Overview
The Occupational Health and Safety Officer is responsible for ensuring a safe, healthy, and compliant working environment for staff, visitors, contractors, and partners across all Save the Children offices, guesthouses, and operational sites in Ukraine.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the establishment and maintenance of safe and healthy working conditions.
- Ensure organizational compliance with national laws, regulations, and internal procedures related to OHS.
- Lead the implementation of OHS risk mitigation measures.
- Support coordination of investigations into workplace accidents, incidents, and occupational diseases.
- Conduct OHS induction briefings for newly hired staff, contractors, and visitors.
- Coordinate and deliver OHS training sessions.
- Promote staff participation in identifying safety risks.
- Implement awareness-raising activities related to occupational safety and health.
- Provide guidance and mandatory instructions to heads of departments and area offices.
- Ensure staff performing high-risk tasks meet all requirements.
- Conduct regular inspections of facilities.
- Support the preparation of OHS budgets, cost estimates, and procurement planning.
- Develop, update, and review OHS policies, procedures, safe-work instructions, and training programmes.
- Prepare OHS documentation, reports, registers, and statistics.
- Provide consultations and clarifications to staff and managers on workplace safety obligations and best practices.
- Liaise with external medical institutions, research bodies, consultants, and regulatory agencies on OHS matters.
Required Experience
- 5 years of experience (including internship or volunteer experience) in occupational health and safety, workplace safety audits, risk assessments, or related fields.
- Experience delivering safety briefings, trainings, or awareness sessions.
- Experience in developing or updating OHS procedures, instructions, or training materials.
- Experience maintaining documentation, logs, or reports related to safety compliance.
- Practical understanding of safe equipment use, control measures, and accident/incident prevention.
- Previous experience in INGOs, international organisations, or humanitarian settings (Desirable).
- Experience coordinating with external institutions (medical facilities, inspection bodies) (Desirable).
- Experience supporting emergency preparedness, first aid training, or crisis/incident response (Desirable).
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in relevant field.
