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Safeguarding Integration Specialist

World Vision

Full Time Expired
Location
South Africa
Application Deadline
Jul 22, 2025

Job Description

Job Purpose
This role provides strategic support to enhance the impact of Child Sponsorship by strengthening trust, learning, and organizational effectiveness—ensuring the full value of sponsorship is realized for children, families, communities, and sponsors. The position drives accountability and quality through the development, continuous improvement, and reporting of Child Sponsorship safeguarding standards and practices.
• Manage the design, implementation, and refinement of sponsorship safeguarding standards—ensuring visibility and accountability across the Partnership.
• Strengthen overall safeguarding and child
• protection integration into sponsorship programming, initiatives and related work.
• Manage the global rollout and uptake of safeguarding standards and tools, coordinating with Field and Support Offices to embed them into operational practice and reporting systems.
• Manage sponsorship accountability reporting processes, ensuring clear tracking of implementation, results, and opportunities for improvement across offices.
• Strengthen capacity and engagement through targeted support, learning resources, and collaborative learning moments with Field and Support Offices.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by sharing best practices, surfacing field insights, and driving meaningful engagement around sponsorship safeguarding.
• The position reports to the Technical Director, Accountability, Knowledge Management & Communications.

Key Responsibilities:
Safeguarding Standards & Tools;
• Manage the design, update, and rollout of sponsorship safeguarding standards and supporting tools.
• Coordinate consultations and working groups across with teams to ensure relevance, alignment, and ownership.
• Ensure integration of child protection in all standards and tools and engage leaders for various touchpoints across strategic initiative work and ongoing business
• as
• usual work.

Requirements

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in International Development, Child Rights or related field, or field/practical Experience working with situations of safeguarding and child protection, or equivalent related work Experience of 7+ years.

Responsibilities

Job Purpose
This role provides strategic support to enhance the impact of Child Sponsorship by strengthening trust, learning, and organizational effectiveness—ensuring the full value of sponsorship is realized for children, families, communities, and sponsors. The position drives accountability and quality through the development, continuous improvement, and reporting of Child Sponsorship safeguarding standards and practices.
• Manage the design, implementation, and refinement of sponsorship safeguarding standards—ensuring visibility and accountability across the Partnership.
• Strengthen overall safeguarding and child
• protection integration into sponsorship programming, initiatives and related work.
• Manage the global rollout and uptake of safeguarding standards and tools, coordinating with Field and Support Offices to embed them into operational practice and reporting systems.
• Manage sponsorship accountability reporting processes, ensuring clear tracking of implementation, results, and opportunities for improvement across offices.
• Strengthen capacity and engagement through targeted support, learning resources, and collaborative learning moments with Field and Support Offices.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by sharing best practices, surfacing field insights, and driving meaningful engagement around sponsorship safeguarding.
• The position reports to the Technical Director, Accountability, Knowledge Management & Communications.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
• All CVs should be submitted in English.
• This position is open to candidates based in countries where World Vision International is legally registered to operate.

How To Apply

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