Safeguarding Advisor( SOS Childrens Villages Uzbekistan )

25 Июня

Партнерские Вакансии

Компания "SOS Childrens Villages Uzbekistan"

SOS Children’s Villages of Uzbekistan is an affiliated member Association of international non-governmental organisation. The main mission is to support children left without parental care or at risk of losing parental care through advocating for child rights and implementing relevant programs and projects. The Association works in Tashkent, Samarkand and Khorezm regions

Mission of the position:

Under the leadership of the Head od Programme Development Department, national Safeguarding Advisor is coordinating and support the implementation of the Child Protection Policy and related child safeguarding policy, people and assets safeguarding support documents in the member association and all its programmes in order to mitigate existing safeguarding risks for children, young people who are directly and indirectly cared for and supported through SOS Children’s Villages Programmes.

Main functional responsibilities:

• Acts as an advisor on the Safeguarding implementation;
• Coordinates the implementation of the Child Protection Policy and related child safeguarding policy support documents in the member association;
• Ensures that the minimum requirements of the policy support document on safeguarding reporting and responding procedures in member associations and the policy support document on safeguarding investigations are met by the member association and all its programmes, provide support to programme safeguarding teams.
• Coordinates the development of national safeguarding actions during the annual planning process.
• Conducts safeguarding audit in all programmes of the member association.
• Prepares annual safeguarding report and submits the report for approval to the National Director.
• Ensures establishment of a strong and reliable safeguarding reporting and responding procedure in the member association.
• Maintains the national Safeguarding Incident Register.
• Follows up on reported Safeguarding concerns and incidents together with the programme Safeguarding team.
• Collects lessons learnt as well as identified challenges to ensure that relevant preventive, awareness raising and capacity building measures are planned and further implemented.
• Ensures that relevant safeguarding documents and tools are available to safeguarding team members at national and programme level.

Requirements:

• University degree education in social sciences or related field;
• Minimum 5 years experience in social welfare field, preferably in the sector of child and youth welfare;
• Good knowledge of international standards, legal issues and current directions of national development in the field of child’s rights approach, and social welfare systems;
• Good knowledge of written and spoken Uzbek, Russian and English;
• Strong communication, negotiation and advocating skills.

Competencies:

• Commitment to the mission of the organization and the role of the position;
• Strategic thinking;
• Planning and organization;
• Communicating effectively;
• Cooperating effectively.

Working conditions:

• Full employment (5/2, 9am-6pm)
• Professional and personal development
• Multinational and multicultural environment

Additional information:

• Only CVs with motivation letter will be considered;
• Please note that only selected candidates will be notified of progress to the next step of selection.