Job Detail

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Identify potential risks to children in all the project activities and report them to Provincial Manager and Sr. CSG officer.
• Closely coordinate with provincial CSG focal point, to improve CSG practices.
• Support Sr. CSG officer in delivering mandatory and refresher training on CSG, anti-harassment, Bullying and code of conduct.
• Conduct regular visits to project sites of SCI and partners, to ensure that CSG reporting system is working and beneficiaries know how to report CSG cases.
• Conduct Safeguarding orientation to new hired staff.
• Raise awareness on safeguarding.
• Strength safeguarding reporting mechanism.
• Update local CSG reporting tracker regularly.
• During field visits ensure that all child safeguarding concerns are reported effectively in line with the policy.
• High levels of professional safeguarding behaviour and maintain the standards required by the Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS

•  Bachelor’s degree in social science or any other related field.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Two years of experience in the area of Child protection and familiar with Child Safeguarding.
• Experience doing project monitoring and investigation.
• Multi-disciplinary experience of working successfully with senior CSG Officer to deliver major operational change with a track record of delivering results to high standards.
• Experience of building personal network with CSG focal points of SCI and partners.
• Experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops in safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g. field workers, community based staff, project staff).
• Good verbal communication and report writing skills in English and Dari/Pashto languages.
• Good presentation skills.
• Demonstrable commitment to Children’s Rights.
• Ability to deliver results against demanding timetables and in the face of competing demands.
• Ability to travel and work within challenging environments.
• Awareness of own strengths and weaknesses and evidence of commitment to self-managed personal development.

Desirable

• Evidence of experience,  personal development and learning in the field of child care
• Experience of working within challenging environments.
• Experience of work related travel in challenging environments.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.