Safeguarding Adviser - Humanitarian Surge Team at Save the Children

About the HST

HSTs work alongside country, regional and member teams to support the scale up and management of international and domestic emergency responses, enabling positive change for children. The role of the surge staff varies depending on the needs of the response and could include:

• deploying in the first days or hours following a natural disaster or crisis to lead the first phase of a response to sudden onset emergency;
• supporting ongoing emergency response and recovery work through providing advice, guidance and expertise in a specific skill area;
• providing short term interim cover for country office staff; 
• supporting delivery of capacity building initiatives. 

About the role

We are currently looking for a Safeguarding Advisor – Surge Team to join our team. As the Safeguarding Advisor, you will support the response team to identify and mitigate safeguarding risks to children and adults in the affected populations. The post holder will ensure awareness, prevention as well as safe and accessible reporting and response mechanisms are place. In addition the post holder will support the response team to  respond to safeguarding risks and violations to programme participants and people in the affected populations , including (but not limited to) the risks of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment by Save the Children staff, volunteers and other INGO workers and partners, and the risks of unsafe programming.

You will bring to the role substantial experience of child and adult safeguarding, PSEAH, Survivor support, within humanitarian or insecure settings, including leading or participating in responding to reports and conducting investigations into serious incidents including , SEAH of children and adults; excellent knowledge of Safeguarding policies and supporting teams to put policies into practice; and, experience living or working in a development context, emergency response contexts or fragile states. You will be a strong safeguarding practitioner who can transfer skills to others. Proficiency in English and French is a must.