Safeguarding and Safety Manager Restless Development Zambia

About Restless Development

Restless Development is a global non profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. Our young leaders lead change on some of the world’s biggest challenges – from gender inequality, youth unemployment to climate justice. All our work is co-led by young people in their local communities – and brought together by the Youth Collective, a growing global community for youth-led organisations. Ultimately, we know that the best people to support young leaders are other young leaders.

We know young people have the power to solve the challenges we face in our world, but they are being ignored and overlooked. We are the agency that works with young people so they can lead in solving those challenges. Whether that means supporting communities to end child marriage or prevent HIV, we work with young people to change their lives and the lives of people in their communities. Our programmes are genuinely life-changing, but can’t do any of this without talented, creative individuals at every level of our organisation.

We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and a growing Youth Collective with members in 185 countries. We are committed to creating an agency that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.

Our approach to Safeguarding

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, volunteers and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.

About the role

The International remit of this role focuses on building global capacity to respond to safeguarding issues and incidents, rolling out best practice, sharing learning across Hubs, delivering training and supporting working groups to respond to incidents and mitigate risks. You will act as the lead contact for safeguarding and security queries across the agency and will regularly review our safeguarding policy and practices to ensure they are fit for purpose. This role will ensure safeguarding and incident management is deeply embedded in the work we do internally, and externally in the communities we work alongside.

You will be part of a new project in Zambia, which will focus on implementing a Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Project in Chadiza, Kasenengwa, and Mambwe in Eastern province. The Project Targets to put out of school adolescent girls’ needs and rights at the centre of all project activities. This target group has been selected because they are consistently left out of traditional adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ASRHR) programming, are difficult to reach, and often have the greatest need.

Your involvement in this project will ensure Restless Development embeds a safeguarding culture throughout project delivery, building capacity to respond to incidents and ensuring the safety of staff, volunteers and community members is prioritised. In addition you will focus on building capacity to respond to safeguarding issues and incidents, rolling out best practice, sharing learning, delivering training and supporting working groups to respond to incidents and mitigate risks. If you are a dynamic, inspired and innovative individual with a background in safeguarding/safety we encourage you to apply for the role of Safeguarding and Safety Manager.

Skills and experience:

Essential

• Commitment to Restless Development’s values and mission.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding and ability to apply/adapt this in different settings.
• Experience of writing, delivering and overseeing safeguarding training.
• Ability to review and develop policies and procedures to ensure best practice in this area is embedded.
• The ability to be able to respond calmly and logically to challenging situations
• Strong communicator who can influence and challenge colleagues to consider new ways of working.

Desirable

• Relevant experience in supporting safeguarding in a similar position ideally in an International Development setting.
• Understanding of risk and how to respond and mitigate it in local and international settings.
• Understanding of how to manage the safety of people working in diverse and often rural communities.
• Experience of volunteer management
• Proven track record of working collaboratively with different teams on complex matters.