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MSF is committed to creating a safe, respectful, and dignified environment for its patients, their caretakers, and the communities in which it works, and for all its volunteers and staff. To this end, all sections of MSF have adopted Behavioural Commitments designed to ensure all staff are aware of their obligations to create workspaces free from abuse and inappropriate behaviour. MSF is committed to safeguarding and ensuring zero tolerance of inaction on abuse.

MSF is continuously strengthening its safeguarding work, and safeguarding remains a top organizational priority.  In line with this organization commitment, MSF has created an ambitious six-year plan to robustly, consistently, and cohesively implement safeguarding measures and actions and firmly embed a safeguarding culture across the MSF movement and within its country programmes through its Strategic Planning and Resource Cycle (SPARC). 

SPARC is an ambitious plan, involving all MSF staff working in their respective roles to ensure safeguarding is institutionalized as a “way of working” and to ensure that MSF upholds the highest standards and implements best practices with respect to safeguarding in all of its offices and operations.  To achieve its aims, MSF International will require additional safeguarding staff to ensure coordination and implementation of the work across MSF.

In addition to any other tasks assigned by the International Safeguarding Coordinator, the SPARC Safeguarding Implementation Lead drives the implementation, operationalisation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of MSF’s SPARC Safeguarding ambitions and strategic initiatives across the movement.

The role leads coordination and implementation efforts that translate safeguarding ambitions, commitments, policies, and standards into practical, measurable, and sustainable safeguarding practices across MSF.

The position advances safeguarding culture change by strengthening accountability, implementation oversight, monitoring, learning, and cross-functional collaboration aligned with MSF’s safeguarding ambitions to 2031 and in close collaboration with SPARC’s Accountability and Learning Officer

The role champions survivor-centred, trauma-informed, person-centred approaches and contributes to strengthening prevention, detection, reporting, response, accountability, and institutional learning on safeguarding across the Movement.

Job requirements

A master's degree in relevant field such as international law, human rights OR a bachelor's degree combined with significant relevant experience in safeguarding.

A minimum of 3 years implementing safeguarding initiatives in operational/country programme contexts. 

· Strong understanding of safeguarding and safeguarding risks.

· Ability to translate strategic plans into pragmatic, implementable actions.

· Ability to coordinate and work with a range of stakeholders in a consultative mode to reach consensus on action.

· Strong writing skills and ability to communicate safeguarding concepts and present data clearly and simply to a range of audiences.

· A strong understanding of monitoring and evaluation.