Senior Manager, Safeguarding

Senior Manager, Safeguarding

Together for Girls works around the world and combines state-of-the-art data with powerful advocacy to end violence against children and adolescents, especially sexual violence. Through data and advocacy, TfG drives action to break cycles of violence and ensure prevention, healing, and justice. By connecting the dots between understanding the problem, identifying effective solutions, tracking progress, and mobilizing for action, TfG creates a synergistic effect that amplifies its impact and drives toward its ultimate goal of creating a safer world for children and adolescents.

Grounded in 19 years of data from the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS), which provide a clear picture of the problem, we drive coordinated action through three initiatives that collectively contribute to ending violence against children. The Safe Futures Solutions Hub shares evidence and practice-based knowledge to inform effective prevention and response efforts, ensuring access to proven solutions across sectors. The Brave Movement mobilizes survivors and allies worldwide to drive political will, influence policy, and ensure that inaction is not an option. Finally, the Out of the Shadows Index tracks countries’ progress in addressing violence, providing an accountability framework and benchmark for advocacy. Together, these initiatives form a powerful model that transforms evidence into collective action for prevention, healing, and justice.

We are a nimble and highly impactful team that continues to grow and evolve. We work with a broad range of organizations, researchers, and advocates to drive change.

Position Overview

TfG is seeking a strategic and experienced Senior Manager of Safeguarding to lead and operationalize our safeguarding approach for individuals with lived experience of violence as well as allies participating in advocacy, movement-building, and public-facing spaces. This person will serve as the safeguarding focal point for TfG and Brave Movement events globally, embedding trauma-informed, risk-aware, and dignity-centered practices into planning and implementation. The role ensures that safeguarding is proactively integrated into the work of all organization initiatives – not retrofitted after the fact – and that all participants are supported with psychological, safety, consent, and respect for lived experience.

This position focuses specifically on safeguarding in advocacy and movement-building contexts involving individuals 18 years of age and older and is distinct from child safeguarding compliance. Together for Girls does not engage anyone under the age of 18 in these spaces. In close collaboration with cross-functional teams, the role will strengthen TfG’s institutional safeguarding practices, build a global network of psychosocial support providers, and ensure that individuals with lived experience and allies can engage safely, meaningfully and confidently.

This role reports to the Deputy Director of Membership & Movement Building, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Organizational Safeguarding Lead to ensure alignment across TfG’s broader safeguarding systems and policies.

Responsibilities and Duties

Safeguarding Leadership

• Act as the safeguarding focal point for TfG and Brave Movement events, embedding safety through grounding and briefing processes, guiding staff and partners on safeguarding expectations, facilitating debriefs, and providing real-time oversight, delivery, and response to emerging concerns
• Ensure comprehensive safeguarding risk assessments are completed for all convenings
• Recommend, document, and support implementation of context-specific mitigation strategies
• Refine and develop, as necessary, safeguarding protocols for public storytelling spaces, campaign & advocacy events, media engagements, movement gatherings, virtual planning and co-creation spaces
• Advise on consent processes, power dynamics, and participant wellbeing
• Ensure psychological safety is proactively designed into meeting agendas and facilitation plans
• Liaise with external psychosocial support providers for events and planning processes
• Build and maintain a global network of trauma-informed providers in regions where TfG operates
• Work directly with members of the Brave Movement to learn and evolve our safeguarding approach and delivery
• Oversee crisis management and escalation pathways for serious incidents or emerging concerns, ensuring timely response and appropriate reporting.
• Monitor and evaluate safeguarding outcomes, tracking implementation and reporting on the effectiveness of protocols to inform continuous improvement.

Training & Capacity Building

• Design and deliver safeguarding and trauma-informed engagement trainings for TfG staff, Brave Movement members, national platforms, consultants and facilitators, and external partners
• Develop practical toolkits and guidance on engagement of individuals with lived experience
• Stay current on global best practices and emerging trends, advising leadership on policy and systems improvements

Cross-Organizational Leadership

• Partner with cross-functional teams across the organization to embed trauma-informed principles
• Ensure safeguarding considerations are integrated early into project design
• Manage safeguarding-related budgets for events and provider engagement, ensuring responsible resource allocation, and contribute safeguarding inputs and documentation to donor reports as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Degree in psychology, social work, trauma studies, public health, or related field or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 6 years of experience in trauma-informed programming, survivor advocacy, safeguarding, or psychosocial support roles
• Demonstrated experience supporting individuals with lived experience in advocacy or public-facing contexts
• Experience conducting risk assessments and mitigation planning, with ability to guide teams on safety protocols
• Skilled in facilitating psychologically safe group processes and mentoring staff in trauma-informed approaches
• Strong understanding of ethical storytelling and consent practices
• Experience working in global, cross-cultural contexts
• Deep commitment to trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and equity-based practice
• Strong situational judgment, crisis response capability and decision-making under pressure
• Demonstrated emotional intelligence, cultural humility and ability to influence stakeholders at multiple levels
• Fluency in English, required
• Additional language skills in Spanish and/or French, desired

Background

Violence against children and adolescents is a prevalent and devastating global crisis. Sexual violence is a notable taboo, and often hidden, form of violence. Across the globe, one in five girls and one in seven boys will experience sexual violence in childhood - that’s three girls and two boys every second. Childhood sexual violence takes on many forms and it can happen to anyone.

We need a world where every child and adolescent is safe, protected, and thriving. Decades of research show how effective solutions can prevent sexual violence, with policies and programs to ensure survivors access healing and justice.

Together for Girls was created to work across sectors with a comprehensive and holistic approach to preventing and responding to violence. We understand that a multi-faceted problem like violence requires a multi-sectoral, radically collaborative solutions. Our partners include survivor activists, civil society, national governments, United Nations entities, and the world’s foremost leaders in global health, gender equity, development, and violence prevention and response.

Location & Ways of Working

This position is a full-time position that can be based in Kenya or the United Kingdom. Applicants should have work authorization for their preferred location. This is a remote position with the expectation to travel to attend in-person meetings and events. This position will also require travel up to 25%.

All team members are expected to be available during Together for Girls’ core working hours of 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. The other four hours that the team member chooses to work are flexible and may be coordinated with their supervisor.

Compensation

This role offers a competitive salary adjusted to the cost of labor in the city where the candidate resides. Final salary within this location adjusted range will also be determined by the candidate’s qualifications and years and type of experience.

For example, the annual salary for the position for a candidate based in:

• Nairobi, Kenya will be Ksh6,228,750 - Ksh7,230,260
• London, United Kingdom will be £65,300 - £73,340

Together for Girls offers competitive pay, paid leave, and comprehensive health insurance. Specific benefits vary by country.

Culture and Values

Together for Girls seeks to create a courageous, inclusive, and flexible culture that empowers our staff to have the capacity and ability to deliver change. We strive to build and maintain psychological safety, trust, and accountability among team members in order to foster honesty and openness about our needs and challenges while also prioritizing self-care. We are a rapidly expanding organization that requires staff to be nimble and flexible, comfortable with uncertainty and able to adapt in real time to emerging opportunities.

Application Information

Together for Girls, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and committed to maintaining an inclusive and diverse working environment free from discrimination and harassment. Qualified applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applications accepted through April 15, 2026.

Together for Girls, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the U.S.

NOTICE—All job candidates must apply online and submit an application through our official process. Together for Girls does not send unsolicited job offers

Fluency in English, required

Additional language skills in Spanish and/or French, desired