About this role
War Child Alliance Senior Safeguarding Specialist (Africa Country Cluster) Netherlands - Amsterdam office Full-time Fixed-term Postuler à ce poste Your mission War Child is looking for a: Senior Safeguarding Specialist (Africa Country Cluster) Who strengthens safeguarding systems and drives a culture of safety, accountability, and protection. About the role The Senior Safeguarding Specialist provides technical expertise to strengthen safeguarding practice across War Child Alliance, ensuring that safeguarding standards, policies, and approaches are consistently understood, applied, and continuously improved. The role supports the organisation to identify and manage safeguarding risks, embed safeguarding into programmes and organisational processes, and strengthen systems, capacity, and culture. Working across teams, functions, and contexts, the Safeguarding Specialist contributes to safe, accountable, and ethical ways of working that protect children, communities, and staff. . What you will do This role sits within the Integrity & Safeguarding function and works across country programmes, and global teams. It supports coordination between HR, safeguarding, investigations, and operational teams to ensure a consistent and effective approach to integrity, safeguarding, ethical behaviour, and misconduct management. - Provide technical safeguarding advice and guidance to managers and teams, supporting consistent interpretation and application of safeguarding standards, policies, and frameworks. - Contribute to the development, refinement, and contextualisation of safeguarding approaches, tools, and frameworks to ensure they remain practical, relevant, and aligned with organisational and sector standards. - Advise on the identification, assessment, and mitigation of safeguarding risks across activities, programmes, and partnerships, supporting informed and risk-aware decision-making. - Guide the strengthening of safegu...