# Safeguarding Capacity Strengthening Partner Specialist

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Safeguarding Capacity Strengthening Partner Specialist to support partners in integrating safeguarding into their programs and operations.

**Major Responsibilities:**

- Deliver safeguarding and PSEA training to partner leadership, management teams, staff, and volunteers across assigned IRC operational regions

- Support partners to integrate safeguarding into program design, proposal development, and day-to-day implementation across sectors

- Monitor partner progress on safeguarding system strengthening, including CFRM functionality, focal point performance, and policy adoption against agreed action plans

- Conduct periodic monitoring and follow-up visits to assess the integration of safeguarding into partner programming

- Mentor partner safeguarding focal points and management teams to build independent, sustained safeguarding capacity

- Map referral pathways for each partner's operating area and establish safe, confidential systems for partners to report safeguarding concerns to IRC

- Lead the end-of-project safeguarding capacity re-assessment against the project baseline and contribute safeguarding data and learning to donor reporting

- Document training delivery, monitoring findings, and partner progress, and report consolidated updates

- Identify emerging safeguarding risks or gaps at partner level and recommend corrective action

- Represent IRC in partner-facing safeguarding engagements within assigned regions

**Educational Requirements:**

- BA/MA in Gender Studies, Social Work, Law, Human Rights, International Development, or a related social science field

**Preferred Experience & Skills:**

- A minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience for first degree or 5 years for diploma holders, and 1 year of experience for postgraduate degree

- NGO experience, specifically in safeguarding, PSEAH, protection, or GBV programming

- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering safeguarding/PSEA training and supporting organizational capacity strengthening with local partners or CSOs

- Strong understanding of PSEA principles, survivor-centered approaches, and relevant international standards

- Excellent facilitation, coaching, and training skills, with the ability to adapt technical content for diverse partner capacities

- Strong relationship-management and diplomacy skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and secure commitment from partner leadership

- Good computer skills in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and experience with data collection or case management tools

- Self-motivated, with strong organizational, planning, and analytical skills, and the ability to manage multiple partners and competing priorities

- Demonstrated commitment to confidentiality, discretion, and survivor-centered, ethical handling of sensitive information

- Willingness and ability to travel frequently to field and partner locations across IRC's operational regions (up to 50–60%)

**Language Skills:**

- Strong oral and written communication skills in English and Amharic; knowledge of other local languages is an advantage

## Skills

### Required
- PSEA training
- safeguarding
- capacity strengthening
- partner management
- Amharic

### Nice to have
- NGO experience
- safeguarding experience
- PSEAH experience
- GBV programming experience

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