Safeguarding Manager (National Contract)

***Due to the urgency to fill this role, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Kindly note that the position will be filled before the vacancy announcement is closed; therefore, early applications are encouraged.***

The Opportunity

Save the Children is committed to strengthening our Safeguarding work in development & humanitarian settings - with robust mechanisms for prevention, awareness , disruption and response, offering support to survivors, promoting a child- safe , trusted and inclusive environment, and holding those responsible for abuse and harm to account. This includes ensuring that all individuals, adults, and children who have contact with our activities are protected, safeguarding risks identified and mitigated against to reduce the threat of all forms of harassment, abuse, and exploitation. This commitment is demonstrated by putting our safeguarding policies into practice across all of our recruitment, programming, communication, advocacy and campaign work and with our partners, volunteers, suppliers and contractors.

The overall aim of the Safeguarding Manager is to support the Senior Leadership team to strengthen safeguarding management systems across all functions and programs, and to promote a strong Safeguarding culture within the NWS Area Office.

The Safeguarding Manager will support the mainstreaming and strengthening of Save the Children's safeguarding (child &adult) mechanisms and approaches, including protection form Sexual, Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH). This will include providing technical support to supporting safer programming approaches from the design to close out of projects/interventions.

The post holder will lead on monitoring the application of Safeguarding policies, processes and practices, and working closely with five safeguarding officers in five different locatios and, working with colleagues across different functions he/she will contextualise, coordinate and support training and continuous learning sessions on Child and Adult Safeguarding, Safer Programming, reporting/response.

The safeguarding manager will oversee the safeguarding policy and quality standards implementation. S/he will be responsible to set up safeguarding systems across the NWS AO to ensure quality-safeguarding practices are delivered across all sectors. S/he will be responsible for ensuring a survivor and rights-based approach to Safeguarding is applied across the Area Office.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

Required
* 5+ years of experience of child and adult safeguarding, PSEAH, Survivor support, or experience in a similar field such as child/human trafficking, gender equality, social work-children's services/child protection, SGBV.
* Experience in managing and responding to Safeguarding reports, including serious incidents including, SEAH of children and adults;
* Experience of supporting victims and survivors and setting up referral pathways.
* Excellent communication skills with proven writing and numerical experience in writing/editing briefing documents, monitoring reports and investigation reports.
* Proven attention for detail.
* Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills in order to deal tactfully and sensitively with a wide range of people in a large organisation, very often at a distance.
* Good team member skills, including the ability to be part of and organise, support, co-ordinate and develop a small team of focal points;
* Experience in designing and delivering training or workshops to diverse stakeholders.
* Ability to manage stress be flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstance.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills and command of English and Arabic.
* Commitment to and understanding of child rights, as well as of Save the Children's aims, values and principles.
* Ability to take a proactive approach to problem solving, to recommend and implement continuous improvement initiatives.

Desirable
* Understanding of IASC principles relation to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, CHS Humanitarian Standards, the CHS PSEAH index and other related protocols and minimum requirements in relation to PSEAH and safeguarding.
* Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and/or Learning (MEAL) experience.
* Knowledge of Save the Children's key sectors
* Strong presentation skills.
* Knowledge of international humanitarian systems, institutions and donors.
* Language abilities in Turkish is an asset

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Safeguarding Culture & Leadership

* Ensure that Safeguarding (for Child Safeguarding , Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment , Code of Conduct) policies , processes , systems and practice are understood, applied and embedded across all of SC's operations and partners. This includes safer recruitment, safer partnerships and safer programming approaches.
* Provide quality and accessible advice, support and guidance to managers and staff across functions to integrate the core safeguarding operational activities into response strategies, design, planning, monitoring and delivery of programs.
* Drive the safeguarding priorities within the NWS AO and ensure integration within operational and project plans and implementation and monitoring of activities.
* Feed into the safeguarding plan for NWS AO and monitor progress against it.
* Provide regular reports to feed into the risk management and other relevant management systems and provide updates to the country level.
* Improve accountability to children and adults at risk by driving excellence in SCs development and humanitarian work, including Emergency Preparedness in NWS AO.
* Work collaboratively with and provide advice to teams across all sectors/department to ensure joint safeguarding risk analysis - including systematic use of safety audits - and robust risk management is applied by country and regional management , including the identification, monitoring and mitigation of inherent, environmental, physical and organisational risks, as well as emerging risks.
* Provide Capacity development plan to NWS safeguarding staff.
* Partner with the program quality and impact and operation teams to enhance safeguarding awareness, prevention with program participants and in communities where Save the Children and its partners operate and the MEAL team to establish and promote safe, inclusive and accessible accountability systems, including Community Feedback and Reporting Mechanisms (CFRM) and ways to involve people if affected populations in the design, implementation of our operations and decisions that impact in their lives.

Continuous Improvement & Learning

* Regularly consult women and children to understand their preferred methods of reporting risks and incidents and work with safeguarding colleagues to adapt existing reporting mechanisms to respond to their specific needs/preferences
* Ensure continuous awareness raising amongst programme participants, including children, about the Child Safeguarding Policy, PSEA, Code of Conduct, complaints mechanisms, etc.
* Ensure all incident data is sex-disaggregated and regularly analysed, to understand trends in reporting and who is included/excluded from using available reporting mechanisms
* Undertake and or support the development of local safeguarding procedures in line with mapping of local external environment (legislation, cultural considerations, survivor support services etc.) in line with global guidelines and international protocols and standards.
* Support the capturing and sharing of lessons learnt on safeguarding and share with relevant colleagues in country to strengthen prevention measures.
* Coordinate and distribute information and communications materials on child and adult safeguarding, including but not limited to PSEAH, and adapt materials to the local context based on gender, disability inclusive and child conflict sensitive consultations.
* Work on preventing SEAH and other Safeguarding risks through working with programme colleagues to empower women and girls.

Capacity Building

* Arrange for ongoing capacity building of staff, partners and volunteers in general safeguarding issues through sharing best practices, discussion of case studies, refresher sessions, etc.
* Ensure that all new recruits, including volunteers, have had a thorough Safeguarding induction; understand Safeguarding principles, risks, expected behaviour and how to report.
* Ensure that the operational sites integrate Safeguarding into all activities to prevent (or address) a situation where program participants, children and adults in the affected communities may be put at risk of exploitation, abuse, harassment and any other harm as a result of Save the Children's direct operations, though partners or other third party.
* Work with colleagues across functions to contextualise and deliver functional specific learning sessions e.g. Supply Chain, Construction, MEAL, Media and Communications, Education, Child Protection as well as those working with partners and volunteers.
* Support operations and programme teams to identify, mitigate and own the safeguarding risks associated with their areas of work.
* a commitment within the team to address gender and other inequalities and the root causes of sexual exploitation and abuse
* Coach and mentor a gender-balanced team of safeguarding focal points and other team members to be Safeguarding champions in [location]. Ensure they understand and have a commitment to address gender and other inequalities and the root causes of sexual exploitation and abuse
* Coach and build capacity of Safeguarding Focal Points to operationalise Save the Children's safeguarding framework across all contexts and Emergency Preparedness Planning (EPP). Socialise and apply the Safeguarding Humanitarian Procedure in relation to the emergency response.

Reporting & Response:
* Ensure all safeguarding concerns and suspicions are reported, responded to and acted upon within 24 hours of being received by Save the Children.
* Report into the internal case management system.
* Lead the Safeguarding investigations across the country.

Investigations & Case Management
* Support the development of victim/survivor support and response plan. This includes working with child protection, HR and other colleagues to establish referral systems for survivor available survivor support and services.
* Support the management, tracking, and updating of SG cases.
* Prepare lessons learned and bect pracrices from the investigated cases.

Collaboration & Networking

* Strengthen coordination with national, regional and international organisations and networks including but not limited to those providing survivor support services, involved in prevention of human trafficking, modern slavery and PSEAH.

* Support mitigation of potential reputational risk and escalate if safeguarding risks are not being managed or addressed.

Project & Proposal Development

* Provide technical support into project and proposal design.
* Ensure translations are resourced within response budget, produced and disseminated.

Other
* Any other tasks as requested by your Line Manager.
* Ad hoc requests as approved by your Line Manage
* Be prepared to varying day to day activities and work pattern/hours in humanitarian response situations.
* Position holder may be required to outside of normal duties and working hours during emergency responses.

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector at the pay-grade of the position, transportation allowance as per relevant internal policy and 20 days of annual leave per year.

Position holder will be based in Gaziantep, therefore legal right to work in Turkey is necessary at the time of applicaton.

The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
* No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
* All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
* Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Save the Children is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve children better. Therefore all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.

How to apply

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