Senior Advisor, Safeguarding Prevention; P4

Overview

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world's hardest-to-reach places - over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you're creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

As the Senior Advisor, Safeguarding Prevention, you'll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. You will work closely with operational and programs staff to mainstream safeguarding throughout the organization to ensure that Save the Children US is safe for children and their families. Through executing responsibilities from four key categories - raising awareness, prevention, reporting, and responding - you will guide organizational teams across Save the Children US in implementing safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidance.

You will lead all national safeguarding training, awareness raising, and prevention efforts, provide ongoing guidance to Safeguarding Advisors and Focal Points, by leading the Safeguarding Community of Practice, and as needed, support safeguarding investigations.

Hybrid - Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office locations

not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

• Present at New Employee Orientations, Lunch and Learns, and other safeguarding inductions to introduce safeguarding concepts and build the safeguarding knowledge and skills of employees and partners.
• Design and deliver technical contextualized learning sessions to programs and operations on their specific safeguarding responsibilities and how to identify risks specific to their work.
• Use subject matter expertise and adult learning theory to develop formalized safeguarding trainings and training tools for SCUS, as well as review and approve any safeguarding trainings created by other staff for Save the Children representatives and stakeholders.
• In coordination with the National Safeguarding Team, design guidance and build the capacity of Safeguarding Advisors, Focal Points, and program teams to ensure that communities, families, and children are made aware of our safeguarding policies and how to report.
• Develop and provide technical guidance, tools, and capacity building to Safeguarding Advisors and Focal Points to support the implementation of our Safeguarding Policies and Procedures. Lead the Safeguarding Community of Practice to facilitate two-way communication, information sharing, the exchange of lessons learned and best practices.
• Provide direction and guidance on safeguarding policy and procedures across departments as needed and requested.

• Collaborate with the National Safeguarding Team, Safeguarding Advisors, Focal Points, and other departments as appropriate to create and maintain current guidelines, handouts, and other resources to facilitate the mainstreaming of safeguarding throughout Save the Children US. Such resources will align with current safeguarding policies and procedures, needs of divisions and departments, and those needs that become evident through data analysis.
• Conduct background checks on program visitors and consultants.
• Work with Human Resources to ensure that safeguarding considerations are taken into account during recruitment of Save the Children US representatives, including supporting the full roll-out of the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
• Provide technical guidance to Safeguarding Advisors, Focal Points, program, and operation teams to conduct safeguarding risk assessments for programs, activities, and events and ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place.
• In collaboration with the National Safeguarding Team, Safeguarding Advisors, Focal Points, and program teams, develop tools and guidance for integrating safeguarding into program design and implementation.
• In coordination with the Safeguarding Advisors, Focal Points, and program teams, monitor, evaluate, and guide the effectiveness of the Safer Partnership Initiative through technical support, tracking progress towards safe partnership goals, and analyzing relevant data to help identify necessary refinement of the Safer Partnership process.
• Participate in safeguarding communities of practices and inter-agency coordination spaces to ensure that the National Safeguarding Team is kept abreast of sector updates, resources, and best practices and integrate these into SCUS safeguarding prevention work.

• Guide staff on reporting requirements and provide direction on proper reporting procedures. Report all safeguarding incidents or near misses in accordance with Safeguarding Policies and Procedures.
• Lead and coordinate Safeguarding Office Hours to provide an…