Safeguarding Advisor

Location: [North America] [United States]

Town/City: Federal Way
Category: Child Development

*Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate within a jurisdiction (country or US State)
where WVI is registered to operate.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The Safeguarding Advisor provides global technical leadership for action across the World Vision Partnership to comply with the
World Vision International’s (WVI’s) Safeguarding Standards, in collaboration with the Safeguarding Director and safeguarding focal
points in Support, Field, and Regional offices in the Partnership. This role is critical to WVI fulfilling its Board-mandated commitment
to be a child safe organization, ensuring that within our efforts to safeguard all beneficiaries, that WV’s focus and expertise on
keeping children safe is ensured. This position will provide leadership along with the Safeguarding Director for continuous
improvement of safeguarding practices, including how they are pursued, measured and improved across the Partnership, with an
emphasis on practical and culturally tailored prevention methods. Areas of responsibility include the Safeguarding Standards, Incident
Intake Management system (Ethics Point) for Incident Reporting & Response, Child Protection (CP) Update Reports, GNOD and
Audit.

The Advisor will lead efforts to strengthen accountability on safeguarding across the WV Partnership, working with key WV
governance and accountability leaders. The Advisor will manage activities related to child and adult beneficiary safeguarding,
including building capacity, monitoring compliance, interpreting policy, and managing incident responses. The Advisor will provide
strategic safeguarding partnering, consultancy and guidance to Safeguarding Advisors at regional and national levels, as well as
strategic collaboration with key business partners, to support the organization in implementing the Safeguarding Standards and
addressing safeguarding-related risk. The Advisor will support the Safeguarding Director in developing and implementing strong
communications approaches for Safeguarding initiatives, including customised and confidential annual briefings and effective
mobilization of global leadership regarding safeguarding risk, plans, responsibilities. The Advisor will also support the Safeguarding
Director in strategic and operational issues, including escalation of highest risk situations. Finally, the Advisor will lead reflection
processes using learning from the safeguarding system to inform and influence safeguarding improvements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provide technical leadership for Child Safeguarding within the WVI Safeguarding Unit and across the WV Partnership in
alignment with the WVI Child Protection Standards.

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 Management of Safeguarding Standard and Policy development in particular as they relate to child safeguarding,
implementation and monitoring and improvement/updating minimizing organizational risk and strengthening compliance
to Safeguarding Standards.

Advise Support Offices (SO)/ Regional Offices (RO)/ Field Offices (FO) staff to ensure strong child protection incident
management in order to mitigate organizational risk in the area of Child Safeguarding.

Coordinate responses to high profile or high risk child protection incidents, and adult safeguarding incidents as
requested.

Capacity Building and support to key organizational entities in the implementation of Safeguarding Standards.

Safeguarding Information and Knowledge Management.

Represent WV on child safeguarding issues internally and externally.

Other tasks as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

Master's degree or equivalent in a Legal, Human Resources or Child Rights-related field, or field/practical experience
working with situations of policy formation, guidance and implementation.

Proficient in coaching, influencing, facilitation, presentation, communication, analysis and problem solving.

Expertise in child safeguarding issues, emergency relief, the UN CRC and the field of child protection.

Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and collaboration skills in a diverse environment. Proven ability to work as an effective
team member on cross-cultural teams.

Experience developing and interpreting complex or challenging policies.

Two years experience in a developing world environment, 5 years working in an international NGO sector.

Five years experience in child safeguarding in an international NGO.

Experience in communicating to and influencing organizational leadership and management decisions.

Very strong organizational skills; ability to complete a complex variety of tasks in an organized manner and to quickly
 change and adapt to new priorities.

Effective in written and verbal communication in English; language skills in Spanish and/or French preferred.

Preferred:

Critical thinking skills to relate work performed to broader business context.

Strong computer and knowledge management skills,including ability to learn new platforms quickly.

Clearly demonstrated strong sense of initiative;independent and creative.

Work Environment:

The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% of the time.

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