Safeguarding Behavioral Science Specialist

at Save the Children
Location Kampala, Uganda
Date Posted December 3, 2022
Category Management
NGO
Job Type Contract
Currency UGX

Description

The Opportunity

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as the Safeguarding Behavioral Science Specialist in London, UK orany existing Save the Children International Regional or Country office worldwide.

Role Purpose:

Context – Save the Children is leading Child Rights organisation.Making Save the Children safe for children and adults in the community is a global strategic objective for the entire organisation. Save the Children International (“SCI”) reaches 40+ million across 5 regional offices (“RO”) and 56 Country Offices (“CO”) through the collective effort of 17.000 staff, ca. 30.000 volunteers and +1.000 partners.

Our mission is to serve the most marginalised communities in the world. The safeguarding team exists to ensure that the organisation has effective prevention and response systems to ensure that no child or adult is harmed by action or in-action by the organisation or its representatives. SCI has had effective safeguarding systems, but is keen to innovate its practice through behavioural science. SCI's safeguarding approach is based upon four pillars: Awareness, Prevention, Reporting and Response.

This newly created role will be instrumental in creating a step-change in how we do safeguarding. An exciting opportunity to lead the next frontier of our safeguarding practice, and have impact on a global scale.

The objectives of this role – Safeguarding Behavioral Science Specialist is to use behavioral science to identify behaviors that either cause harm or fail to prevent harm, and to design and test intevntions to change these behaviors. Target behaviors could be physical punishment by teachers, failure to do effective risk assessments by staff, or non-reporting of policy breaches.

The role is initially for 1 year to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach, with an outlook of permanent employment after the 1st year. The role can be based anywhere in the world as long as it is in a country where save the children operates, and can be home based.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

  • Demonstrated experience and expertise designing, implementing, and analyzing randomized field experiments in developing countries.
  • Strong qualitative analysis or mixed methods for social research skills, including demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with data analysis software such as NVivo, ATLAS.ti
  • Strong proficiency in quantitative analysis and software such as STATA, R or similar.
  • Flexible, self-motivated, able to manage multiple tasks, team members, and projects efficiently.
  • Ability to succeed, detailed oriented, drive projects, and collaborate via a remote working structure.
  • Excellent management, organizational, interpersonal and leadership skills.
  • Fluency and excellent communication and writing skills with a mastery of English. Knowledge of an additional language such as Spanish, French or Arabic is preferred but not required.
  • Role requires affinity with child protection or child safeguarding, but no previous experience in these fields.
  • Preferably: previous publications involving behavioral science or related topics

We can offer circa £49,400 per annum (If based in UK) with an option of flexible working hours. If the role is based outside of the UK, National T&C (including pay) will apply.

Responsibilities

 

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