Mexico Safe Online is looking for a Child Protection and Technology Partner
Applications close Friday, October 9th 1700 GMT
We're looking for a specialist who can help us choose, support and make sense of a portfolio of tech pilots tackling online sexual exploitation and abuse in Mexico. £20,000, October 2026 to March 2027, remote with travel. Applications close on Friday, October 9th 1700 GMT.
Evidence suggests that one in eight adolescent internet users in Mexico experiences online sexual exploitation or abuse in a single year. That is an estimated 1.6 million adolescents, with girls disproportionately affected. Institutional responses remain fragmented and inconsistent, which means delayed intervention, longer exposure to harmful content, re-victimisation and unequal access to support.
Mexico Safe Online, led by the Frontier Tech Hub and funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, is working with Mexican public institutions and specialist civil society to explore how that gap can be closed, and to identify models other countries facing the same threat could learn from. The programme runs to March 2027 and combines institutional engagement, a portfolio of piloted tech solutions, and evidence that should hold up well beyond Mexico.
We treat technology as a means rather than an end. It's a tool that can accelerate work to reduce OCSEA, not the point of the programme. This role exists to test that thesis: working with the Hub, FCDO Mexico, government institutions and our local stakeholder engagement consultant, the tech partner helps us decide what questions are worth answering, which organisations and technologies are best placed to answer them, how the pilots should be designed and supported, and what the resulting evidence means for future institutional adoption and investment.
What you'd do
The work runs across five connected areas. You'd help define and refine the programme's core learning questions, working with the Hub team, the market consultant and relevant Mexican institutions. You'd advise on the investment thesis and the design of the open call through which we select tech implementing partners, including which problems, technologies and organisations to prioritise, acting as adviser rather than final decision-maker.
Once partners are selected, the support gets practical: helping them translate institutional pain points into workable technical configurations, pressure-testing implementation and integration plans, advising on safeguarding, privacy, data minimisation, security and human oversight, and challenging assumptions about technology or institutional readiness as evidence comes in.
You'd bring a specialist lens into portfolio workshops, helping shape how organisations and technologies are introduced to Mexican institutions, preparing pilot partners to explain their solution in terms of the institutional problem it solves rather than the technology itself, and contributing to the portfolio launch and institutional simulations. And you'd help interpret what the pilots actually demonstrate, not just whether individual tools worked, but what we've learned about embedding technology into child-protection institutions.
Who we're looking for
Deep expertise in online child protection and OCSEA, including detection, reporting, triage, investigation, referral, victim-support or content-removal systems. A strong understanding of technology in child protection, including where different approaches fall short. Experience assessing, selecting, designing or supporting technology in high-risk or safeguarding-sensitive settings, grounded in survivor-centred, trauma-informed practice. Experience advising government, law enforcement or public institutions on technology adoption. And the ability to judge not just whether something works technically, but whether it's appropriate, usable and maintainable by the institutions that will run it.
Experience supporting governments in Latin America, and particularly Mexico, would be especially valuable.
Practical details
October 2026 to March 2027
Remote, with willingness to travel and hold in-person meetings in Mexico
£20,000 package
Deadline: Friday, October 9th 1700 GMT
The full Terms of Reference can be found here.
How to apply
Please submit an application letter and a copy of your CV to foundation@hellobrink.co by Friday, October 9th 1700 GMT, with the subject line “Terms of Reference: Child Protection and Technology Expert”
Please, as part of your application, confirm a) your professional fluency in both English and Spanish, b) your availability for up to 62 working days between October 2026 and March 2027 and c) that you are based in Mexico and willing to travel domestically
We will interview sifted candidates from 14th to 16th October for 60 minutes.
We will aim to finalise this appointment by 16th October to commence work on 19th October.
If you’d like to dig in further…
🔘 The full Terms of Reference can be found here.
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