Safeguarding and Ethical Leadership Coordinator MSF Boards and Associations

The incumbent commits to contribute to a safe, supportive, inclusive, equitable, diverse, respectful, and healthy workplace, and associative spaces free from abuse and other misconduct. They will not engage in any form of abuse including those detailed in MSF Typologies of Abuse and when an employee suspects or observes abuse, they will report it (without investigating it) to protect others.

The Safeguarding and Ethical Leadership Coordinator for Boards and Associations supports the implementation, operationalisation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of MSF’s safeguarding work with boards and associations across the MSF movement. This reflects the International Board’s commitment to minimum standards for safeguarding in associative networks.

leads coordination and implementation efforts that translate safeguarding principles, commitments, policies, and standards into practical, measurable, consistent, coherent, and sustainable safeguarding practices across MSF’s boards and associative structures.

advances safeguarding culture change by supporting MSF boards in understanding their role in safeguarding leadership and oversight; and by supporting the development of robust safeguarding understanding and putting in place safeguarding measures within associative structures and associations.

contributes to strengthening prevention, detection, reporting, response to safeguarding cases.

promotes accountability and institutional learning on safeguarding across the MSF movement.

• Lead the coordination, implementation, and training on the ELMS, as well as on safeguarding, and other ethics principles within MSF boards.
• Translate safeguarding and ELMS concepts into actionable documents, processes, and initiatives for MSF boards associations/networks in line with existing MSF initiatives on safeguarding.
• Develop implementation guidance, tools, frameworks, templates, and operational resources.

• Safeguarding ambitions are translated into practical implementation plans and deliverables.
• Implementation progress is systematically tracked, monitored, and reported.
• Approaches, tools, trainings, and guidance are developed and used by relevant stakeholders.

• Drive integration of safeguarding as a core organizational practice across MSF boards and associations.
• Strengthen safeguarding accountability and leadership engagement, and ownership.
• Other tasks assigned by the ISC or the International President or their delegate.

• Monitor implementation progress, identify risks and gaps, and drive corrective and improvement actions where needed.
• Analyze ELMS and safeguarding implementation, challenges, and lessons learned to inform strategic decision-making.
• Produce implementation reports, dashboards, briefing papers, presentations, and governance updates.
• Lead learning and knowledge-sharing initiatives related to safeguarding and ELMS implementation and best practices.

• Safeguarding is embedded into MSF associations and boards’ ways of working.
• Safeguarding considerations are integrated into associative and boards’ processes.
• Organisational awareness and ownership of safeguarding responsibilities is increased across the MSF associations and boards.

• Ensure relevant frameworks and processes relating to triage, case management, investigation, and decision-making are implemented for ELMS and safeguarding complaints involving senior…