Médecins Sans Frontières is looking for an Operational Safeguarding Manager

Application deadline: 2026-09-21

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Contract type: Open-ended contract

Working hours: Full-time position 100% (40h/week)

Salary: Gross annual salary (for 100%): from CHF 102’180.- to CHF 116’484.- (salary commensurate with equivalent experience and internal salary grid)

Nous recherchons des candidats passionnés, prêts à contribuer à notre mission humanitaire. Vous trouverez ci-dessous les détails du poste et le profil recherché.

Inclusion et diversité chez MSF

Vos qualifications et votre expérience ne correspondent pas exactement à toutes les exigences du poste ? Chez MSF OCG, nous nous engageons en faveur d’une culture inclusive qui soutient et amplifie la diversité des voix de nos collaborateurs. Nous nous efforçons de créer des environnements de travail où des équipes composées de personnes aux origines, caractéristiques, perspectives, idées et expériences diverses travaillent ensemble pour faire avancer la mission sociale de MSF et obtenir de meilleurs résultats pour nos patients et les communautés avec lesquelles nous travaillons.

Nous comprenons que certaines personnes puissent hésiter à postuler si elles ne répondent pas à toutes les exigences du poste. Des études montrent que c'est particulièrement vrai pour les femmes. Si vous estimez que votre profil correspond à ce poste, nous vous invitons à postuler même si vous ne remplissez pas toutes les conditions requises. Nous encourageons les candidatures de personnes de tous genres, âges, orientations sexuelles, origines ethniques, milieux, religions, croyances, capacités et toutes autres caractéristiques de diversité.

MSF ne tolère pas l'exploitation et les abus sexuels, ni aucune forme de discrimination ou de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel. Tous les candidats sélectionnés feront l'objet d'une vérification de leurs références.

Contexte et mission

Médecins Sans Frontières est une organisation médicale et humanitaire internationale indépendante qui apporte des soins aux personnes dans le besoin, aux personnes touchées par des catastrophes naturelles ou d’origine humaine, ainsi qu’aux victimes de conflits armés, sans discrimination et sans distinction de race, de religion, de croyance ou d’affiliation politique (Charte de MSF).

Le mouvement MSF s'articule autour de 5 centres opérationnels soutenus par 24 sections et bureaux à travers le monde. Le Centre opérationnel de MSF à Genève (MSF OCG) est l'un de ces centres.

OCG is strengthening its institutional safeguarding capacity. As part of this evolution, the former Abuse and Behavior Unit will become the Safeguarding Unit, reflecting MSF’s commitment to the four pillars of safeguarding: prevention, detection, reporting, and response. The Safeguarding Unit will be reinforced by two Safeguarding Advisors and a Case Management Lead. The Safeguarding Advisors will provide technical expertise and support departments in developing policies, tools, and solutions that advance safeguarding objectives. The Case Management Lead will ensure the timely, effective, and high-quality management of complaints and reports received by the Unit, including allegations of abuse, fraud, and corruption.

In parallel, the Operational Department will establish an Operational Safeguarding Manager position. This role will lead the implementation of safeguarding across programmes, provide strategic support to operations, and coordinate the deployment of the flying safeguarding team to support the achievement of safeguarding objectives according to the context and needs of each mission.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Lead the operational implementation of safeguarding across all programs, ensuring that safeguarding principles and technical standards, safeguarding risk assessments, and mitigation measures are effectively embedded into day-to-day operations.
• In collaboration with the flying team, guide and provide technical support to program teams in developing, operationalizing, and monitoring the implementation of the Mission Behavior Fundamentals, ensuring these measures are consistently applied and effectively integrated into operation department and programs including safe recruitment, safe programming, detection and local reporting mechanisms for patients, care takers and communities’ members
• Mobilize, coordinate and deploy dedicated flying teams and provide technical safeguarding support in the rollout of the Mission Behavior Fundamentals and safeguarding priorities, in collaboration/concertation with the operational teams.
• Develop a program support model with dedicated locally appointed safeguarding human resources that ensures projects benefit from technical safeguarding expertise at both project and coordination levels.
• Ensure that local program dedicated resources are supported by both coordination and the flying referents through technical guidance and oversight of safeguarding implementation.
• Work in synergies and in a functional mode with the OCG head of safeguarding to ensure coherence and alignment with OCG positioning technical safeguarding standards, and organizational priorities
• Work in collaboration with deployed safeguarding staff and country teams to produce detailed country-level safeguarding situation and risk analyses that inform strategic decision-making, prioritize safeguarding actions in accordance with organizational objectives and operational realities, and oversee the implementation and effectiveness of safeguarding measures.
• Represent the Operations Directorate in internal and external meetings requiring operational and technical safeguarding input, analysis, or coordination related to the OCG Safeguarding Plan at programme level.
• Support any internal communication requesting the accountability of ops department in regards to safeguarding.

Your profile

Education

• Master Degree or equivalent in a field relevant to this profile (e.g. law, social or organizational sciences, psychology, social work etc.) an asset

Experience

• 5 to 10 years of experience in humanitarian projects management in MSF.
• Similar validated experience in technical expertise in the related field, preferably in non-governmental, charity or international organisations.

Languages

• Fluency in English and French are required
• Knowledge of another language (Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) is considered an advantage.

Skills & Personal Abilities

• Project management, organization & accountability
• Management, Integrity & Ethical Judgment
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation
• Compliance & Policy Adherence
• Leadership, team management, active listening and organizational skills.
• Delegation
• Cultural sensitivity

Terms of employment

• Working place: Geneva, Switzerland, with frequent travel for field visits
• Swiss residency while under contract mandatory (because of the frequent travel)
• Ideal start date: As soon as possible
• Paid vacation: 25 days per year, prorate temporis, plus any Swiss public holidays falling within the contract period.
• Pension plan: pension contribution covered 3/4 by MSF, 1/4 by staff member.
• Relocation support available for eligible candidates.

How to apply

Candidates are invited to submit their application exclusively through our recruitment platform, following these guidelines:

• CV (maximum 2 pages)
• Cover letter (maximum 1 page)

Documents must be submitted in either English or French.

Nous nous réservons le droit de clôturer cette offre d'emploi plus tôt si nous recevons un nombre suffisant de candidatures de qualité. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées de manière confidentielle. Seuls les candidats présélectionnés seront contactés. Veuillez noter que nous ne souhaitons pas faire appel aux services d'agences de recrutement ou de placement.

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