Safeguarding & PSEAH Expert

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International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)

Hybrid
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 31/08/2026
  • Location: Austria
GBV / VAWG Migration PSEA/ Safeguarding
About ICMPD
The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) is an international organisation, with 21 Member States, that supports governments in establishing robust, rights-based migration management systems in more than 100 countries worldwide. Using a holistic and whole-of-route approach, ICMPD understands the complexities of migration, connects partners and empowers stakeholders through projects on the ground.

Project description:
ICMPD is strengthening and consolidating its institutional safeguarding and duty-of-care framework including protection from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH), a complaint and feedback mechanism, data protection for the people it serves, partner due diligence and training into a single, coherent system that applies across all its programmes.

Assignment objective:
To provide interim expertise to operationally lead the consolidation and roll-out of ICMPD's institutional safeguarding system, and to support the transition to a permanent safeguarding function, by 31 December 2026.

Requirements
Education:
Advanced university degree in a relevant field (e.g. human rights, protection, social sciences, law, international development), or equivalent professional experience.

Professional experience: Minimum eight (8) years' experience in safeguarding and PSEAH in humanitarian, migration or development contexts, including operationalising a safeguarding / PSEAH framework at institutional level; proven ability to work independently and lead delivery under time pressure.

Specific expertise: Designing complaint and feedback mechanisms and survivor centred response; familiarity with data-protection principles in a beneficiary-data context; partner due diligence; and inter-agency standards (IASC Six Core Principles, Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, Core Humanitarian Standard).

Languages: Excellent command of English; additional languages an asset. 

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