Closing Date: Sunday, 20 February 2011
GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
The Regional Security Advisor (RSA) will reduce the risk to Mercy Corps' staff by empowering them to better assess threats and vulnerabilities and design and implement effective security strategies to address them. The RSA does not have the authority to suspend operations, impose procedures or evacuate staff, but rather will advance best practices through providing training, technical advice and support for improved assessment, analysis and planning. The RSA will also build the capacity of the national security staff through targeted skills building to improve their ability to analyze and respond to security information and events.
Mercy Corps operates in key Central and South Asian countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan employing international and local staff. Countries in this region are instable and pose considerable security challenges to our operations and staff. Afghanistan, and Pakistan, where Mercy Corps operates, are rated as “Extreme Security Risk” by Control Risks Group. Mercy Corps is a humanitarian organization which values inter-agency collaboration and approaches security through principles that have been developed in close cooperation with others in the humanitarian community. Among those principles are those embodied in the IFRC Code of Conduct and the centrality of community acceptance as the foundation piece of security.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Training and Orientation: The CSA-RSA will work with the Central and South Asian field offices (in particular Afghanistan and Pakistan) to ensure that all new staff hired for the regional, national or expatriate as well as official visitors to the region, receive a consistent and thorough security orientation upon hire/arrival in the region.
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GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
The Regional Security Advisor (RSA) will reduce the risk to Mercy Corps' staff by empowering them to better assess threats and vulnerabilities and design and implement effective security strategies to address them. The RSA does not have the authority to suspend operations, impose procedures or evacuate staff, but rather will advance best practices through providing training, technical advice and support for improved assessment, analysis and planning. The RSA will also build the capacity of the national security staff through targeted skills building to improve their ability to analyze and respond to security information and events.
Mercy Corps operates in key Central and South Asian countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan employing international and local staff. Countries in this region are instable and pose considerable security challenges to our operations and staff. Afghanistan, and Pakistan, where Mercy Corps operates, are rated as “Extreme Security Risk” by Control Risks Group. Mercy Corps is a humanitarian organization which values inter-agency collaboration and approaches security through principles that have been developed in close cooperation with others in the humanitarian community. Among those principles are those embodied in the IFRC Code of Conduct and the centrality of community acceptance as the foundation piece of security.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Training and Orientation: The CSA-RSA will work with the Central and South Asian field offices (in particular Afghanistan and Pakistan) to ensure that all new staff hired for the regional, national or expatriate as well as official visitors to the region, receive a consistent and thorough security orientation upon hire/arrival in the region.
More Info and Applying click Here