The International Rescue Committee is seeking a PSEAH and Workplace Safeguarding Specialist to provide technical leadership and mentorship to strengthen systems against sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH). This role bridges corporate safeguarding and community response, focusing on garment sector workers and empowering women-led organizations to deliver survivor-centered support.
What You'll Do
- Conduct organizational PSEAH risk assessments within garment factories, analyzing power dynamics, subcontracting, and gender-based risks.
- Support factories to develop, adapt, and implement international standard-aligned PSEAH policies, codes of conduct, SOPs, and reporting mechanisms.
- Build the capacity of factory management, HR, supervisors, and worker representatives on survivor-centered approaches, safe complaints handling, and non-retaliation.
- Establish or strengthen worker-accessible, gender-responsive reporting and referral pathways, including anonymous options.
- Promote worker awareness and empowerment through culturally appropriate information on rights and support services.
- Work with women-led organizations (WLOs) to ensure the availability of safe, confidential, survivor-centered remedial care including psychosocial support and legal accompaniment.
- Support WLOs to strengthen ethical case management systems, data handling, informed consent, and referral protocols.
- Facilitate referral agreements between factories and WLOs with clear roles and safeguards against retaliation.
- Design and deliver tailored PSEAH training curricula for factory staff, workers, and WLO partners, adapting to literacy and cultural context.
- Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to safeguarding focal points within factories and partner organizations.
- Support WLOs to engage effectively with private-sector actors while maintaining independence and feminist principles.
- Liaise with brands, buyers, factory associations, labor inspectors, and government authorities to align PSEAH efforts with ethical labor frameworks.
- Ensure PSEAH systems are aligned with national labor laws, GBV legislation, and safeguarding standards.
- Support the documentation of learning, challenges, and good practices to inform program improvement and advocacy.
- Develop and track PSEAH performance indicators across prevention, reporting, and response components.
- Support brands to safely and ethically collect and analyze data while ensuring survivor confidentiality.
- Contribute to internal and external reporting, learning products, and recommendations for scale-up.
The International Rescue Committee is an equal opportunity employer.
