Overview
Provide in-depth safeguarding expertise and support to Response Management and key Functions to ensure safeguarding is embedded in the culture and operations of a Response from the beginning and appropriately through every phase.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and monitor safeguarding action and risk management plan
- Support Leadership to establish a safeguarding culture
- Establish a functioning safeguarding training and capacity building system
- Ensure community-based accountability mechanisms are appropriately designed to raise awareness of, detect and escalate safeguarding issues
- Safeguarding incident management and investigations
- Coordinate and contribute to sector-wide safeguarding through the PSEA Network and other national or local coordination bodies
- Meet minimum quality standards and support improvement, reflection, learning and innovation
Required Experience
- 5 years’ + experience in overseeing child protection, PSEA, GBV, or safeguarding work – preferably in a humanitarian context
- direct programming or management experience in child protection in emergencies, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), gender-based violence (GBV) or safeguarding
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a GBV, Child Protection, Legal, Human Resources or other Child Rights-related field, or field/practical experience working with situations of policy formation, guidance and implementation.
Other Details
Languages Required
Effective written and verbal communication in English.
Languages Preferred
Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese, are preferred.
Contract Duration
Not specified
Work Modality
Not specified
Remuneration
Not specified
