Senior Manager, Safety and Protection

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🕒 April 17

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Black Pen Recruitment

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

🎯 Recruiter

Fintech • Recruitment • Cryptocurrency

Black Pen Recruitment is a leading global recruitment agency specialized in FinTech talent acquisition. Based in Cape Town, the company focuses on sectors such as Cryptocurrency, Digital Banking, and Blockchain technology. With a commitment to find the best candidates across Africa and beyond, Black Pen Recruitment employs advanced headhunting techniques and a customer-centric approach to ensure a successful hiring experience for businesses of all sizes.

📋 Description

• Manage the design, build, and implementation of an in-house system to provide safety consultations and referrals to at-risk writers and their allies in the U.S. including authors, journalists, scholars, and librarians • Lead the provision of individualized, trauma-informed safety consultations and referrals for at-risk writers and their allies in close collaboration with colleagues, consultants, and external partners • Represent the team in and strengthen the efficacy and efficiency of multi-stakeholder safety-related coalitions and networks that protect frontline democracy defenders, such as the Journalist Assistance Network and Democracy Protection Network • Drive outreach and build sustained partnerships with relevant organizations— including professional associations, media organizations, publishers, libraries, bookstores, and universities—to strengthen support for at-risk writers and their allies • Serve as an expert by advising the team and wider organization on safety and protection issues • Support the development and maintenance of multimedia safety resources for writers and their allies—including for the organization’s website and social media channels • Represent the team and speak at conferences and other public events as needed • Cultivate and research funding opportunities, draft proposals, and draft grant reports to sustain the program, including overseeing monitoring and evaluation by tracking metrics • Follow current developments in digital and physical safety, psychosocial wellbeing, online abuse, and freedom of expression and conduct relevant research and analysis • Provide support on intern recruitment and management, recordkeeping, financial reconciliation, expense reporting, and other team-wide administrative tasks as appropriate • Passionately support and advance PEN America’s mission to safeguard free expression in the United States and abroad.

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of five to eight years of relevant experience in digital security, physical security, human rights, and/or journalism/media • At least two years of experience working with individuals at risk, including on digital and/or physical safety, online harassment, gender-based violence, and/or trauma-informed care • Proven experience providing empathetic, responsible, trauma-informed care to at-risk individuals and organizations, while maintaining confidentiality and trust • Strong knowledge of the evolving safety risks faced by writers and their allies, as well as effective risk mitigation strategies • Demonstrated ability to network and cultivate relationships with partners • Strong project management skills, including setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and measuring impact • Knowledge of free expression issues, especially regarding creative, academic, and press freedom • General knowledge of grant writing and reporting preferred • Track record for independent problem-solving, innovation, creativity, and effectiveness • A diplomatic disposition and strong facility with interpersonal communication and relationship-building • Personal qualities of integrity, patience, respect for others, and a willingness to learn • Must be able to provide valid proof of U.S. work authorization • Commitment to PEN America’s mission, centered on the celebration and defense of free expression for all.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision health insurance • paid time off • 10 paid holidays • pre-tax commuter benefits • 403b retirement plan