World Vision
World Vision International
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 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Here’s where you come in:
As Regional Safeguarding Lead you will lead the regional safeguarding functional area and ensure that safeguarding is prioritized, of high quality, and embedded in a culture of prevention, awareness, reporting and response. The ultimate purpose of the role is to ensure that World Vision in the Southern Africa Region (SAR) is safeguarding children and adults in the communities where World Vision works. You will combine elements of capacity building and monitoring whilst enforcing compliance and accountability, management and investigation as well as aspects of high-level advocacy, in alignment with WV’s Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy.
Requirements include:
- Education to degree standard with a professional qualification in a relevant field, including but not limited to: law, child rights, child psychology, child protection/counselling, survivor care, behavioural change
- Looking for candidates with senior management experience of at least 5 years’ in field/practical situations of policy formation, guidance and implementation (child protection, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), gender-based violence (GBV) or safeguarding)
- Extensive experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops/trainings in child protection/safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g., field workers, managers, senior managers and decision makers)
- Fluency in written and spoken English, required
- Fluency in written and spoken French and/or Portuguese desired
- 40% travel to World Vision Field Offices is expected. Virtual/hybrid work environment
- Based in any location within the Southern Africa Region where WV is registered, with a preference for Angola or Mozambique
How to apply
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World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
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.