Fsc Safeguarding Advisor

**FSC Safeguarding Advisor** **-** **UK**

**Title**:FSC Safeguarding Advisor -UK

**Status**:80-100% role, with flexibility around preferred working pattern. Employed by: Global Fund for Children

**Reports to**:FSC Technical Director

**Location**:UK based. Hybrid working between home and the GFC UK office in Central London.

**Salary**:Up to £55,000 per annum, pro rata, dependent on experience.

Global Fund for Children
Global Fund for Children partners to build a world where all youth are safe, strong, and valued. We pursue this mission by investing in innovative, locally led organizations, helping them deepen their impact and build their capacity for social change.

**Funder Safeguarding Collaborative**
The Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC) is committed to building a world where safety and wellbeing are at the heart of every organisation. We are a thriving network of grant
- making organisations who are driving action within their own organisations and the organisations they fund in order to create cultures and practices that keep people safe.

FSC achieves change through three mutually reinforcing strategies. We generate new knowledge and evidence about safeguarding in grant-making to improve the impact of funder practices. We then share this knowledge through creating spaces for dialogue, reflection and learning to increase awareness and commitment to safeguarding among funders. Finally, provide specialist technical support to funders to help them implement safeguarding effectively and will work with others to ensure access to high quality safeguarding support for grantee partners.

Our work is underpinned by our four core values:

- **Champion Safety**:We believe that everyone has the right to be safe and a duty to take action to

prevent harm and promote the wellbeing of others.
- **Promote Continuous Learning**:We acknowledge what we don't know, value the knowledge that diverse

voices bring, and commit to continually learning, adapting, and then learning some more.
- **Build Trusting Relationships**:We cultivate relationships based on mutual trust and respect,

creating inclusive spaces where individuals feel safe to ask questions, learn from mistakes, and

improve their practices.
- **Challenge Power Imbalances**:We actively identify and challenge power imbalances and structural

inequalities that get in the way of building safer organisations.

FSC is nested within Global Fund for Children who provide administrative support and technical expertise to develop and grow the Collaborative.

**Position Summary**
FSC's team of Safeguarding Advisors bring context-specific knowledge and expertise to ensure our

work reflects the specific opportunities and challenges in embedding safeguarding across distinct

legal, social and cultural contexts.

UK funders represent a significant proportion of overall FSC membership, and the number of members is likely to grow in the future. In order to meet the needs of UK members, it is essential that the resources and technical support provided by FSC, reflects the specific legal and regulatory requirements across the four home nations.

Reporting to the Technical Director, the Safeguarding Advisor - UK will play a key role in developing and delivering FSC's strategy in the UK. In addition to developing and delivering technical support and training, the Regional Advisor will be responsible for identifying and implementing new ways to raise awareness and improve safeguarding practice among

funders in the UK.

**Technical Support (approx. 50%)**
- Provide technical support and capacity building to individual UK members. This includes but is

not limited to reviewing policies and procedures, development and delivery of training and briefing

sessions, coaching and mentoring.
- Contribute to the development of FSC's suite of technical support, reviewing and adapting FSC tools and materials to meet the needs of UK members.
- In collaboration with the FSC Technical Director, develop and facilitate training programmes for

UK funders.

**Member offer (approx. 25%)**
- Plan and coordinate membership offer for UK members based on identified needs and member requests. This includes:

- Facilitate FSC's quarterly UK Peer Learning Circles (online & in person), including providing updates on changes in legislation, regulations and best practice in the UK.
- Contribute to the development of other member learning spaces by identifying topics of relevance to UK members and facilitating workshops, webinars or other learning spaces.
- Act as the point of contact for UK members, cultivating strong relationships, responding to queries and maintaining regular contact and providing support as per membership agreements.
- Work closely with FSC Membership Officer identifying and implementing strategies to enhance the member experience and promote engagement.

**Knowledge Generation and Learning (approx. 10%)**
- Monitor and share changes in legislation, guidance and best practice i