Child Safeguarding Advisor at Save The Children

Role Purpose
The Child Safeguarding (CS) role will take lead in institutionalizing child safeguarding and code of conduct into the Nigeria countrywide programme, ensure that the country programme has a clear complaints, reporting and investigation mechanisms, and monitor compliance and accountability. The role has overall responsibility for ensuring that partners, suppliers and others associated with SCI are aware of and are compliant with the child safeguarding policy.

In order to be successful within this position, you will ideally have:

• Degree level qualification in social work or equivalent health, education or other relevant professional qualification and working experience
• Minimum 5 years direct experience of child protection practice and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Up to date working knowledge of child care law, child protection policies and practice and current issues in relation to safeguarding children within Nigeria and the West African context
• A general appreciation of the issues concerning the NGO sector, both development and humanitarian issues
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Preparing written reports or materials to a publishable standard in the English language
• Planning, delivering and evaluating training, capacity building, coaching and mentoring skills
• Organizing and managing a complex and demanding workload and working on own initiative
• Influencing practice and policy, including communicating effectively and persuasively at all levels
• Facilitating learning, development and change for individuals and/or groups/organizations
• Coordination skills, especially in relation to cross-departmental working and external networks
• Good understanding and knowledge of gender equity and diversity
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches
• general appreciation of the issues concerning the NGO sector, both development and humanitarian issues
• Good analytical skills. Effective negotiator
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches