Senior Safeguarding and Education Advisor - Safeguarding and Integrity

Senior Safeguarding and Education Advisor - Safeguarding and Integrity

The England and Wales Cricket Board is the national governing body for cricket in England and Wales, supporting the game at every level, covering the recreational and professional games. The goal of the ECB is for cricket to be the most inclusive team sport, through delivering the Inspiring Generations strategy and fulfilling the ECB purpose to connect communities and improve lives through cricket.

Location England and Wales - 3 days a week working out in the network or at an ECB office location, NW8 8QZ Organisation England and Wales Cricket Board

About Senior Safeguarding and Education Advisor - Safeguarding and Integrity

The ECB Board has the power to set standards in relation to on and off field activity and does so through regulations. The ECB General Counsel has executive responsibility for the ECB regulations, reporting to the ECB Chief Executive. All proposed regulation must be scrutinised by the Regulatory Board, who advise the ECB Board.

YOU'LL LOVE THIS JOB IF

• You have a passion to design, create and deliver education and provide exceptional support within a safeguarding, anti-discrimination, discipline and integrity function across cricket
• You can lead a team of advisors to achieve consistent and robust provision across England and Wales whilst also supporting any counties allocated to you to achieve compliance by leading through example
• You have proven experience and skills within the Cricket Regulator functions along with a history of strong leadership and evidence of driving change within a team / network
• You are flexible, adaptable and can work under pressure

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Assisting the Head of Education & Support within Cricket Regulator departments i.e. discipline, anti-discrimination and integrity as well as safeguarding
• Supporting the Head of Education & Support with the operational delivery plan for the department
• Line Managing a team of County Safeguarding Advisors (x 3)
• Supporting CSAs with safeguarding cases when they do not meet threshold level and require additional cricket regulator guidance at county level
• Allocate work to CSAs through a risk-based approach being the responsible person throughout this process to ensure concerns are picked up promptly, responded to and reported on in a timely manner
• Providing guidance and sharing best practise on how counties can move towards compliance in safeguarding and strive for Leading Organisation status
• Strategic liaison with CEO's, Board Safeguarding Leads and Lead Officers to ensure consistent Safeguarding standards across the County network
• Deliver educational talks to professional game i.e. The Hundred & T20
• Lead on the audit & Quality Assurance Check process as required by the Head of Education & Support
• Ensure ECB Safe Hands policies and guidance are up to date
• Support development and implementation of digital safeguarding solutions including low-level safeguarding concerns within the Clue case management system.
• Develop and deliver safeguarding training to ensure the needs of the cricket network are met including Board Safeguarding Training, Committee Training etc

YOU'LL HAVE

• Experience of leading a team with proven track record of success
• Experience in a senior safeguarding role
• Knowledge of integrity across sport
• Excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills
• Confidence and ability to deliver training and host events / meetings / webinars
• Flexible, can-do attitude with a passion to create safer cultures and environments

YOU'LL RECEIVE

• Holiday - 25 days a year; and Volunteering - 2 days a year
• Private medical insurance and long-term sickness insurance
• Employee health cash-back plan
• Life assurance - four times your annual basic salary
• Enhanced family leave and pay
• Other competitive benefits, and access to support and development programmes

We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

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