Safeguarding and Gender Advisor

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ADD International is looking for a Safeguarding and Gender Advisor to provide leadership and expertise in the area of safeguarding and gender and, working with Safeguarding and Gender Focal Points, ensure that the ADD team and partners are well equipped to deliver safe, effective and gender sensitive programmes; as well as to promote learning across ADD’s work in this area on multiple levels.

Key details

• Salary: Competitive
• Location: Flexible – UK – Frome or home-based (applicants must already have a right to work in the UK), or one of our country offices in Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Bangladesh or Cambodia
• Reports to: Director of Programme Support and Learning
• Contract: Part-time, 2.5 days a week, maternity cover (approximately 12-month contract)

Role Context

Amongst other things, the successful candidate will need to have:

• In-depth knowledge and experience of safeguarding issues, including legal frameworks, policy and best practice within the context of international development
• Substantial experience working directly with children and/or adults at risk with direct responsibility for child protection and/or safeguarding
• Significant experience working with international organisations, preferably in a safeguarding advisor/manager role
• Experience of delivering training and capacity building in safeguarding and/or other related subjects

As a ‘disability confident employer’ ADD guarantees to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We want to see you at your best and so please let us know if there are any adjustments at all that we can make to the recruitment process to ensure that it works for you. We are also committed to ensuring that we continue to review and make adjustments throughout your employment with ADD.