Emergency Response Roster: Safeguarding Advisor

Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.

Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.

Here’s where you come in:

As a Safeguarding Advisor in a response, you will provide in-depth safeguarding expertise and support to Response Management and key functions, to ensure safeguarding is embedded in the culture and operations of a response from the beginning and appropriately through every phase. You will actively support management to identify and mitigate safeguarding risk while equipping staff to become safeguarding champions for their teams. You will provide technical safeguarding guidance and capacity building to the response on all aspects of safeguarding compliance, safer programming and safeguarding culture building in alignment with World Vision’s Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy. You will ensure survivor-centred safeguarding incident response, and coordinate with and contribute to the PSEA Network to facilitate local, national, and sector-wide safeguarding collaboration and learning.

Requirements Include:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a GBV, Child Protection, Legal, Human Resources or other Child Rights-related field, or field/practical experience working with situations of policy formation, guidance and implementation.
• Technical skills: direct programming or management experience in child protection in emergencies, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), gender-based violence (GBV) or safeguarding
• Experience: 5 years’ + experience in overseeing child protection, PSEA, GBV, or safeguarding work – preferably in a humanitarian context
• Effective written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese, are preferred.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

How to Apply: 

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online. We will be accepting applications until the right candidate is found.

Please note: Applying to our roster is not for immediate employment. Acceptance to our Emergency Response Roster pre-qualifies you to work or deploy with us in future responses.

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org. Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.