Safeguarding Coordinator

About Save the Children

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

•            No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday

•            All children learn from a quality basic education and that,

•            Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

SCI - Afghanistan

 Save the Children has been working in Afghanistan since 1976. Our way of working close to people and on their own terms has enabled us to deliver lasting change to tens of thousands of children in the country. The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child is the basis of our work.

Job Summary

The Safeguarding Coordinator will support Safeguarding Manager in driving our endeavors in this focused area of work across the country office. The Coordinator will combine elements of capacity building and monitoring whilst enforcing compliance and accountability, management and investigation as well as aspects of advocacy at the National level. The post holder will also be expected to recommend and implement preventive measures aimed at reducing child safeguarding cases. He/she will also provide mentoring and capacity-building to staff and partners on issues related to child safeguarding. 

The role holder will work in conjunction with the HR Director and Child safeguarding focal persons located across the country. The role holder will work under the guidance of the Safeguarding Manager and in close collaboration with the safeguarding officers and focal points located across the country. 

Duties & Responsibilities

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY : 

Role model high levels of professional safeguarding behaviour and maintain the standards required by the Safeguarding Policies and Code of Conduct. Act as an ambassador for both child and adult safeguarding policy. 

Safeguarding system strenthing-

•   Support Safeguarding Manager in undertaking clear, strong advocacy in line with the Safeguarding Policy at the country level. 

•   Support Safeguarding Manager to complete annual safeguarding assessment.

•   Coordinate with Safeguarding field focal points to develop annual safeguarding plans in all provinces and feed that into CO annual Safeguarding Plan 

•   Support Safeguarding Manager to conduct Sectoral safeguarding risk assessment to identify potential risks to children and adults in all the sectors. 

•   Support Safeguarding manager and provincial safeguarding focal points to ensure safeguarding activity-based risk assessments are completed by all projects as required. 

•   Work with the Safeguarding Manager to develop, implement and regularly review Safeguarding action plan. 

•   Support staff to take proactive steps to ensure that all programming activity identifies the potential risks and works to eliminate and mitigate those risks.

•   Deliver mandatory and refresher training workshops to enable staff with key responsibilities to undertake their roles and mainstream safeguarding functions.

•   Ensure all staffs including security guards, drivers, cleaners etc. received periodical safeguarding refresher. 

•   Review and strengthen Safeguarding systems within the country office, planning and delivering training programs accordingly. 

Field level roll-out and maintenance of training programmes

•   Conduct need assessment of safeguarding awareness

•   Coordinate with Provincial Safeguarding Focal points to organize mandatory safeguarding training workshops and refreshers training 

•   Coordinate with provincial safeguarding focal points to review and strengthen Child Safeguarding systems strengthening needs within partner agencies, planning and delivering training programs accordingly.

•   Ensure that all visitors and representatives are given briefings and comply with the Policy.

Safeguarding Visibility 

•   Conduct annual assessment of the safeguarding visibility materials through community engagement to ensure all visibility materials are child and adult friendly. 

•   Review and update safeguarding visibility materials like posters, flex etc. annually. 

•   Coordinate with MEAL to assess the awareness level of safeguarding among community participants and partner staffs. 

•   Ensure that all visitors to the Country Programme receive a visit specific briefing on arrival prior to any field visit.

Reporting and Investigation

•   Ensure all staffs are trained on how to report concerns via DATIX.

•   Ensure 24 hours reporting mandate is adequately informed to all staffs, partners and relevant stakeholders. 

•   Report all the concerns received via various reporting channels like MEAL, emails, phone calls etc. are reported to DATIX and informed to Safeguarding Manager. 

•   Maintain safeguarding tracker updated and provide monthly report of the tracker with lesson learning to Safeguarding Manager. 

•   Where assigned, lead the investigation and manage case. 

•   Support Safeguarding Manager or lead when Safeguarding Manager is unavailable on investigations on safeguarding incidents. 

•   Support Safeguarding Manager or lead when Manager is unavailable to prepare initial and final report to ARO

•   Keep all reports and cases confidentially recorded

•   Follow-up on recommendations and plan of action 

HUMANITARIAN

•   As guided by Safeguarding Manager, coordinate with relevant function to get updates on new visitors in CO and field offices. Ensure all deployed humanitarian staff receive required country safeguarding related training and briefings to enable them to do their job and re-enforce their safeguarding responsibility.

•   Adapt and develop procedures to conduct Safeguarding Inductions to rapidly hired new staffs. 

•   Support Safeguarding Manager to conduct rapid safeguarding risk and need assessment for the CO. 

•   Ensure 24 Hours reporting guidance is properly adhered even in emergency context 

•   Support Safeguarding Manager in ensuring that safeguarding considerations and resources are included in CO’s Emergency Preparedness Plan, initial assessments, community engagement, response implementation, and monitoring for the duration of the response.

BEHAVIOURS (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 their team to do the same

•   Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

•   Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

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; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

•   Bachelor’s degree in Social science or any other related field.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

•   5 (Five) years of experience in the area of child safeguarding with international organizations. 

•   Experience of managing as well as undertaking complex safeguarding investigations and or disciplinary investigations.

•   Multi-disciplinary experience of working successfully with senior managers to deliver major operational change with a track record of delivering results to high standards.

•   Experience of a lead role in national advocacy or policy work either in the field of Safeguarding or Human Resource to ensure policy implementation. 

•   Experience of building personal internal and external networks.

•   Experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops in safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g. field workers, managers, senior managers and decision makers).

•   Strong verbal communication and report writing skills in English and Dari/Pashto languages. 

•   Strong presentation skills.

•   Demonstrable commitment to Children’s Rights.

•   Self-sufficient, proactive self-motivating work styles.

•   Ability to provide long distance support and establish supportive relationships and networks.

•   Ability to deliver results against demanding timetables and in the face of competing demands.

•   Ability to travel and work within challenging environments.

•   Awareness of own strengths and weaknesses and evidence of commitment to self-managed personal development.

Desirable

•   Evidence of professional expertise, personal development and learning in the field of child care

•   Experience of working within hostile and challenging environments.

•   Experience of work related travel in challenging environments.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities 

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Submission Guideline

Qualified applicants are highly encouraged to apply for the position by filling in the online application form. In addition to the online application form, they can also attach their CV and cover letter in the online system. Please note that only the applications received through the online portal will be considered for this position.

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