Regional Security & Access Manager Job Vacancy in Nairobi | RI

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• Manager of Regional Security and Access (RSAM), Africa/Asia
• Location: Nairobi, Kenya, or to be negotiated within the GMT to PKT time zone range; regular travel in the region at least 30% of the time (depending on COVID-19 developments).
• Reports to: Regional Director for Africa and Asia, with dotted line reporting to the Global Safety and Security Director (GSSD).
• Regional Security Officer as direct reports; dotted line technical management and assistance to Security Managers (or equivalent) in all Country Offices of the Africa/Asia area.

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The Regional Security and Access Manager (RSAM) will take on a demanding leadership role to support and guide the country offices to build security resources and systems in each country office within the Africa/Asia region, as well as focusing on improving the overall culture of security management in Africa. In the nine nations that make up the Africa/Asia region at RI, the RSAM will be in charge of organizing, supervising, and providing advice on safety and security management, as well as access strategy. The RSAM will also be in charge of ensuring that risk assessments and SOPs are current and sufficient, submitting reports and assessments to the RD and GSO on time and accurately, ensuring that staff in the region have access to security training and capacity building, and representing the organization in security coordination fora. The Prohibited Party Policy (PPP) and the Ethics and Compliance program will be closely supported by the RSAM. After COVID-19 limits are loosened, the post will necessitate extensive travel.Regional Security & Access Manager Job Vacancy in Nairobi | RI

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Coordinates the creation, implementation, and upkeep of security support systems; makes sure RI is connected via all interagency and security coordination lists to guarantee RI security presence inside the INGO community. Including the execution of the UNDSS/NGO SLT at RI field level operations, OSAC, INSO, and NGO security forums.
• carries out regular and sporadic field residencies, including security assessments, audits, staff training, and security awareness, at each program site, including central and sub-offices and program delivery locations. Site visits and residencies need to be meticulously planned out with the help of the Regional Office team and senior country employees. Each residency will have specific deliverables that must be shared with the country director and supervisor.
• Conducts a thorough assessment of all current security and safety policies and procedures, along with the local counterpart, and the staff’s adherence to them at program sites, offices, residences, and with regard to all vehicles, drivers, and standing SOPs. Provides and implements recommendations in consultation with the Country Director or the most senior Country Representative, as well as with RD (with technical support).
• mentors, technically oversees, and trains national security personnel. In a proactive and uplifting approach that encourages inclusion, involvement, and leadership across the whole RI team, including foreign, local, and national workers, recommends and/or offers staff training on safety and security. Has a thorough understanding of the issues and training requirements necessary to uphold the RI Code of Conduct, establish a positive organizational profile, and appreciate diverse cultures.
• proactively leads all of Africa and Asia’s regular safety and security drills; conducts drills, teaches country counterparts in conducting drills, and sees to it that national colleagues frequently put drills into practice, including but not limited to HRE plans and Warden Systems.
• To ensure staff understanding, agreement, and compliance, the leader oversees an ongoing process of designing, establishing, reviewing, and revising security policies and procedures. In collaboration with counterparts in other countries, country directors, and GSO Global Security, the leader also regularly updates safety and security plans to reflect changing security conditions.
• Discusses security concerns for country programs with local and regional UN and interagency security officials; provides advice on security matters to the Country Director(s), RD, and GSO Global Security.
• Develops and maintains relationships with national law enforcement agencies in close conjunction with country directors, if necessary; respects and remains fully informed at all times on political concerns and local policies that have an impact on INGO operations and safety.
• Conducts himself or herself and the RI regional security operations in a way that minimizes the danger of coming into conflict with any organization or authority; represents the RI programs in all interagency interactions in a polite and favorable way.
• Writes well-researched security incident reports for supervisor and GSO evaluation. Maps security incidents, ensures monthly security reports in all countries, and recognizes patterns and dangers. Facilitates the development of situation-specific, coordinated evacuation plans.
• gives national SMTs technical and practical support so they can submit SRAs and other paperwork on time and keep up a general level of security risk management inside the organization.
• As conflicts or the implementation of programming develop in the area, consistently develop and have scenario plans in place in conjunction with CDs and the RD. For programming implementation and decision-making regarding mitigation that will have an influence on the budget, thorough scenario modeling is essential.
• To enable secure and safe management of operations, ensure that RI’s acceptance first policy in security is operationalized at a granular level at field operational sites in partnership with national teams. The Regional Security Manager must always guarantee that each RI Africa/Asia country completely executes the policy, in both a strategic and practical manner, as it serves as the foundation for the implementation of RI’s safe and secure program.
• Education, Training, and Knowledge Exchange
• Through instruction and interactive workshops, support the implementation of the RI Security strategy, associated policies, structure, tools, and procedures.
• Help national program offices set up and execute ad hoc security training seminars that are appropriate for their environment.
• Work together with the regional program team to make sure that workshops and trainings are sensitive to and inclusive of all genders.
• Support country and field offices with resources and templates for field security orientations, and make sure that RI security data is utilized and kept up to current.
• To ensure uniformity in the creation and application of materials and trainings, collaborate with the director of RI Global Security and other regions.
• Keep up with changes in negotiations for humanitarian access and security challenges related to humanitarian relief, and add important elements into the training program.
• Support the usage and/or delivery of training and capacity-building materials in remote management.
• Find all transferable and/or pertinent content, incorporate it into specialized training modules, and assist with implementation.
• Enable the delivery of training sessions by Safety and Security Leads/Humanitarian Access, Safety and Security Focal Persons (SSFPs) in the chosen Country Offices.
• Analyze the success and results of the capacity-building and training programs you’ve offered.
• human rights access
• Keep up with changes in negotiations for humanitarian access and security challenges related to humanitarian relief, and add important elements into the training program.
• Supporting the establishment of ethical and secure humanitarian access to facilitate long-lasting programming by working with RSO and GSO, regional and national leadership teams.
• aid in the ongoing growth of the teams and initiatives for humanitarian access.
• Utilizing established IRC rules and advice, participate in the review and implementation of regulations for morally sound humanitarian access and engagement with non-state actors.
• overseeing and offering guidance regarding the application and evaluation of specialized acceptance and community involvement initiatives.
• Analysis of Regional Geopolitical Trends
• Keep abreast on global trends and events that have an impact on the distribution of power in Africa and Asia. To help national teams with proactive planning and response methods, you will research and forecast emerging dangers and communicate your findings with them. Incorporating security concerns into your study (including scenarios for the major crises in the region) can help the country offices.
• Track, compile, and confirm context-related changes from a variety of sources, including NGOs, the UN, civil society organizations, research centers, and media sources.
• Create a Monthly Trend Analysis to aid RI’s ability to track and evaluate the dynamics of current conflicts and how they affect the safety and access of humanitarians.
• Country supervision and regional coordination
• serve as the Security Manager (or Security Focal Point)’s technical supervisor in each country office.
• Participate in the technical support recruiting of security personnel at the national level.
• As a member of the regional SMT, take part in regional meetings and ensure that security issues are taken into account in every decision-making as part of an interdepartmental strategy for regional management.
• Promote innovative organizational security and risk management initiatives.
• To ensure and internally promote the inclusion of security concerns in planning for new projects and operational setup at the national level, which will include involvement in program formulation and program modification procedures, coordinate closely with regional team and CDs.
• For each country office, track and audit the advancement of improvements at the national level.
• participation in RI working groups on security and other issues.

Management of Risk

• Work closely with national teams to identify and reduce organizational and programmatic risks.
• In collaboration with other members of the regional team, assume a leadership position in the dissemination and oversight of compliance and due diligence policies and processes to country offices, particularly with regard to security and RI’s Prohibited Parties Policy (PPP).
• Help the regional director identify the activities and decisions that need to be made by encouraging the regional director to provide calculated risks based on evidence-based assumptions. Create action plans to advance decisions, bringing together stakeholders and organizing follow-up as required.

Safeguarding

• maintain and uphold RI’s dedication to protecting and insuring the safety of the vulnerable communities we serve.
• Ensure that everyone who interacts with Relief International is as safe as possible in accordance with RI’s safeguarding and protection practices.

Function of position:

• Working in difficult humanitarian contexts and conflict-affected countries, you must have proven progression in your international security, access, and risk management.
• Experience supporting international NGOs’ security and safety for at least five years is necessary.
• A benefit is having international experience in at least one of the Asiatic or African nations where RI has operations.
• political, conflict, security, or humanitarian studies master’s degree
• a proactive dedication to systematizing analytical thinking into humanitarian projects, operations, and programs.
• A requirement is proven training and mentoring abilities.
• great interpersonal and communication skills that have been demonstrated.
• ability to multitask and produce high-quality results.
• demonstrated familiarity with the UN MOSS and SRM procedures, the EISF and/or Interaction security requirements, and other common INGO security frameworks.
• Excellent references that show cooperation, maturity of judgment, endurance of adversity and stress, leadership, and moral rectitude.
• the capacity to function independently under pressure and in challenging circumstances
• spoken and written English with ease. Knowledge of regional languages is advantageous.
• Ability and willingness to train national staff colleagues; need for proven training leadership.
• knowledge of conflict analysis, conflict sensitivity, and/or do no harm.
• Strong writing, reporting, and situational analysis abilities must be on display.

Values of RI:

• Humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence are values we uphold. We actively include the most at-risk communities.

We respect:

• Inclusiveness
• Objectivity and accountability
• Flexibility and creativity
• Collaboration
• Sustainability

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