Project Safeguarding Officer - Implementation
2025-04-23T05:38:38+00:00
VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas)
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FULL_TIME
Kampala
Kampala
00256
Uganda
Nonprofit, and NGO
Management
2025-05-07T17:00:00+00:00
Uganda
8
- Team: Global Implementation Team
- Responsible to: Global Project Implementation Manager (Matrix to Global Head of Safeguarding)
- Responsible for: N/A
- Work Location: Any VSO location
- Birches Grade: 7
- Job/Role Purpose:
- To support all VSO project teams to analyze and document safeguarding risks and their mitigating actions from project design through implementation, in line with current policy and guidance.
- To continuously build the capacity of project staff in their understanding of safeguarding as it relates to VSO people, programs, and partners.
- Safeguarding Level: Level 3 (Regular, direct, and unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults; requires a criminal background check such as an Enhanced DBS check in the UK or equivalent).
Expanded Details for the Role:
Overview of the Role:
The Project Safeguarding Officer - Implementation plays a critical role in ensuring that VSO’s projects adhere to safeguarding standards to protect children, young people, and vulnerable adults. The officer works within the Global Implementation Team and collaborates with various stakeholders to assess risks, manage incidents, provide training, and maintain best practices in safeguarding across VSO’s global operations. This role requires a high level of responsibility, as it involves direct or supervisory access to vulnerable groups, and thus a thorough criminal background check is mandatory.
Key Responsibilities (Expanded):
- Safeguarding Risk Assessment and Action Planning
- Support for Teams: The officer assists project implementation teams in conducting detailed safeguarding risk assessments at the country, project, and partner levels. This involves identifying potential risks to children, young people, and vulnerable adults and creating actionable mitigation plans.
- Ongoing Guidance: They provide continuous advice to project teams on adapting these assessments and plans as project contexts change, ensuring that safeguarding measures remain relevant and effective.
- Collaboration: Works with project implementation teams, portfolio managers, and the global duty of care team (including safeguarding champions) to review and strengthen risk assessments, ensuring alignment with best practices and feeding insights into future project planning.
- Safeguarding Reporting & Incident Management
- Monitoring: The officer oversees the reporting and escalation of safeguarding incidents, ensuring that all concerns are documented and addressed promptly.
- Direct Support: They provide hands-on support to project teams in managing safeguarding incidents, which may include investigating allegations of abuse or exploitation and coordinating responses.
- Learning Integration: Collaborates with the global duty of care team to ensure that lessons from incident management are used to improve future safeguarding practices across VSO.
- Safeguarding Learning & Training
- Needs Assessment: Identifies the safeguarding training needs of project staff and develops plans to address those gaps.
- Capacity Building: Accompanies project staff in deepening their understanding of safeguarding principles and supports them in improving their practices over time.
- Training Delivery: Acts as the lead trainer for VSO’s safeguarding learning curriculum, delivering training sessions to project teams, including online formats, to ensure staff are equipped to handle safeguarding responsibilities.
- Collaboration: Works with project design teams to create a feedback loop, ensuring that risk assessments and plans developed during the project design phase are informed by implementation experiences.
- Liaison and Networking
- Knowledge Maintenance: Stays updated on the latest debates, initiatives, and best practices in safeguarding, serving as an expert resource for VSO project teams.
- Advisory Role: Provides advice on robust safeguarding practices, ensuring that VSO’s projects meet high standards of protection for vulnerable groups.
- Collaboration: Works with learning and training colleagues to address the safeguarding training needs of project staff, ensuring that training programs are effective and relevant.
Competencies Required (Expanded):
- Experience:
- Proven experience in child protection, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), and safeguarding, including managing high-volume casework.
- Ability to analyze and synthesize complex information to make informed decisions.
- Experience providing confidential and sensitive pastoral support to individuals affected by safeguarding issues.
- Familiarity with working in cross-cultural contexts, which is essential given VSO’s global operations.
- Knowledge/Qualifications:
- Up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding best practices, ensuring the officer can provide informed guidance.
- Completion of recognized safeguarding and child protection training, as well as safeguarding investigation training, to handle incidents effectively.
- Skills/Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with diverse teams and deliver training.
- Coaching skills to support staff in improving their safeguarding practices.
- Ability to manage a substantial and rapidly changing workload, prioritizing tasks effectively.
- Proficiency in developing and maintaining efficient systems and processes for risk assessment and incident management.
- Strong facilitation skills, with the ability to deliver training to diverse audiences, including online formats.
- Proactive and able to take initiative in identifying and addressing safeguarding needs.
- Willingness and ability to undertake occasional international travel to support project teams on-site.
Safeguarding Level and Expectations:
- Level 3 Safeguarding: This role involves regular, direct, and unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults, either in person or online, or supervisory responsibility for others who have such access. It also includes organizational accountability for ensuring safeguarding policies are implemented at all levels.
- Background Check: A criminal background check (e.g., Enhanced DBS check in the UK or equivalent) is required before the postholder can start.
- Commitment: The officer must adhere to VSO’s zero-tolerance policy on abuse and exploitation, committing to protect vulnerable groups and comply with the Global Safeguarding Policy.
Work Location and Reporting Structure:
- Location: The role can be based in any VSO location, offering flexibility for remote or hybrid work depending on the organization’s structure.
- Reporting: The officer reports to the Global Project Implementation Manager, with a matrix reporting line to the Global Head of Safeguarding, ensuring alignment with both project goals and safeguarding standards.
Key Responsibilities (Expanded): Safeguarding Risk Assessment and Action Planning Support for Teams: The officer assists project implementation teams in conducting detailed safeguarding risk assessments at the country, project, and partner levels. This involves identifying potential risks to children, young people, and vulnerable adults and creating actionable mitigation plans. Ongoing Guidance: They provide continuous advice to project teams on adapting these assessments and plans as project contexts change, ensuring that safeguarding measures remain relevant and effective. Collaboration: Works with project implementation teams, portfolio managers, and the global duty of care team (including safeguarding champions) to review and strengthen risk assessments, ensuring alignment with best practices and feeding insights into future project planning. Safeguarding Reporting & Incident Management Monitoring: The officer oversees the reporting and escalation of safeguarding incidents, ensuring that all concerns are documented and addressed promptly. Direct Support: They provide hands-on support to project teams in managing safeguarding incidents, which may include investigating allegations of abuse or exploitation and coordinating responses. Learning Integration: Collaborates with the global duty of care team to ensure that lessons from incident management are used to improve future safeguarding practices across VSO. Safeguarding Learning & Training Needs Assessment: Identifies the safeguarding training needs of project staff and develops plans to address those gaps. Capacity Building: Accompanies project staff in deepening their understanding of safeguarding principles and supports them in improving their practices over time. Training Delivery: Acts as the lead trainer for VSO’s safeguarding learning curriculum, delivering training sessions to project teams, including online formats, to ensure staff are equipped to handle safeguarding responsibilities. Collaboration: Works with project design teams to create a feedback loop, ensuring that risk assessments and plans developed during the project design phase are informed by implementation experiences. Liaison and Networking Knowledge Maintenance: Stays updated on the latest debates, initiatives, and best practices in safeguarding, serving as an expert resource for VSO project teams. Advisory Role: Provides advice on robust safeguarding practices, ensuring that VSO’s projects meet high standards of protection for vulnerable groups. Collaboration: Works with learning and training colleagues to address the safeguarding training needs of project staff, ensuring that training programs are effective and relevant. Competencies Required (Expanded): Experience: Proven experience in child protection, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), and safeguarding, including managing high-volume casework. Ability to analyze and synthesize complex information to make informed decisions. Experience providing confidential and sensitive pastoral support to individuals affected by safeguarding issues. Familiarity with working in cross-cultural contexts, which is essential given VSO’s global operations.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with diverse teams and deliver training. Coaching skills to support staff in improving their safeguarding practices. Ability to manage a substantial and rapidly changing workload, prioritizing tasks effectively. Proficiency in developing and maintaining efficient systems and processes for risk assessment and incident management. Strong facilitation skills, with the ability to deliver training to diverse audiences, including online formats. Proactive and able to take initiative in identifying and addressing safeguarding needs. Willingness and ability to undertake occasional international travel to support project teams on-site.
Up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding best practices, ensuring the officer can provide informed guidance. Completion of recognized safeguarding and child protection training, as well as safeguarding investigation training, to handle incidents effectively.
No Requirements
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Vacancy title:
Project Safeguarding Officer - Implementation
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management]
Jobs at:
VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas)
Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, May 7 2025
Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, April 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
- Team: Global Implementation Team
- Responsible to: Global Project Implementation Manager (Matrix to Global Head of Safeguarding)
- Responsible for: N/A
- Work Location: Any VSO location
- Birches Grade: 7
- Job/Role Purpose:
- To support all VSO project teams to analyze and document safeguarding risks and their mitigating actions from project design through implementation, in line with current policy and guidance.
- To continuously build the capacity of project staff in their understanding of safeguarding as it relates to VSO people, programs, and partners.
- Safeguarding Level: Level 3 (Regular, direct, and unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults; requires a criminal background check such as an Enhanced DBS check in the UK or equivalent).
Expanded Details for the Role:
Overview of the Role:
The Project Safeguarding Officer - Implementation plays a critical role in ensuring that VSO’s projects adhere to safeguarding standards to protect children, young people, and vulnerable adults. The officer works within the Global Implementation Team and collaborates with various stakeholders to assess risks, manage incidents, provide training, and maintain best practices in safeguarding across VSO’s global operations. This role requires a high level of responsibility, as it involves direct or supervisory access to vulnerable groups, and thus a thorough criminal background check is mandatory.
Key Responsibilities (Expanded):
- Safeguarding Risk Assessment and Action Planning
- Support for Teams: The officer assists project implementation teams in conducting detailed safeguarding risk assessments at the country, project, and partner levels. This involves identifying potential risks to children, young people, and vulnerable adults and creating actionable mitigation plans.
- Ongoing Guidance: They provide continuous advice to project teams on adapting these assessments and plans as project contexts change, ensuring that safeguarding measures remain relevant and effective.
- Collaboration: Works with project implementation teams, portfolio managers, and the global duty of care team (including safeguarding champions) to review and strengthen risk assessments, ensuring alignment with best practices and feeding insights into future project planning.
- Safeguarding Reporting & Incident Management
- Monitoring: The officer oversees the reporting and escalation of safeguarding incidents, ensuring that all concerns are documented and addressed promptly.
- Direct Support: They provide hands-on support to project teams in managing safeguarding incidents, which may include investigating allegations of abuse or exploitation and coordinating responses.
- Learning Integration: Collaborates with the global duty of care team to ensure that lessons from incident management are used to improve future safeguarding practices across VSO.
- Safeguarding Learning & Training
- Needs Assessment: Identifies the safeguarding training needs of project staff and develops plans to address those gaps.
- Capacity Building: Accompanies project staff in deepening their understanding of safeguarding principles and supports them in improving their practices over time.
- Training Delivery: Acts as the lead trainer for VSO’s safeguarding learning curriculum, delivering training sessions to project teams, including online formats, to ensure staff are equipped to handle safeguarding responsibilities.
- Collaboration: Works with project design teams to create a feedback loop, ensuring that risk assessments and plans developed during the project design phase are informed by implementation experiences.
- Liaison and Networking
- Knowledge Maintenance: Stays updated on the latest debates, initiatives, and best practices in safeguarding, serving as an expert resource for VSO project teams.
- Advisory Role: Provides advice on robust safeguarding practices, ensuring that VSO’s projects meet high standards of protection for vulnerable groups.
- Collaboration: Works with learning and training colleagues to address the safeguarding training needs of project staff, ensuring that training programs are effective and relevant.
Competencies Required (Expanded):
- Experience:
- Proven experience in child protection, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), and safeguarding, including managing high-volume casework.
- Ability to analyze and synthesize complex information to make informed decisions.
- Experience providing confidential and sensitive pastoral support to individuals affected by safeguarding issues.
- Familiarity with working in cross-cultural contexts, which is essential given VSO’s global operations.
- Knowledge/Qualifications:
- Up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding best practices, ensuring the officer can provide informed guidance.
- Completion of recognized safeguarding and child protection training, as well as safeguarding investigation training, to handle incidents effectively.
- Skills/Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with diverse teams and deliver training.
- Coaching skills to support staff in improving their safeguarding practices.
- Ability to manage a substantial and rapidly changing workload, prioritizing tasks effectively.
- Proficiency in developing and maintaining efficient systems and processes for risk assessment and incident management.
- Strong facilitation skills, with the ability to deliver training to diverse audiences, including online formats.
- Proactive and able to take initiative in identifying and addressing safeguarding needs.
- Willingness and ability to undertake occasional international travel to support project teams on-site.
Safeguarding Level and Expectations:
- Level 3 Safeguarding: This role involves regular, direct, and unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults, either in person or online, or supervisory responsibility for others who have such access. It also includes organizational accountability for ensuring safeguarding policies are implemented at all levels.
- Background Check: A criminal background check (e.g., Enhanced DBS check in the UK or equivalent) is required before the postholder can start.
- Commitment: The officer must adhere to VSO’s zero-tolerance policy on abuse and exploitation, committing to protect vulnerable groups and comply with the Global Safeguarding Policy.
Work Location and Reporting Structure:
- Location: The role can be based in any VSO location, offering flexibility for remote or hybrid work depending on the organization’s structure.
- Reporting: The officer reports to the Global Project Implementation Manager, with a matrix reporting line to the Global Head of Safeguarding, ensuring alignment with both project goals and safeguarding standards.
Work Hours: 8
Experience: No Requirements
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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- The role is classified as Birches Grade 7 within VSO’s internal grading system, which may indicate the level of seniority and compensation (though specific details are not provided).
- The position requires occasional international travel, suggesting that the officer may need to visit project sites to provide direct support or training.
- The emphasis on cross-cultural experience and online training delivery reflects VSO’s global reach and the need to engage with diverse teams and communities.
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