Safeguarding Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Location:
Portland, OR, Washington, DC, OR, United Kingdom

Position Status Full time, Exempt, Regular

Salary Level The salary range for this position is $53,000- $57,667 commensurate on experience

About Mercy Corps:

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible.

To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong.

We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

The Program:

Mercy Corps' global safeguarding team is a key part of the Mercy Corps Ethics and Compliance Department (ECD) and leads our organizational efforts to prevent, detect, deter and respond to safeguarding issues.

The team reports to a Senior Director of Safeguarding who reports to the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO).

At Mercy Corps, safeguarding is a holistic term encompassing our prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse of program participants, sexual harassment in the workplace, trafficking, and child safeguarding.

We seek to ensure that all team members, program participants and partners are able to safely exercise their agency, access resources they need, and use and share their power safely in order to cope, adapt and thrive in their environments.

The global safeguarding team is bolstered by a global network of focal points and champions working at the country level to mainstream safeguarding and raise awareness about individual rights and responsibilities of our team members, participants, partners, volunteers and others who are a part of the critical work we do.

The Position
***The Safeguarding Officer (SO) will support the Global Safeguarding Prevention-focused team on key work streams to help ensure that safeguarding and ethics are embedded within all aspects of the organization's work.

Essential Responsibilities
***:PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Lead logistics and management of key safeguarding work streams and projects, including trainings; planning, sequencing and tracking of the above, including creation of systems to do so efficiently
Support effective teamwork, communication, and collaboration across stakeholder groups and liaise with HQ and global teams to provide information and followup on safeguarding projects and initiatives
Support internal safeguarding product development through reviewing and updating toolkits, guidance documents, trainings and other resources
Lead logístical support to the Safeguarding team including around travel, conferences, management of external consultants through RFAs, agreements, payment, logistics, and other contractor/consultant needs and communication
Provide planning and logístical support for team meetings, conferences and training events, including arrangement and preparation of venues, collection and dissemination of necessary documents, logístical support for participants and communication and required followup with all parties involved
Manage suite of safeguarding tools including updates and dissemination
Support recruitment of new Team Members as required
Act as liaison between Safeguarding team, the broader ECD and other stakeholder groups within the agency

COMMUNICATION SUPPORT

In close partnership with the ECD Training and Communications Manager and support communication planning and strategy
Support and project manage safeguarding related communications processes such as the Annual Safeguarding Report and reports to relevant Board Committees
Coordinate with the requisite HQ teams to update and/or revise the external website; and Mercy Corps' intranet with respect to Safeguarding

INTERNAL REPRESENTATION

Provide general internal representation of safeguarding processes and workstreams
With support from Safeguarding team, provide safeguarding information and support to new team members globally (ie. HR managers, CDs etc); lead on onboarding around safeguarding systems and processes
Represent safeguarding in relevant internal processes including development of team member handbooks
Support the preparation of internal and external reporting on the status of safeguarding prevention and response workstreams
Partner in the gathering, compiling, and analyzing of data to assess the implementation of the Safeguarding Core Standards, and to assess the impact of awareness raising activities through use of feedback channels such as surveys

EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION

In coordination and consultation with the Senior Director, Safeguarding, participate in sector established communities of practice and other networking engagements, trainings or workshops as a representative of Mercy Corps

Supervisory Responsibility
None

Accountability:

Reports Directly To:
Director, Safeguarding

Works Directly With:
Global safeguarding team, Ethics & Compliance Department (ECD), ECD Manager of Training and Communications the People Team, and safeguarding in-c