The posting
Global Safeguarding Strategy and Culture
- Enhance and oversee the delivery of the OCB Safeguarding Strategy ensuring it is enhanced, developed, and maintained and monitored, and is a mainstreamed issue within OCB
- Provide strategic vision to drive through essential, systematic integration of SG into all of OCB's work
- Act as strategic lead for all constituents of safeguarding in OCB operations, with specific emphasis on preventative aspects of work
- Build a culture that embodies a consistent tone, energy and language on Safeguarding
- In close collaboration with OCB departments and Executive Leadership Team, drive the integration of safeguarding roles and responsibilities throughout all aspects of OCB's work
OCB Safeguarding Systems, Policies and Systems
- Ensure that standards of safeguarding are maintained across all parts of OCB
- Ensure a robust and effective case management process & work to enhance the case management system
- Ensure the development of staff capacity through the promotion and embedding of safeguarding policies and procedures across the movement
- Oversee the Case Management and Reporting Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs)
- Enhance and maintain OCB Safeguarding standards and Operating Procedures to take into consideration learning through implementation and necessary changes
Thought Leadership and Influencing
- Participate in stakeholder engagement including participation in international sector platforms on safeguarding, benchmarking market best practice and positioning OCB as a thought subject -matter leader
- Strengthen the SG voice within program design, risk assessment and mitigation and safe programming in a coordinated and consistent way
- Ensure the integration of safe programming and safeguarding risk management throughout the project cycle, including safe and accessible community-based reporting mechanisms for SEAH and adequate safeguarding response capacity at country level, in close collaboration with the Operational Department
- Lead the coordination of safeguarding positioning and external engagement within the wider sector and represent OCB externally on sector wide debates on safeguarding management
Leadership of Safeguarding resources
- Engage with the members of the IPOB and Safeguarding network of colleagues across the movement
- Lead, support, and develop the OCB Safeguarding Team
- Management and leadership of the safeguarding team
- Ownership and management of the Safeguarding Unit budget
- Work with the HR Director to ensure compliance with safeguarding policies, including safe recruitment practices
- Monitor activity to ensure there is an adequate resource for the Safeguarding Unit
Education & Experience
- Relevant qualification in safeguarding, law, ethics, social work, gender-based violence or a related field, and/or at least five (5) years' experience preventing, detecting and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment and other forms of misconduct
- Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH) investigation qualification (e.g. CHS Tier 3, CFE, CFF, CPA, CCEP or equivalent recognised certification)
- Minimum five (5) years' experience in a strategic role within a complex organisation
- Minimum five (5) years' experience working within an international NGO, UN agency or comparable international environment
- Experience leading or conducting safeguarding investigations and managing highly sensitive and confidential matters
- Experience working in multicultural and transversal environments and building trust across all organisational levels
- Experience leading and developing multicultural teams
Competencies
- Critical thinking, analytical and decision-making skills for the protection of vulnerable people
- People management, team leadership and influencing skills in complex organisational cultures
- Strong cross-cultural communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience in multicultural and transversal environments
- Ability to synthesise information from multiple sources with strong attention to detail
- Experience drafting strategic documents, policies, standard operating procedures and guidelines
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion
- Strong commitment to creating a safe working environment where people are heard and concerns are addressed
- Integrity, ethical judgement and self-awareness
Languages
- Proficiency of English, both written and spoken is mandatory
- Good knowledge of French, Spanish, or Arabic is an asset
Other
- Availability for international travel, including programme visits and safeguarding-related meetings



