Senior Manager, Safeguarding

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Together for Girls

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: GBP 65,300 GBP-GBP 73,340 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 15/04/2026
  • Location: Kenya
GBV / VAWG PSEA/ Safeguarding
Senior Manager, Safeguarding
Together for Girls works around the world and combines state-of-the-art data with powerful advocacy to end violence against children and adolescents, especially sexual violence. Through data and advocacy, TfG drives action to break cycles of violence and ensure prevention, healing, and justice. By connecting the dots between understanding the problem, identifying effective solutions, tracking progress, and mobilizing for action, TfG creates a synergistic effect that amplifies its impact and drives toward its ultimate goal of creating a safer world for children and adolescents.

Responsibilities and Duties
Safeguarding Leadership
  • Act as the safeguarding focal point for TfG and Brave Movement events, embedding safety through grounding and briefing processes, guiding staff and partners on safeguarding expectations, facilitating debriefs, and providing real-time oversight, delivery, and response to emerging concerns
  • Ensure comprehensive safeguarding risk assessments are completed for all convenings
  • Recommend, document, and support implementation of context-specific mitigation strategies
  • Refine and develop, as necessary, safeguarding protocols for public storytelling spaces, campaign & advocacy events, media engagements, movement gatherings, virtual planning and co-creation spaces
  • Advise on consent processes, power dynamics, and participant wellbeing
  • Ensure psychological safety is proactively designed into meeting agendas and facilitation plans
  • Liaise with external psychosocial support providers for events and planning processes

Training & Capacity Building
  • Design and deliver safeguarding and trauma-informed engagement trainings for TfG staff, Brave Movement members, national platforms, consultants and facilitators, and external partners 
  • Develop practical toolkits and guidance on engagement of individuals with lived experience
  • Stay current on global best practices and emerging trends, advising leadership on policy and systems improvements

Cross-Organizational Leadership
  • Partner with cross-functional teams across the organization  to embed trauma-informed principles 
  • Ensure safeguarding considerations are integrated early into project design
  • Manage safeguarding-related budgets for events and provider engagement, ensuring responsible resource allocation, and contribute safeguarding inputs and documentation to donor reports as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
  • Degree in psychology, social work, trauma studies, public health, or related field or equivalent professional experience
  • Minimum 6 years of experience in trauma-informed programming, survivor advocacy, safeguarding, or psychosocial support roles
  • Demonstrated experience supporting individuals with lived experience in advocacy or public-facing contexts
  • Experience conducting risk assessments and mitigation planning, with ability to guide teams on safety protocols
  • Skilled in facilitating psychologically safe group processes and mentoring staff in trauma-informed approaches
  • Strong understanding of ethical storytelling and consent practices
  • Experience working in global, cross-cultural contexts 
  • Deep commitment to trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and equity-based practice
  • Strong situational judgment, crisis response capability and decision-making under pressure
  • Demonstrated emotional intelligence, cultural humility and ability to influence stakeholders at multiple levels
  • Fluency in English, required
  • Additional language skills in Spanish and/or French, desired

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