CHILD SAFEGUARDING INCIDENT MANAGEMENT ADVISOR At SOS Children’s Villages International

SOS Children’s Villages International is the umbrella organisation for the global federation of SOS Children’s Villages. As a non-governmental social development organisation, we support children without parental care and families in difficult living conditions through services in care, education, health and emergency relief, and we advocate for the rights of children and young people, in alliance with a great diversity of partners. We work in 135 countries and territories, reaching over one million children, young people, families and caregivers each year. To support us with this important responsibility we are now looking for a committed:

Location: Dakar ou Casablanca ou Lomé

Tasks and Responsibilities

Under the Regional Child protection Team Leader, the CHILD SAFEGUARDING INCIDENT MANAGEMENT ADVISOR is responsible for The mission of the Child Safeguarding Incident Management Advisor to be a ‘resource hub’ for the functions, the national associations and PSAs in the WCNA region in their efforts to manage the CS incidents and in the implementation of the SOS Child Protection Policy within the programmes of the National Associations.

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

· Facilitate the documentation of all child safeguarding incidents using the CS (child safeguarding) management tools including the CS full assessment.

· Coordinate the CS investigations involving GSC/Regional Office: draft the TOR of the CS investigation, identify the CS investigators and follow up their activities on the field, etc.

· Write the action plan related to the recommendations of the CS investigation commissioned by the regional office in close collaboration with the concerned national associations.

· Facilitate communication on the safeguarding incidents among the PSAs, the national associations and the regional office.

· Participate in all the meetings related to the CS incident management involving the regional office.

· Write and update the CS incident paper in close collaboration with the concerned national associations.

· Share the requested information to the PSAs including some key reports and documents including regular calls.

· Coordinate the CS risk assessment from the regional office.

· Design tools to follow up on the action points arising from the recommendations of the investigations and facilitate their implementation.

· Document and share the lessons learnt and good practice from CS incident management.

· Maintain the regional child safeguarding incident register.

· Conduct child safeguarding audits in all Member Associations in the respective region.

· Provide technical support to national associations in the exercise of child safeguarding mapping.

· Ensure support to member associations on implementation of the Child Protection Policy and related child safeguarding policy support documents and in co-operation with national child safeguarding focal persons monitors the implementation process and the organisations compliance to International Child Safeguarding Standards

· Provide technical guidance and support to MAs (Member’s Associations) teams and monitors the MAs’ work in the area of child safeguarding based on the minimum requirements of the policy support document on child safeguarding reporting and responding procedures in member associations and the policy support document on child safeguarding investigations.

· Ensure implementation of the policy support document “Working together to protect children. Roles and responsibilities of the GSC in the reporting and responding process”, supports and monitors the IOR’s work in the area of child safeguarding based on the minimum requirements of the policy support document

· Identify promising practices as well as key challenges in relation to child protection and child safeguarding in the WCNA region.

· Facilitate MA to MA and external knowledge sharing on child safeguarding with a strong focus on prevention and capacity building

· Ensure coordination of all child safeguarding activities through active participation in coordination meetings and working groups

· Contribute to the all CS reports.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

· Master Degree in law, social work, psychology, sociology, child protection, or related field

or equivalent experience.

· Strong French and English communication and writing skills are essential.

· 5-10 years of experience in child Safeguarding incident management including CS tools.

· Experience in direct implementation of CP programming with children, adolescents/youth and/or

caregivers or relevant experience.

· Experience providing technical support and Child Safeguarding incident management.

· Experience dealing with sensitive matters – highly confidential and discrete – and ability to

build/maintain trust.

· Experienced trainer, facilitator and mediator.

· Must have a high level of resilience with the ability to be impartial and remain calm under difficult

circumstances.

· Must be able to impartial in the most challenging situations.

· Demonstrated knowledge in child safeguarding incident crisis.

· Experience working in West, central and North Africa.

· Previous experience with child rights programming is an asset.

· Adhere to Child Safeguarding policies & procedures;

· Computer literacy including Internet, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Access)

Desirable Qualifications:

· Experience in Child Protection, Community Empowerment and/or Gender Equality.

· Experience in remote team management, including support and training from a distance

We offer

· Diverse, creative and challenging opportunities in an international working environment

· Possibility to make significant contribution towards the development of Member Associations in the Region

· Competitive compensation package and excellent development opportunities In accordance with the organisation’s child protection policy, all employment is subject to applicable background checks, including criminal record checks

What We Stand For:

SOS Children’s Villages is committed to creating and maintaining a caring and protective environment, which promotes its core values, and prevents and addresses child abuse and exploitation. We strongly condemn all forms of child abuse and exploitation, be it within or outside of our organization, and always respond to any case of proven, alleged or attempted abuse within our sphere of influence according to its nature. Eff orts ensure that mechanisms are in place to raise awareness, aid prevention, encourage reporting and ease response. They range from human resource development actions such as training and counselling to measures such as suspension, dismissal, and legal action