Security Advisor

Job Details
Security Advisor


Ref     INT5260
Region     West Africa
Location     Bamako
Division     International
Department     Regional Programme & Operations
Position Type     Fixed Term
Job Family     Property & Logistics


Purpose of Role
Salary: £20,619 - 27,642 net p/a (net = take-home pay. Oxfam will meet any tax and social security liabilities of the post holder in addition to the net salary)

Hours per week: 40 hours

Contract type: Fixed term

Please be aware that due to the rapid scale up of our programme in Mali, we will long list applications as they are received, and may contact applicants for interviews or appoint suitable candidates prior to the closing date.



Ensure that country security strategy is developed, implemented, monitored and reviewed; consistently with Oxfam policies, standards and requirements


Key Responsibilites

Analysis

-       Ongoing analysis of the context and developments in relation to the security situation.

-       Develop and maintain up-to-date context analysis and risk assessment.

-       Develop and maintain an incident reporting system.

-       Maintain close contacts with all relevant stakeholders to develop a network and build relationships with key actors to ensure gathering of reliable security information.

-       Undertake regular and ad hoc security assessment missions as necessary, in order to gather information and to analyse the overall security situation in existing and potential areas of intervention.

Security system

-       Support country management staff to develop a security management system which includes a security management strategy (including detailed acceptance strategy) and plan and which allows for the continuous updating of security measures.

-       Advise and support the Country Director with regard to implementing the security management system.

-       Ensure the security management system is in line with existing Oxfam security policy, protocol and approach.

-       Support the Country Director and other senior staff to manage security incidents.

-       Provide crisis management support to the managers senior management for incident response, reportingand analysis.

-       Ensure that the supporting departments (HR, Administration and Logistics) have in place an appropriatesystem to facilitate good security management.

Security awareness

-       Ensure that staff have the security skills and awareness that they need to be effective, by providing appropriate learning and development opportunities, including delivering training.

-       Ensure that all staff and visitors receive appropriate briefing.

-       Ensure that an appropriate system is in place to provide security information to travellers in advance of their departure.


Contacts

External:

·         With local stakeholders such as government, (I)NGO's, UN, partners, communities to share and exchange information.

Internal:

·         With Country Director and senior management staff to inform and co-ordinate on security issues.

·         With Security Advisor at HQ or regional level if applicable

·         With relevant staff in order to ensure that the security management system complements the program and advocacy activities and vice versa.

·         With the relevant support staff in order to ensure that all logistical, financial, IT, HR and administrative elements of the security management system are in place.


Skills and Competence

-       Considerable practical experience of security assessment, planning and implementation of procedures in the context of UN or NGO humanitarian operations,

-       Proven influencing and negotiating skills with internal and external audiences including in complex and stressful circumstances.

-       Proven experience of field based training.

-       Ability to advice and support field staff in a consultative manner.

-       Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, together with the capacity to remain calm under pressure and not lose sight of strategic priorities. Must be organised and efficient.

-       A sound understanding of the importance of gender.

-       Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts.

-       Willingness to travel at short notice, and often in difficult circumstances.

-       Committed to Oxfam principles

-     Fluency in French and English and ideally a working knowledge of the local language (Bambara)

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