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Save the Children

Global independent charity improving children's lives

Gender and Safeguarding Officer

Community Outreach & ProgramsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeDuekoue, Côte d'IvoireF CFA513.7k - F CFA719.2k /mo

About the Job

Requirements

  • A minimum Licence (Bac+3) in social sciences, gender studies, international development, human rights, child protection, social work, sociology, law, or another relevant field.
  • Three to five years of relevant professional experience in gender equality, safeguarding, social inclusion, or community development, including demonstrated experience integrating gender, conducting gender and power analyses, and identifying inequalities and vulnerability factors.
  • Practical experience preventing gender-based violence, child labour, and harmful practices; child safeguarding; prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse; safe programming; and reporting and referral mechanisms.
  • Experience promoting women's economic empowerment and participation in decision-making, engaging men and boys in changing social norms, and designing and facilitating training, workshops, and community dialogues.
  • Demonstrated experience building capacity and providing technical support to teams, implementing partners, and community stakeholders, and collaborating with civil-society organizations, community structures, local authorities, and government technical services.
  • Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation, disaggregated data collection by sex, age, and disability, report writing, and documentation of good practices.
  • Strong analytical, communication, organizational, planning, and time-management abilities, and ability to work in a team and support multiple partners across different geographic areas.
  • Fluency in written and spoken French.
  • Ability to work with diverse populations, including children, adolescents, women, and vulnerable groups, and handle sensitive situations with discretion and professionalism.
  • Integrity, confidentiality, accountability, initiative, autonomy, results orientation, and ability to work in a multicultural environment and adapt to rural communities.
  • Commitment to Save the Children's values and to children's rights, gender equality, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to developing, implementing, and periodically reviewing the project gender action plan, ensuring alignment with the project theory of change, the Country Office Gender Equality Strategy, and Save the Children's commitments.
  • Conduct or support gender and power analyses in target communities to identify inequalities, gender roles and responsibilities, barriers to participation, and household and community decision-making dynamics.
  • Provide technical support to project teams and partners to integrate gender equality, social inclusion, and transformative approaches across the project's four outcomes, including education, child protection, and livelihoods interventions.
  • Promote women's agency, leadership, economic empowerment, and participation in decision-making, and engage men and boys in transforming social norms using REAL, GREAT, or other suitable methodologies.
  • Raise awareness, train, and support partners, visitors, and other organizational representatives on safeguarding principles and procedures, including protection from sexual exploitation and abuse.
  • Support programme teams to integrate safeguarding standards, identify and assess risks, and implement appropriate mitigation measures.
  • Support safeguarding focal points and promote a strong organizational child-protection culture.
  • Ensure reporting procedures are followed and contribute to the safe and effective handling of safeguarding concerns and incidents.
  • Participate in compliance assessments, monitor improvement plans, and document safeguarding activities' results and impacts.
  • Help establish child-friendly accountability mechanisms and continuously improve safeguarding systems and procedures.
  • Actively promote the Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct among stakeholders.
  • Organize and facilitate safeguarding training and ongoing capacity-building sessions.
  • Identify and analyze capacity-building needs among project teams, implementing partners, cooperatives, community organizations, women's and youth associations, child-protection committees, and relevant service providers.
  • Design and deliver training, practical workshops, coaching, and awareness activities on gender equality, gender-transformative programming, safeguarding, and child protection.
  • Develop and adapt operational tools, training and awareness materials, and facilitation guides to be accessible and suitable for the local context and target groups.
  • Support partners to develop and implement gender and safeguarding action plans, monitor strengthened capacity, and document progress, good practices, and further support needs.
  • Support community dialogues and mobilization activities addressing gender norms, child labour, education, child protection, gender-based violence, and women's participation in decision-making.
  • Promote meaningful engagement of men and boys as agents of change for gender equality, shared household responsibilities, and prevention of child labour.
  • Collaborate with women's associations, youth organizations, community, traditional and religious leaders, schools, and local authorities to strengthen community ownership of project objectives and outcomes.
  • Ensure community mobilization activities are inclusive and locally appropriate and do not reinforce gender stereotypes or expose participants to stigma, retaliation, or other harm.
  • Work with the MEAL team to integrate gender, social inclusion, and safeguarding into the project monitoring framework, performance indicators, and data-collection tools.
  • Support collection, analysis, and use of sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data where relevant and safe, to monitor participation and outcomes for target groups.
  • Contribute to baseline studies, monitoring exercises, project reviews, and evaluations, including analysis of changes in gender norms, women's participation, and barriers faced by girls and boys.
  • Document good practices, case studies, lessons learned, and results in gender and child protection while ensuring informed consent, confidentiality, and secure data management.
  • Work closely with the GROW Project Manager, implementation teams, MEAL team, technical advisers, and designated Save the Children gender and safeguarding leads.
  • Coordinate technically with implementing partners, government technical services, and local authorities to support consistent application of project approaches and requirements across intervention areas.
  • Participate in relevant coordination platforms and working groups on gender equality, child protection, child labour, education, and safeguarding, and contribute to strategic partnerships.
  • Regularly share information with the Project Manager and relevant technical leads about progress, challenges, and emerging risks that could affect intervention quality or participant safety.
  • Report all internal and external abuse cases.
  • Know the Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct and raise awareness of the policy among children, employees, partners, and beneficiaries.
  • Contribute to lessons-learned exercises and documentation of good practices under the guidance of the focal point.
  • Model exemplary conduct at work and in private life and comply with the Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy.
  • Know and follow local procedures.
  • Promote the wellbeing of children, employees, partners, beneficiaries, and communities, and help maintain a safe environment for all.
  • Know and apply the anti-fraud, anti-corruption, and anti-bribery policy.
  • Participate in inductions, activities, and refresher sessions on fraud, corruption, and bribery prevention.
  • Model good practice in preventing fraud, corruption, and bribery and promote good practice within the Country Office.
  • Immediately report any fraud cases known directly or indirectly.

Desired Qualifications

  • Additional training or specialization in gender equality, safeguarding, child protection, or prevention of gender-based violence.
  • Knowledge of gender and social-norm transformation approaches such as REAL, GREAT, or similar methodologies, and experience supporting Village Savings and Loan Associations, women's groups, and youth associations.
  • Experience implementing child-protection, child-labour-prevention, or rural community-development projects, ideally in cocoa-producing communities or agricultural value chains in Côte d’Ivoire.
  • Knowledge of Save the Children's safeguarding policies and procedures and international child-protection and PSEA standards.
  • Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and digital data-collection and analysis tools.
  • Knowledge of one or more local languages spoken in the project areas.
  • Availability for frequent field travel in Guémon, Agnéby-Tiassa, and Gôh-Djiboua.
  • Knowledge of English.

About the Company

Save the Children

Global independent charity improving children's lives

Save the Children is a global, independent charity that helps children in crisis and everyday life. It works in about 120 countries by running programs and campaigns that aim to keep children alive, protect them, help them develop, and let them participate in society. The organization directly delivers services and also advocates for policy changes, working with local partners and communities. Its approach combines field programs with advocacy and partnerships to reach millions of children—last year more than 55 million were helped through its work. What sets it apart is its large international footprint, its clear focus on children’s rights, and its commitment to transparency, collaboration, and integrity while pursuing concrete, measurable changes. The goal is to ensure every child has the right to survival, protection, development, and participation, and to drive immediate and lasting improvements in children’s lives.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
1919

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