Senior Director of Investigations and Security

About Us: Love Justice International (LJI) is a Christian nonprofit driven by a singular mission: to share the love of Jesus Christ by fighting the world’s greatest injustices. We pursue this calling through two primary efforts—our expanding anti-human trafficking work and the care of orphaned and abandoned children.

We are looking for faithful, compassionate, and mission-driven problem-solvers—people who think deeply about how to fight injustice and share Christ’s love in a broken world. This isn’t just a job; it’s a calling. If you’re searching for an easy, comfortable career, there are plenty of other options. But if you’re drawn to work that demands sacrifice, boldness, and faith, we invite you to apply and explore how you can be part of this mission.

Love Justice International has been recognized as a Best Christian Workplace for four consecutive years (2021–2024). Learn more about who we are, what sets us apart, and our open positions at lovejustice.ngo/careers.

What We Offer: Opportunities to truly change lives are exceptionally rare—but at LJI, that is exactly the kind of impact you can have. Although we’re a nonprofit, we operate as an “Impact Engineering” organization, focused solely on maximizing real-world outcomes. By combining scientific and business principles with field-led, locally informed insights, we intercept potential trafficking victims for under $150 each, creating a ripple effect that prevents several more individuals from enslavement. This remarkable efficiency underscores the profound, far-reaching impact your work can have on countless lives. 

Joining LJI means stepping into an opportunity to deeply impact lives by combating injustice and expressing the transformative love of Christ. At LJI, you'll be part of a connected, purpose-driven team committed to impactful, kingdom-class excellence.

We offer competitive and thoughtful benefits packages tailored to the specific role and location of our staff. Benefit offerings are designed to support wellness, work-life balance, and overall staff care. Details of specific benefits will vary based on location, local standards, and applicable regulations.

Position Type: Full Time; Salaried; South Africa

Program and Position Overview: Love Justice International (LJI) combats human trafficking through transit monitoring—intercepting potential victims at key transportation hubs, where traffickers and victims are most visible. Because trafficking is already underway at these points, our teams can gather vital information to assist law enforcement in arresting traffickers and disrupting trafficking networks. To date, LJI has intercepted over 84,000 individuals, resulting in more than 1,700 arrests. For more information on our impact, visit our website: lovejustice.ngo.

To ensure excellence and accountability across our global operations, Love Justice has developed more than 30 core processes. These structured methods help our partners run their programs effectively in critical areas such as financial management, administration, human resources, data collection, security, potential victim care, investigations, and legal case support. While we aim to standardize these processes for consistency, we remain open to adapting them to meet specific local contexts and operational needs. Developing and implementing these processes is central to our core competency of "searching out the people, places, and tools to maximize mission impact.”

Investigations and Security play a critical role in increasing impact and ensuring the safety of the teams. This role would help to improve and complete the core processes related to these two fields and then would assist with the implementation of the training and empowerment across the nations which LJI has partner organizations in. 

LJI has not fully realized the potential that the data collected from high quality intercepts can produce. The role would also help with ascertaining where investigations would have impact, analyzing data to ensure it is being used well and then working with a team to implement a plan to start new investigations teams and increase impact. As this role would be working with different countries and their law enforcement, the applicant would need to have a working knowledge of law enforcement and justice systems to assist LJI’s partner organisations in finding ways to work with authorities. 

The Senior Director of Investigations and Security will report to the Director of Anti-Trafficking. The position will be based in Ballito, South Africa. This position will involve travel to our different fields. 

Key Responsibilities: The primary duties and responsibilities of the Senior Director of Investigations and Security are the following:

• Assisting in the development and training on investigations policies, standards, and guidelines, including the following Core Processes:
  • Basic Investigations (Case Dispatcher)
  • Advanced Investigations
  • HVCs
  • Police Liaison
  • Police Training
  • Basic Security
  • NSTAR
  • Security Assessments 
• Training, equipping, and empowering national investigations and security staff
• Provide operational assistance to investigative staff including tactical guidance on cases and operations and developing and implementing training programs for investigative staff
• Assisting in the development and training on security policies, standards, and guidelines
• Working with the CEO and Director of Data Science to develop studies which measure criteria helpful to developing core processes or assisting with investigations work and police training
• Working with the Searchlight Anti-Trafficking Database team to help develop data analysis tools

Christian Culture: The work at Love Justice International (including the duties listed above) is conducted within a culture that strives to emulate Christ and make Him first and central. As part of our team, we seek staff who embrace the following expressions of what it means to Abide in Christ, our first Global Value:

• Our primary identity is in Christ
• We believe God is sovereign over injustice
• We are made, called, and led By Christ
• We commit to connect with Jesus
• Prayer should be central to our work
• Our conduct is our testimony 

We believe that our mission is not only about what we do but how we do it—through faith, prayer, and obedience to Christ.

Qualifications: 

• Mission & Faith Alignment
  • Mature Christian faith and agreement with our Global Value to “Abide in Christ”
  • Knowledge, understanding, and agreement with how the Christian Gospel ministers to “the least of these” (Matthew 25:40) and guides us in our mission
  • Agreement with our Core Value “Be the Kingdom”(in mission execution and personal conduct)
  • Acknowledgment of our Statement of Faith
  • Passion for justice and advocacy on behalf of vulnerable populations.
• Experience & Skills
  • Minimum of a bachelor's degree in a related field. 
  • Significant experience related to law enforcement, investigations and security.
  • Ability to work well in cross-cultural contexts and sensitivity to different cultures; experience working abroad and/or in [region job location] preferred
  • Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Strong work ethic, self-motivation, and willingness to adapt to changing and challenging circumstances
  • High standard of personal discipline
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Familiarity with working with complex spreadsheets preferred
  • Proficiency with Google Suite and particularly with Google Sheets
  • Strong demonstrated project management skills
  • Ability to work well within a group setting and maintain a positive outlook while working within challenging circumstances

Application Process: We will continue to invite applications for this position until a new Senior Director of Investigations and Securityhas been hired. Candidates will submit a letter of interest and CV when they submit their application here. Nominations, inquiries, and questions concerning this search may be directed to careers@lovejustice.ngo. Visit the LJI careers page, https://www.lovejustice.ngo/careers, to learn more about our mission, explore FAQs, and see how you can be part of our work.

Please allow us 1-2 weeks to process your application. Thank you for your interest!