Roving Safeguarding Officer – Save the Children
Social Sciences and Community
Save the Children
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In Ethiopia and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Save the Children Ethiopia works in 9 regions in Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 2,500 staff. The size of the programme and the amount of human, financial and material resources put into it as well as the requirements of different donors requires substantial amount of quality and efficient human resource. This makes Save the Children an exciting place to work.
Accordingly, Save the Children Ethiopia is looking to hire creative individuals who have the experience and competencies to work; support the development of an organisational culture that reflects dual mandate values; help establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with host government authorities, partner agencies including humanitarian and development donors, and local and international NGOs; ensure Ethiopia Country Office complies with all Save the Children Management Operating Standards and Standard Operating Procedures and that all required support is provided promptly, at scale and in line with the rules and principles.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
- Organizing and facilitate child safeguarding and PSEA awareness for volunteers, beneficiaries and other representatives for humanitarian response and development programs
- Identify high risk programs, conduct risk assessment, identified mitigation strategies and recorded, monitor and update the status on the identified risk in collaboration with program managers and focal points at field level
- Establish child friendly compliant and feedback mechanism in collaboration with MEAL
- Develop bi-annual learning based on the identified risks and challenges
- Ensure child safeguarding and PSEA messages are displayed in local language at project level
- Identify project level contact person for beneficiaries and ensure local child safeguarding reporting procedure is updated and displayed in project implementation areas
- 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 beneficiaries on safe programing and reporting
- 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 and make sure the procedures are followed
- Compile and submit monthly report on safeguarding activities to safeguarding collogues at country office.
- Support local partners on training, risk assessment and other technical support as identified by the partner
- Participate in PSEA network meetings at the response areas as applicable
- Provide orientation for water track drivers, rental drivers, construction workers and consultants
- Facilitate translation of materials, editing and disseminate messages for various groups and monitor the understanding
- Mapping of service providers at project areas to ensure reported cases are referred to relevant stakeholders
- Participate on the kick off meetings conducted at field level
- Take additional assignment when the demand supervisor including external representation
- Lead incentive staff induction, and mange IWs file documentation and payroll update.
- Provides Safeguarding information for management and staff based on data analysis and interpretations.
- In consultation with Child Protection department and other IPs, and provide the referral pathway, direction and guidance to survivors and/or witnesses of CSG issues and GBV by outlining the types of abuses, neglect, and exploitation reported by CSG focal persons in each camp
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of Bachelor Degree in social sciences and three years proven experience on child protection, social work. child safeguarding and other related fields.
- Experience on facilitation and coordination of training and workshop 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.
Desirable
- Experience on child safeguarding and PSEA
- Experience on humanitarian response programs
- Skill on illustration design and publication