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Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery with an effective and proven multi-disciplinary model. Our wholly owned social enterprise, Slave-Free Alliance, provides services to global companies and public bodies seeking to protect their operations and supply chains against the risks of modern slavery and labour exploitation. We have active programmes in the UK, USA, Ethiopia and Uganda, reaching approximately 200,000 adults and children a year. Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance have staff and volunteers involved in operational support, fundraising or other initiatives in Australia. Hope for Justice exists to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery by identifying victims, supporting survivors and preventing exploitation. If you're looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you. Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of treating people fairly. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.
Job Responsibility:
Lead and strengthen enterprise risk, governance, and data protection approach across an international charity tackling modern slavery
Bringing strategic thinking, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and experience working across complex, multi-country environments
Play a central role in helping protect vulnerable communities and strengthening the organisation's ability to deliver its mission worldwide
Requirements:
Risk Management
Lead the strategic and operational development of the organisation's risk framework, ensuring alignment with ISO 31000 and organisational context
Coordinate appropriate identification and management of risk across all senior leadership and accountable roles, ensuring coverages of all 12 classifications of risk per the HfJ framework: (Security
Safeguarding
Health & Safety
Financial
Corruption
People & Culture
Cyber, Information and IT
Governance
Legal & Compliance
Reputational
Quality
Strategic)
Develop and oversee an annual roadmap and schedule to monitor, evaluate, and report on organisational risk maturity, risk strategies and risk transfer
Maintain and continuously improve risk reporting tools, registers, and dashboards for global risk tracking and visibility
Coordinate training and communication that promote collaboration and ownership of risk across functions
Provide clear and accessible risk reporting to senior leadership, country directors, and the Board of Trustees (via subcommittees)
Risk Governance
Lead coordination of the Risk & Compliance Committee, supporting the Chair to ensure key risks are accurately reported, well understood, and actively managed with Trustee oversight and governing mandates
Facilitate the setting of risk appetite and thresholds by the Board of Trustees, supporting their legal duties relating to risk, and ensuring organisational accountability
Author and maintain core risk policies in line with governance appetites and policy frameworks
Provide clear, concise and decision-oriented risk reporting to senior leadership and the Board of Trustees
Strategy Integration
Support strategy owners to plan and monitor achievement against commitments, identify delivery risks, and develop mitigation strategies
Author the organisation's annual Strategic Risk Outlook along with relevant country/thematic briefings
Embed risk-based thinking into decision-making, strategic planning and programme delivery to identify both threats and opportunities
Incident & Crisis Management
Serve as a core member of the Incident and Crisis Management Teams (IMT/CMT), advising and supporting leadership and country teams during critical incidents
Coordinate internal investigations into serious incidents, liaising with the Charity Commission as required
Maintain the incident register, ensure robust documentation, and facilitate post-incident reviews, learning and feedback to risk registers
Support development of the organisation's complaints, accountability and whistleblowing mechanisms
Strengthen organisational readiness and resilience for potential high-impact events
Data Protection Compliance & Governance
Keep the organisation on track with UK GDPR and equivalent laws in other regions
Make sure policies are up to date and actually used in day-to-day work
Offer clear, practical advice on what the law requires and how teams can meet it
Act as the central point of contact to the Information Commissioners Office (and other authorities) in the event of major data related incidents
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
Lead the DPIA process and ensure alignment across the organisation
Help teams understand when a DPIA is needed and how to assess risks
Step in on complex or high-risk DPIAs to guide decision-making and agree on safeguards
Initiate DPIAs and involve the right people
providing oversight and guidance
Check that decisions and DPIA findings align with legal obligations
Advisory & Support
Act as the go-to person for data protection questions from staff
Support project and operational teams to build privacy into new systems and ways of working
Advise on lawful bases, consent, transparency, and everyday compliance questions
Training & Awareness
Lead the organisation's training and awareness activities relating to data protection
Risk Function
Connect DPIA outcomes with wider organisational risks
Ensure systems are designed with strong security and privacy controls
What we offer:
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata)
1 day Marriage Leave
Birthday Day
Enhanced employer pension contributions
Company sick pay
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Access to our Employee Rewards Platform, providing discounts and offers for well-known retailers
Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family