Country Office Safeguarding Advisor
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Save the Children
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 21/07/2025
- Location: Palestine
ROLE PURPOSE:
Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all individuals, adults and children, have contact with our organization are protected to the maximum possible extent from all forms of harassment, abuse, and exploitation. This commitment is demonstrated by our extensive Safeguarding Policies. Our approach to safeguarding (SG) applies equally to all individuals irrespective of their gender, disability, ethnicity, sexuality, marital status, or religion.
The Country Safeguarding Advisor leads the Country Office safeguarding efforts to implement safe programs and deliver safe services. The post holder will be responsible for embedding safeguarding practices in all areas of Country Office operations and among relevant stakeholders by providing technical guidance, capacity building, and mentoring to staff and partners. This will support the Country Office’s goal of ensuring our programs are designed and implemented with attention to all aspects of safeguarding, including child safeguarding and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).
There is a close working relationship with all units across the Country Office including the Country Program Operations, Monitoring/Evaluation/Accountability/Learning (MEAL), Partnerships, Awards, Human Resources, and Safety and Security.
The Safeguarding Advisor will support the safeguarding investigation process and assist with safeguarding case management using the SCI case management system (DATIX). The Safeguarding Advisor will also have a key role in partner networking.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in development related field, gender studies, or in an unrelated field with three to five years of related experience.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
- +5 years of experience in programming related to Safeguarding (SG)
- Experience in training delivery and staff coaching.
- Excellent verbal communication, report writing and presentation skills in English and Arabic language.
- Successful experience including working across your own organization or with a partner organization to deliver major operational change and delivering results to high standards.
- Experience of building personal internal and external networks;
- Ability to take complex concepts and present them in a simple and easy to understand format.
- An understanding of how to communicate at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to propose a culture of compliance and support adherence to policies and practices among a range of programs/functional units and among staff at all levels; and
- Commitment to Save the Children values.
Desirable
- Experience within an INGO or similar other organization working with vulnerable communities and children or with similar experience within Save the Children.
- Experience of working within challenging environments.
- Willingness to travel to challenging environments.
- Experience on humanitarian response programs; and
- Experience with incident management software and/or databases.
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