JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE:  Safeguarding & Counter Fraud Officer
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Counter fraud and Safeguarding     LOCATION: Herat
GRADE: 5    CONTRACT LENGTH:
Fixed Term  3 Months with possibility of extension

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE: 
The Safeguarding and Counter-Fraud Officer will play a key role in supporting the Safeguarding and Counter-Fraud team in delivering comprehensive capacity-building initiatives across the Herat response. The Officer will be responsible for conducting regular training sessions for staff on topics including Child Safeguarding (CSG), Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), the Code of Conduct, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace, and Anti-Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption.

In addition to training responsibilities, the Officer will carry out routine monitoring visits to project implementation sites across Herat Province. These visits aim to ensure that Save the Children (SCI) and its implementing partners maintain safe, inclusive, and accountable programming environments for all beneficiaries, especially children and vulnerable individuals and uphold a safe working environment for everyone. The Officer will provide feedback, identify risks, and support the development of mitigation measures in line with SCI’s safeguarding and integrity standards.

The role holder is required to work for emergency response and hence requires the employees to work out of normal working hours.

SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Coordinator for multifaceted cases
Staff reporting to this post: None
Budget Responsibilities: None
Travels to the field: Extensive travels required to the provincial SCI and partner offices.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
•    Identify potential risks to children and adult in all the project activities and report them to respective lead.
•    Closely coordinate with provincial CF & SG focal point, to improve CFSG practices.
•    Support on delivering mandatory and refresher/ capacity building training on CSG, anti-harassment, Bullying, code of conduct, Modern Slavery and human trafficking, Anti-fraud, corruption, bribery and PSEAH.
•    Conduct regular visits to project sites of SCI and partners, to ensure that CFSG reporting system is working and beneficiaries know how to report cases.
•    Identify gaps or areas of concern and provide actionable recommendations to strengthen safeguarding and accountability.
•    Support in developing risk mitigation plans where necessary and track implementation progress.
•    Support efforts to ensure community members, especially returnees, are informed about their rights/ aid and the mechanisms available for reporting concerns.
•    Contribute to the establishment and strengthening of feedback and reporting mechanisms that are accessible and trusted by affected populations.
•    During field visits ensure that all CFSG concerns are reported effectively in line with the policy.
•    Lead the investigation process assigned while directly coordinate with respective counter parts to ensure quality case management and timely closure as per SCI standards.
•    High levels of professional behaviour and maintain the standards required by the Counter fraud & Safeguarding Policies and Code of Conduct.
•    Whenever required support humanitarian response team on ensuring safeguarding minimum standards embedded into the response plan.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
•    Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
•    Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
•    Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
•    Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
•    Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
•    Builds and maintains effective relationships, with colleagues and other Safeguarding officers, Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
•    Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
•    Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Integrity:
•    Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS
•     Bachelor’s degree in Social science or any other related field.
•    Fluency in local language (specific to context) is essential.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
•    Two years of experience in the area of Child protection, fraud prevention and familiar with Safeguarding.
•    Experience doing project monitoring and investigation.
•    Multi-disciplinary experience of working successfully with senior managers to deliver major operational change with a track record of delivering results to high standards.
•    Experience of building personal network with SG focal points of SCI and partners.
•    Experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops in safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g. field workers, community-based staff, project staff).
•    Good verbal communication and report writing skills in English and Dari languages and priority will be given to candidates who worked in similar context like Herat.
•    Good presentation skills.
•    Demonstrable commitment to Children’s Rights.
•    Ability to deliver results against demanding timetables and in the face of competing demands.
•    Ability to travel and work within challenging environments.
•    Awareness of own strengths and weaknesses and evidence of commitment to self-managed personal development.
Desirable
•    Evidence of experience, personal development and learning in the field of childcare
•    Experience of working within challenging environments.
•    Experience of work-related travel in challenging environments.

Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements