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The Safeguarding Specialist provides technical expertise to strengthen safeguarding practice across War Child Alliance, ensuring that safeguarding standards, policies, and approaches are consistently understood, applied, and continuously improved.    The role supports the organisation to identify and manage safeguarding risks, embed safeguarding into programmes and organisational processes, and strengthen systems, capacity, and culture. Working across teams, functions, and contexts, the Safeguarding Specialist contributes to safe, accountable, and ethical ways of working that protect children, communities, and staff.  What you will do: This role sits within the Integrity & Safeguarding function and works across country programmes, regional structures, and global teams. It supports coordination between HR, safeguarding, investigations, and operational teams to ensure a consistent and effective approach to integrity, safeguarding, ethical behaviour, and misconduct management.  Provide technical safeguarding advice and guidance to managers and teams, supporting consistent interpretation and application of safeguarding standards, policies, and frameworks.  Contribute to the development, refinement, and  contextualisation  of safeguarding approaches, tools, and frameworks to ensure they  remain  practical, relevant, and aligned with  organisational  and sector standards.  Advise on  the identification, assessment, and mitigation of safeguarding risks across activities,  programmes , and partnerships, supporting informed and risk-aware decision-making.  Guide  the strengthening of safeguarding systems and processes, including reporting mechanisms, community feedback channels, and risk management practices, ensuring consistency and effectiveness.  Support the integration of safeguarding principles into  organisational  processes, including  programme  design, partnerships, recruitment, and operational practices.  Provide technical input to capacity strengthening efforts, including advising on learning approaches, training content, and capability development for staff, focal points, and partners.  Contribute to monitoring, analysis, and interpretation of safeguarding data, trends, and risks, providing insight to inform  organisational  learning, improvement, and decision-making.  Work across functions ( e.g. HR,  programmes , MEAL, safeguarding, integrity) to promote alignment and coherence in safeguarding approaches, policies, and practices.  ROLE-SPECIFIC OR CONTEXT RESPONSIBILITIES  The Safeguarding Lead Fundraising Members+ is responsible for strengthening safeguarding awareness, risk management, and safe practices across Fundraising Member (FM) offices and supporting the a country office in the delivery of its I&S action plan.   The role ensures that safeguarding is consistently integrated into fundraising, communications, advocacy, ambassador (or equivalent) engagement, and public-facing activities. This includes delivering training, supporting Focal Points, ensuring compliance with global standards, and providing oversight and guidance during fundraising events and campaigns. Where FM offices also implement War Child programmes, the role will additionally support safe programming activities, including with partner organisations as relevant.   The role is also expected to contribute to wider I&S prevention activities as  required . This role is expected to be mobile across  Fundraising Member  countries ; expected duration can vary depending on needs of the country. Awareness Raising & Capacity Building  Work with Fundraising Member countries (UK, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden,  Switzerland  and USA) to conduct safeguarding gap, risk exposure and context analysis  reviews  and develop action plans with clear deliverables Work with Fundraising Member Focal Points to ensure safeguarding materials