Safeguarding Coordinator (National position)
Job Description
Title: Safeguarding Coordinator (National position)
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ A master's degree or equivalent experience in a field related to humanitarian assistance and international development, law, political Science, development studies, gender studies, social work etc.
Experience Requirements:
∎ 3 to 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: Based in Cox`s Bazar, Bangladesh (With frequent travel to field offices as required)
∎ Report To: Country Director
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2021 (With possible extension based on funding).
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Receive, report and support safeguarding incidents and concerns:
∎ Receive safeguarding concerns, assess the information to ascertain if immediate assistance is required.
∎ Report the incident to the GSO via the reporting mechanism.
∎ Carry out basic fact-finding/fact-checking with oversight from the Global Safeguarding Manager.
∎ Where appropriate provide support in partnership with the Safeguarding Team during investigations
∎ Map and establish relationships with local support services and agencies to facilitate the referral of incidents
∎ Keeping the Country Director and SMT aware on our progress against the Country Safeguarding Strategy and taking appropriate actions as necessary.
∎ Advocate for and raise awareness of safeguarding
∎ Raise awareness with clients of the behaviour they should expect from RI staff and partners and how and when to report concerns.
∎ Raise awareness of safeguarding with staff and partners ensuring they understand their role and responsibility in protecting clients;
∎ Facilitate basic safeguarding training with staff and partners
∎ Induct new staff ensuring they are socialized into the safeguarding policies and the safeguarding culture of the organization.
∎ Make use of the official Safeguarding Posters and other materials in all offices and programs
∎ Lead the wider implementation of safeguarding policies and procedures and facilitate the structural embedding of safeguarding across country operations:
∎ Make sure that the Safeguarding Programme is aligned with existing commitments and standards for safeguarding in the humanitarian and development sector and is anchored in the 'do no harm' principle.
∎ Complete an annual country risk profiling exercise - mapping internal and external safeguarding risks.
∎ Lead an annual safeguarding self-audit - assessing how near or far the operation is from fulfilling its safeguarding commitments.
∎ Populate an annual safeguarding action plan. Using the findings of the self-audit to inform the actions to work towards in the following 12 months.
∎ Learning & Development
∎ Assist in planning and delivering the safeguarding L&D interventions in collaboration with Human Resources department
∎ Cooperate with the Program Managers to implement capacity building of the program staffs on safeguarding initiatives and motivate staff.
∎ Works closely with each strategic lead and associated stakeholders to provide support and progresses the project plan;
∎ Participates in external safeguarding networks to access resources and share best practice; i.e. Interaction PSEA group as the PSEA focal, Bond Safeguarding group, INGO Safeguarding Leads, Peer Safeguarding INGO group; and
∎ Monitors, communicates, and reports on overall progress of the programme from safeguarding point of view and ensuring key stakeholders and senior leaders stay updated and informed.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Knowledge on current legislation, statutory and other guidance with regards to safeguarding, child and adult protection,
∎ 3-5 years' experience in protection and safeguarding program design and implementation in fragile context settings
∎ Proven experience responding to and managing sensitive protection / safeguarding matters in a confidential manner
∎ Experience developing protection and safeguarding resource materials, including guidance, tools, and best practices
∎ Experience in providing training to staff on protection and safeguarding
∎ Sound knowledge and understanding of organizational Code of Conduct, Child Protection Policy and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) policy
∎ Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
∎ Excellent knowledge on gender and diversity
∎ Fluent spoken and written Bengali and English.
∎ A team builder with excellent people skills; culturally sensitive and has the ability and interest to identify and work with a multicultural team.
Application Deadline: 20 Dec 2020
Company Information:
∎ 2 Dec 2020
∎ Relief International
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.
Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.
Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 20th Dec 2020
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