Digital Safeguarding, Global Senior Advisor

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Global Senior Advisor for Digital Safeguarding, you will develop policy, systems and protocols that enable the digital transformation of key initiatives engaging children such as World Vision’s child sponsorship by ensuring the protection of children, community members, affected populations, and supporters from digital harm caused by World Vision’s programmes or people.

You will create, launch and support a child-centred, best-in-class digital safeguarding approach for the World Vision (WV) Partnership. You will work to integrate safeguarding principles with World Vision’s digital products, ensuring that all solutions are safe by design. You will actively support Leadership at all levels to identify and mitigate existing and emerging risks, as well as explore opportunities in the digital space.

This role will work cross-functionally, internationally, and will require a diverse, cross-cultural lens in addition to expertise in digital safeguarding, emerging technology and child protection. This role involves close collaboration with technical teams, including cybersecurity, to mitigate digital risks and ensure compliance with global data privacy standards.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required, but Masters degree preferred, in Information Technology, International Development, Child Rights or related field, or field/practical experience working with situations of digital safeguarding, emerging technology, information privacy, AI, and child protection.
• Technical skills: protection of children from digital harm, generative AI, online safe-ty, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), gender-based violence (GBV) and/or safeguarding.
• 7+ years’ experience in digital safeguarding with a focus on protecting children from digital harm, PSEA, and GBV.
• Experience working with secure software development processes, data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, COPPA), and cybersecurity frameworks.
• Experience working with mandatory government and regulatory reporting requirements around digital safeguarding matters, such as Child Sexual Abuse Material.