Safeguarding Officer | WaterAid

About WaterAid

WaterAid is a global non-government, not-for-profit organisation, working for over 30 years now in changing lives for the betterment in 34 countries around the world. We work to offer clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene to underprivileged people globally, through convincing the governments to change laws, linking policy makers with people on the ground, pooling knowledge and resources, and rallying support from people and organisations from different corners of the world – altogether making lasting change happen on a massive scale.

Job Purpose

Safeguarding is a core component in WaterAid (WA) to adhere, hence the incumbent will play a pivotal role in championing safeguarding and providing relevant information in the organisation. S/he will ensure that organisational safeguarding principles are appropriately implemented following the relevant policy-procedures and keeping the WA management updated on the directives to adhere. S/he will be responsible for facilitating safeguarding awareness interventions across the organization and facilitate down streaming towards community level through respective focals in WA and partners. S/he will also promote related activities and arrangements within the WA office and its partners, ensuring that these are in line with WA policies and operational plan. As a whole, s/he will support the senior leader to promote execution of safeguarding principles, identify safeguarding risks, develop action plans, monitor progress and report on safeguarding concerns.

Key Responsibilities

1. Awareness building and advisory support

• Understand and internalise the suite of safeguarding policies and procedures in WaterAid
• Raise awareness of safeguarding via the provision of information, including through induction, briefings and training
• Contextualise the training materials for better understanding of staff including programme/ project based focal’s, partners, other representatives and community people
• Promote awareness among the staff through refreshers training at regular interval
• Promote a culture to stimulate senior leaders to follow, practice as well as keep safeguarding in their regular discussion agenda
• Facilitate undertaking safeguarding awareness raising interventions and implementation among staff, partners and representatives
• Undertake appropriate measures that the safeguarding is adhered, also concerns and incidents are reported following the set protocol
• Perform as the focal point to receive information, concern, feedback; and to record and act on responding promptly
• Act as a confidential point of support, advice and guidance for any member of staff or partners with concerns
• Contribute to learning across the network of SFPs in country and globally
• Induct overseas/external visitors on safeguarding, as needed

2. Communication Materials

• Ensure developing appropriate communications materials containing information on safeguarding concern and reporting details; and to update on regular interval.
• Ensure the availability of posters, IEC materials in WA offices, project areas; and those are placed/ displayed rightly.
• Socialise safeguarding Incident Reporting Protocol and Focal Points’ contact information.

3. Partner support

• Facilitate safeguarding awareness training with appropriate training materials for relevant partner staff in coordination of respective programme/project focal of WaterAid
• Visit to the project areas to monitor safeguarding arrangements are there and reporting protocols are disseminated
• Provide on-site-support/advise, FGD with children, vulnerable adults etc. to collect relevant information or issues to work on
• Arrange refreshers training at regular interval
• Map out the support services network information for effective victim support

4. Risk Assessment

• Support the senior leaders to identify safeguarding risks aligning with relevant tools, develop action plans and follow up
• Monitor risk mitigation process of individual projects and come up with appropriate findings for management decision
• Act as point of advice on risk assessment for others planning events, trips or activities involving children/young people.

5. Investigation and reporting

• Participate in safeguarding incident case investigations, as assigned
• Ensure responding on queries from designated authorities
• Reporting relevant concern, information, or updates to designated authorities
• Fulfil any other safeguarding reporting requirements

6. Representation

• Represent WaterAid Bangladesh in different local, regional, global platform, as appropriate
  These responsibilities are subject to change upon review by the line manager from time to time.

Requisite qualifications, experience, and attributes

Education: Post-graduation degree in any discipline from a reputed university.
Experience: Minimum 03 years’ job experience; with adequate expertise in relevant areas.

Skills and Competencies:

• Demonstrated presentation and communication skills both in Bangla and English
• Excellent facilitation and mentoring skills with different groups of audiences
• Good computer skill specially in MS office package
• Must be a person who is self-motivated and possess personal integrity, flexible attitude, transparency, proactive stance and respect for gender, diversity and organisation culture
• Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise and deal with competing demands to deliver results in time
• Good team building spirit, non-judgemental with excellent inter-personal skills (particularly active listening) and capacity to understand people from all walks of life
• Allure cooperation from other teams and should be able to draw confidence from others
• Ability to establish good relationship and rapport with stakeholders and partners; and maintain network outside the organisation.

Reportable To: Head of People and Organisational Development (POD)
Workstation: WaterAid Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka
Working Hours: 37.5
Contract Tenure: Long Term
Salary & Benefits: Competitive salary package with admissible benefits that include provident fund, gratuity, festival bonus, life insurance for self, combined health insurance for self, spouse and children, cell phone allowances etc. as per policy provision.
Travel: Willingness to travel to remote areas of Bangladesh is required.

Apply Instruction
If you are passionate to improve lives of the people in the transforming climate context, courageous to bring positive impact through your proficiencies, confident to meet organisation’s expectations and fulfil the above-mentioned requirements please visit the following link and apply. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Candidates will have to be ready to go through an extensive selection process. Any lobbying will be considered as disqualification. Any difficulties faced while submitting application needs to be addressed to “[email protected]”

Application Deadline: 19 August 2024