Job Title: Regional Safeguarding Advisor – East Africa
Sector: Program Administration
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Nairobi, IHUB, Kenya
Job Description
Job Overview:
The Regional Safeguarding
Advisor is the focal point for staff and client facing aspects of safeguarding
in IRC’s East Africa Region.
Major Responsibilities:
Ensuring effective
implementation of safeguarding strategy in IRC’s East Africa offices:
- Lead
country level action planning to ensure progress on IRC’s safeguarding
strategy in the region
- In
close partnership with Leadership, Development, & Learning team and
HR, ensure that basic staff trainings about safeguarding are developed,
rolled out, and tracked within all IRC offices in the region
- Work
with Leadership, Development, & Learning team and Employee Relations
teams to develop a pipeline of new training on general SG prevention for
different audiences (Ex: Leaders, S&S, Suppliers, etc.).
- Support
VPRU-based Senior Safeguarding Advisor and local staff to ensure that the
site level service mappings are completed for all East Africa offices and
that contact details for the site level responder are accessible to all
staff and appropriately marketed
- Partner
with operational and programmatic departments in region to ensure SG
elements integrated into documents and processes (Ex: HR- recruitment
process; MEAL, GSC, etc)
- Ensure
that any “headquarters” offices located in the region have complete and
updated service referral mappings and have appointed and trained responders
- Ensure
excellence in knowledge management related to East Africa offices’
implementation of IRC’s safeguarding strategy
Supporting technical units
and program delivery teams to sustainably lead on program safeguarding by FY24:
- Support
and advise country teams in East Africa region on client engagement,
reporting, and awareness raising activities
- Support
and advise country teams in East Africa region on partner engagement to
ensure effective safeguarding policies practices are coordinated into
partner-led programming
- Support
country teams in East Africa region to mitigate safeguarding-related risks
in program design and delivery
- Support
country teams in East Africa region to deliver a survivor-centered
response for staff and clients who experience safeguarding violations
using established SOP and service referral pathways.
Contributing to
organization-wide safeguarding strategy management:
- Work
collaboratively with peers in the Safeguarding unit to update safeguarding
tools, communications tools, and templates
- Support
unit level planning, budgeting, communications, reporting
- Regularly
collect data from offices in region on progress against safeguarding
indicator
- Support
global projects where SG advocacy and content is crucial to success (Ex:
IRC Way; global GEDI projects; Culture & Values work; etc.)
- Partner
with colleagues in Awards Management Unit to ensure organizational
compliance with donor requirements
Governance of Safeguarding
as a Cross-Cutting Program:
- Participate
in quarterly Global Support Functions community of practice
- Convene
regional safeguarding strategy review meetings for region.
- Collect
data on work plan implementation and regular reporting metrics
- Support
collaborators to succeed by linking resources, problem solving, and
facilitating solutions.
- Convene
practical coordination meetings across regional and country level
collaborators vital to ensure coordinated progress of the safeguarding
strategy across offices
- Lead
inter-agency representation for the region
Education:
- Bachelor’s
degree in social work, protection, program management, adult education or
related field of study preferred.
Work Experience:
- Relevant
professional experience in humanitarian settings required; at lest 5 years
of experience strongly preferred.
Demonstrated Skills & Proficiencies
- Proven
expertise in cross-cutting program management
- Excellence
in training development, facilitation, and learning management
- Experience
in safeguarding in humanitarian settings
- Experience
in technical tools development, monitoring & evaluation.
- Positive
relationship building, tact, and networking skills; ability to optimally
build internal and external relationships.
- Fluent
in written and spoken English. Proficiency in Arabic or other regional
languages an asset.
- Proven
success working and communicating optimally in a multi-cultural
environment.
Working Environment:
- A
combination of standard office environment, remote work, and short term
visits to service delivery areas to perform the above outlined
responsibilities.
- Occasional
domestic (non-local) and international travel required; up to 30%.
- May
require occasional weekend and/or evening work.
How to Apply
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity: IRC is committed to
building a diverse organization and a climate of inclusivity. We strongly
encourage applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they can
contribute to this goal.