Safeguarding Advisor – Humanitarian Surge Team, Current NGO Jobs In Kenya,

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support Team Leader and SMT in ensuring minimum standards of Safeguarding are met and mitigated.
•  Ensure that the SFP responds in real-time to safeguarding violations in an effective, robust, and child-centred/survivor and rights approach
• Ensure that case information is kept confidential, documented, and filed/stored appropriately
• Provide expertise to humanitarian colleagues and local staff to identify, analyze and act to mitigate key safeguarding risks to children and adults at risk in our programs and program areas, identifying groups who may be at higher risk (e.g. migrants, adolescent girls, people with disabilities, children without appropriate care, LGBTQ+, children on the move, female and child-headed households, the elderly)
• Identify and ensure integration with other program sectors, ensuring that Safeguarding issues are raised and addressed in real-time – e.g. in the Mobile Health Unit, Child and Adolescent Friendly Spaces, and schools, cash and voucher programming, suppliers, construction.
• Provide (or support the emergency response team to provide) child-friendly and inclusive information to children, families, and their communities at program sites around humanitarian principles, their rights, unacceptable behavior, and ways to report concerns.
• Support response team to apply Safeguarding in Humanitarian procedure and re-enforce the Core Operational and Safeguarding RACI
• Provide expertise to funding proposals, ensuring that proposals include an amount for effective safeguarding and to mitigate and manage risks (e.g. cost of printed materials, set up of community feedback and reporting mechanisms, community engagement, preventative and risk mitigation actions, investigations, and survivor care and after-support, and that they adhere to Save the Children’s commitment to Safer Programming
• Deliver Safeguarding training to emergency response team members who have not recently received it and collaborate with functional and thematic teams to understand their safeguarding roles and responsibilities to prevent and reduce the risk of harm as they conduct their work.
• Deliver Safeguarding training along with SFPs, partnership leads, and other relevant staff to partners and local support staff who may be in a position to report safeguarding violations among staff – especially (but not limited to) drivers, cleaners, cooks, community workers, and volunteers
• Work closely with MEAL to develop (or strengthen) adequate community feedback reporting mechanisms
• Participate in relevant coordination mechanisms, including Clusters and PSEA networks, and support the coordination of Safeguarding activities
• Support the Child Protection, GBV, MPHSS, and Health to set up referral mechanisms that work for both CP and Safeguarding concerns. this will include mapping out and accessing the quality of existing services
• Ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with relevant functions and with the global Safeguarding team regularly
• Attend relevant Safeguarding team meetings
• Ensure key safeguarding risks are recorded (without confidential data) on the regular situation reports
• Provide expertise to response functional leads and thematic Technical Experts to conduct the safeguarding self-assessment, and develop a fully costed emergency response Safeguarding action plan, to eventually merge with the CO Safeguarding annual action plan.
• Elaborate Safeguarding report for emergency with key actions and validate with the Team leader, RSGD, and provide brief safeguarding update for the country/regional update calls and member calls

Qualifications

Essential:

• Undergraduate or Masters in Social work, Gender, Child Protection, Child Rights, Human Rights, Humanitarian Action, Anthropology, Development, Conflict or related degree
• Substantial experience in child and adult safeguarding, Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH), Victim/Survivor support, and after-care, within humanitarian or insecure settings, including leading or participating in responding to reports and conducting investigations into serious incidents including, SEAH of children and adults.
• Good understanding and experience of supporting child and adult victims/survivors and putting mechanisms in place to ensure they access the relevant support available locally and are listened to. Adopting a trauma-informed and people-centered approach.
• Experience living or working in a development context, emergency response context, or fragile state.
• Excellent knowledge of Safeguarding policies and supporting teams to put policies into practice;
• HEAT / Safety & Security Training for Insecure contexts or recognized equivalent;
• Strong safeguarding practitioner who can transfer skills to others;
• Good team member skills, including the ability to be part of and organize, support, manage, and develop a small team;
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to deal tactfully and sensitively with a wide range of people in a large organization, very often at a distance.
• Experience in designing and delivering training on Safeguarding, including, safer programming and strengthening the capacity of key stakeholders to prevent, detect, and respond to Safeguarding issues and unsafe practices;
• Proven attention to detail and ability to effectively manage a high volume of data and information;
• Experience in working with partners and using a participatory approach as well as coordinating responses with a range of actors, including Government authorities, national/local organizations, NGOs, UN;
• Ability to achieve results and maintain consistently high standards of professional behavior and achievement, including when working alone;
• Ability to manage stress, be flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstances;
• Ability to take a proactive approach to problem-solving, to recommend and implement continuous improvement initiatives;
• Fluency in written and spoken English;
• Commitment to and understanding of child rights, as well as of Save the Children’s aims, values, and principles.
• Knowledge and understanding of the ISAC six principles about PSEA and the CHS Alliance PSEAH Index

Desirable

• Fluency in Arabic, French, Spanish and or another language.
• Good knowledge of and experience in using established inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection, such as the Inter-agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children, IA Case Management Guidelines; and others
• Budget development and financial monitoring skills;

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