, financial, strategic, regulatory, information security, and reputational domains.
• Work with department level risk holders to create a reporting structure and then provide regular updates to senior leadership on the organization's risks.
• Facilitate risk workshops and collaborate with departmental leaders to identify emerging risks and define mitigation strategies.
• Monitor risk indicators and prepare risk reports and dashboards for leadership and governance committees.
• Track mitigation actions and ensure timely resolution of identified risks.
• Support business continuity planning and crisis management activities.

• Ensure organizational compliance with applicable UAE laws, Department of Health (DOH) regulations, healthcare standards, and other relevant regulatory requirements
• Monitor changes in legislation and regulatory requirements and recommend actions to maintain compliance.
• Conduct compliance assessments and gap analyses to identify areas requiring corrective action.
• Support organizational readiness for inspections, audits, and accreditation reviews.
• Maintain regulatory registers and ensure organizational policies remain current and compliant.
• Work with compliance owners for the various departments to create a reporting structure and then provide regular updates to senior leadership on the organization's compliance with its policies and other legal and regulatory obligations.

• Develop, review, and update organizational policies, procedures, and governance frameworks.
• Establish processes to ensure effective implementation and communication of policies across the organization and organizational and employee adherence to IHLAD's policies.
• Promote consistency and adherence to corporate governance principles and internal controls.
• Support the implementation of governance initiatives and organizational committees.

• Develop and implement compliance monitoring and auditing programmes.
• Conduct periodic compliance reviews and risk-based audits across departments.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of internal…