Safeguarding Associate Field Manager -Migori

What you’ll bring:

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity.
  
• At least 1-2 years experience in safeguarding, protection, community development, social work, maternal health, or related operational roles, with a strong understanding of risks affecting development or humanitarian programmes.
  
• Strong judgement and the ability to take timely and appropriate action in sensitive or complex safeguarding situations.
  
• Confidence in identifying safeguarding risks across programme activities and supporting staff to apply safe planning and safeguarding best practice consistently.
  
• Understanding of and commitment to survivor centred practice, confidentiality, and ethical decision making.
  
• Strong communication, facilitation, and documentation skills, including the ability to explain safeguarding obligations clearly and engage staff and community members respectfully.
  
• High levels of organisation, reliability, and attention to detail when maintaining safeguarding records, logs, and reports.
  
• Ability to work independently in field settings, manage competing priorities, and uphold safeguarding standards with professionalism and integrity.
  
• We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
  
• Professional fluency in English and Swahili is required. Fluency in Dholuo is essential.
  

What you’ll do:

• Conduct safeguarding risk assessments and review operational tools to identify safeguarding risks, informed by direct engagement with communities, recipients, and staff, in order to take early action to prevent abuse.
  
• Receive, document, and support responses to safeguarding concerns in line with our case management protocol by using survivor centred practice and established escalation pathways.
  
• Establish, develop, and maintain a network of safeguarding focal points across the Mothers and Babies program to strengthen localised and collaborative risk identification and promote safeguarding best practice.
  
• Maintain and strengthen signposting and referral pathways by mapping and engaging trusted local service providers.
  
• Contribute safeguarding expertise to planning, design, and delivery to ensure that GiveDirectly’s activities remain safe, inclusive, and respectful.
  
• Deliver ongoing safeguarding training, onboarding, and sensitisation sessions for staff and partners, and support teams to apply best safeguarding practice consistently and promote safe behaviours.
  
• Represent safeguarding needs in field operations and maintain trusted relationships with local leaders, partners, and community actors.
  
• Monitor safeguarding trends and incidents, prepare self assessments and routine reports, and escalate and address gaps in safeguarding practices appropriately.