Senior Safeguarding Specialist (Africa Country Cluster)
Core
Provides technical expertise to strengthen safeguarding systems, policies, and culture across War Child's Africa Country Cluster to protect children, communities, and staff.
Role type
Senior Safeguarding Specialist (Humanitarian/NGO)
Builds
Safeguarding systems, policies, and capacity within humanitarian programmes and partnerships
Domain
Humanitarian aid, child protection, and organizational integrity
Required skills
Safeguarding principles, risk assessment, policy development, capacity strengthening, stakeholder engagement, data analysis, ethical decision-making
Preferred skills
Experience in emergency response, knowledge of PSEA/CHS standards, fluency in French, additional African languages
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Provide technical safeguarding advice to managers; develop and contextualize safeguarding frameworks; assess and mitigate safeguarding risks; strengthen reporting mechanisms; integrate safeguarding into programme design and recruitment; support capacity building and training; analyze safeguarding data and trends.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC