Victim care officer volunteer roles
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About Us
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil CIC is a grassroots movement committed to confronting and eradicating Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) across the UK. We give survivors, families, and allies the power to speak out, heal and educate communities through storytelling, outreach, and collective action. We work across all communities - Black, white, Asian, Caribbean, African and beyond, ensuring no survivor feels alone or silenced. Our CIC operates through a community-driven, volunteer-led structure, built by people who believe in truth, justice, and love as law.
This Role Is Not Symbolic. It Is Structural.
Safeguarding is not a policy document; It is not a checkbox; It is not a compliance exercise. In this CIC, safeguarding is the infrastructure that allows the work to exist at all.
We work with:
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Survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA)
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Vulnerable adults
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Young people
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Ex-offenders
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Volunteers with lived trauma
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Communities historically failed by institutions
If safeguarding fails, everything fails. This role exists to make sure that never happens.
Purpose of the Safeguarding Officer Role
The Safeguarding Officer is responsible for designing, implementing, and protecting the safeguarding framework that allows the CIC to operate safely, ethically, and lawfully at scale.
This role ensures:
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Survivors are protected, not re-exposed
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Volunteers are supported, not exploited
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Risks are identified early, not ignored
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Safeguarding is embedded into every system, not bolted on
About the role:
To design and uphold safeguarding systems that protect survivors, volunteers and the organisation, ensuring safety, ethics and legal compliance are built into every practice as the CIC grows. Safeguarding is the infrastructure that allows the work to "SAFELY" exist at all.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Experience in safeguarding within:
Charity; Statutory services; Education; Health; Grassroots or community settings
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Experience working with vulnerable adults and/or children.
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Strong understanding of trauma-informed practice.
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Ability to respond to disclosures calmly and appropriately.
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Experience writing and implementing safeguarding policies.
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Risk assessment and incident management experience.
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Understanding of UK safeguarding legislation and guidance.
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Confidence challenging unsafe practice at any level.
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Ability to balance care with boundaries.
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Strong judgement under pressure.
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Clear written documentation skills.
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Capacity to work unpaid and full-time during build phase.
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Emotional regulation and professional restraint.
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Integrity, steadiness and clarity.
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
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Design, implement, and maintain a safeguarding framework that protects survivors, volunteers, members and the organisation.
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Develop and own safeguarding policies, procedures and reporting pathways covering:
- Adults and children at risk
- Volunteers and peer supporters
- Digital spaces, storytelling, and online engagement
- Ensure safeguarding is embedded into:
- Recruitment and onboarding
- Training and supervision
- Programme design and delivery
- Digital systems and data handling
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Establish clear risk assessment processes for activities, campaigns, and content.
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Act as the safeguarding lead for concerns, disclosures, and incidents, ensuring:
- Timely, appropriate responses
- Accurate recording
- Correct escalation to statutory agencies where required
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Build systems that prevent re-exposure, re-traumatisation, or exploitation of survivors.
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Ensure volunteers are supported, supervised and not placed in unsafe or inappropriate roles.
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Advise leadership on safeguarding risks, capacity limits and ethical boundaries.
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Deliver safeguarding guidance and training proportionate to role and risk.
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Monitor safeguarding practice across teams and intervene early where drift appears.
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Work closely with Digital, Membership, Fundraising, and Social teams to manage risk in:
- Storytelling
- Online engagement
- Data use
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Maintain professional distance and emotional steadiness when handling complex situations.
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Review and update safeguarding systems as the CIC scales.
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Contribute to external accountability and transparency where appropriate.
You must:
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Be able to commit 80% dedication during the build phase
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Be comfortable working unpaid while the CIC is being built
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Be emotionally grounded and professionally boundaries
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Understand trauma without centring yourself
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Be able to hold complexity without collapsing into control or avoidance
You should have experience in some of the following:
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Safeguarding (statutory, charity, education, health, or grassroots)
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Working with vulnerable adults and/or children
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Trauma-informed practice
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Policy development and implementation
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Risk assessment and incident management
Formal qualifications are welcome but not essential - Integrity, clarity and steadiness are.
This role is not for you if:
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You want safeguarding to be “light touch”
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You avoid difficult conversations
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You seek authority without responsibility
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You are uncomfortable challenging leadership when needed
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You are looking for a title rather than accountability
What You Gain:
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A founding leadership role in a CIC tackling real harm
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The chance to build safeguarding the right way
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Influence over how protection, care, and accountability coexist
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The opportunity to shape a future paid safeguarding role
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Deep purpose-driven work that actually protects people
As the CIC scales, this role is expected to evolve into a paid senior safeguarding position, shaped by the person who built it.
Formal qualifications are not required, but desirable.
Essential equivalent experience mandatory.
Next Steps:
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to:
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A values-led conversation
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A practical discussion about event planning, coordination, and execution
If you believe that well-organised, purposeful events can change communities, and that experiences inspire action, this role is for you.
A Final Word
Safeguarding is an act of love.
It is also an act of discipline.
If you know that:
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Survivors deserve better systems
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Vulnerable people deserve real protection
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Community work must be safe to be sustainable
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
This Role Is Where Trust Is Built—or Lost
At Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C., social media is not a marketing channel. It is often the first place someone tells the truth. The first place a survivor speaks. The first place a young person asks for help, direction, or hope. The Social Media Engagement Officer is the human presence behind our platforms — responding, guiding, holding boundaries, and directing people safely into the right parts of our ecosystem. This is not a growth-hacking role. This is a trust, discernment, and care role.
Purpose of the Role
The Social Media Engagement Officer ensures that every interaction on our digital platforms is:
- Human, not automated
- Trauma-aware, not reactive
- Boundaried, not extractive
- Purpose-led, not performative
You are the bridge between content and community — between attention and action.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential experience
- Experience in community engagement, online community management, moderation, or customer support where tone, safety, and trust matter.
- Experience communicating in sensitive contexts (e.g., advocacy, youth work, frontline/community roles, safeguarding-adjacent environments).
- Experience handling challenging messages, conflict, harassment, or emotionally charged content with professionalism and calm judgement.
Essential skills & qualities
- Strong written communication skills, including the ability to respond clearly, respectfully, and consistently in public and private channels.
- Emotional regulation and resilience when exposed to distressing content, survivor stories, or hostile interactions.
- Reliability, discretion, and strong boundaries, including comfort following protocols and escalating without delay.
- Ability to apply trauma-informed language and maintain C.I.C tone-of-voice without offering counselling or personal advice.
- Ability to triage and route people appropriately (donations, volunteering, VFAP, podcast submissions, resources) using approved pathways.
- Attention to detail for logging patterns, risks, and recurring needs, and sharing structured feedback with the team.
Desirable
- Experience engaging across multiple platforms (TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube, LinkedIn) and adapting tone to platform norms.
- Familiarity with safeguarding principles, escalation workflows, and online safety practices.
Training & support provided
- Safeguarding protocols and escalation pathways.
- Platform-specific engagement standards and tone-of-voice guidance.
- Escalation and reporting systems, including how to log risks and recurring themes.
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Monitor comments, replies, and DMs across C.I.C platforms to maintain a safe, respectful, and survivor-centred community environment.
- Respond consistently in alignment with C.I.C values and tone, using trauma-informed language and maintaining clear safeguarding boundaries at all times.
- Direct individuals to the correct pathways and resources, including donation routes, volunteer onboarding, VFAP (Violence-Free Action Pathway), podcast submissions, and approved support information.
- Identify and flag safeguarding concerns immediately to the appropriate role, ensuring that potential risk is not held in engagement channels.
- Escalate high-risk messages using agreed protocols, prioritising urgent or concerning disclosures, threats, harassment, or boundary breaches.
- Help maintain comment spaces that are respectful and free from harassment, minimisation, victim-blaming, grooming behaviour, or abusive language, taking action in line with moderation guidance.
- Support healthy engagement by encouraging constructive dialogue, de-escalating where appropriate, and reinforcing community standards without argument or defensiveness.
- Log patterns, risks, and recurring community needs (e.g., common questions, frequent triggers, misinformation themes, safeguarding hotspots) and feed insights back to the team.
- Work closely with Community Moderation & Safety, Safeguarding, and Campaign/Content teams to ensure joined-up responses and consistent public-facing messaging.
- Maintain confidentiality, discretion, and professional boundaries; you do not counsel, diagnose, or provide emotional support — you route safely and responsibly.
This role is not suitable if you:
- Want to debate or argue online
- Struggle with emotional boundaries
- Seek influencer-style engagement
- Want creative control over content
- Are unable to follow safeguarding procedures strictly
This is not about visibility — it is about responsibility.
Important to Be Clear
- This is a volunteer role during the build phase
- It carries real responsibility and trust
- Emotional maturity is essential
- Paid roles will emerge as the organisation becomes financially sustainable
Next Steps
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to:
- A values-led conversation
- A short scenario-based engagement discussion
If you believe that how we respond matters as much as what we post, and that care is an operational function, not a feeling, this role is for you.
A Final Word
Social media is about people, not platforms.
If you know that:
- Trust is built through presence, care, and consistency
- Boundaries are a form of protection, not distance
- Privacy and consent are safeguarding responsibilities
- How we respond matters as much as what we post
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
GFS is a charity dedicated to enabling girls and young women to become unstoppable. We are seeking people who are committed to gender equality, passionate about youth development, and who value safe, inclusive spaces for girls and young women.
Roles: Various Trustee positions, including Safeguarding, HR and Treasurer
As a Trustee you will provide leadership and contribute to the Board of Trustees enabling the fulfilment of responsibilities for the overall governance and strategic direction of GFS.
We are looking for Trustees who care deeply about our mission and who bring experience, skills and enthusiasm to help steer the charity into its next chapter.
- The Treasurer is a member of the GFS Board of Trustees and is responsible for leading the Board’s oversight of the organisation’s financial strategy, governance, and sustainability.
- The Safeguarding Trustee provides strategic leadership and assurance on all aspects of safeguarding across GFS. They ensure that the Board of Trustees fulfils its collective duty to protect all children, young people, and adults at risk who come into contact with GFS’s activities.
- We are also looking for Trustees with experience in Human Resources and being part of People teams.
- See Treasurer and HR Trustee roles for more details.
The Safeguarding Trustee provides strategic leadership and assurance on all aspects of safeguarding across GFS. They ensure that the Board of Trustees fulfils its collective duty to protect all children, young people, and adults at risk who come into contact with GFS’s activities. Working closely with the Chair, CEO, and Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL), this trustee champions a proactive safeguarding culture built on trust, transparency, and accountability. Key Responsibilities:
- Ensuring that the values and mission of GFS are upheld in all of the decisions and decision-making processes of the Board.
- Contributing actively to the Board’s discussions on the strategic plans for GFS and supporting the Leadership Team to implement them.
- Lead the Board’s responsibility for safeguarding and ensure statutory and regulatory obligations are met.
- Review, approve, and monitor safeguarding policies, ensuring they are updated regularly and effectively implemented.
- Provide assurance that safeguarding risks are identified, managed, and escalated appropriately.
- Offer informed scrutiny and constructive challenge to ensure safeguarding remains a strategic priority.
- Receive regular updates from the DSL and senior leadership, and report key issues and learning to the Board.
- Promote awareness, understanding, and accountability for safeguarding across the organisation, including among volunteers and trustees.
- Keep up to date with safeguarding developments, legislation, and best practice in the charity and youth sectors.
- Act as a visible ambassador for safeguarding, attending relevant committees, events, or training sessions as required.
Time Committment
- Board Members serve an initial three-year term and are eligible for reappointment for an additional term.
- Three Virtual Board meetings and an in person in either in Central London or a central city (meetings are currently held on Saturdays).
- Occasional strategy days, workshops or working groups. Quarterly Sub - Committee membership depending on skills and capacity.
- Regular liaison with the Chair and DSL (typically 3–4 times per year).
Closing date: Monday 16 th February, 9am
Optional Q&A Session: To be booked individually by contacting our recruitment team.
Interviews: Thursday 26th and Friday 27th February
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Solace is seeking to recruit 3 new Shadow Board members, with lived experience of VAWG to work alongside and act as a critical friend to the Board of Trustees. We are looking to culminate a diverse Shadow Board with a range of expertise and skills, to work together with the Board of Trustees in fulfilling responsibilities for the strategic direction and overall governance of the organisation.
By joining our Shadow Board, you will have the exciting and important opportunity to use your lived experience, skills and expertise to drive the success of a growing organisation that makes a profound and positive impact on the lives of women and girls who have suffered from violence and abuse.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
Solace exists to end the harm done through gender-based violence. Our aim is to work to prevent violence and abuse.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Join Us as a Trustee – Help Shape a Safer Future
About the Role
We are seeking passionate and committed individuals to join our Board of Trustees. As a trustee, you’ll play a vital role in helping shape the strategic direction of the charity, ensuring good governance and supporting our leadership team to deliver high-quality, impactful services.
What We’re Looking For
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We are especially keen to hear from individuals with experience in any of the following areas:
- Estate and Property Strategy/ Management
- Health and Safety
- Finance
You do not need previous board experience—we provide a full induction and support. What matters most is your commitment to our values and your willingness to contribute your time, insights, and passion.
Why Join Us?
- Make a real difference to the lives of clients
- Gain strategic and governance experience
- Be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team
- Help champion equity and amplify the voices of those often unheard
Trustee Duties
- Support and provide advice on Safer Places’ purpose, vision, goals and activities
- Approve operational strategies and policies and monitor and evaluate their implementation
- Oversee Safer Places’ financial plans and budgets and monitor and evaluate progress
- Ensure the effective and efficient administration of the organisation
- Ensure that key risks are being identified, monitored and controlled effectively Review and approve Safer Places’ financial statements
- Keep abreast of changes in the operating environment
- Contribute to regular reviews of Safer Places’ own governance.
- Attend Board meetings, adequately prepared to contribute to discussions
- Use independent judgment, acting legally and in good faith to promote and protect Safer Places’ interests, to the exclusion of personal and/or any third-party interests
- Contribute to the broader promotion of Safer Places’ objects, aims and reputation by applying your skills, expertise, knowledge and contacts
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.