Emergency Response Roster - Safeguarding Advisor

About the role

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type: International Assignment - Fixed Term (Fixed Term). Country location to be determined based on response. Please submit your Cover Letter and CV in English.

Responsibilities

• Develop and monitor safeguarding action and risk management plan – collaborate with Management and key functions to develop and monitor Safeguarding Action Plan for the Response, prioritizing adoption, contextualisation and implementation of WV’s Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy; lead staff in conducting a Safeguarding Risk Assessment and creating a risk management plan, documenting safeguarding risk in Response Risk Register; document Leadership decisions and rationale related to safeguarding risk management, ensuring Response Risk Register is updated; update Safeguarding Action Plan incrementally (depending upon Response Phase) to ensure it appropriately reflects and links to safeguarding risk management plan.
• Support Leadership to establish a safeguarding culture – provide Response Leadership with key messages and resources to build a healthy culture of safeguarding; develop and document a plan with Response Leadership that articulates specific actions the Response Director, SMT and other Managers will take to create and nurture a safeguarding culture, incorporate into Safeguarding Action Plan; brief and advise Response Director and SMT on Safeguarding Risk on an incremental basis, highlighting key issues for decision‑making.
• Establish a functioning safeguarding training and capacity building system – contextualise safeguarding and PSEA orientation and training materials for staff, interns, volunteers, contractors and visitors and socialise with relevant department heads; conduct or coordinate safeguarding training with all staff on a quarterly basis (in‑person, skills‑based training preferred); assess safeguarding capacity of staff and affiliates and coordinate function‑specific safeguarding capacity building; develop and oversee implementation of a needs‑based, function‑specific