The Safeguarding Advisor provides global technical leadership for action across the World Vision Partnership to comply with the World Vision International’s (WVI’s) Safeguarding Standards, in collaboration with the Safeguarding Director and safeguarding focal points in Support, Field, and Regional offices in the Partnership. This role is critical to WVI fulfilling its Board-mandated commitment to be a child safe organization, ensuring that within our efforts to safeguard all beneficiaries, that WV’s focus and expertise on keeping children safe is ensured. This position will provide leadership along with the Safeguarding Director for continuous improvement of safeguarding practices, including how they are pursued, measured and improved across the Partnership, with an emphasis on practical and culturally tailored prevention methods. Areas of responsibility include the Safeguarding Standards, Incident Intake Management system (Ethics Point) for Incident Reporting & Response, Child Protection (CP) Update Reports, GNOD and Audit.
The Advisor will lead efforts to strengthen accountability on safeguarding across the WV Partnership, working with key WV governance and accountability leaders. The Advisor will manage activities related to child and adult beneficiary safeguarding, including building capacity, monitoring compliance, interpreting policy, and managing incident responses. The Advisor will provide strategic safeguarding partnering, consultancy and guidance to Safeguarding Advisors at regional and national levels, as well as strategic collaboration with key business partners, to support the organization in implementing the Safeguarding Standards and addressing safeguarding-related risk. The Advisor will support the Safeguarding Director in developing and implementing strong communications approaches for Safeguarding initiatives, including customised and confidential annual briefings and effective mobilization of global leadership regarding safeguarding risk, plans, responsibilities. The Advisor will also support the Safeguarding Director in strategic and operational issues, including escalation of highest risk situations. Finally, the Advisor will lead reflection processes using learning from the safeguarding system to inform and influence safeguarding improvements.
Application deadline is 20 June 2018.