Safeguarding Officer at FAWE Tanzania Chapter – November 2026

One Position | Full-Time

About FAWE Tanzania Chapter

The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Tanzania Chapter has a rich history rooted in a visionary commitment to gender equity in education. Since its inception, FAWE Tanzania has remained committed to promoting gender equality in education nationwide.

As an integral member of a broader network spanning 34 chapters across Sub-Saharan Africa, the chapter actively collaborates with government entities, local communities, schools, and international organizations to foster an inclusive educational environment.

Position Summary

The Safeguarding Officer will be responsible for assisting the organization in providing a wide range of essential, high-quality safeguarding services. The officer will serve as the contact person for safeguarding matters involving staff and all FAWE stakeholders, in accordance with the FAWE Safeguarding Policy.

The Safeguarding Officer is expected to adhere to the highest principles of confidentiality, honesty, and impartial treatment when handling staff matters, disputes, and safeguarding concerns.

This is a full-time position offered under a renewable, one-year, performance-based contract, subject to the achievement of organizational goals and availability of programme funding.

Location: FAWE Tanzania Chapter Office, Dar es Salaam, with occasional travel to project sites within Tanzania and other FAWE chapters in Africa.

Reporting To: FAWE Tanzania National Coordinator.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

1. Safeguarding Policies and Compliance

• Maintain, review, and recommend updates to the organization’s Safeguarding Policy and related procedures at least annually, or whenever changes in legislation, regulatory guidance, or organizational context require revision.

• Ensure that safeguarding policies, procedures, and reporting mechanisms are effectively communicated, accessible, understood, and implemented by all staff, volunteers, consultants, and relevant stakeholders.

• Ensure organizational safeguarding practices comply with applicable national child protection, vulnerable adult protection, and other relevant legal and regulatory requirements.

• Promote a strong safeguarding culture that encourages reporting of concerns, protects individuals from retaliation, and prioritizes the safety, dignity, rights, and well-being of children and vulnerable adults.

2. Training and Awareness

– Coordinate safeguarding induction, annual refresher training, and periodic awareness sessions for staff, volunteers, consultants, and programme participants to strengthen safeguarding knowledge and prevention practices.

3. Safeguarding Case Management and Reporting

• Serve as the primary focal person for receiving, recording, assessing, and coordinating responses to safeguarding concerns, disclosures, allegations, and incidents in accordance with organizational procedures.

• Maintain the FAWE Network Safeguarding Incident Register and ensure secure, confidential, and access-controlled documentation of all safeguarding concerns, actions taken, referrals, and outcomes.

• Coordinate appropriate referrals to relevant health, psychosocial, legal aid, statutory child protection, and law enforcement services, and follow up to ensure affected individuals receive appropriate support.

• Promptly escalate serious safeguarding incidents and allegations to the Executive Director, Board of Directors, or relevant governance bodies in accordance with established reporting procedures and applicable legal obligations.

• Ensure that survivors and affected individuals receive appropriate support and assistance, regardless of whether they choose to participate in an investigation or case management process.

• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries and ensure that criminal allegations are not independently investigated unless formally designated and appropriately trained to do so, and never where a conflict of interest exists.

4. Recruitment and Human Resource Safeguarding

– Coordinate safeguarding-related aspects of staff and volunteer recruitment in collaboration with the Human Resources Department, including safeguarding declarations, reference checks, background checks where applicable, and safeguarding considerations during interviews.

5. Programme Safeguarding and Risk Management

• Support programme teams in conducting safeguarding risk assessments before implementing activities involving children and vulnerable adults, including scholarships, mentoring, residential activities, school clubs, transport, research, and media engagements.

• Escalate high residual risks to the Executive Director for approval and ensure activities do not proceed where risks cannot be adequately managed.

• Ensure the application of the FAWE Tanzania Informed Consent Package in collecting and using photographs, videos, personal stories, research information, and other engagements involving children and vulnerable adults.

• Ensure that refusal to provide consent or assent does not affect access to programme services.

• Ensure programme participants have access to safe, accessible, and confidential safeguarding reporting channels, including at least one reporting mechanism that does not require reporting through an individual who may be implicated in the concern.

6. Partner and Stakeholder Safeguarding

• Assess the safeguarding capacity of partner organizations before entering into funding or programme implementation arrangements, and recommend appropriate capacity-strengthening measures where gaps are identified.

• Ensure partnership agreements include appropriate safeguarding obligations, including requirements for partners to report allegations of trafficking, exploitation, abuse, or other serious safeguarding concerns linked to FAWE-funded programmes or personnel within 24 hours of becoming aware of such concerns.

• Ensure that consultants, visitors, suppliers, and service providers who may interact with programme participants are appropriately briefed on safeguarding requirements and acknowledge relevant policies and codes of conduct before engagement, as applicable.

7. Reporting and Programme Development

• Prepare and submit regular safeguarding reports, at least monthly to management and to the Board of Directors where required, highlighting reported concerns, emerging risks, trends, actions taken, and recommendations while maintaining strict confidentiality.

• Participate in developing programme proposals and concept notes by providing safeguarding inputs, identifying relevant protection risks, and recommending appropriate safeguarding measures for proposed projects.

• Identify and share relevant funding opportunities that support safeguarding, child protection, gender equality, and the organization’s broader programme objectives.

• Represent FAWE Tanzania in relevant safeguarding, child protection, and programme partnership forums, meetings, and technical working groups when assigned.

• Perform any other related duties as may be assigned by the supervisor from time to time, consistent with the responsibilities and objectives of the position.

Qualification Requirements

Applicants should meet the following requirements:

• At least a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university in Education, Human Resource Management, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related social science discipline.

• A postgraduate qualification in any of the above disciplines will be an added advantage.

• At least seven (7) years of working experience in the education system as a teacher, lecturer, school administrator, counsellor, or in similar roles.

• At least five (5) years of previous field experience in a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).

• Demonstrable experience in developing, implementing, and embedding safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures.

• Knowledge of Human Resource policies, procedures, and processes.

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Good knowledge of MS Office applications and other ICT platforms, with the ability to learn quickly.

• High integrity and the ability to handle confidential or sensitive information.

• Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds.

Application Procedure

Applications will be reviewed immediately upon receipt, and only complete applications will be considered. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications early.

Applicants should submit the following documents:

• Updated CV.

• Cover letter.

Application Format: Combine the CV and cover letter into one PDF document.

Send Applications To: National Coordinator, FAWE Tanzania Chapter.

Application Email: recruitment@fawetanzania.or.tz

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