NATIONAL CHILD SAFEGUARDING ADVISOR

Mission of the position:

Under the leadership of the National Programme Development Director (NPDM), the National Child Safeguarding Program Advisor drives programme development in the field of Child Safeguarding in line with the “Vision, Mission, Values”, the Brand and approved strategies, policies and plans of the organisation and national legislation.  As a member of the national programme development department, she/he contributes to setting and reaching the strategic objectives and targets of the MA in the area of child safeguarding mapping, child safeguarding risk assessment, capacity building, and monitors and evaluates progress towards achieving set targets. She/he provides technical expertise and content-wise leads SOS Children’s Village Programme unit managers/leaders in a location in planning, implementing and monitoring of programme interventions in the area of child safeguarding.

Main clients:

• Family Strengthening coordinators and staff
• CV Directors and staff
• National Programme Development Director
• IOR CS content leader and advisors

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

• Conduct child safeguarding risk assessment to identify CS risks, design and implement mitigation measures
• Assess care quality to identify areas for quality improvement to lower CS risks
• Conduct child safeguarding and care quality audits
• Contribute to development of global training materials and adapt for regional usage, including development of regional training modules
• Child Safeguarding (CS)
• Organise diverse trainings for the staff in accordance with their specific roles and responsibilities
• Responsible to raise awareness of the SOS Child Protection Policy principles and to protect children from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
• Supports NPDM, Programme units’ managers in organising relevant preventive actions addressing existing and possible CS risks as identified by the CS risk assessment.
• Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the national CS focal person or any other member of the national CS team and/or to respective line manager.