Senior Safeguarding Leader — Africa Cluster

War Child; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

War Child is seeking a Senior Safeguarding Specialist to strengthen safeguarding systems across the Africa Country Cluster. You will provide technical expertise to embed safeguarding standards, policies, and risk management across programmes, partnerships, and operations.

Based in a War Child office within Africa, you will collaborate with HR, safeguarding, investigations and MEAL teams to ensure ethical practice, incident response, capacity building, and continuous improvement of safeguarding

Qualifications

• Fluency in English is required.
• French is desirable.
• Additional languages may be useful (e.g., Swahili, Arabic, Hausa).
• Knowledge of safeguarding principles, protection standards, and risk management approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical safeguarding advice to managers and teams.
• Advise on safeguarding risk assessment and mitigation across activities and partnerships.
• Strengthen safeguarding systems, reporting mechanisms, and risk management practices.
• Integrate safeguarding principles into programme design, partnerships, and operations.
• Contribute to capacity strengthening and learning on safeguarding.

Skills

English fluency

French fluency

Other languages

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Relevant safeguarding qualification or experience

Job description

War Child is seeking a Senior Safeguarding Specialist to strengthen safeguarding systems across the Africa Country Cluster. You will provide technical expertise to embed safeguarding standards, policies, and risk management across programmes, partnerships, and operations.

Based in a War Child office within Africa, you will collaborate with HR, safeguarding, investigations and MEAL teams to ensure ethical practice, incident response, capacity building, and continuous improvement of safeguarding