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CHIEF EXECUTIVE October 2017
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
October 2017
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Dear Candidate
Thank you for your interest in the role of Chief Executive at Anti-Slavery International.
We are the world’s oldest human rights charity, and have been resolutely fighting slavery since 1839. Whilst slavery is indeed illegal around the world, there are more people enslaved today than ever before; latest estimates stand at over 40 million people. Shockingly, 1 in 4 are children.
People living as modern day slaves can be found in the brick kilns of India and Pakistan, in the households of Tanzania, or indeed in London. Today’s slaves might be born into bonded labour, or perhaps trapped through traffickers into crime, prostitution or gang labour, or forced into marriage as children.
So our cause has never been more important, and it is justly making headlines here and across the globe.
We are now looking for a new leader to take our charity forward to build on our successes, and to be ambitious for our impact in the future.
We are highly respected in the political arena, both in the UK and internationally, and we want our voice to continue to be heard loudly.
Our innovative and impactful international programmes work with grassroots organisations, and people experiencing slavery, to demonstrate how slavery can end. We want to grow our engagement with business, working to help supply chains become slavery free. We want to ensure we are robust, increasing our financial resources and our membership base, and further improving our efficiency and measured impact.
Do you share our values and our vision of a world free from slavery? Do you have significant senior leadership experience? Are you knowledgeable about human rights, and can you demonstrate expertise in leading and developing teams, strategic vision and transformative change?
If so, we would love to hear from you.
Tanya English
Chair
Message from Chair of Trustees
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ABOUT US4 Chief Executive | Anti-Slavery International | October 2017
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Our vision
Our vision is a world free from slavery.
Our mission
Our mission is to work directly and indirectly with beneficiaries and stakeholders from a grassroots to an international level to eradicate slavery and
its causes from the world.
About us
Founded in 1839, we are the oldest international human rights organisation in the world, established by British abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. Today, Anti-Slavery International is working to eliminate all forms of slavery and slavery-like practices throughout the world, including:
• forced labour
• debt bondage
• human trafficking
• descent-based slavery
• worst forms of child labour
• slavery in supply chains
• forced and early marriage
We are not interested in easy solutions. Instead, we deal with the root causes of slavery and its consequences to achieve sustainable change.
In order to end slavery, we tackle from many angles. On one hand we raise awareness, we campaign, and we directly engage with governments and international organisations.
On the other hand we work in partnership with local organisations across a number of countries to combat slavery on the ground. This is critical to understanding the local context and the specific approaches necessary to achieve sustainable change for the victims of slavery.
Alongside our local partners, we support individuals and communities affected by slavery and we facilitate access to education, justice and compensation for people freed from slavery.
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STRATEGYAnti-Slavery’s strategic priority is to ensure significant progress towards slavery eradication in at least 10 countries by 2020, through working with beneficiaries and stakeholders from grassroots to international level to address slavery and its causes.
The evidence based knowledge from our projects underpins local to global advocacy aimed at achieving sustained, systemic change. This uniquely multi-level approach is a distinctive feature of our strategy.
According to our 2015-2020 strategic plan, Anti-Slavery will have obtained significant changes in at least 10 countries, through the establishment of new, or effective implementation of existing national laws, policies or practices for the benefit of people affected by or vulnerable to slavery by 2020.
Our strategic objectives reflect the key elements of Anti-Slavery’s Theory of Change:
1. Duty bearers are responsive and accountable to the rights and needs of people affected by and vulnerable to slavery:
1.1 Drawing on demonstrated learning from Anti-Slavery’s partners and programmes, national governments and institutions, including law enforcement and judiciary, have introduced effective anti-slavery measures to address the causes and consequences of slavery in each country.
1.2 Businesses have adopted effective approaches towards eliminating forced and child labour in business operations and supply chains.
1.3 Slavery and its causes are recognised internationally as a fundamental development issue.
2. People affected by and vulnerable to slavery are empowered to understand, assert and claim their rights:
2.1 People affected by and vulnerable to slavery have improved knowledge and understanding of the relevant legal framework, their rights, the corresponding responsibilities of relevant duty bearers, available mechanisms for support and redress, and the potential hazards of a range of livelihood options.
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OUR VALUES
Authoritative
We are a knowledgeable and reliable organisation whose positions are developed through sustained human rights-based work with affected peoples and communities, and through rigorous, evidence-based research.
Ethical
We are an independent organisation whose decisions, actions and positions are drawn from a human rights-based approach to driving targeted social change, are consistently applied and are not shaped by vested interests such as governments or corporations.
Equitable
We are committed to fairness, non-discrimination and mutual respect, both internally and externally, in all of our decisions and actions, and the impartial fulfilment of each person’s human rights and dignity, including where this may involve taking affirmative action in favour of disadvantaged individuals and groups.
Accountable
We are responsible to a range of groups and individuals, both internally and externally, for the integrity of our actions and decisions, demonstrated through a proactive culture of openness and transparency.
Collaborative
We are strengthened by working together, through respectful, participatory collaboration and consultation, proactively identifying and involving marginalised and vulnerable groups.
2.2 People affected by and vulnerable to slavery have improved capacity and confidence to assert and claim their rights, participate in or lead collective representation, seek redress in the case of exploitation and make safer livelihoods choices.
3. The social norms and attitudes that underpin and perpetuate slavery are rejected:
3.1 Local partner organisations effectively challenge the social norms and attitudes that underpin and perpetuate slavery in their countries and regions.
3.2 Slavery eradication is recognised as an issue of political economy, requiring fundamental reform of trade and migration policy as well as the advancement of national and international rule of law.
3.3 The international community recognise child and early marriage as a form of slavery.
3.4 The international community recognise that discrimination, in particular caste discrimination and gender discrimination, are fundamental causes of slavery.
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OUR WORK
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How we work
We work closely with 12 local partner organisations on project work in 11 countries, as well as working at the EU level impacting on all 28 member states. We also work in 10 strategic alliances with almost 500 combined members, as well as working in coalitions and partnerships covering the whole world.
With our partners, we can build a world free from slavery. Together, we:
• investigate and expose current cases and forms of slavery.
• support victims of slavery in their struggle for freedom.
• empower individuals and communities vulnerable to slavery to demand respect for their human rights and obtain protection work with the private sector to identify and address slavery in global supply chains.
• identify the best ways to stop these abuses and influence policymakers to take action.
• press for effective implementation of laws against slavery.
Global expertise Our programmes cover a broad range of issues and we have a strong track record of collaboration with service providers, law enforcement agencies, NGOs, trade unions, lawyers, businesses and government authorities.
• In the UK, our actions include lobbying the government; advocacy in individual cases; advice on modern slavery in supply chains; steering the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group.
• In Africa, we tackle descent-based slavery in Mauritania and Niger, forced child begging in Senegal and child domestic slavery in Tanzania.
• In Asia, we challenge the practice of bonded labour in India, forced labour in cotton industries in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and work to protect workers migrating to the Middle East from India, Nepal and Bangladesh, as well as within India.
• In Europe, our advocacy work focuses on all forms of trafficking and exploitation in supply chains.
• Globally, we advocate for change on highest levels of the UN and ILO, as well as with individual governments, businesses and many other actors.
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ACHIEVEMENTSChief Executive | Anti-Slavery International | October 2017
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Anti-Slavery International’s achievements in the last five years
• 2017: After the campaign initiated by Anti-Slavery, the International Labour Organization (ILO) officially recognised forced marriage as a form of slavery, providing a fresh impetus to tackle it.
• 2017: Over a two year period, we reached 150,000 workers vulnerable to bonded labour in India’s brick kilns, helped to formally release 2,872 from debt bondage, and filed 2,525 legal cases.
• 2016: We achieved a first ever slavery prosecution in new slavery courts in Mauritania.
• 2015: We helped obtain the inclusion of ending slavery as a target in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
• 2015: We lobbied the parliamentarians to include meaningful measures on victim protection and transparency in supply chains in the UK Modern Slavery Act.
• 2014: We worked to help establish the ILO’s new international protocol on forced labour.
• 2014: Thanks to our intervention, the UK Supreme Court ruled that trafficked people have the right to recover compensation from their traffickers irrespective of their immigration status.
• 2014: We secured the historic first ever conviction for slavery in Niger, and obtained a commitment from the government to support schools for children affected by slavery.
• 2013: We’ve been closely involved in uncovering forced labour of migrants in Qatar and in Thai fisheries, both of which kick-started international campaigns to end the practices.
• 2012: Under pressure from Anti-Slavery and other campaigners, Uzbekistan stopped using young children to pick cotton as part of its forced labour system. We continue to stop the forced labour system altogether.
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THE ROLE
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Key Responsibilities
1. Providing strategic direction
1.1 To lead the ongoing development, implementation and monitoring of Anti-Slavery’s long-term strategy to achieve its aims, in conjunction with the Trustees, senior managers and staff.
1.2 To ensure that this strategy is translated into business and annual plans and budgets and to ensure their subsequent delivery.
1.3 To identify and resolve strategic issues and risks for the charity proactively, working with the Board, ensuring effective risk assessment and management.
1.4 To nurture and promote an organisational culture of innovation, high performance and continuous improvement which underpins and enables the achievement of the strategy, associated plans and key performance indicators (KPIs).
2. Facilitating effective governance
2.1 To lead on supporting the Board of Trustees, attending and providing reports to regular meetings of the Board and its Sub Committees, ensuring that Trustees receive regular, timely and accurate information for effective governance.
2.2 To work closely with the Chair and Board to further develop their roles and contribution to the charity.
2.3 To ensure Anti-Slavery complies with all constitutional, legal and regulatory standards and requirements as a charity and conducts its governance to a high standard.
Position Title Chief Executive
Responsible to Chair of Trustees
Salary £65,000 - £70,000
Location Stockwell, London SW9
Hours of Work The post is 35 hours a week Flexible Working Policy around the core hours of 10.00am to 4.00pm
Job Purpose To provide inspiring and skilful leadership for Anti-Slavery International, furthering its strategic ambitions in the eradication of slavery across the world and building a well-managed, robust and growing charity
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3. Leading people and operations
3.1 To provide inspirational leadership to the whole staff team, ensuring that colleagues feel engaged, developed, supported and recognised in their contribution to meeting the aims of the charity.
3.2 To provide direct line management to the Senior Management Team, including development support and coaching, and performance management, so that they meet their personal objectives and manage their own teams effectively.
3.3 To ensure that all teams have robust work plans and key performance indicators in place which contribute to the achievement of the long term strategy and annual plans.
3.4 To keep under review the charity’s structure, systems, policies and procedures to ensure that these are fit for purpose, compliant with all legal, regulatory and good practice requirements.
4. Ensuring income generation and strong financial management
4.1 To lead on the development of business, fundraising and financial strategies and plans in order to ensure a diverse portfolio of income is secured to enable Anti-Slavery to achieve its strategic aims and be sustainable financially.
4.2 In conjunction with the Senior Management Team, to identify, evaluate and initiate new business and funding opportunities.
4.3 To ensure an excellent standard of financial management, to include accurate and timely reporting and forecasting as well
as early identification of and action to mitigate impact of income or expenditure variance.
4.4 To ensure timely and regular liaison with the Treasurer, and ensure a regular flow of financial information to the Board.
4.5 To play an active role in engaging external donors, patrons, members and other stakeholders to maximise securing income and other support.
5. Leading on policy, advocacy and communications
5.1 To lead on the development of policy, advocacy and communications strategies.
5.2 To develop and maintain strategic relationships at national and international level with key influencers and decision makers to promote the charity’s aims and key messages.
5.3 To ensure that Anti-Slavery is able to set the agenda, advocate on and respond proactively on policy issues at all levels to a wide range of stakeholders including the media, funders and supporters, government bodies, institutions and other policy makers.
5.4 To maximise opportunities to gain representation on national and international fora, in order to ensure that Anti-Slavery participates in key debates, remains well-informed and can promote its aims and key messages.
5.5 To act as a confident and effective spokesperson for Anti-Slavery and represent the charity in the public domain, maximising its profile.
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Person Specification
Experience, skills & knowledge
• Significant experience of successful leadership and management within charity or other not-for-profit organisations.
• A knowledge of human rights and an understanding of slavery in the modern world as well as an understanding of working with international partners.
• Proven track record in strategic decision-making and the development and implementation of high level strategic, business and operational plans to successful outcomes.
• Experience of working effectively with Boards of Trustees and a good understanding of governance requirements within small/medium sized charities.
• Experience of developing and motivating individuals and teams to achieve high levels of performance and reach their potential.
• Experience of leading organisational change and transformation successfully.
• Experience of diversifying and growing income, preferably including through commercial enterprise, as well as traditional grant making and voluntary income sources.
• Good understanding and experience of strategic financial management, internal controls, and risk.
• Able to analyse the external operating environment and develop approaches which respond to the current context and capitalise on opportunities for the charity.
Personal qualities & behaviours
• A passion for making a major contribution to issues around modern slavery, human rights and human trafficking globally as a charity leader.
• Able to inspire and motivate people as a dynamic leader, building coalitions for change and empowering others to contribute.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, including confidence with public speaking and representing the charity externally to both specialists and lay audiences.
• Able to think creatively and flexibly, with a solutions focus to addressing problems and challenges.
• High levels of energy, determination and resilience as a leader.
• A personal approach to leadership based on collaboration, accountability, openness and trust.
• Empathy for the ethos and values of Anti-Slavery International.
• A willingness to travel across the UK and internationally as required.
Holidays
30 days per year including 3 days at Christmas, this increases to 31 days per year after five years to a maximum of 33 days after 9 years.
Probationary period
The first 6 months of your employment will be a probationary period.
Pension
Non contributory scheme with the Pensions Trust.
6% employer contribution, 0% employee contribution.
The employee contribution will rise to 2% from 2018/19.
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How to Apply
To apply, please forward a CV, together with a supporting statement (which should be no more than two sides of A4). Please provide evidence of your suitability against the criteria in the Person Specification in your statement as well as explain why you want to be Anti-Slavery International’s next Chief Executive. Please ensure your name and the name of the organisation you are applying for is stated at the top of your statement. You should give the names, positions, organisations and telephone contact numbers of two referees, relevant to this role. References will only be taken once your express permission has been granted. Finally, please ensure that you have included mobile, work and home telephone numbers, as well as any dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the recruitment timetable.
Applications should be made via the Prospectus website:
https://prospect-us.co.uk/jobs/details/hq00171204
Recruitment Timetable
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 15 November
Preliminary interviews with Prospectus: 13 - 29 November
Interviews with Anti-Slavery International: Friday 15 December
Final interviews with Anti-Slavery International: Monday 18 December
If you wish to have an informal discussion about the opportunity, have any queries on any aspect of the appointment process, or need additional information please contact our retained advisors Sara Livesey or Selam Petros.
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
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