Personality Protection Advisor - 100%

About the job

Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) are a reference institution at both national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here .

Attached to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the HUG, the Personality Protection Group (GPP) is tasked with ensuring the integrity and dignity of every staff member, respecting the institution’s duty, as an employer, to provide a working environment free from any infringement on personality rights. It handles reported situations and works to restore respectful working conditions for all. The GPP guarantees respect, consistency, and application of provisions related to ethics, personality protection, violence prevention, whistleblower protection, and the handling of reports.

Job Description

As part of strengthening its governance, integrity, and reporting system, the institution is reinforcing its structure. Within a small team with which you work collegially, your mission is to implement and carry out the personality protection system within the HUG, in accordance with the specific regulations.

You ensure the handling of reports of personality rights violations, particularly regarding discrimination, psychological harassment, and sexual harassment.

You conduct confidential listening, guidance, and, if necessary, fact-objectification interviews for employees who consider themselves victims of personality rights violations. Where appropriate, you carry out a mediation process or issue individual or collective recommendations. You may also request the intervention of external investigators. Your actions are carried out with the explicit consent of the reporting persons. You ensure traceability by maintaining documentation and following up on decisions and recommendations.

For the purpose of resolving situations, you may be required to interact with hierarchical managers, the occupational health service, the diversity, equity and inclusion system, the Human Resources Directorate, the Legal, Integrity and Compliance Directorate (DJIC), security, or, where applicable, the complaints handling committee for personality rights violations, discrimination, and harassment. You thus ensure coordination while respecting the roles and responsibilities of each party.

Under the whistleblower protection regulations, a whistleblower may also request your intervention.

You also contribute to the analysis of data related to personality rights violations, violence, property damage, and institutional functioning, and formulate recommendations.

In the exercise of your duties, you report hierarchically to the Chairman of the Board of Directors and act independently, impartially, and autonomously, in strict compliance with the legal, regulatory, and institutional framework. You ensure that no intervention can influence the handling of situations, the conduct of investigations, or the conclusions drawn.

Qualifications

You hold a Master’s degree in law or human sciences or any other equivalent training, complemented by specialised training in mediation and/or conflict management, or investigation.

You have good knowledge of Geneva cantonal administrative and disciplinary law. You have 10 years of professional experience in administrative investigations, ethics and compliance, integrity systems, reporting management, or institutional governance.

An honest and responsible person, you have excellent listening and empathy skills as well as a strong sense of negotiation and discretion. You are comfortable with oral communication and impartial, independent report writing, for which you rely on your very good analytical and synthesis skills. Flexible and available, you have good resilience to stress.

To avoid any conflict of interest, the selected person cannot hold another position within public medical establishments.

You also identify with the values upheld by the HUG, which you embody in your daily actions and interactions within your team.

Additional Information

• Start date: as soon as possible
• Number of positions: 1
• Work rate: 100%
• Job grade: 23
• Contract type: Permanent contract
• Application deadline: 10.07.2026
• Contact for information: Ms V. Nerson, Human Resources Manager, tel 022 372 64 78

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Cantonal Employment Office.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.