Job Title: Security Officer
Locations: Borno and Yobe
Responsibilities
Humanitarian Access:
- Develop and implement humanitarian access strategies and approaches tailored to local contexts in field sites throughout his areas of operations in Borno and Yobe State.
- Work to ensure that SGDI, and its work in the areas of operations is known and accepted.
- Work to encourage stakeholders to work with SGDI in ensuring that staff and programs are safe and allowed to continue with humanitarian activities in areas of operations.
- Conduct training and development of Security teams and activities across areas of operations.
- oversee and advise on the implementation and review of tailored acceptance strategies.
- Enhance SGDI image and acceptance within the community and amongst stakeholders by providing guidance on inclusive visibility strategies.
- Work with appropriate SGDI units, including HR, to ensure timely and appropriate follow-up to violations of SGDI’s Code of Conduct, in addition to operational breaches to humanitarian principles.
Safety and Security Risk Management:
- Organize monthly Security Focal Group (SFG) Meeting.
- develop, consolidate and implement operating procedures and contingency plans.
- Develop and maintain a network of SGDI Security Focal Points and enhance gender balance.
- Maintain record of security training for staff.
- Ensure replenishment of hibernation kit, first aid kit.
- Update security incident database regularly.
Liaison, Networking, Analysis:
- Establish and maintain relations and networks in Yobe and Borno to facilitate understanding and influence on the humanitarian access environment.
- Identify barriers to access and develop strategies to address them in the area of responsibility, including hard-to-reach and contested areas, and establish partnerships to expand reach.
- Develop and maintain contact lists, stakeholder analyses and humanitarian access profiles in the area of responsibility.
- Day-to-day operations related to humanitarian access and liaison with authorities and other entities for administrative and substantive staff, program, and organizational needs.
Context Analysis and Reporting:
- Monitor the context, compile, and report information, including incidents and trends pertinent to Humanitarian Access
- Submit monthly contextual analysis as needed by relevant field and program management.
- Work closely with SGDI field teams to ensure all incidents are followed up with an official written report.
- Monitor the operating environment, identify new threats, assess SGDI vulnerabilities, and recommend possible responses.
- Contribute to local-level conflict sensitivity analysis and macro- level analysis of trends in the State.
Briefing, Training and Capacity Building:
- Ensure Security briefings (arrival and completion) are of adequate quality and done in a timely manner.
- Organise high-quality, regular trainings to build the capacity of staff to enable them to deal with security-related risks, threats, and incidents
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Security Management, Sociology or a related field is required.
Work Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of work experience in insecure/hostile environments with an NGO.
- Substantial practical field experience in security management in a leadership role
- Fluent in written and spoken English and local language.
- Ability to work within a multi-cultural, multiethnic team.
- Experience and knowledge of personnel and organizational security issues, threat/risk assessment, security management and security awareness in an insecure environment.
- Experience of incident reporting, incident mapping, intelligence collation and analysis functions, set up and execution of an incident warning system, compilation of security reports and assessments.
- Experience in training and coaching staff in safety and security.
- Ability to adapt to needs and balance demands of beneficiary and security actors while maintaining appropriate contextual NGO security advice and coordination.
- Sound knowledge of humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality as outlined in the Humanitarian Charter and the International Red Cross Code of Conduct.
- Strong report writing, analytical and interpersonal skills.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
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