The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. After passing a century, which it celebrated in 2019, it is now a global movement made up of 29 national member organizations which work in 120 countries.

Role Purpose

Under the direct supervision of area office HR & Safeguarding Manager, the post holder is expected to meet the safeguarding standard practices in the  area Office.

She/he will be responsible to assist projects/programs/ and field offices to ensure compliance are meet through community awareness, capacity building training, conduct project risk assessment and facilitate on the development of friendly materials. She/he will also responsible on assisting to implement safe program activities, establishing local reporting procedures, reporting, data management and share learnings.

This role demands roving support for project offices at different locations under the field office for both humanitarian and development programs

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Reports to: AO- HR & Safeguarding Manager

Dimensions: Save the Children works in all regions of Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 1900 and current expenditure of approximately $190090+ million each year.

Staff directly reporting to this post: NA

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

SAFEGUARDING

• Organizing and facilitate safeguarding (Child, Adult and Harassment) awareness for functions, project staff, partners, volunteers, project participants and other representatives (consultants, construction team, rental derivers, venders) for both humanitarian response and development programs.
• Facilitate/ coordinate safeguarding induction for new joiners with significant focus of humanitarian response team and conduct ongoing refreshment training for staff, partner’s focal points on child safeguarding and PSEA.
•  Ensure all projects are risk assessed, develop mitigation strategies, and recorded, monitor, and update the tracker on regular basis in collaboration with program managers and focal points at field level.
• Identify project level contact person for project participants and ensure local safeguarding reporting procedure is updated and displayed in project implementation areas.
• Ensure safeguarding concept and reporting procedure is well understood by project participants, staff, volunteers, partners, and representatives and ensure safeguarding messages are displayed in local language at project level.
• Conduct periodical assessment/survey on understanding and practice of safeguarding by project participants, staff, volunteers, partners and representatives and the effectiveness of existing reporting procedures.
• Follow up on volunteer recruitment process of projects and ensure the proper documentation are kept in the data base/record in collaboration with HR and project manager.
• Conduct focus group discussion with children and adult project participants on safe programing and effective reporting procedure in collaboration with MEAL colleagues.
• Report safeguarding incidents in DATIX system timely and coordinate with the national safeguarding team for the follow up, preliminary data collection, participation on investigation as relevant, coordinate referral mechanism as relevant.
• Assess the child participation events, make sure the procedures are followed in collaboration with event organizer.
• Compile and submit monthly report and plan on safeguarding activities to safeguarding manager at country office.
• Support local partners on training, risk assessment and other technical support as identified by the partner assessment, COSA.
• Facilitate IEC materials translation into local languages, printing, editing and disseminate messages for various groups and monitor the understanding.
• Facilitate the AO self-assessment process and follow the update status from all AO functional leads.
• Mapping of service providers at project areas to ensure reported cases are referred to relevant stakeholders and update periodically as relevant.
• Participate on the kickoff meetings, other relevant workshops/trainings facilitated at field office and represent safeguarding appropriately this include regional PSEA network as available.
• Participate in proposal development on safeguarding aspects whenever demands.
• Organize learning forum based on the identified risks, challenges, and best practices.
• Attend in house safeguarding and other relevant online and face to face trainings, webinars, meetings, workshop and put other relevant training/mentoring/couching demand on development plan as appropriate.
• Take additional assignment when the demand arises by supervisor including external representation.
• Other assignment provided by line managers.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of Bachelor Degree in social sciences and three years proven experience on child protection, education, social work. child safeguarding, gender and other related field.
• Experience on facilitation and coordination of training and workshops
• Experience in conducting assessment, monitoring and report writing
• Practical experience on child participation on the intervention of program activities.
• Strong computer skills, including the use of email, internet and Microsoft office
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Desirable

• Experience on child safeguarding and PSEA
• Experience on gender mainstreaming, GBV case management
• Experience on humanitarian response programs
• Skill on illustration design and publication
• Good understanding on national laws and procedures
• Speaking and writing of the local language