Save the Children Safeguarding Coordinator Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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Save the Children Safeguarding Coordinator Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

Save the Children Ethiopia looking for “Safeguarding Coordinator”.

Applicants with a Bachelor’s Degree may apply on or before 26th February, 2024.

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international, non-government operated organization. It was founded in the UK in 1919, with the goal of helping improve the lives of children worldwide. The organization helps to raise money to improve children’s lives by creating better educational opportunities, better health care, and improved economic opportunities.

The Save the Children has published a job vacancy announcement on 21st February, 2024 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Safeguarding Coordinator to be based in Mekele, Axum, Ethiopia.

Save the Children Job Vacancy 2024

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Safeguarding:

Organizing and facilitate safeguarding (Child, Adult and Harassment) awareness for functions, project staff, partners, volunteers, project participants and other representatives (consultants, construction team, rental derivers, venders) for both humanitarian response and development programs.
Facilitate/ coordinate safeguarding induction for new joiners with significant focus of humanitarian response team and conduct ongoing refreshment training for staff, partner’s focal points on child safeguarding and PSEA.
Ensure all projects are risk assessed, develop mitigation strategies, and recorded, monitor, and update the tracker on regular basis in collaboration with program managers and focal points at field level.
Identify project level contact person for project participants and ensure local safeguarding reporting procedure is updated and displayed in project implementation areas.
Ensure safeguarding concept and reporting procedure is well understood by project participants, staff, volunteers, partners, and representatives and ensure safeguarding messages are displayed in local language at project level.
Conduct periodical assessment/survey on understanding and practice of safeguarding by project participants, staff, volunteers, partners and representatives and the effectiveness of existing reporting procedures.
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 project participants on safe programing and effective reporting procedure in collaboration with MEAL colleagues.
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, make sure the procedures are followed in collaboration with event organizer.
Compile and submit monthly report and plan on safeguarding activities to safeguarding manager at country office.
Support local partners on training, risk assessment and other technical support as identified by the partner assessment, COSA.
Facilitate IEC materials translation into local languages, printing, editing and disseminate messages for various groups and monitor the understanding.
Facilitate the AO self-assessment process and follow the update status from all AO functional leads.
Mapping of service providers at project areas to ensure reported cases are referred to relevant stakeholders and update periodically as relevant.
Participate on the kickoff meetings, other relevant workshops/trainings facilitated at field office and represent safeguarding appropriately this include regional PSEA network as available.
Participate in proposal development on safeguarding aspects whenever demands.
Organize learning forum based on the identified risks, challenges, and best practices.
Attend in house safeguarding and other relevant online and face to face trainings, webinars, meetings, workshop and put other relevant training/mentoring/couching demand on development plan as appropriate.
Take additional assignment when the demand arises by supervisor including external representation.
Other assignment provided by line managers.

Position in Organization:

Position Name: Safeguarding Coordinator
Job Identification: 5675
Job Category: Child Safeguarding
Posting Date: 21/02/2024, 11:45
Apply Before: 26/02/2024, 11:45
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations: FO – Mekele, FO – Axum

Minimum Requirements:

Educational Qualification and Experience:

Minimum of Bachelor Degree in social sciences and three years proven experience on child protection, education, social work. child safeguarding, gender and other related field.
Experience on facilitation and coordination of training and workshops
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

Language Requirements: