Regional Child Safeguarding Advisor CEE/CIS/Middle East (f/m) 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 more than 130 countries and territories, reaching over one million children, young people, families and caregivers each year.

To support the International Office Region CEE/CIS/Middle East with this important responsibility we are now looking for a committed:

Regional Child Safeguarding Advisor CEE/CIS/Middle East (f/m)

Location: Amman, Jordan

Mission of the position:

The purpose of the position is to drive the area of Child Safeguarding (CS) in ME MAs. Support and monitor MAs in the implementation of the organizational standards, policy support documents and actions in the area of CS in in line with SOS Children’s Villages vision, mission and values; federation strategy; SOS Care Promise priorities and related strategic federation projects. Lead and/or coordinate regional projects in this area with a focus on ME MAs.

IOR CS Advisor provides capacity building and leads a network of national CS advisors and focal points in Middle East MAs, as well as a pool of Arabic speaking CS investigators.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Lead and steer implementation of CS:

• Ensure support to member associations on implementation of the Child Protection Policy and related child safeguarding policy support documents and in cooperation with national child safeguarding focal persons monitor the implementation and compliance to International Child Safeguarding Standards
• Provide technical guidance and capacity building to MA teams and monitors the MA’s work in the area of CS based on the minimum requirements of the policy support document on the CS investigation
• Identify promising practices as well as key challenges in relation to Child Safeguarding Middle east Member associations
• In coordination with the main clients, develop and facilitate training materials in line with the child safeguarding policy for ME MAs and regional office

Monitoring and evaluation:

• Conduct Child Safeguarding audits in Ms
• Monitor the implementation of the CS project within MAs and advise on the implementation whenever needed

Human Resources:

• Contribute to the recruitment process for national CS teams and some CS regional positions as needed

Incident management:

• Technically support MEMAs in incident management process
• Technically support MA led investigations

CS responsibility:

• Responsible within own area of work to raise awareness of the SOS Child Protection Policy principles and to prevent and protect children from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
• Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the IOR CS focal person and/or to the respective line manager

Knowledge management:

• Disseminate new policies and materials as they become available.
• Facilitate internal and external knowledge sharing on Child Safeguarding with a strong focus on prevention and capacity building
• Liaise with CS/ Safeguarding advisors/ focal points from other NGOs and UN agencies and contribute to Safeguarding Network whenever available

Requirements

• Higher university degree education in social sciences, social pedagogy, social work, psychology or law
• At least 5 years of work experience in the field of alternative child care, prevention of separation, child protection, and child safeguarding
• Knowledge of child safeguarding standards and procedures
• Experience in the management of safeguarding incidents and investigations
• Strong experience in programme planning, monitoring and evaluation
• Experience in organizing and holding workshops, meetings and trainings
• Good understanding of the Middle East context
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Readiness to travel at least 30% of working time
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation and interpersonal skills
• Positive mindset, motivate and guide people by role-modelling
• A strong team-player work ethic

We offer

• Working for a meaningful cause
• A diverse range of interesting tasks in a leading INGO with multicultural working environment
• Opportunities for learning and development
• Caring and safe working environment
• A salary that will be commensurate with experience and qualifications
• Home-office possibility

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 organisation, and always respond to any case of proven, alleged or attempted abuse within our sphere of influence according to its nature. Efforts ensure that mechanisms are in place to raise awareness, aid prevention, encourage reporting and ease response. The organisation prohibits harassment, exploitation and abuses by or of any employee, supervisor, manager, child, young people, community, contractor, applicant, or other individual with whom SOS Children’s Villages employees come into contact by virtue of their work. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our prevention and protection against Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse policy. In addition, SOS Children’s Villages apply a zero-tolerance concerning any fraud situation.

We also provide equal employment opportunities to all employees & qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or class. SOS Children´s Villages complies with all applicable laws governing non-discrimination in employment.

Further information

This position involves working with an INGO committed to children and human rights and is subject to strict safer recruitment checks. The successful candidate will be required to complete safer recruitment checks including police and reference checks to help verify their suitability to work for SOS CV. In addition to candidates’ ability to perform the duties of the post, in the selection process will be also explored the motivation and approach of the candidate to safeguarding.