Safeguarding Lead at Options Consultancy Services Limited

Options is seeking a Safeguarding Lead to act as the focal point for safeguarding, providing technical stewardship, advice, and support to The Support to the Africa led Movement to end FGM (ALM) programme and consortium partners.

Responsibilities: 

The objective of the role is to act as the focal point for safeguarding, providing technical stewardship, advice, and support to the ALM programme and consortium partners. The Safeguarding Lead will be providing continuous training, leadership, and technical expertise across the ALM programme to ensure that the Do No Harm and Safeguarding Frameworks are integral to how ALM works internally and externally with stakeholders and beneficiaries.

This will be achieved by:

• Overseeing and managing the establishment of the programme’s Do No Harm and Safeguarding frameworks to ensure delivery, including advising and leading on framework amendments and updates as needed ensuring information is clear and easily communicated to relevant stakeholders.
• Supporting partners and staff to integrate safeguarding into all operations and activities to mitigate against situations where staff, children or communities may be put at risk of harm, abuse, harassment, or exploitation and to address any risks identified. 
• Acting as the safeguarding point of contact for any concern emerging from the ALM programme activities and escalate any concerns or reports to the Team Leader within 24 hours.
• Taking a lead role in developing, conducting and delivering safeguarding risk assessments for ALM and its wider programmatic activities.
• Assessing capacity building needs of staff, key stakeholders, girls’ organizations, Youth organizations, Women’s organization, and grass roots grantee organisations and design the delivery of a range of capacity building interventions.
• Working with the Monitoring and Evaluation lead and project managers across the ALM consortium to incorporate safeguarding and Do No Harm into monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Conducting monitoring visits to assess the awareness, functionality and safety of reporting mechanisms and referral pathways.
• Working with the communication team to ensure materials and content on any of ALM platforms or forums uphold the dignity and respect of those sharing their stories and have provided consent as guided by the Do No Harm and Safeguarding frameworks.
• Ensuring regular reports to the Senior Management Team on the implementation of Do No Harm and Safeguarding frameworks across the ALM programme.

Person specification: 

• Post-graduate degree in relevant subject area.
• A track record and significant experience providing technical stewardship, advice, effective management, and delivery of safeguarding activities to programmes and organisations based in multiple locations.
• Knowledge of international best practice on Safeguarding.
• Strong experience on communicating evidence effectively to better planning, decision making, and accountability within government.
• Experience engaging closely with partner organizations, including consortium management / co-ordination.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to influence and lead teams to align with Do no Harm and Safeguarding principles.
• Strong internal and external communication and facilitation skills.
• A commitment to the ALM programme’s and Options’ principles of Safeguarding, Do No Harm, and to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.