Your core responsibilities
Strategic Safeguarding Leadership: Lead and continuously strengthen the school-wide safeguarding and child protection framework, policies, procedures, and culture. Safeguarding Coordination & Case Management: Act as the senior point of coordination and escalation, ensuring concerns are appropriately assessed, documented, referred, and followed up in a timely, child-centered manner. Leadership Advice & Governance: Advise school leadership, counsellors, HR, and relevant staff on safeguarding thresholds, actions, allegations, and governance reporting while maintaining confidentiality. Training, Prevention & Safer Recruitment: Build safeguarding capacity through staff training, practical guidance, safer recruitment, induction, codes of conduct, and effective management of concerns involving adults. External Partnerships & Records Management: Maintain strong relationships with Austrian child and youth welfare services, authorities, and specialist providers, while ensuring secure, accurate, and compliant safeguarding records. Your profile
Qualifications: Degree in social work, psychology, child protection, safeguarding, child development, youth welfare, counselling, public health, or a related field, with relevant safeguarding and case management training. Experience: Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in child protection, safeguarding, social services, youth welfare, or school wellbeing, including complex case management and safeguarding leadership. Knowledge: Strong understanding of child protection, safeguarding, trauma, abuse, online harm, safer recruitment, data protection, and Austrian child and youth welfare pathways. Languages: Excellent English and basic German, with the ability to communicate effectively with Austrian authorities and understand official documentation. Mindset: Discreet, emotionally mature, and child-centered, with sound judgement, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage sensitive cases and competing priorities in a multicultural environment. What we offer
Purpose & Impact: A meaningful, high-level role where your work directly safeguards a diverse, values-driven educational community. Work-Life Integration: A welcoming, stable, and highly professional school environment that offers a sustainable alternative to traditional billable-hour corporate cultures. Attractive Compensation: Attractive salary classified under Employment Group F of the collective agreement (KV für Angestellte im Handel), featuring a standard 30% school-specific overpayment (starting at a minimum of € 52,402.00 up to € 77,252.00 annual gross salary, with higher placement based on relevant years of experience). Holiday entitlement: 30 days annual leave + 4 additional all-staff school holidays Additional Benefits: 5% company top-up pension contribution, continuous professional development opportunities, and state-of-the-art campus facilities. Please note that a valid residence title and work permit for Austria is required. Vienna International School The VIS HR Team Straße der Menschenrechte 1, 1220 Wien Email: recruiting@vis.ac.at www.vis.ac.at
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