Safeguarding Manager Job at Girl Effect

Girl Effect, We’re a creative non-profit empowering girls to change their lives. Started by the Nike Foundation, we are experts in media, mobile, brand and international development: a unique mix of skills that we use to solve global problems in a different way.

We work across the world in the places where girls are marginalised and vulnerable. We create for young people in ways they love and interact with. And it's all delivered through the media and mobile tech they use every day – from apps that build skills, to TV dramas that explore vital issues, to magazines written by girls.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Safeguarding Manager

Job Location: Abuja

Job Type: 12 month contract

What You’ll Do

• You will lead on our work in Nigeria and with the global team based in London. You will be based in Nigeria, and will drive the implementation of Girl Effect’s safeguarding and gender policies ensuring strict adherence, providing thought leadership in gender and that Girl Effect remains up to date on the latest thinking, developments and evidence in the fields of gender and safeguarding.

Safeguarding - 70%:

• You will support the implementation of Girl Effect’s Safeguarding policy and procedures in Nigeria and ensure an effective and timely response to children and young people who are at risk. By providing  advice, capacity building and support to Girl Effect staff and partners, you will enable the team to proactively identify and mitigate risks and ensure that safety measures are built in from design through to delivery of the India brand. Girl Effect goes beyond child protection and covers young people till 25 years under its safeguarding policy.  

Gender - 30%:

• You will be responsible for supporting gender components of TEGA and will work closely with the Senior Manager - Evidence, Senior Manager - Partnerships and Products and Relationships leads in Nigeria and London to ensure TEGA achieves its objectives. In addition to this, you will also be responsible for the mainstreaming of gender in Girl Effect Nigeria ensuring the organisation keeps a girl-centered approach at the heart of it’s work. A key component of your gender role is also to support the global gender team in thought leadership work ensuring Girl Effect remains up to date in the latest thinking in the field of gender.

Key Responsibilities - Safeguarding
Implementation of the Safeguarding policy and procedures:

• In collaboration with the Global Safeguarding Team, to ensure that the Safeguarding Policy is adapted to the local context and is reviewed and updated on an annual basis
• Work closely with staff across Girl Effect Nigeria including the Country Director to implement the safeguarding policy and procedures and ensure that safeguarding is prioritised across all initiatives and functions
• Develop and support the Girl Effect Nigeria Safeguarding Champions Group
• With support from Girl Effect London, Develop and deliver training to all Girl Effect Nigeria staff on an annual basis and establish a programme of on-going capacity building for staff tailored to their specific area of work
• Ensure all new recruits receive a safeguarding induction within their first month of employment
• Ensure all implementing partners receive a detailed briefing on Girl Effect’s Safeguarding Requirements within the TEGA programme and ensure that a written Safeguarding Agreement is in place
• Work with Girl Effect London TEGA and safeguarding teams to ensure partners develop robust risk assessments and risk management plans
• With the Girl Effect Nigeria Safeguarding Champions Group, Complete an annual safeguarding assessment and provide a report which summaries progress, challenges and future objectives

Overseeing reporting and response procedures:

• Ensure that there are clear, well understood reporting and response procedures at both a country level and within each initiative/product
• Ensure that reporting procedures are clearly understood by all staff, partners, contractors, visitors and by children and young people themselves. This will include providing briefings, training or developing materials for dissemination, including the development of child-friendly materials.
• With the support of Girl Effect London Safeguarding and Girl Effect Nigeria CD, act as the safeguarding focal point for staff whenever safeguarding concerns arise and ensuring cases are escalated when appropriate,
• Providing GEN and partner staff with training on completing Cause for Concern forms and effectively managing the case to ensure actions taken prioritise the best interest of the child
• Ensure that safeguarding concerns are documented and regularly analysed to inform organisational learning and improve safeguarding practice

Advise on the design and development of new products and initiatives:

• Contribute to the design and development of new products and initiatives to ensure that safeguarding measures are built in to ensure risks are identified and mitigation measures are built into all activities.
• Work with the Evidence team to provide technical support on safeguarding and child protection in relation to monitoring, evaluation, learning and research initiatives.

Other:

• Keep up to date with trends and developments in the field of child protection and safeguarding and disseminate key learning from policy, practice and research to the wider team.
• Participate in the Global Safeguarding Champions Group meetings and other practice development forums arranged by Girl Effect including Global Safeguarding Team monthly calls.
• Attend the annual Global Safeguarding Training
• Identify safeguarding networks if any and represent Girl Effect Nigeria in their meetings

Key Responsibilities - Gender
Drive gender technical expertise across Girl Effect Nigeria:

• Overall support to the TEGA team to ensure girl-centered design and gender considerations are mainstreamed across TEGA research methodologies and data analysis
• Ensure that GE Duty of Care and safeguarding policies drive the engagement with and the graduation of TEGAs
• Provide gender technical expertise to the DFID TPM project. This includes but not limited to review of research tools, gender analysis of findings and report writing
• Enable GEN team to ‘walk the talk’ by leading an internal learning agenda on gender-related issues and GE’s work for staff through formal training, films, huddles, talks, cross-country learning, etc
• Provide technical expertise to GEN TEGA (support proposals writing, develop trainings and tools as required)

Support gender mainstreaming across Girl Effect:

• Work with the global gender teams to identify key learnings in terms of gender and its impact on girls’ lives and cascade this learning across the SBC and global teams where relevant
• Contribute to increasing GE gender technical thought leadership by developing specific research as required
• Work with the global gender team on developing theoretical frameworks and other thought pieces to contribute to Girl Effect’s body of knowledge

What Else You Should Know

• As we continue to scale and grow - we are hugely ambitious for our future and we are looking for people who are driven by this change the world for girls.
• Our teams are a diverse mix across sectors (non-profit and commercial) and specialisms (from Brand and Creative through to Gender and Insight). You'll learn and grow in an environment that will challenge you to think and work with a fresh perspective.
• At Girl Effect, you can expect to work somewhere where you will be stretched and developed in your role, a place where you can build your career and work with talented, engaged people committed to our cause to create lasting impact.
• This role is being recruited on a 12 month contract basis.