Membership Accreditation and Safeguarding Manager (f/m/d)

at  Common Goal

ABOUT COMMON GOAL

With more than three billion fans, football is the largest social phenomenon on the planet. No other sport boasts such wealth, reach or cultural significance. Common Goal is rooted in the belief that the world’s most popular sport is one of the few cultural forces strong enough to help shift society towards a more sustainable and equitable future for all.
We want to maximise the game’s contribution to people and planet by forging a lasting connection between football as a business and football as a catalyst for social transformation. We believe that achieving long-lasting change requires everyone’s collaboration. That’s why we are building a movement that creates opportunities for every stakeholder in football to participate and collaborate in support of our people and planet.
Bottom-up and inside-out, we place all our focus on strengthening local capacity to transform realities, embedding purpose at the heart of the football industry and using football as enabler to inspire a shift in mindset.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are recruiting a Membership Accreditation and Safeguarding Manager who will be directly responsible for overseeing the accreditation of member organisations and advancement of safeguarding standards in the Common Goal Community. The role will require an experienced expert in organisational accreditation and safeguarding with the ability to manage complex processes and the input of a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders. They will also be expected to engage with content and to identify the need to bring in specific expertise to increase the quality of the Community of member organisations.
The Membership Accreditation and Safeguarding Manager will be part of the Community team and report directly to the Head of Community. They should have the ability to foster collaboration and teamwork, productively work with others and conduct themselves with the highest level of collegiality. They are expected to take leadership in their area of work and to continuously improve processes and procedures. The position is based in our Berlin office.

YOUR TASKS

• Improve Common Goal’s membership accreditation procedures for organisations and manage all aspects of the accreditation process, in coordination with relevant committees
• Develop, implement, and improve the necessary technology tools and data management approaches to accurately, transparently and fairly assess members’ suitability for accreditation
• Identify needs and trends based on organisational assessments for capacity building initiatives for Community member organisations and provide advice and guidance to members, as well as to colleagues within Common Goal, on membership issues
• Strengthen Common Goal’s safeguarding approach, in collaboration with the Safeguarding Committee, by:
• Monitoring safeguarding standards, policies and procedures in the Community
• Facilitating capacity development on safeguarding processes for member organisations with internal and external experts
• Overseeing case management of cases that arise in the Community