Senior Advisor, Global Safeguarding Prevention

With 75 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. We join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type :

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description :

Please submit your CV in English.

Location & Time Zone Preference : While this role is remote, we prefer candidates located within ±3 to 4 hours of Ethiopia’s time zone (UTC+3) in countries where World Vision International (WVI) is registered to operate, to support optimal collaboration across teams. However, we welcome applications from qualified candidates in other locations as well.

Job Description

The Senior Advisor for Global Safeguarding will lead and manage World Vision’s Global Safeguarding Prevention and Preparedness Team and will oversee WV’s strategic approach to safeguarding prevention, preparedness, risk management and capability building. They will ensure analytics, industry standards, emerging expertise and survivor advocates inform WV’s strategic safeguarding approach and priorities.

The Senior Advisor will provide technical leadership to safeguarding guidance, protocols, tools and innovations in collaboration with cross-functional teams. They will ensure that WV continuously improves its safeguarding standards and practices, as well as equips our partners with high-quality, sustainable safeguarding practices.

The Global Safeguarding Senior Advisor will also contribute to participating meaningfully in and contributing to key inter-agency alliances and coalitions, ensuring that the work WV does in partnership with others is safe and that WV is a leader in mutually sharing and learning from our safeguarding peers.

Strategy and Influence

• Refine and continuously improve WV’s strategic approach to safeguarding prevention, preparedness, risk management and capability building.
• Advance and monitor WV’s survivor-centred, trauma-informed approach to preventing, reporting and responding to safeguarding incidents.
• Harness analytics, field-level insights, and global safeguarding trends to identify and communicate critical safeguarding risks to Leadership for action.
• Support the Senior Director – Safeguarding in strategic thinking, executive reports, and high-level internal and external engagement.

Technical Leadership and System Strengthening

Partnership-wide Capacity Building

Team Leadership

External Engagement

Other duties as assigned.

Required Professional Experience, Education, training, license, registration, and / or certifications

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

Travel and / or Work Environment

Applicant Types Accepted : Local Applicants Only

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