Medical Safety & Compliance Lead at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

As a senior member of the global medical team, the Medical Safety & Compliance Lead will provide strategic leadership to ensure effective risk management across all levels to enable medical safety and compliance with the medical services quality framework (MS-QF) and achievement of the 2022-24 strategic objectives, specifically leading on the following priorities:

• Risk management to ensure mitigations and controls in place
• Operational oversight on MS-QF compliance across priority countries globally
• Empowerment and capacity building of SCI global, regional and country staff
• Stakeholder management across teams and functions to leverage expertise and resources to enable medical safety and compliance globally

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Extensive experience of risk management and enabling compliance in international development / humanitarian organisations
• Extensive experience of leading and/or providing oversight to humanitarian and development programs with iNGOs or low resource settings.
• Extensive experience of effective stakeholder engagement in complex/networked organisations at regional and/or HQ levels.
• Significant experience of leading and inspiring others, empowerment, capacity building and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Proficient in risk management and mitigation strategies, critically appraising programs/interventions, identifying critical risks/gaps and addressing them.
• Good understanding of Compliance and Regulatory requirements for medical services.
• Cultural awareness and ability to achieve results effectively and collaboratively across diverse teams and colleagues based around the world.
• Strong planning, organization, problem-solving, engaging and influencing skills.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English.
• Right to work in the UK (or country of residence or preferred location).

Desirable

• Public Health, Global Health and/or Medical background (clinical/pharmacy)
• Proficiency in a second language, preferably French, Spanish or Arabic.

Closing Date: Sep 22, 2022