Safeguarding Advisor - Mary's Meals Kenya

About Mary’s Meals

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.4 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals. We have been working in Kenya since 2005 and we operate an Early Childhood Development School Feeding Programme across 689 Early Childhood centres in Turkana County.

About the Role

Mary’s Meals Kenya (MMK) is recruiting for a Safeguarding Advisor to implement our global Safeguarding Policy and standards across the programme and all its activities. Reporting to the Country Director, you will promote safeguarding awareness and strengthen a safe culture and environment across the Kenya programme.

This role will be based in Lodwar, Turkana County in Kenya.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Head of Programmes to identify safeguarding risks, work to mitigate these risks and support improvement of safeguarding across the programme
• Coordinate the production of safeguarding awareness raising materials
• Support colleagues across the programme and programme partners to understand and carry out their safeguarding responsibilities
• Using MMI’s Global Safeguarding Policy as a foundation, support the publication, dissemination and implementation of policies, procedures and good practice documents and tools within Mary’s Meals Kenya
• Work with Global Safeguarding Lead to develop a range of materials to raise awareness safeguarding standards and reporting mechanisms across the Kenya programme.
• Work with the L & D Advisor and Head of HR to develop, adapt, deliver and evaluate safeguarding training and awareness raising activities 
• Work with the Global Safeguarding Lead to establish, manage reporting mechanisms at all levels and for those who come into contact with our work
• Receive and safely document safeguarding reports, respond in accordance with procedures, provide referral or next step advice, acting as an advisor where issues are raised.
• Represent MMK at appropriate sector events on safeguarding and child protection and liaise with other safeguarding professionals to learn from best practices.
• Support the Country Director and the Senior Leadership Team to monitor any actions and recommendations from incidents, reviews or safeguarding audits.

Required skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in education, Sociology, Public Administration, Human Resource Management or any relevant/equivalent field
• Experience of developing and delivering training and workshops to different audiences
• Experience of working in a role that supports safeguarding, PSEA (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) or the protection of children and vulnerable adults.
• Experience in conducting assessments, monitoring and report writing
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage and prioritize a heavy and varied workload to meet deadlines and work calmly under pressure.
• Strong communication skills, especially active listening, strong facilitation and presentation skills
• Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues at different levels of an organization.
• Must be a Kenyan citizen with a current Certificate of Police clearance.
• Ideally, you will have experience working with local communities in Kenya

 We believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding. Mary’s Meals is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Mary's Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement.

If you want to become part of a worldwide movement of people who will not accept that any child in this world of plenty should endure a day without a meal, then we would love to hear from you.

Please click Apply to send your CV and a short covering note, and highlight your suitability and motivations in considering this role and your salary expectations. As part of adherence to Mary’s Meals Safeguarding Policy, the successful candidate will be required to provide a clean police record.

Mary’s Meals never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the recruitment process.

Closing date for receiving applications is 2nd February 2025.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.