SCI employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creati
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Child Safeguarding is an organisational priority as we strive to make Save the Children safe for children. It is business critical to have a CS Officer in place in Turkey Country Office to ensure total compliance of the policy by all Save the Children staff and representatives.
The CS Officer will take a lead in driving our endeavours in this focussed area of work across their designated area in both humanitarian and development contexts. The post holder will combine elements of capacity building and monitoring whilst enforcing compliance and accountability, management and aspects of advocacy.
The Child Safeguarding Officer (CSO) is responsible for providing overall support to the work on child safeguarding. This work includes: (1) support establishment of effective child safeguarding system; and (2) to reduce the risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation or harm to children in the program by implementing and monitoring Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct and Guidelines (3) assistance in the provision of technical support to partners. Finally, the Child Safeguarding Officer should provide child Safeguarding technical advice and capacity building activities to staff and programs, and will closely coordinate with the Child Safeguarding focal persons in the field offices.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Human Resources Coordinator
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Location: Istanbul with frequent visits to Hatay and Ankara
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KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Child Safeguarding Leader and Champion
- Maintaining a reporting system that works based on the Local/Country Procedures. This requires coordination with Child Safeguarding focal points at the head and field offices for the country programme with delegated responsibility to receive concerns and reports
- Deliver high quality, accessible and reliable support, guidance and capacity to emergency/humanitarian response teams, field offices in order to challenge and encourage engagement as we progress full implementation of the Child Safeguarding Policy and procedures
- Undertake clear, strong advocacy in line with the Child Safeguarding Policy at all levels across the country office, utilising all appropriate internal platforms and events in order to raise awareness, challenge complacency and increase commitment.
- Champion local implementation
- Coach and support CSG Focal points based both in Istanbul office and field offices as well as partners in order to improve Child Safeguarding practice
Country roll-out and maintenance of training programmes
- Deliver a set of mandatory core training workshops to enable staff with key responsibilities to undertake their roles and mainstream safeguarding functions. Deliver on-going refresher training and senior representative induction as appropriate
- Review and strengthen Child Safeguarding systems within partner agencies, planning and delivering training programs accordingly.
- Deploy resources of the Keeping Children Safe strategically to ensure that all representatives of Turkey Country Office maintain Save the Children safeguarding standards.
Child Safeguarding Standards are applied throughout the Country Office
- Coordinate with the National Child safeguarding committee and monitor the overall implementation of the Child safeguarding policy in the country programme.
- Conduct a review of Child Safeguarding Policy implementation throughout the country programme and implement the Child Safeguarding Policy Compliance Action Plan
- Ensure that the safeguarding mechanisms are in place and are subject to continuous monitoring/review.
- Oversee and enforce follow-up in order to ensure maximum levels of compliance and competence.
- Identify and utilise opportunities to integrate safeguarding approaches into all aspects of our work
- Apply critical analysis to ensure that we live up to our commitment to making Save the Children safe for children by ensuring child safeguarding concerns are reported effectively in line with the policy, acting as the country referral point
- Ensure that concerns are followed up safely, effectively and efficiently and to the required standards.
- Provide guidance for the National Child Safeguarding Committee.
- Personally undertaking Child Safeguarding investigations, sometimes in challenging environments and to rigorous timescales and standards.
- Collaborating with key teams and processes within Turkey Country Office to ensure that Child Safeguarding is integrated into all systems.
Safe programming and Child Safeguarding Practice promoted across the Country and sectors
- Ensure that all programming is designed, implemented and monitored through a Child Safeguarding lens
- Support staff to take proactive steps to ensure that all programming activity identifies the potential risks and works to eliminate and mitigate those risks.
- Ensure that the tools and knowledge is made available to managers and that they know how to access support and guidance
- Support staff to identify potential risks to children in all project activities including workshops and events, plan mitigating measures and assign staff to be responsible for the implementation.
- Make appropriate use of external opportunities to develop the Child Safeguarding Policy and practice them across the country office, drawing on these experiences to inform and refresh internal policy to ensure that country office maintains its position and standard.
- Act as an ambassador for Child Safeguarding at all times
- Role model high levels of professional safeguarding behaviour and maintain the standards required by the Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties from time to time which are reasonable in relation to their level of skills and experience.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Degree in Social Sciences or relevant experience in the sector
- At least 2 years of experience in child protection/child safeguarding practice within the country and I/NGO context
- Excellent verbal communication and report writing skills in English and Arabic language
- Working with vulnerable communities and children or with similar experience within Save the Children
- Experience of managing as well as undertaking complex child protection/safeguarding investigations and or disciplinary investigations
- Multi-disciplinary experience of working successfully with senior managers in other parts of own or partner’s organisation to deliver major operational change with a track record of delivering results to high standards
- Experience of a lead role in national advocacy or policy work either in the field of Child Protection/Safeguarding or Human Resource to achieve policy change
- Experience of building personal internal and external networks.
- Experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops in child protection/safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g. field workers, managers, senior managers and decision makers)
- Excellent presentation skills in local language
- Demonstrable commitment to Children’s Rights
- Ability to manage and maximise the benefits of cultural diversity
- Self-sufficient, proactive self-motivating work styles
- Ability to prioritise and deal with competing demands; provide long distance support and establish supportive relationships and networks; deliver results against demanding timetables and in the face of competing demands
- Ability to travel and work within challenging environments
- Awareness of own strengths and weaknesses and evidence of commitment to self-managed personal development
Desirable
- Experience of work related travel in challenging environments
- Turkish language knowledge is highly desirable.
Benefits Package provided to National Staff:
- Salary commensurate with the pay-grade of the position.
- Transportation allowance
- Annual leave
- Private Medical insurance.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Kindly ensure that you apply in English with your up to date CV and a cover letter by explaining your salary expectation. Please note that interviews will be conducted on rolling basis.
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