Sightsavers est une organisation non gouvernementale internationale qui travaille avec des partenaires dans les pays en développement pour traiter et prévenir la cécité évitable et promouvoir l’égalité pour les personnes ayant une déficience visuelle et d’autres handicaps.
Sightsavers is looking for an experiencedSafeguarding Advisor to provide informed and proactive support to the wider Safeguarding team.
Contract: Two Year Fixed Term with possible extension
Location: Sightsavers Senegal or Mali Country Offices
Salary: Local Terms and Conditions Apply
About the role
The new Safeguarding Advisor position will be vital to effective safeguarding at Sightsavers, as the demands on safeguarding as a function continue to grow. Key duties will involve:
- designing safeguarding elements for bids and identifying safeguarding risks
- acting as the safeguarding lead on new consortiums and projects where Sightsavers acts as the lead
- creating and facilitating safeguarding training
- capacity building on safeguarding
- identifying safeguarding risks
This is an involved role so please read the full job description for further details.
About you
We are looking for an individual who is
- currently in a safeguarding manager role or has been doing consultancy work for INGOs or local NGOs in Africa.
- experienced in running training and an understanding of the increased risks faced by children and adults with disabilities (the people who are mostly the survivors of harm reported to us).
- able to bring a contextual understanding of working on safeguarding and child protection in Africa and provide support to our Designated Safeguarding Leads in Africa
- fluent in French and English to be able to deliver effective training
- able to help design and run safeguarding training and action plans with our partners.
- able to travel internationally for a few short trips per year
This will be a supportive role, so good communication skills and an ability to get on with a wide range of people is vital. You will be an independent worker, who is passionate about what they do, good at engaging people on difficult topics (training) and enjoys travelling for work.
Benefits
Sightsavers offers a supportive and inclusive work environment. Specific benefits and local terms and conditions apply.
Next steps
As an equal opportunities employer we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply. To apply, and for further details about the role, please follow the application link. Please note that your application must be in English and you will need to have Right to Work in either Senegal or Mali.
We anticipate that remote panel interviews will take place in early November and the assessment process will include a presentation related to the job role.
