About Us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organizations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart. Christian Aid in Ethiopia has three strategic priority areas. These are climate justice, Economic justice, humanitarian/resilience and addressing Gender and social inclusion as a cross cutting priority.      

Role Purpose

Christian Aid are seeking to appoint a Safeguarding Coordinator to support Christian Aid’s Safeguarding work at a Country Level. You will be responsible for providing training, support and guidance on Safeguarding matters to colleagues and ensuring the organizational Safeguarding Policy is adhered to at a Country Level. Line managed by the Country Director, the successful applicant will also be responsible for conducting safeguarding investigations and providing written reports to the Safeguarding Manager.

About you

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic candidate who have a skill/experience on Safeguarding. Educated Degree in, Social Science, or related fields with at least 5 years’ of experience working with an international NGO.

Role Context

The role will report to the Country Director. Required to oversee the implementation of our corporate response to safeguarding policies and procedures across Christian Aid’s programme in the country of operation. This will require building a network of key contacts both inside and outside of Christian Aid. The role will be expected to support the local team and will have the necessary interpersonal skills and a proven track record for doing this. The role will involve extensive travel nationally particularly to Addis Ababa, field offices and North Ethiopia to ensure the effective implementation of the safeguarding work across the country. It may also be called upon to support investigations or safeguarding initiatives within Christian Aid’s wider geography. The role will be matrix managed by the Safeguarding Manager.

Key outcomes

• Ensure that Christian Aid’s global safeguarding policy and procedure is adhered to at Country level
• Ensure that all new recruits (staff, consultants and volunteers) are given a thorough safeguarding induction prior to commencing field work
• Deliver trainings on safeguarding for staff, consultants, volunteers, and partners on a regular basis to ensure they are able to recognize abuses and know to respond and report them
• Keep a record of who has received training on our corporate learning system
• Attend relevant workshops and obtain learnings from across the sector in your region
• To maintain safeguarding as a standing agenda item at team meetings and facilitate regular opportunities to discuss concerns about practice within teams to help develop a safe working environment and an open and supportive management culture.
• Discuss any concerns with the People Function/Country Director that recruitment processes may not be taking safeguarding issues into consideration
• Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that awareness is regularly raised amongst communities we work with to ensure they understand safeguarding issues the behaviours they should expect of representatives of Christian Aid and how they can give feedback and complaints confidentially
• Work with programme team / staff to ensure that programmes where we directly implement are integrating safeguarding into all activities to prevent (or address) a situation where people may be put at risk of harm, abuse, or exploitation due to the way the project/programme is designed or implemented
• Ensure that constructive links are maintained with relevant stakeholders and external agencies, including concerned government departments
• Be a point of contact and signpost to both internal and external support services for survivors of abuse

Relationships

External: Local NGO sector, implementing partners and regulators

Internal: Relationships across the whole programme and ability to interface at all levels from community member to country Manager. Strong interface with Safeguarding Manager and others with safeguarding and accountability roles within Christian Aid.

Decision Making:

The post holder will be the focal point for safeguarding policy and procedure implementation in the country of operation and for updating it in response to changes in local legislation in liaison with the Safeguarding Manager. It will investigate issues coming out of the application of our policies in liaison with the Safeguarding Manager and ensure they are reported on our corporate system. 

Competency questions

As part of your application, you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build Partnership

• Tell us about a time when you had to establish and maintain relationships with a wide range of contacts and networks based on mutual rapport and respect
• What was the context? Why did you need to establish the new relationships and why was your attitude to this important?
• What was your task? What outcomes were being sought?
• What actions did you take? How did you take them?

Communicate Effectively

• Give us an example of a time when you communicated something complex in a way that could be easily understood by others
• What was the situation?
• What did you need to communicate effectively?
• How did you make sure the message was understood by others?
• What was the impact? How did you know you were successful?

Deliver Result

• Tell us about a time when you planned, prioritized and monitored your own work to meet the team’s objectives to the standards required
• What was your context?
• What was your task/responsibility?
• How did you make your plan? What actions did you take?
• What was the impact of your actions? Were you successful? How did you know?

Fixed Term: 6 months (with possibility of extension)

Availability:  Immediate

Job Requirements

Analytical Skill:

• The role is expected to be able to work autonomously and innovatively whilst ensuring appropriate consultation with key stakeholders.

Applied skills/knowledge and expertise

Essential

• Educated Degree in Social Science or related fields with at least 5 years’ of experience working with an international NGO.
• Considerable experience of safeguarding policy and procedure implementation including knowledge of local legislation and regulation and relevant enforcement bodies
• Influencing skills and ability to work with complexity
• Considerable experience of conducting and managing investigations
• Experience of delivering safeguarding training and awareness to a diverse audience
• Highly empathetic and have excellent communication skills
• The ability to perform the role confidentially and in a sensitive manner
• Willingness to keep abreast of and feedback on local safeguarding issues

How to Apply

To apply for the post, please go to the following site CLICK HERE

Further information

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, color, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behavior including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid’s Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid’s Code of Conduct.