Safeguarding Coordinator at VSO

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Safeguarding Coordinator

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Employer: VSO

Employment: Full-Time | Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa with frequent travel - Ethiopia

Salary: ETB 414,840 annual gross

Posted date: 2 years ago

Deadline: Submission date is over

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Role Title: Safeguarding Coordinator ? IPDHE (Integrated Peacebuilding, Development & Humanitarian Efforts Project)

VSO Team: IPDHE (Ethiopia)

Responsible to: Project Manager-IPDHE

Responsible for: N/A Work Location: Ethiopia and Kenya Cross-border preferred. Addis Ababa with frequent travel to Kenya/Ethiopia border region could be considered.

Job/Role Purpose: To provide technical guidance and operational and programme support to the project team, management and partners to ensure compliance with safeguarding policies in line with donor expectations and the VSO volunteering for development approach. To build understanding and capacity for safeguarding with partners, CSOs and networks.

Safeguarding level:

VSO has zero tolerance for abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people. We will expect all our employees/volunteers to commit to protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm and abide by our safeguarding policy.

Level 3:

This post will have supervisory responsibility for people who have direct unsupervised access to children or the post will have accountability at the organizational level to ensure safeguarding policy is in place and implemented at all levels. A criminal background check of the highest available level will be obtained for post holders at this level prior to their start date

Task Responsibilities

Technical support ? Programme

• Mapping and Capacity assessment of community-level structures and systems (e.g. DRR, Peace Committees)
• Develop and deliver safeguarding capacity building to community level CSOs as part of project implementation
• Accompany CSOs to strengthen their safeguarding policies and practices
• Link CSOs into existing crisis response and referral systems both within VSO and existing community referral systems

Technical support ? Operational

• Map local service provision and existing referral systems in the programme delivery area to access and/or mobilise should a crisis occur.
• Develop agreements with key local service providers
• Update the risk register and mitigation measures (including relocation protocols) with detailed information and review and update the risk register every 6 months
• Identifying additional PSS support to staff, volunteers and partners and referring within VSO
• Support project team to carry out mandatory due diligence assessments and provide partner support in building safeguarding capacities where necessary.
• Provide advice to the project team on national laws and regulations relating to safeguarding
• Collate, analyze and disseminate security & safeguarding information to project staff, and volunteers and ensure the information remains accurate and neutral.
• Ensure ongoing development and regular review of project safeguarding and security protocols.

Incident & Crisis Management Response

• Ensure timely escalation and management of, and learning from security and safeguarding incidents in line with VSO global policy & procedures
• Engage with existing local and national organisations/networks on case management

Data, analysis & reporting

• Ensure effective auditing, accountability and report handling procedures related to the safeguarding system are in place and applied.

Capacity building

• The project team at VSO and partner?s project teams are inducted and provided with ongoing accompaniment and training on safeguarding & security.

Fulfill other appropriate level responsibilities as defined by the line manager from time to time

Collaboration responsibilities (key teams/roles this role will be working with)

• IPDHE safeguarding coordinator ? based in Kenya to collaborate closely with regards to programme risks ensuring that safeguarding and security & safety are being worked on together.
• Liaison with relevant government, local government, police, military, and other key external stakeholders - to maximise regular and safe access to project locations
• Project partners? security and safeguarding focal persons ? to support the delivery of the capacity-building goals central to the IPDHE project
• Local and national security and safeguarding networks ? for both learning and VSO representation purposes

VSO Transforming Fragilities team ? for technical support on programming

• VSO Global Duty of Care team (Security, medical and safeguarding) ? for incident management and quality assurance

Competence required

Knowledge/qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience in child safeguarding, protection against sexual exploitation and abuse or other relevant specialism
• Undertaken safeguarding training

Experience:

• Significant experience managing safeguarding in the context of humanitarian, development and peacebuilding programmes in Ethiopia
• Experience in safeguarding incidences and responses at an organizational level
• Experience in strengthening local community capacity on referral systems and safeguarding
• Previous experience in high-volume casework management and confidential and sensitive support to GBV survivors and people affected by conflict
• Practical experience in designing and delivering training and ongoing capacity building in safeguarding and security
• Experience of working in a cross-cultural context is an advantage
• Experience of working with volunteers advantage support.

Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills with good command of spoken and written English. Oromia language is an advantage.
• Ability to handle highly confidential information with tact, discretion, and sensitivity.
• Ability to develop, manage and maintain efficient systems and work under pressure.
• Self-motivated, ability to use own initiative and flexibility.
• Able to travel across project implementation sites and spend time away from work- base location and home.?

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