Job Title: Safety and Security Manager
Job ID: 200004C2
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employee Status: Permanent
Child Safeguarding
- Level 3: The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in-country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
Role Purpose
- The Humanitarian Safety and Security Manager, Borno will work closely with the Humanitarian Response Team Leader, the National Safety & Security Manager and the Regional Security Manager to carry out safety and security assessments; make recommendations and provide support for their implementation by Humanitarian Response Team.
- The Safety and Security Manager will facilitate the implementation of Save the Children’s Safety and Security Policy and Standards within the Humanitarian Response and help drive systemic change in the quality of safety and security management and contribute to building Humanitarian Response compliance with safety and security Minimum Standards.
- S / he will also take forward the organisational security vision, mission and values. The post holder will play a key role in the capacity building of Safety & Security Focal Points in the deep field level and the response team members.
- The Safety and Security Manager will be expected to undertake a leadership role within the senior management team of the response and will provide safety and security advice for the Country Director, the Director of Program Operations and the Humanitarian Response Team Leader.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
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- Expertise in current safety and security context, practices and issues affecting aid work.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
- Minimum of 5 years progressive work experience in Security Management
- Experience of INGO security management/Adviser.
- Proven experience and understanding of humanitarian operations and understanding of programming in an emergency.
- Experience living and working in NE Nigeria or neighbouring states
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels, establish information and security networks, and coordinate with country authorities, militias, donors, International Organisations and local NGOs.
- Experience of working in hostile environments. Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously in a highly stressful and challenging environment.
- Proven training of trainers skills and proven experience of training multi-national staff
- Ability to formulate and communicate analysis of a changing security environment.
- Proven skills in concise and succinct report writing.
- Ability to prioritise security-related tasks and complete reports to deadlines.
- Fluent in Hausa and / or Kanuri
- Strong leadership skills and proven skills in managing a team in hostile environments
- Proven knowledge of MS office applications and IT literacy and capacity to learn and use other packages.
- Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children. In particular, a good understanding of the Save the Children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin all aspects of the job. Commitment to Save the Children Child Safeguarding policy.
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Deadline: August 14, 2020
Job Features
Job Category | Security / Intelligence |
Deadline | 14th August, 2020. |