Safeguarding Manager

British Council

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Reference number

370898

Salary

£38,820
Plus £3,300 per annum London Market Allowance.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer
Payband 8

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

The Global Safeguarding Team work together with business delivery units to manage and mitigate safeguarding risks across the organisation. This role is specifically focused to support the Cultural Engagement (CE) business unit.

Type of role

Administration / Corporate Support

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

London

Job summary

As Safeguarding Manager, you will lead the implementation of the British Council safeguarding framework and resources across all Cultural Engagement programme delivery and ensure practice is aligned with the global Safeguarding policy and strategy. 

 

As part of this, you will lead the development of fit for purpose resources that can be practically and usefully embedded within the Cultural engagement project/programme lifecycle. 

 

The role is to provide proactive safeguarding advice, consultation and as required, direction and assistance across Cultural Engagement global delivery, ensuring that British Council Safeguarding policies, procedures, tools/resources and protocols are appropriately embedded and adhered to within all activities and programmes.

 

The role is to promote a positive and proactive organisational safeguarding culture which creates a safe environment for children and adults who come into contact with the British Council.   You will ensure the management control and data system is effectively managed and data shared and used intelligently to manage risk. 

Job description

As part of promoting safeguarding the role holder will be required to:


Embed and manage the overall framework and resources which provide guidance and support for CE programme managers so that they can confidently use them across the programme lifecycle to:
•    ensure safeguarding due diligence as per requirements of the FCDO – with special referenced to PSEAH – Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment  •    embed safeguarding into programme design and bids to clients.
•    Initiate and deliver programmes safely by reducing risk and assisting with the management of any incidents in a professional way linked to agreed global safeguarding risk thresholds.
•    Close programmes and conduct lessons learnt to inform new programme design.
•    Manage and lead a safeguarding community of practice of experienced programme managers who support the development and maintenance of the safeguarding framework and resources to ensure it responds to the various needs of different sectors, clients and geographies.
•    Provide support and advice to a wide range of Cultural Engagement stakeholders, including regional/country portfolio and , program and safeguarding leads, as required in relation to British Council  activity and risk management, ensuring Safeguarding requirements are understood, measure compliance, share best practice; ensure alignment of approaches and where appropriate co-ordinate messaging in line with the wider corporate and global safeguarding team. 
•    Based on the British Council global safeguarding case management policy, provide support and guidance to global cultural engagement staff to report and manage incident-based risks. 

 

There will also be collaboration with an extended team consisting of Cultural Engagement teams covering Risk, Internal Communications, Media, Employee Relations and Reward, Contract Management and Legal.

Person specification

•    Experience of working in an international development context and in an international (matrix) organization
•    A sound knowledge of international safeguarding standards and service delivery within statutory and non-statutory settings 
•    Experience of creating, managing and implementing safeguarding frameworks and tools for project and programme management •    Delivering effective safeguarding engagement and learning initiatives
Alongside your salary of £38,820, British Council contributes £11,246 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
32 days annual leave, in addition to public holidays
3 days volunteering leave
Career average defined benefit pension scheme

Selection process details

To apply, please use this link: https://careers.britishcouncil.org/job-invite/44152/


Alternatively, please visit the British Council website at: www.britishcouncil.org/careers


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Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : askhr@britishcouncil.org
  • Email : askhr@britishcouncil.org

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