Safeguarding Officer

Action against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation. 

In Lebanon, the Syrian crisis continues to generate political, social and economic pressure due to the war in Lebanon and keeps more than 1.5 million refugees in a situation of increasing vulnerability. In this environment of political, economic and social uncertainty, our teams have maintained their high levels of humanitarian response and aid to Lebanon. Likewise, our interventions have been maintained in the Bekaa and northern areas, as well as in the south of the country, with a special focus on working in partnership or in consortium with other organizations and on institutional strengthening of the relationship with both donors. institutional, such as with local authorities and entities.  

• Support Human Resources Coordinator in the implementation and the improvement of Safeguarding systems at the Country level, identifying safeguarding focal persons in the different bases and coordinating the dissemination of policies procedures and resources within the mission.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in safeguarding for staff through the dissemination of the internal online campus trainings and developing new materials for trainings.
• Work closely with ACF-Lebanon departments to map our referral system to ensure that safeguarding concerns are appropriately addressed.
• Reviewing and adapting the reporting mechanism in the whole mission making sure it is communicated to and understood by staff and external parties.
• Contribute to draft HR sops and policies documents in English and coordinate their translation
• Help with additional HR tasks related to recruitment, performance management or any other aspect whenever needed.

Action against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work such as but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial misconduct; We expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through endorsing our code of conduct and other related policies and only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.