Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
National Safeguarding Manager- Kampala.
Reporting to the Director of Human Resource and Administration, the National Safeguarding Manager ensures that Save the Children’s safeguarding policies and standards are effectively applied and upheld in the Uganda CO operations for both children and adults. He/she oversees activities to keep children and adults safe from all forms of abuse and exploitation in all of our work across the country. The Safeguarding Manager works with a team to reinforce safeguarding awareness, prevention, reporting and investigation. The role holder ensures that adequate procedures and practices are in place and builds capacity of staff and ensures compliance and accountability to management and donors. .

In order to be successful you will bring/have:
• At least 5 years work experience in (Child) Protection, GBV/PSEA or related field, in an (I)NGO;
• Experience in child protection/safeguarding practice in humanitarian setting;
• Leadership experience within an INGO or similar other organisation working with vulnerable communities and children or with similar experience within Save the Children;
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, and an ability to produce good quality documents, reports, information for a variety of audiences and communicate good practices;
• Experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops in protection/ safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g. field workers, managers, senior managers and decision makers)
• 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/partner’s organisation to deliver major operational change with a track record of delivering results to high standards.
• Knowledge of and commitment to children’s rights.
• Influencing skills, including ability to deal with people at all levels with credibility, tact, and diplomacy).
• Self-sufficient, proactive self-motivating work styles.
• Ability to provide long distance support and establish supportive relationships and networks.
• Ability to deliver results against demanding timetables and in the face of competing demands.
• Ability to travel and work within challenging environments.
• We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector.


Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at https://uganda.savethechildren.net/careers . Deadline for applications is October 23, 2020 at Midnight Ugandan time.
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.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
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