Emergency Response Roster – Safeguarding Advisor

JOB DESCRIPTION

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

International Assignment – Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Country location to be determined based on response.

Please submit your Cover Letter and CV in English.

Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.

Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.

As a Safeguarding Advisor in a Response, you will 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. They actively support Management to identify and mitigate safeguarding risk while equipping staff to become safeguarding champions for their teams.

They provide technical safeguarding guidance and capacity building to the Response on all aspects of safeguarding compliance, safer programming and safeguarding culture building in alignment with WV’s Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy. They ensure survivor-centred safeguarding incident response, and they coordinate with and contribute to the PSEA Network to facilitate local, national, and sector-wide safeguarding collaboration and learning.

Develop and monitor safeguarding action and risk management plan

• In collaboration with Management and key functions, develop and monitor Safeguarding Action Plan for the Response, prioritizing the adoption, contextualisation and implementation of WV’s Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy.
• Lead staff in conducting a Safeguarding Risk Assessment and creating a risk management plan, ensuring safeguarding risk is documented in Response Risk Register.
• Document Leadership decisions and rationale related to safeguarding risk management, ensuring Response Risk Register is updated accordingly.
• Update Safeguarding Action Plan incrementally (depending upon Response Phase) to ensure it appropriately reflects and links to safeguarding risk management plan.

Support Leadership to establish a safeguarding culture

• Provide Response Leadership with key messages and resources that enable them to build a healthy culture of safeguarding.
• Develop and document a plan with Response Leadership that articulates specific actions the Response Director, SMT and other Managers will take to create and nurture a safeguarding culture, incorporate into Safeguarding Action Plan.
• Brief and advise Response Director and SMT on Safeguarding Risk on an incremental basis, highlighting key issues for decision-making.

Establish a functioning safeguarding training and capacity building system

• Contextualise safeguarding and PSEA orientation and training materials for staff, interns, volunteers, contractors and visitors and socialise with relevant department heads.
• Conduct or coordinate safeguarding training with all staff on a quarterly basis (in-person, skills-based training preferred).
• Assess safeguarding capacity of staff and affiliates and coordinate function-specific safeguarding capacity building.
• Develop and oversee implementation of a needs-based, function-specific capacity building plan.
• Participate in partner due diligence, safeguarding assessment and incorporate capacity building plans for safeguarding.
• Ensure partners either receive safeguarding training from WV or their own organisations.
• Build partner’s safeguarding capacity per the partner capacity building plan.

Ensure community-based accountability mechanisms are appropriately designed to raise awareness of, detect and escalate safeguarding issues, in collaboration with Accountability

• Develop or contextualise child-friendly…