SAFEGUARDING, SAFETY AND SECURITY COORDINATOR

Job Description

INTRODUCTION

Save the Children has been working in Rwanda since 1994 in partnership with the Government of Rwanda (GoR) and local stakeholders to promote a bright future for children. We have experience working in all 30 districts across the country. The main areas of focus are education, child protection, child rights governance, and health and nutrition in humanitarian and development contexts.

GENERAL BACKGROUND

Save the Children (SC) is the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision of a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children implements both development and humanitarian assistance programs in Rwanda and Burundi.

ROLE PURPOSE

The Safeguarding, Safety and Security coordinator will take a lead in driving our endeavours in this focussed area of work across the country office. The Coordinator will combine elements of capacity building and monitoring whilst enforcing compliance and accountability, management and investigation as well as aspects of advocacy at the National level. The post holder will also be expected to provide significant mentoring and capacity-building to Save the Children’s staff, volunteers, suppliers, consultants, associates and partners. The role holder will work in conjunction with the Country Senior Leadership Team and Safeguarding focal persons located across the Rwanda country office

The post- holder will be working closely with both Senior Lead, ESA Safety & Security and Manager, ESA Safety & Security in carrying out safety and security assessments; make recommendations and provide support for their implementation by Country Office. She/ He will facilitate the implementation of Save the Children’s Safety and Security Policy and Standards within country programs and help drive systemic change in the quality of safety and security management. Also, to contribute to building country compliance with safety and security Minimum Standards.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Child Safeguarding Leader and Champion across the country office

Work with programme development and programme operations teams to identify potential risks to children in all project’s activities including workshops and events, plan mitigating measures, and assign staff to be responsible for the implementation.Undertake clear, strong advocacy in line with the Safeguarding Policies at National levels. Deliver high quality, accessible and reliable support, guidance and capacity to emergency/humanitarian response and programmes team Establish Country safeguarding networks to champion local implementationWork with CP colleagues to ensure that a mapping of service providers for children is completed in Save the Children’s operational areas and local procedures are developed/up to dateCoach and support Field Focal Points in order to improve Safeguarding practice.

Safe programming and Safeguarding Practice promoted across the Country and sectors

Work with programme development team and other programme staff to ensure that all programming is designed, implemented and monitored through a Safeguarding lens, including supporting all new proposalsEnsure that support for safeguarding is adequately resourced in all new project budgetsSupport staff to take proactive steps to ensure that all programming activity identifies the potential risks and works to eliminate and mitigate those risks.Ensure that the tools and knowledge are made available to managers and that they know how to access support and guidanceRole model high levels of professional safeguarding behaviour and maintain the standards required by the Safeguarding Policies and Code of ConductDevelop capacity building plan for staff and partners and provide on-going mentoring and support

Capacity Building

Serve as safeguarding lead focal point for the field office and lead on establishment of strong safeguarding procedures and risk assessment in all programme activities in accordance with the national strategies developedBuild the capacity of Safeguarding Focal points to deliver safeguarding trainings, manage & undertake investigationBuild the capacity of Safeguarding focal persons especially in receiving and recording reportsStrengthen the capacity of Focal points in delivering safeguarding inductions With the support of the safety and Security RO, develop and deliver training modules specific to knowledge gaps within the CO Safety and Security team (SSFP) to improve safety and security capacity.Identify gaps within the Field Offices in security management and planning and help resource improvements.

Safeguarding Standards are applied throughout the country programme

Coordinate with the Senior Leadership Team and monitor the overall implementation of safeguarding policies in the coun…