Senior Safeguarding Officer

Date Posted: Sep 21, 2022

Job Detail

Location:

Balkh
Company:

Save the Children
Type:

Contract
Shift:

First Shift (Morning)
Career Level:

Experienced Professional
Positions:

1
Vacancy number:

2200076K
Experience:

3 Year
Gender:

Any
Salary:

As per Company salary scale
Degree:

Bachelors
Apply Before:

Sep 30, 2022

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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.

We are helping children get a better education, we make it possible for more boys and girls to attend school, we help children protect themselves and influence their own conditions. We work with families, communities and health workers in homes, clinics and hospitals to promote basic health in order to save lives of children and mothers

Job Description

The Senior Safeguarding Officer support Head of Offices and Head of safeguarding in conducting trainings, monitoring visits the field office where SCI and contracted partners are working and implementing projects. Sr. safeguarding Officer will combine elements of capacity building and monitoring whilst enforcing compliance and accountability, management and investigation, He/she will also support Head of safeguarding in building strong awareness, prevention, accountability mechanisms. The role is a roving position and holder will be directly reporting to Head of Office and will further technically supported by head of safeguarding.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Identify potential risks to children and adults in all SCI function and project activities, while assisting Head of office and head of Safeguarding in responding to gaps/concerns.
Closely coordinate with different departments and other provincial safeguarding teams to strengthen safeguarding mechanism.
Assist head of safeguarding in conducting awareness raising within SCI and outside with multiple stakeholders. This also include awareness among children, adult beneficiaries, partners, and Suppliers/venders/contractors.
Conduct regular monitoring visits to project sites of SCI and partners, to ensure that SG due diligence is ensured while improving on accountability mechanisms on ground.
Update local SG reporting tracker regularly.
During field visits ensure that all child and adult safeguarding concerns are reported effectively in line with the policy.
High levels of professional safeguarding behaviour and maintain the standards required by the Safeguarding Policies and Code of Conduct.
Any other task Assigned by line manager.

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

Three years of experience in the area of Child protection/protection and familiar with Child and adult Safeguarding.
Experience doing project monitoring and investigation.
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 building personal network with safeguarding focal points of SCI and partners.
Experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops in safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g. field workers, community based staff, project staff).
Good verbal communication and report writing skills in English and Dari/Pashto languages.
Good presentation skills.
Demonstrable commitment to Children’s Rights.
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 experience, personal development and learning in the field of child care
Experience of working within challenging environments.

Experience of work related travel in challenging environments.

Skills Required

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.

Applicants can login to the online application system by copying and pasting the following link intro their web browser. Returning users will need to enter their username and password, first time users will need to create a user account.

https://stcuk.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2200076K&tz=GMT%2B04%3A30&tzname=Asia%2FKabul

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