Key Skills

Job Description

War Child is seeking a Senior Safeguarding Specialist to strengthen safeguarding systems across the Africa Country Cluster. You will provide technical expertise to embed safeguarding standards, policies, and risk management across programmes, partnerships, and operations. Based in a War Child office within Africa, you will collaborate with HR, safeguarding, investigations and MEAL teams to ensure ethical practice, incident response, capacity building, and continuous improvement of safeguarding

Core Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise to strengthen safeguarding systems and embed standards, policies, and risk management across programmes, partnerships, and operations in the Africa Country Cluster. Collaborate with HR, safeguarding, investigations, and MEAL teams on ethical practice, incident response, capacity building, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

The posting does not specify formal education, years of experience, or other explicit qualifications. The senior-level role calls for safeguarding expertise and the ability to work across programmes, partnerships, operations, and relevant internal teams.