Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.
Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our roles then we would welcome your application regardless of your background.
Hope for Justice is seeking an exceptional candidate to provide maternity leave cover for our Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) position.
The role involves overseeing and setting the strategic direction of our monitoring and organisational reporting system, working with diverse specialists and teams in a number of countries..
This role will be integral in helping lead the development of internal MERL capacity development globally, as well as working to provide oversight and guidance to programmes on the mainstreaming of MERL minimum standards.
The successful candidate will nurture and provide oversight to our approach to the overall MERL strategy, working closely with colleagues in policy and communications to promote Hope for Justice’s work and thought leadership in relevant areas.
This role calls for someone with extensive experience and applied knowledge of leading MERL teams or functions within an INGO setting. We are seeking someone with experience in strategic planning, project management and institutional partnerships support, ideally within the anti-slavery sector.
For full details of this role and expectations, download the attached role profile.
Benefits of working at Hope for Justice
Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff. This includes generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme contributions, company sick pay, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to the Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family. As well as operating both Flexible and Hybrid working policies for our UK employees.
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum, depending on experience
Closing Date: 30th August 2022 – applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis
Location: Flexible, UK (Head office is located in Manchester)
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.