Overview
The Safeguarding Specialist leads safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse (PSHEA) initiatives across Plan Indonesia. The role is responsible for strengthening safeguarding culture, managing risks, and ensuring safe practices across programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advice on safeguarding and PSHEA in programming.
- Ensure all activities apply safeguarding standards.
- Support the development of high-quality, integrated, and innovative interventions safeguarding and PSHEA programs.
- Support and work together with Country Management Team (CMT) to ensure the promotion of safeguarding culture.
- Collaborate with People and Culture Section to build staff understanding and capacity.
- Act as Investigator for safeguarding and PSHEA case.
- Ensure that staff and partners are aware of and understand their responsibilities under key policies related to safeguarding and PSHEA.
- Collaborate effectively with the Brand and Strategic Communication Section.
- Support Brand and Strategic Communication Section and Program Department in engaging with key ministries.
- Advocate for the adoption of safeguarding policies by government and other key stakeholders.
- Contribute actively on safeguarding network both external/internal Plan International.
- Represent YPII in the national and international safeguarding forums, networks, donor communities, INGOs as well as different government and non-government committees.
- Produce one learning product and sharing session with global and regional per year.
- Produce quarterly and annual reports that show safeguarding implementation, innovation, progress, and achievements.
- Conduct capacity building to all staff in designed and development activities and MER at program and project.
- Facilitate learning materials, modules, manuals, guidelines developed aligning with nationally defined curriculum and competencies.
- Develop monitoring and supervision mechanism with necessary guidelines and tools.
- Develop professional capacity of Safeguarding team members.
- Contribute sharing in the network and provide technical support, during emergency setting for ER team related to CPIE, safeguarding and PSHEA.
- Actively sharing and providing inputs in regional, and international forum related to CPIE, safeguarding and PSHEA.
- Ensure all humanitarian partners have a minimum requirement in knowledge, skill, and behaviour to CPIE, safeguarding and PSHEA.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a Safeguarding and PSHEA Specialist.
- Knowledge of the links between children's rights, gender equality, and NGO development programming practice.
- Demonstrated understanding of girls' rights issues, contextualized to an NGO and the linkages between the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Knowledge of safe and inclusive programming frameworks and their application to child and youth-rights programming, particularly for girls.
- Excellent understanding of the practicalities of designing, implementing, and evaluating high-quality programs that fulfil children's rights, with emphasis on promoting gender equality and girls' empowerment.
- Excellent understanding of relevant policy-making processes and institutions.
- Have experience in designing proposals, guidelines, and standards, monitoring and evaluating safe programming in cross-cutting with gender equality approach.
- Strong teamwork.
- Ability to build internal and external networks across countries.
- Facilitation and training skills for children, young people, and adults.
- Dealing with conflict with tact and a controlled manner.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: social work, child protection, law, human rights, psychology, gender studies, public policy, international development, international law, or other related fields.
