Safeguarding Advisor
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Oxfam GB
Hybrid- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Hybrid
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: £36,826 GBP-£48,136 GBP / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 15/11/2025
- Location: United Kingdom
About us
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
KEY RESONSIBILITIES
• Provide expertise to identify key safeguarding risks related to activities and events and mitigate these risks by embedding appropriate safeguarding measures in UK operations
• Awareness raising and capacity sharing
• Development and delivery of safeguarding training, refreshers and knowledge sharing activities, including with respect to Oxfam GB’s volunteers, and across Oxfam’s retail network.
• Support retail teams in managing concerns and responding to incidents.
• Improve the effectiveness of sexual exploitation and abuse deterrence, prevention, detection and response in the organisation, focusing on festivals, events, fundraising, retail and other UK based activities
• Lead the UK Safeguarding Focal Points network focusing on organisational culture and feminist principles • Investigate allegations of SEAH which are reported through UK whistleblowing mechanisms
• Supporting survivors of SEAH through external referral mechanisms and ensuring Oxfam adheres to child protection principles
• Raise awareness about Oxfam’s Core Safeguarding Standards and facilitates dialogue within the organisation, including by writing reports/communications and maintaining the Safeguarding Team presence on internal and external communication tools
• Advise management and staff about their responsibilities under safeguarding standards, procedures and policies, safe recruitment of volunteers, including developing tools and supporting ways of working that minimize safeguarding-related risks
• Provide expertise to identify key safeguarding risks related to activities and events and mitigate these risks by embedding appropriate safeguarding measures in UK operations
• Awareness raising and capacity sharing
• Development and delivery of safeguarding training, refreshers and knowledge sharing activities, including with respect to Oxfam GB’s volunteers, and across Oxfam’s retail network.
• Support retail teams in managing concerns and responding to incidents.
• Improve the effectiveness of sexual exploitation and abuse deterrence, prevention, detection and response in the organisation, focusing on festivals, events, fundraising, retail and other UK based activities
• Lead the UK Safeguarding Focal Points network focusing on organisational culture and feminist principles • Investigate allegations of SEAH which are reported through UK whistleblowing mechanisms
• Supporting survivors of SEAH through external referral mechanisms and ensuring Oxfam adheres to child protection principles
• Raise awareness about Oxfam’s Core Safeguarding Standards and facilitates dialogue within the organisation, including by writing reports/communications and maintaining the Safeguarding Team presence on internal and external communication tools
• Advise management and staff about their responsibilities under safeguarding standards, procedures and policies, safe recruitment of volunteers, including developing tools and supporting ways of working that minimize safeguarding-related risks
What we are looking for:
We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.
An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:
- Experience of Safeguarding investigation and prevention activities in line with UK legislation and best practice.
- Experience of supporting young people and people with care and support needs in a volunteering capacity
- Demonstrable interest in working to prevent sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.
- Empathy for the challenges survivors face in reporting and experience managing stakeholder expectations.
- Able to work professionally and with a high degree of confidentiality at all times
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Strong IT skills
- Strong and clear communicator and public speaker, capable of delivering messages appropriately to a variety of audiences, building a sense of passion and engagement
- Excellent self-awareness and understanding of the need for self-care
- Ability to travel within the UK
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