World Vision Australia is seeking a highly organised and purpose‑driven Child & Adult Safeguarding Coordinator to help ensure we remain a Child Safe organisation and continue protecting the children and adults we serve. This is a meaningful role supporting the day‑to‑day operations of our Safeguarding team across policy, incident management, training, and compliance.
Why join us (Part‑Time 0.8 FTE):
- Work four days per week with flexible hybrid arrangements
- Ideal for someone seeking balance while contributing to high‑impact safeguarding work
- Opportunity to grow your skills in a supportive, values‑driven team
About the role
In this role, you will coordinate and support key safeguarding activities across the organisation, ensuring WVA meets its legislative, regulatory, and donor requirements. You will work closely with the Child & Adult Safeguarding Manager and stakeholders across the business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support implementation and continuous improvement of safeguarding policy, practice and guidance across the organisation.
- Coordinate safeguarding incident reporting and support case management processes, documentation, and follow-up actions.
- Coordinate safeguarding training, communications, and awareness-raising activities, including maintaining safeguarding resources.
- Support compliance activities, reporting and workplanning to meet legislative, regulatory and donor requirements.
- Provide coordination support to safeguarding governance forums (e.g., scheduling, agendas and minutes).
What you’ll bring
- Relevant qualification (e.g., Social Sciences, International Development, Law) or equivalent experience.
- Strong coordination skills, including tracking actions and delivering to timeframes.
- Experience developing and delivering training and/or staff communications.
- Ability to communicate confidently with stakeholders across a large organisation.
- High integrity and discretion, with proven ability to manage confidential and sensitive information.
- Foundational knowledge and interest in safeguarding/child protection, reporting requirements and/or case management (desirable).
The Selection Process
For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We are committed to all children and adults being safe, well, and empowered through our programs, activities, management, and governance.
All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check.
Who we are
World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work. For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us
Apply now and be part of something bigger!
World Vision Australia is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation that is dedicated to transforming the lives of children and communities by tackling the causes of poverty. We are dedicated to increasing opportunities for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in line with our Reconciliation Action Plan
