Duties
• Gather relevant security information, analyse it and share with Country Director, Program Manager, Project Officers and other relevant staff.
• Enhance/Develop security guidelines as needed including SOPs, Medivacs, etc. in consultation with the Country Management Team
• Ensure drill exercise for all staff at least twice a year
• Ensure that all DRC security equipments are up to standard and functional (communications, safety equipment, etc.)
• Ensure that all staff including international are familiar with the security protocols including evacuation protocols
• Establish and maintain a network for data collection through, national and international partners as well as others sources
• Review daily movement planning and approves it
• Ensure that no routine is established for all aspect of work that requires movement outside DRC premises
• Attend any meeting security related and keep the Country Director and the HQ updated through regular report, memo and monthly report.
• Ensure that each new staff or visitor is aware on security rules
• Ensure that each field site has the security plan and the needed adaptation specific to each context
• Ensure the technical conditions to implement the security guidelines in the country
• Any other duty as directed by the country director
Qualifications
• Previous experience with humanitarian work, in complex protracted crisis
• Substantial experience of work in a country under security focus
• Familiarity with humanitarian principles and practices
• Experience of operating in a volatile security environment
• Good analytical skills
• Good communication skills
• Strong negotiation, advocacy and communication skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Preferably, but not necessarily, working experience from Iraq
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, irrespective of nationality, race, gender or age.
Conditions
Availability: As soon as possible
Duty station: Basra, with frequent travel throughout the country, Amman (the initial posting will be in Amman as facilities are yet to be set in Basra)
Contract: One year with possibility of extension, subject to funding.
Salary and other conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Locally Recruited Expatriates (available on request). The position will be placed at salary level C2.
Further information
For more information, please contact Yves-Kim Creac’h, Country Director, email: yves-kim.creach@drciraq.,dk Please note that applications are not to be sent to Mr. Creac’h. Applications sent directly to Mr. Creac’h will not be considered.
We only accept applications sent via our online-application system on www.drc.dk under Vacancies/Current vacancies/Security Officer – Iraq.
For general information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult www.drc.dk.
Application and CV
Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered.
CV-only applications will not be considered.
Please forward your application, in English and marked “Security Officer – Iraq” no later than 15. January 2011.
We only accept applications sent via our online-application system on www.drc.dk under Vacancies/Current vacancies/Security Officer – Iraq.
Problems with on-line application?
Please contact Anne Oxholm, job@drc.dk, if you have questions to the application process or experience problems with your on-line application.
About DRC
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, independent, humanitarian organization working on all aspects of the refugee cause in more than twenty five countries throughout the world. The aim of DRC is to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) against persecution and to promote durable solutions to the problems of forced migration, on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights. DRC works in accordance with the UN Conventions on Refugees and the Code of Conduct for the ICRC and NGOs in Disaster Relief.
The protection and assistance to conflict affected population is provided within a long-term, regional and rights-based approach in order to constitute a coherent and effective response to the challenges posed by today’s conflicts. Assistance consists of relief and other humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, support to return and repatriation as well as promotion of long-term solutions to displacement and its causes. In addition, support and capacity building of local and national authorities and NGOs form an integral part of DRC’s work.
• Gather relevant security information, analyse it and share with Country Director, Program Manager, Project Officers and other relevant staff.
• Enhance/Develop security guidelines as needed including SOPs, Medivacs, etc. in consultation with the Country Management Team
• Ensure drill exercise for all staff at least twice a year
• Ensure that all DRC security equipments are up to standard and functional (communications, safety equipment, etc.)
• Ensure that all staff including international are familiar with the security protocols including evacuation protocols
• Establish and maintain a network for data collection through, national and international partners as well as others sources
• Review daily movement planning and approves it
• Ensure that no routine is established for all aspect of work that requires movement outside DRC premises
• Attend any meeting security related and keep the Country Director and the HQ updated through regular report, memo and monthly report.
• Ensure that each new staff or visitor is aware on security rules
• Ensure that each field site has the security plan and the needed adaptation specific to each context
• Ensure the technical conditions to implement the security guidelines in the country
• Any other duty as directed by the country director
Qualifications
• Previous experience with humanitarian work, in complex protracted crisis
• Substantial experience of work in a country under security focus
• Familiarity with humanitarian principles and practices
• Experience of operating in a volatile security environment
• Good analytical skills
• Good communication skills
• Strong negotiation, advocacy and communication skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Preferably, but not necessarily, working experience from Iraq
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, irrespective of nationality, race, gender or age.
Conditions
Availability: As soon as possible
Duty station: Basra, with frequent travel throughout the country, Amman (the initial posting will be in Amman as facilities are yet to be set in Basra)
Contract: One year with possibility of extension, subject to funding.
Salary and other conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Locally Recruited Expatriates (available on request). The position will be placed at salary level C2.
Further information
For more information, please contact Yves-Kim Creac’h, Country Director, email: yves-kim.creach@drciraq.,dk Please note that applications are not to be sent to Mr. Creac’h. Applications sent directly to Mr. Creac’h will not be considered.
We only accept applications sent via our online-application system on www.drc.dk under Vacancies/Current vacancies/Security Officer – Iraq.
For general information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult www.drc.dk.
Application and CV
Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered.
CV-only applications will not be considered.
Please forward your application, in English and marked “Security Officer – Iraq” no later than 15. January 2011.
We only accept applications sent via our online-application system on www.drc.dk under Vacancies/Current vacancies/Security Officer – Iraq.
Problems with on-line application?
Please contact Anne Oxholm, job@drc.dk, if you have questions to the application process or experience problems with your on-line application.
About DRC
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, independent, humanitarian organization working on all aspects of the refugee cause in more than twenty five countries throughout the world. The aim of DRC is to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) against persecution and to promote durable solutions to the problems of forced migration, on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights. DRC works in accordance with the UN Conventions on Refugees and the Code of Conduct for the ICRC and NGOs in Disaster Relief.
The protection and assistance to conflict affected population is provided within a long-term, regional and rights-based approach in order to constitute a coherent and effective response to the challenges posed by today’s conflicts. Assistance consists of relief and other humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, support to return and repatriation as well as promotion of long-term solutions to displacement and its causes. In addition, support and capacity building of local and national authorities and NGOs form an integral part of DRC’s work.