Safeguarding Coordinator

The Opportunity

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In Bhutan and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and future we share. Save the Children expects that anyone associated with it abides by its Safeguarding and other Zero Tolerance Policies. 

Reference Check will be done for all candidates- so the application to include reference details. The selected candidate needs to be ready to join within 24 hours of offer.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together, with our partners from civil society and government, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

he Safeguarding Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that safeguarding is fully integrated across all aspects of the emergency response. The role will provide technical guidance, monitoring, and capacity strengthening to ensure that children and communities participating in or affected by humanitarian programmes are protected from abuse, exploitation, neglect, harassment, and other forms of harm.

The position will ensure safeguarding policies, procedures, reporting mechanisms, and risk mitigation measures are effectively implemented across all emergency programmes, including relief distributions, Temporary Learning Centres (TLCs), Child-Friendly Spaces (CFSs), health and nutrition interventions, cash and food assistance, shelter programmes, community engagement activities, and partner-led interventions.

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Position reports to: Field Operations Lead

Technical Reporting: Safeguarding Manager 

Staff directly reporting to this post: None.

Staff indirectly reporting to this post: None. 

Scheme of Delegation: 

Close coordination with: 

Budget Responsibility: 

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

Implementation of Safeguarding policies and procedures:

• Ensure safeguarding policies, procedures and standards are applied throughout the field office.
• Ensure safeguarding mechanisms are in place at field office and are subject to continuous monitoring and review.
• Work collaboratively with other units to improve safeguarding risk management.
• Liaise with Safeguarding Manager in documenting and sharing lesson learnt process for safeguarding in humanitarian context and programs.
• Identify potential tools and approaches to develop a more effective way of working within the humanitarian context from safeguarding lens.
• Ensure safeguarding is prioritized in field level staff meeting and key programmatic discussions.

Capacity building and awareness

• Deliver training and capacity building sessions for staff and partners on safeguarding as required.
• Develop tailored safeguarding capacity building materials in coordination with Safeguarding Manager for the relevant departments at the field offices.
• Support Safeguarding Manager in efforts to improve awareness and engagement in developing safeguarding focused communication materials and strategies. 
• Promote awareness of safeguarding and reporting mechanisms during distributions and community outreach activities.

Safe Programming

• Ensure safeguarding risks are understood and effectively managed by programs, departments and units in the field office.
• Identify potential risks to children and adults we work with in all the project activities including, with program teams to plan mitigating measures.
• Ensure safeguarding approaches is mainstreamed through program planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Conduct regular safeguarding risk assessments across emergency response activities and operational sites.
• Ensure safeguarding mechanisms are in place at field offices and programme locations and are subject to continuous monitoring, review, and improvement.
• Ensure child and adult safeguarding considerations are integrated into all relief distributions and humanitarian assistance activities.
• Monitor distribution sites to ensure they are safe, accessible, inclusive, and free from exploitation, abuse, discrimination, and harassment.
• Conduct regular safeguarding monitoring visits to TLCs, CFSs, and other child-centred interventions.

Safer partnership

• Develop and implement plan to mainstream safeguarding standards with partner organizations in coordination with Safeguarding Manager, field operations head and partnership lead.
• Work closely with partner organizations to develop and implement safeguarding procedures and identify their needs to strengthen their system and mechanism.
• Deliver trainings on safeguarding for partner staff with a focus on safe programming and humanitarian context.

Safeguarding Reporting and Response

• Ensure timely reporting of cases to HR, SG & IT Director, Safeguarding Manager and on Datix.
• Support Safeguarding Manager in managing safeguarding and investigations, including follow up in recommendations execution.
• Ensure that safeguarding concerns are managed safely, effectively and confidentially to required standards. 
• Ensure complaints, concerns, and allegations arising from distribution activities are appropriately managed and referred.
• Coordinate with the Feedback Mechanism and Reporting (FRM) Officer for all activities related to safeguarding and safer programming. 

Counter Fraud and Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Take all necessary and appropriate steps to prevent abuse, exploitation, neglect, harm and modern slavery within their areas of responsibility, and in the way they conduct themselves, report and respond to all incidents and concerns whether online or in person, and comply with the Safeguarding Policy and Procedure.
• Take all necessary and appropriate steps to prevent fraud, bribery, and corruption within their areas of responsibility, report and respond to all incidents and concerns and comply with the Counter-Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Policy and Procedure. All types of fraud, bribery, and corruption must be prevented, including where it benefits the organisation (SCI).

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our 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
• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically.
• 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
• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks
• Honest, encourages openness and transparency

Ambition:

Collaboration:

Creativity:

Integrity:

QUALIFICATION:

• A minimum of 3 years’ (2 years for GSI) experience in safeguarding, child protection programming

  or related areas with the master’s degree in social science or relevant areas or 5 years ( 3 years for GSI group) of experience in safeguarding, child protection programming with bachelor’s degree in social science or relevant areas

  
  

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Strong technical expertise in food security, livelihoods, and market-based programming
• Experience coordinating with government authorities, humanitarian coordination mechanisms, and partner organizations.
• Strong experience in assessments, analysis, reporting, and information management.
• Knowledge of international child protection frameworks, safeguarding standards, and humanitarian principles.
• Ability to travel extensively to flood-affected and remote locations.
• Fluency in English and Nepali, both written and spoken
• Ability to collect and verify information under tight deadlines.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of SCI in particular, a good understanding of the SCI mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support
• Ability to establish good working relationships and positively contribute to a team

• Ability to work in a stressful and changing environment with limited resources

  
  

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.

Equal Opportunities:

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Safeguarding obligation:

We need to keep children, adult at risk and community safe. The position holder is responsible to ensure that The position holder conduct is in line with the SCI’s Safeguarding policies. Hence our selection process includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children, adult at risk and community from abuse, exploitation, and harassment.

Health and Safety:

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Counter Fraud

The role holder is required to take all necessary and appropriate steps to prevent fraud, bribery, and corruption within their areas of responsibility, report and respond to all incidents and concerns and comply with the Counter-Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Policy and Procedure. All types of fraud, bribery, and corruption must be prevented, including where it benefits the organisation (SCI).

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 workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 

Application Information

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. 

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.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

Reference Check will be done for all candidates- so the application to include reference details. The selected candidate needs to be ready to join within 24 hours of offer.