Safeguarding Manager India region - International Schools Partnership (ISP)
(2024-11)
- Champion the Group's safeguarding agenda across all schools, promoting a culture of safety, accountability, and compliance.
- Advise senior management on significant safeguarding concerns, ensuring visibility of risks and effective mitigation strategies.
- Support the Group Safeguarding Manager for Asia and the Middle East in the periodic review of safeguarding policies and reporting structures.
- Maintain reporting systems that provide senior leadership with oversight of key safeguarding issues and actions taken.
- Identify areas of non-compliance within schools and support line management in taking corrective action to achieve compliance.
- Conduct comprehensive safeguarding audits across schools, aligned with school improvement plans, and develop action plans to mitigate risks.
- Provide ongoing advice, guidance, and support to Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) and Deputy DSLs (DDSLs).
- Support schools in completing and reviewing monthly safeguarding reports to ensure accuracy and accountability.
- Design, develop, and deliver Level 3 Advanced Safeguarding Training for DSLs, DDSLs, and leadership teams.
- Create in-house safeguarding training materials and deliver face-to-face and bite-size sessions during inset days and throughout the year.
- Assess schools' safeguarding training needs and support the regional safeguarding training strategy. Collaborate with HR and school leadership to ensure staff complete Safer Recruitment training in line with best practices.
- Translate and localize safeguarding training materials into Tamil for accessibility and regional relevance. Support implementation and optimization of safeguarding systems such as MyConcern and Smoothwall, ensuring correct configuration and real-time monitoring of alerts.
- Provide guidance on managing high-risk cases and ensuring effective use of digital safeguarding tools. Build strong relationships with DSLs across multiple schools and facilitate regional networking meetings.
- Maintain active communication channels (including WhatsApp groups) to promote collaboration and share safeguarding updates.
- Produce termly safeguarding newsletters highlighting best practices, case studies, and important updates. Oversee completion of mandatory safeguarding training via the Learning Hub and provide accessible alternative formats where needed.
- Support line management in addressing and resolving non-compliance issues promptly and effectively.
- Ensure adherence to all Group policies, including Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities, and Code of Conduct requirements.
- Collaborate with SLT, management teams, contractors, and consultants to maintain a consistent safeguarding standard across the region.
- Perform any additional safeguarding-related tasks assigned, contributing to continuous improvement of the safeguarding framework
Senior Consultant - Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Department, Government of Tamil Nadu
(2023-08 - 2024-11)
Headed the Program Management Unit as the Senior Consultant at Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Department - Deputed for "We safe" World Bank Project as a gender expert. The project aimed at boosting female labor force participation in non-farm and emerging sectors, the project helps women access quality jobs, incubation support, safe housing, and transportation. Through skill development, career guidance, and employment support services, it seeks to enhance women's economic opportunities and enable their participation in a wider range of occupations.
- Overall monitoring of all schemes implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Women Empowerment through the Heads of Department which includes ICDS, Social Welfare, Children Welfare and Special Services.
- Update, analyze, and scrutinize the implementation strategy, fixation of target, in respect of proposals received from Heads of Department. Collect and compile District-wise details on the implementation of all schemes, coverage of beneficiaries, allocation of expenditure, obtaining utilization certificate for onward transmission to Government of India, Proposal writing for variousSchems, concentration on the implementation, addressing the bottlenecks in the implementation of all schemes, impact
Head of Operation /Psycho-Social Expert in 181 WomenHelpline, Tamil Nadu - Amtex Systems
(2020-12 - 2023-08)
Head of Operations/Psycho-Social Expert of 181 Women Helpline, Tamil Nadu at Amtex Systems. 181 helpline is a Safe City Project of Tamil Nadu Government.
- Has successfully handled 65,000 Cases through Crisis Intervention which includes Crime Against Children, Domestic Violence, Dowry Harassments, Human Trafficking, Child Marriage, Child Sexual Abuse (POCSO), Forced Marriage, Rape, Sexual Violence, Cyber Crime, Murder, Emergencies, Rescues Cases, Child Labor, Mental Health Issues, Crime Against Senior Citizen, Legal Issues and Other Complaint & Queries related to empowerment of women.
- Formulated and monitored the implementation of SOP for the Helpline to ensure effective survival assistance and to enhance response time by 90% as per the service level agreement with the Social Welfare Department.
- Heading operations and managing complex budget and effectively follow up on internal and external audit recommendations.
- Monitoring and evaluating implementation of ServiceLevel Agreement (SLA).
- Single Point of Contact with the Social Welfare Department and other Government Referral Agencies. Developing and supervising a multi-disciplinary team in a cross-cultural setting.
- As a Psycho-Social Expert for the operations, have shared expertopinion & guidanceto One Stop Centers, Call Handlers & Victims on time basis to ensure need based assistance to victims of GBV.
- Trainer for Helpline Managers, Call responders at 181 Women Helpline on Call handling, case related subjectmatter specifically Rapid ResponseMechanism & process streaming.
- Training and Demonstrated self-awareness, leadership and interpersonal skills, capacity building, coaching and conflict management.
- Management of resourcemobilization, management and accounting.
Co Founder - NAKSHATRA - An NGO
(2012-12 - 2020-12)
Co-founder of NAKSHATRA an NGO – An Anti-trafficking and Rape Crisis Centre for both children and women. Established in 2012, NAKSHATRA is deeply committed to working against sexual violence against women, children, and gender-diverse throughout Tamil Nadu.
- Handled over 800 POCSO Cases in Tamilnadu
- Provided emotional and psychological assistance individually, ensured legal assistance, medicalassistance to sexually violated survivors and ensuring Quality Rehabilitation Support
- Conducted extensive awareness campaigns regularly on various themes including POCSO adding to as Gender sensitization, Sex and Sexuality, Health & Environmental awareness among policeofficials, teachers, school and college students and communities.
- Being the co-founder I had to ensure that my teammates to play their assigned roles and as if belief in volunteer service, to build their capacity and ensure commitment level was forever a challenge
- Was a regular Facilitator for Tamil Nadu Police conducting various training programs for police officers ranking from assistant commissioners, inspectors and sub-inspectors on child rights and the POCSO (Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences) Act which protects children from sexual offenses because Nakshatra NGO works closely with the law enforcement agency, the legal system and the victims and their family and plays the role of being a liaison who supports one another to ensure the maximu
