Job Description

Position: Global SHEA & Safeguarding Coordinator.

Location: ActionAid(AA) Global Secretariat (GS) Hub in Johannesburg or Nairobi

Contract duration:  Permanent

Entry Salary:  Grade C, Salary is locally determined.

If you have the expertise to take on this exciting opportunity, please visit our website  www.actionaid.org/jobs  for further details.

The Role:

Are you passionate about eradicating sexual harassment, abuse and exploitation in development and humanitarian work? Are you a committed SHEA & Safeguarding professional with proven experience in case management administration, developing communication materials for safeguarding, and managing a global network of SHEA & Safeguarding Focal Points?  Are you super enthusiastic about ActionAid International’s Feminist Leadership Principles?

Join ActionAid International to work and contribute across the federation helping people to use their own power to fight poverty and injustice. You will report to the Global SHEA and Safeguarding Lead and will be part of the cutting edge, Global SHEA, and Safeguarding Team – working to create a feminist and survivor-centred approach to preventing to sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse.

As our Global SHEA and Safeguarding Coordinator will help deliver ActionAid International’s SHEA and Safeguarding strategy to prevent and respond to allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse carried out by ActionAid International (AAI) employees and representatives.  They will carry this out in line with the Global SHEA and Safeguarding Team’s survivor-centred and intersectional feminist approach. This includes:

• Working in a collaborative and confidential way to ensure that the Global SHEA and Safeguarding Team’s information and case management systems and electronic administrative systems are as complete, compliant, robust, and up to date as possible.
• Manage the Global SHEA and Safeguarding Team’s internal and external reporting requirements, in line with ActionAid Donor Reporting Standard Operating Procedures.
• Provide strong data analysis and embed data protection standards.
• Develop and maintain the SHEA and Safeguarding Focal Point network, consisting of Focal Points from across the ActionAid Federation. Including: developing communications, strategies for engagement, supporting with training and awareness raising.
• Support with the development of a formalized and digitally transformed case management system.
• Project Manage key components of the AAI SHEA and Safeguarding Strategy
• Contributing to, and maintaining, the communication outputs of the Global Safeguarding Team.
• Assist with the administrative aspects and processes involved in the Global SHEA and Safeguarding Team’s work as needed.

Who we’re looking for:

• To succeed you will have the following:
• Demonstrable experience in and commitment to Safeguarding, protection, VAWG and GBV, gender justice and commitment to ActionAid’s Feminist Principles.
• Ability to work with highly sensitive material in a confidential way; ability to show empathy for the challenges survivors face in reporting Safeguarding concerns and the pressures Safeguarding investigations place on all stakeholders, including those accused of misconduct.
• Experience in working on case management administration and coordinator for safeguarding, GBV or child protection include case management systems development.
• Excellent self-awareness and understanding of the need for self-care.
• Able to uphold ActionAid’s values, including commitment to Feminist leadership and a Human Rights Based Approach.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate, negotiate and influence at all levels, considering cultural and language difficulties.
• High degree of organisational ability, working well to deadlines.
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to work flexible hours in the event of emergencies.
• Ability to grow a network within an organisation.

What we offer:

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done. We offer a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment, as well as:

• Fantastic training and development opportunities.
• A workplace that embraces intersectional feminist principles.
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
• Over 3 weeks holiday a year.

How to apply:

To access the job application, please click on the “apply” button to start the application process. Applications close on 17 April 2023 GMT+1 23:59. Please upload an up-to-date curriculum vitae and a covering letter, clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only consider candidates if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us:

ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice.

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity. Qualified women, people of color, persons from the LGBTIQA+ community, people who require specific accommodations, and candidates from other marginalized communities are encouraged to apply.