Job Title: Safeguarding Coordinator
Hiring Organization: Kenya
Red Cross Society
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 07/18/2024
The Position is based at the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS’) Headquarters. The position holder is responsible for development, implementation and coordination and monitoring of KRCS’ safeguarding initiatives both at institutional level and program implementation levels. This will include promoting safe programming in emergencies and regular programming, enhancing safe partnerships, training, risk management and compliance monitoring and reporting and supporting the mainstreaming of safeguarding throughout operations.
This role contributes to the realization of the
organizational objective of proactively promoting the wellbeing, health and
resilience of our staff, volunteers and members as well as the communities we
work with.
Scope of the role
This role covers PSEA and child protection in all our
contexts (all KRCS offices or wherever KRCS employees work and within all
programming, including humanitarian).
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead in fostering a culture of safeguarding,
PSEAH, inclusion and promotion of diversity at KRCS ensuring alignment
with organizational strategy.
- . Establish an annual safeguarding plan for the
society and monitor progress against the plan.
- Collaborate with and provide advice to key teams
and/or departments within the Society office to promote fulfilment of the
safeguarding risk analysis, including risk identification and management
strategies of the society processes, procedures and activities, and
appropriate mitigating actions are developed.
- Partner with the MEAL department, program teams,
and other areas to ensure the operation of safeguarding complaints
mechanism and awareness-raising in communities where the society operates,
around community reporting mechanisms
- Provide direction and guidance to management,
staff and volunteers, ensuring they clearly understand and meet their
roles and responsibilities for efficient and collaborative work towards
achieving safeguarding goals.
- Strategically advocate for safeguarding,
highlighting its value and impact, and securing continued support from
stakeholders.
- Oversee implementation of institutionalization
of safeguarding initiatives through monitoring progress against the work
plan, identify and address challenges, to make adjustments as needed.
- Maintaining regular communication with
stakeholders, including senior management, partners, and staff, volunteers
and members, keeping them informed of safeguarding progress, challenges,
and key decisions.
- Contribute to policy development by providing
insights and expertise to inform policy changes that would support the
KRCS’ safeguarding goals.
- Stay informed of relevant trends and best
practices through continuously learning and apply new knowledge to improve
safeguarding initiatives at KRCS.
- Provide guidance to staff, volunteers members
and other stakeholders and trainers in the roll out of education
programmes and support safeguarding focal persons in the development of
awareness raising, sensitization, communication and training resources.
- With respect to safeguarding investigations,
coordinate case management, and support fact-gathering as needed.
- Act as a reporting avenue for safeguarding
related issues, concerns, or experiences and foster an environment where
all potential safeguarding misconducts are reported as per KRCS
Safeguarding Policy.
- Be the Safeguarding Focal person for the society
and get involved in partnership network meetings and humanitarian setting
by way of attendance and participation.
- Champion safeguarding policies and accompanying
policy guidance support materials, including strong advocacy for
safeguarding across all levels of business to promote a culture of
safeguarding.
- Provide quality and accessible advice, support,
and guidance to Staff, Volunteers, members and other stakeholders ensuring
that adequate safeguarding measures are integrated into office operations,
processes, and programs as outlined by KRCS Safeguarding Standards and
other core documents
- Participate, when needed, in key program design
meetings and kick-off workshops to facilitate the inclusion of risks,
planning, and strategy in relation to safeguarding.
- Collaborate with Human Resources to ensure
on-boarding is completed and safer recruitment adhered to.
Desired Competencies
- Demonstrate high levels of integrity and
Decision making.
- Strategic Planning and Prioritization
- Excellent Communication skills
- Interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Programme management skills.
- Stakeholder Management.
- Basic skills and knowledge on psychosocial
support
- Team work
Education and Experience
- Minimum: Bachelor’s degree level of education in
relevant field
- 3-5 years of safeguarding experience or
experience in a similar field such as protection, child protection, SGBV –
preferably in a humanitarian organization. Experience in partnering with
government agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders in safeguarding and
humanitarian space.
- Demonstrated understanding of inclusive
practices and promotion of diversity
- Experience dealing with sensitive matters –
highly confidential and discrete – and ability to build/maintain trust.
- Experienced trainer, facilitator, and mediator
- Experienced in change management and project
management skills
- Must have a high level of resilience with the
ability to be impartial and remain calm under difficult circumstances
- Must be able to demonstrate impartiality in all
situations.
- Must have excellent problem–solving, and
decision-making skills
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills
- 1+ years of safeguarding investigation
experience is an added advantage
