Responsibilities:

• Serve as IJM’s Safeguarding Officer where required, and in that capacity, ensuring appropriate notification of incidents as required (e.g., by law, grant requirements, etc.).
• Oversee enterprise implementation and monitoring of key ethical policies and procedures. In particular, support the timely implementation of Safeguarding policies and procedures and other key requirements for major grant requirements.
• Develop overarching strategy/implementation roadmap assessing priority order of specific initiatives and deliverables to develop and roll out.
• Pursuant to such strategy, establish and provide systems, training and tools to promote ethical conduct and appropriate handling of misconduct, including systems for reporting misconduct, tracking incidents, and conducting internal investigations. For example, develop safeguarding training series; implement a compliance hotline; develop an internal investigations toolkit.
• Provide oversight, coaching and support to internal investigations caseload handled by regional leads and directly handle or oversee particular matters where appropriate.
• Provide coaching and capacity building on ethical standards and internal investigations to IJM partners/sub-grantees where appropriate.
• Ensuring IJM’s ongoing improvement and maintenance of high ethical standards via training, internal reviews, spot checks etc.
• Providing professional and expert safeguarding advice and support to key internal stakeholders.

Requirements: 

• 5+ years’ experience in a legal, risk, governance, compliance, or internal investigations team, preferably for an international organization and/or a non-profit;
• Previous background in a safeguarding or internal investigations role operating in low- and middle-income countries;
• Legal training (Juris Doctor or equivalent) preferred but not required;
• Cross-culture living or working experience in low-to-middle income countries preferred;
• Experience leading sensitive investigations (e.g., safeguarding) and utilizing survivor-informed care/procedures;
• Experience implementing safeguarding policy and best practice internally and externally with partners and in the programmatic context, with high awareness of relevant international standards and frameworks, e.g. UN, FCDO (UK);
• Experience enhancing organizational processes to prevent/deter wrongdoing and encourage reporting externally and internally;
• Excellent written and spoken English; and
• Right to work in one of IJM’s existing office locations.

Critical Qualities:

• Mature orthodox Christian faith as defined by the Apostles’ Creed;
• Ability to function as a strategic advisor;
• Ability to lead through influence;
• Collaborative, solutions-oriented, and creative problem-solver;
• Orientation to process & systems thinking;
• Clear and user-friendly communication and work product; making complex ideas easy to digest; and
• Strong coaching/training capacity.

What does IJM have to offer?
– Daily, quarterly and annual community spiritual formation
– Robust staff care resources

– Competitive salary and benefits package. Detailed salary and benefits offered will be dependent on the working location