Roving Safety & Security Coordinator Job Vacancies At International Rescue Committee
Roving Safety & Security Coordinator Job Vacancies At International Rescue Committee
Job Overview
Requisition ID: req35176
Job Title: Roving Safety & Security Coordinator
Sector: Safety & Security
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Description
Are you a passionate humanitarian safety and security professional? Do you have experience in the delivery of safety and security trainings? Are you driven by the need to share your experience with brave humanitarian aid workers to help them deliver their mission safely? Then you might be what we’re looking for!
The IRC is seeking an experienced roving safety and security coordinator to meet ad-hoc security management needs of country programs, including the delivery of its flagship READI program courses in several field locations. Job Vacancies At International Rescue Committee
The IRC’s workforce continues to grow and thousands of our colleagues operate, often daily, in high-risk environments. Insecurity continues to pose the single-most severe impediment to humanitarian assistance with emergencies in Afghanistan and Ukraine being recent examples.
This role will include coverage of gaps of security leadership during recruitment processes and periods of leave, or specialist tasks such as delivery of training to frontline staff. The Roving Coordinator will work with country leadership to ensure that organizational security policies and procedures are implemented, responsive to the context, and known to staff. They will prioritize the humanitarian principles, humanitarian needs, duty of care and the IRC’s strategy action plans in their work. Job Vacancies At International Rescue Committee
Additionally, to facilitate our mission in a safe and durable manner, colleagues must undertake vital training that will allow them to mitigate potential threats that they, their colleagues, their clients, and their partners may be exposed to. READI is IRC’s flagship Safety & Security learning program encompassing several critical courses delivered to a wide range of participants. READI – Risk Education & Awareness Development Induction – prepares our colleagues to safely deploy to and be ready to work in challenging operating environments. Through risk education, we strive to reach the greatest possible number of people with potentially life-saving information on how to recognize, avoid, respond to and report incidents. Moreover, the course also facilitates the development of critical awareness of individuals to become conscious of themselves, their habits, emotions, and strengths prior, during, and after potential exposure to safety and security threats.
Major Responsibilities
Training Development & Delivery Job Vacancies At International Rescue Committee
- Deliver and/or coordinate the delivery of READI courses, both remotely and in-person, at the request of Regional Safety & Security Directors;
- Solicit feedback on the current design and delivery methodologies of READI courses from participants and other field and regional team members;
- Collaboratively implement corrective and improvement measures to the course design and delivery in response to received feedback;
- Support newly graduated READI instructors in the delivery of READI courses, both remotely and in-person;
- Ensure the incorporation of intersectional training practices in the delivery of all READI courses.
Humanitarian Access and Security Risk Management Support to Country Programs
- Provide security risk management support, both remotely and in-person, at the request of Regional Safety & Security Directors;
- Assume interim or acting capacity in the absence of critical position holders of Country Security Leads;
- Deploy to humanitarian emergencies when they arise to provide security risk management support to emergency team members;
- Carry out security risk assessments in line with IRC methodology on a routine basis;
- Support the development and implementation of humanitarian access strategies and approaches tailored to local contexts in field sites, and include overarching community engagement components;
- Coach, train, supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting annual performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented semi-annual performance reviews.
Job Requirements
Education: Candidates with an undergraduate university degree or higher, technical degree, certification in related field, and/ or significant applicable lived experience will be preferred. Job Vacancies At International Rescue Committee
Work Experience
- A minimum of two year’s experience delivering training in high-risk contexts, with the ability to develop, implement, facilitate, and impart learning to a wide range of audiences, both remotely and in-person drawing on a range of adult learning tools and approaches.
- A minimum of five years professional security experience, three of which non-profit or NGO work experience within international humanitarian programs.
oRoles having included responsibilities for planning, organizing and implementing humanitarian security operations in the field.
oLived experience of dynamic, insecure environments, small team leadership, conflict resolution and negotiation preferred
- At least eight years of proven management experience in the field
oIncluding management of people and projects, as well as taking part in senior management groups and influencing operational decision-making
- Having worked in accordance with and in understanding of the humanitarian principles
- Analytical experience gaining a precise and impartial understanding of local, regional and international dynamics, and providing dynamic briefings of historical and unfolding security, political, and cultural events
- Experience having designed and implemented physical security measures in both benign and high risk settings
- Some regional experience strongly preferred
Demonstrated Skills And Competencies
- Excellent skills in inclusive adult learning and development are essential;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as, an overall ability to be clear, inclusive, and concise in all communications; with an ability to carry out analysis, express ideas, and deliver advice persuasively, to a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional organizational and coordination skills
- Able to translate organisational and regional policy and strategy into tangible contextualised outcomes
- A natural leader, with the ability to integrate into a team in both delivery and decision-making roles
- Ability to work both independently and in a dynamic, cross-functional team;
- Familiarity with physical security measures such as CCTV, safe room design, perimeter security, and access control, as well as a strong understanding of communications technology and procedures.
- Situational and contextual awareness, with an ability to effectively represent the IRC at forums and with external stakeholders
- Solid ability to provide team-building, coaching, and development for staff as well as encourage cross-functional collaboration and cooperation
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills are essential
- Strong negotiation and mediation skills, with experience in conflict resolution
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite;
- Ability to lead and work through change in a proactive and positive manner;
- Excellent English language skills, both written and verbal; in addition to excellent language skills in at least one or more of the following: French, Spanish, Arabic, Pashto, Dari.
Working Environment
- The position can be based remotely in any of the approved IRC locations with up to 60% travel required;
- Applicants must have a home or alternate workspace they can effectively complete their work from during regularly scheduled work hours.
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Equality, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
Open to Expatriates: Yes
