Job Title: Safeguarding Manager
Location: Hasakeh-NES
The Opportunity:
Support Area Director and NES Management Team in ensuring minimum standards of Safeguarding are met and mitigated.
- Respond 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, analyse and act to mitigate key safeguarding risks to children and adults at risk in our programmes and programme areas, identifying groups who may be at higher risk (e.g. adolescent girls, people with disabilities , children without appropriate care, children on the move).
- Identify and ensure integration with other programme sectors, ensuring that Safeguarding issues are raised and addressed in real-time – e.g. in the Mobile Health Unit, CFS’s and Adolescent Friendly Spaces, and schools, cash and voucher programming, suppliers, construction etc.
- Provide the emergency response team child-friendly and inclusive information to children and families at programme sites around humanitarian principles, their rights, unacceptable behaviour, ways to report concerns.
- Provide expertise to funding proposals, ensuring that proposals include an amount for effective safeguarding (e.g. cost of printed materials, set up of community feedback and reporting mechanisms, community engagement, investigations and survivor care and after-support, and that they adhere to the organization commitment to Safer Programming
- Lead development/review of COSA (core operational safeguarding assessment) and implementation of COSA action-plan for NES.
- Deliver / ensuring Safeguarding training to emergency response team members who have not recently received it.
- Deliver/ ensure Safeguarding training along with SFPs 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 and cooks, community workers and volunteers
- Work closely with MEAL to develop (or strengthen) adequate reporting mechanisms
- Participate in relevant coordination mechanisms, including Clusters and PSEA networks and support the coordination of Safeguarding activities
- Support the CP and GBV colleagues to set-up referral mechanisms that work for both CP and Safeguarding concerns. This will include mapping out and accessing quality of existing services
- Ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with the global Safeguarding team on a regular basis
- Ensure key safeguarding risks are recorded (without confidential data) on the regular situation reports the organization PROGRAMME ROLE PROFILE
- Provide expertise to local focal points to develop a fully costed emergency response Safeguarding action plan and merge with the CO Safeguarding annual action plan.
- Elaborate Safeguarding report for emergency with key actions and validate with Area Director, RSGD and provide brief safeguarding update for the country/regional update calls and member calls
- Supervise Safeguarding team in NES; ensure each team member works with clear deliverables, receives clear guidance and support to be successful in their role, promote individual development and growth while ensure performance issues are addressed immediately.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
Essential:
- 5 years’ experience of safeguarding in emergency, fragile state or development contexts, including experience of case management and investigations, experience in Middle East conflict contexts is a plus. · Excellent knowledge of Safeguarding policies and practice
- Safety & Security Training for Insecure contexts or recognised equivalent
- Strong safeguarding practitioner who can transfer skills to others
- Good team member skills, including the ability to be part of and organise, support, manage and develop a small team;
- 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 practice;
- Good understanding and experience of supporting child and adult survivors and putting mechanisms in place ensure they access the relevant support available locally and are listen too.
- Experience of working with partners and of using a participatory approach as well as of coordinating responses with a range of actors, including Government authorities, national/local organisations, NGOs, UN;
- Ability to achieve results and maintain consistent high standards of professional behaviour and achievement, including when working alone;
- Ability to manage stress, be flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstance;
- Fluency in written and spoken English; the organization INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ROLE PROFILE
- Commitment to and understanding of child rights, as well as the organization aims, values and principles.
Desirable :
- Fluency in the Arabic.
- 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; ISAC PSEA Principles ; and others
- Budget development and financial monitoring skills;
- HEAT training
Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.
We follow an extensive background and reference checks for candidates, so we request you to provide accurate information in your CV (i.e. specific dates for your experience and academic certificates etc.). Any discrepancies in information provided in your CV and application will lead to cancelation of your candidacy at any stage of the process even after employment.
Please mention your English and Computer skills clearly in your application
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
INGO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
The application period closes on 19/10/2023
Applicants may submit their CVs with their cover letter, Academic certificates and training certificates address; telephone number and contact information through the below link: