Process title: Safeguarding manager
Hiring organisation: HIAS Kenya
Place – Locality: Nairobi
Region – region: Kenya
Industry: Non income
Process kind: full Time
Income: KES
Date published: 09/10/2024
Role precis:
HIAS seeks an experienced Safeguarding manager, Africa/Eurasia to help the implementation of its safeguarding policies and procedures inside the region. Safeguarding at HIAS is our commitment to make sure that all our programs and operations are loose from any shape of exploitation, abuse or harm.
HIAS’ safeguarding framework consists of the prevention of all types of abuse, overlook and exploitation and response to any incidents/allegations such as physical, sexual, emotional or monetary abuse or exploitation of contributors with the aid of personnel participants or associated personnel. HIAS’ safeguarding rules include safety from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Safeguarding of children, Anti-Human Trafficking and portions of the HIAS Code of conduct.
The Safeguarding manager, Africa/Eurasia will file to the Director, Safeguarding and paintings in close coordination with the consultant local team and us of a groups inside the region. The candidate can be accountable for making sure the regular implementation of HIAS’ safeguarding regulations domestically. The candidate will collaborate and consult with us of a workplaces to increase, preserve and improve processes to discover safeguarding dangers, engage in prevention structures and methods and respond to safeguarding worries in a survivor-targeted way.
This position is cross-functional and could paintings carefully with programmatic, technical and operational staff in-u . S . A . And domestically, in addition to coordinate with HQ-primarily based colleagues to make certain that safeguarding is mainstreamed in the vicinity.
Be aware, this position is based in Kenya, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Romania, Greece, Austria, Croatia or Israel. The earnings variety for this function displays the labor markets in nations of residence.
Important amusing
Schooling & awareness raising Creates, adapts and provides schooling content for in-person, digital and asynchronous gaining knowledge of opportunities for united states places of work; topics will encompass safeguarding guidelines and implementation to boom staff and related employees’s expertise and abilities in preventing abuse, identifying issues, reporting and safeguarding incident reaction and follow-up.
Identifies and trains safeguarding focal points in-u . S . A .; allows Focal factor community of exercise; keeps go-local connections among focal points; acts as a aid for focal factors on all areas of safeguarding prevention and response.
Coordinates and collaborates with other purposeful regions to help their responsibilities for required safeguarding schooling, information collection and statistics storage consisting of onboarding and annual education of completion duties for staff, related personnel, volunteers and contractors/specialists.
Consults with usa offices for effective schooling and attention elevating materials for partners, members and host communities. Plays other obligations as assigned.
Approaches & tools
Designs gear for the implementation of safeguarding strategies and motion plans in us of a places of work. Conducts safeguarding assessments and monitoring visits to evaluate the current country of safeguarding policy implementation in u . S . A . Offices and engage places of work in any recognized development efforts.
Collaborates with AAP colleagues to make sure safeguarding components are blanketed in complaints & remarks Mechanisms (CFMs), and any safeguarding worries recognized as part of the remarks process are addressed confidentially and escalated to the proper safeguarding reporting mechanisms.
Supports Human resources groups to make certain more secure recruitment practices are implemented continuously inside the hiring of personnel and contractors and recruitment of volunteers.
Collaborates with strategy & control colleagues to develop and use checks that compare safeguarding effectiveness.
Consults with Communications teams to ensure safeguarding is accounted for in all inner and external communications approaches.
Works with worldwide Safeguarding group to revise and replace safeguarding rules in keeping with mounted evaluate requirements.
Helps of completion of outside checks, validations or certification procedures when asked. Performs different duties as assigned.
Application help
Works with groups all through the location to ensure that safeguarding prevention and reaction measures are mainstreamed in the course of applications and operations.
Works with application groups to make certain that safeguarding dangers are diagnosed and mitigation measures are incorporated inside the lifecycle of applications, consisting of the layout, execution and revision of programs.
Assists and advises program colleagues to assess partners’ safeguarding capacity and paintings with partners to increase at the same time acceptable potential-constructing plans. Helps u . S . A . Workplaces to create safeguarding movement plans in alignment with nearby or international techniques. Plays other obligations as assigned.
Donor Engagement
Helps development of funding proposals; integrates safeguarding issues as suitable into suggestion narratives and finances; running with united states of america places of work to discover safeguarding dangers and record mitigation plans in alignment with donor necessities; completes vital assessment documentation with united states management, presents necessary policy documentation or supports improvement of country education plans as required. Completes studies and disseminates statistics to guide better information of donor expectation and necessities.
Networks with donors and advocates for consistency in safeguarding practices, tactics or reporting as had to boost safeguarding within the area. Engages with donors on obligatory safeguarding reporting necessities; helps united states places of work to finish periodic updates. Plays other obligations as assigned.
Assist To leadership
Serves as in-depth technical professional for protecting in vicinity to aid strategic choice making. Proactively engages and maintains relationships with local leadership to help a regional safeguarding subculture and ensure alignment among HQ and location.
Supports Director, Safeguarding to offer updates, tests and reviews on the progress of safeguarding to international leadership. Performs different duties as assigned.
Incident Reporting & follow-Up
Acts as a reporting channel for safeguarding associated incidents or concerns, and guarantees incidents are as it should be documented in HIAS’ reporting platform for observe-up and research.
Helps us of a places of work in expertise of reporting and investigations processes and protocols. Engages in research-related sports as asked by office of preferred recommend or Director, Safeguarding. Helps united states of america workplaces in identifying and making provisions for survivors’ protection, security and well-being, inclusive of referrals to aid services and methods to suitable engages stakeholders the usage of a survivor-centered approach. Performs other responsibilities as assigned.
Engagement
Participates in and represents HIAS at relevant area organizations and coordination mechanisms, sharing observations and pointers to boost go-region learning, and reporting records returned to HIAS as relevant. Maintains information of sector advances and excellent practices, attending gaining knowledge of activities, reviewing research and studying publications in addition to promising practices shared by using other organizations. Plays different duties as assigned.
Qualifications & necessities:
Undergraduate diploma in Gender, Social Sciences, global relations or some other associated field required; graduate diploma strongly favored. Four-6 years of relevant paintings revel in with progressive duties in global or pass-local contexts. Minimal of two years of applicable area-based enjoy in PSEA/safeguarding, Gender-based Violence (GBV), toddler protection, human trafficking and/or protection mainstreaming in humanitarian reaction contexts.
French and English fluency are each required; running knowledge of Arabic preferred. Validated knowledge of technical ideas, standards and international standards in Safeguarding/PSEA, GBV, toddler protection, anti-human trafficking and/or safety. Travel, to encompass travel to insecure running environments, may be required.