Employer: Concern Worldwide
Location: Ireland
Closing date: 08 Mar 2017
Reports to: Senior Humanitarian Adviser and Emergency Director
Liaises with: Inside Concern: Emergency Directorate, Regional Directors, Desk Officers, Country Directors, Country Security Focal Points and Groups
Outside of Concern may include: Security Focal Points of Alliance2015 agencies, EISF, INSO, INSSA, UNDSS, Eurocheck, Aid Worker Security Database
Job location:
Dublin, with frequent travel to Concern’s countries of operation. Total travel time may be for up to 120 days of the year
Contract details:
Two year fixed-term contract
Pay band:
Grade Five: €41,747 - €49,114
Job purpose:
To support and strengthen Concern’s safety and security management practice to ensure that it is consistent with current good practice and commensurate with the level of threat faced by our country programme teams.
To work with country teams, particularly Security Focal Points and Security Focal Groups, to ensure that their security practice and documentation remains commensurate with security risk profiles in their specific locations
To work with country teams and regional desks on preparation and response plans to ensure the safety of Concern staff in the event of fire and selected natural hazards including extreme wind events, earthquakes, floods and volcanoes.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Major Security Tasks
· Undertake security reviews and audits of countries’ security management practice
· Develop and deliver security management training to staff as required
· Support countries in development, preparation and review of SMPs, SOPs and scenario planning for major events such as elections
· Manage the Concern security incident data base and share information about incidents with appropriate staff and international security databases
· Carry out security risk assessments as requested
· Prepare occasional advisories for staff on security issues as required
· Contribute to any revisions of SMP², SMP format and the Security Policy or the individual security guidance notes that exist, or develop new ones as needed
· Contribute to developing policy and practice around Concern’s strategic objective of working in conflict as requested
· Attend EISF, Alliance2015 Security Group and other occasional security related meetings as required
· Brief new staff on Concern Approaches to Security as required and at formal induction weeks
Major Safety Tasks
· Establish a safety framework for overseas operations
· Develop guidelines for staff safety for selected natural hazards
· Develop guidelines for hazards such as fires in offices, residences and warehouses
· Maintain an overview of and provide updates on airlines that have been banned for safety reasons
· Conduct audits as needed to verify that countries are compliant with these guidelines during field visits
Person specifications:
Essential
· Educated to degree level or equivalent
· Minimum of five years’ experience of working in insecure environments for a humanitarian organisation
· Detailed knowledge of INGO security management approaches and practice
· Good understanding of humanitarian principles and practice
· Experience of developing and delivering training courses and workshops
· Ability to coach, mentor and develop staff capacities in security awareness and practice
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
· Good writing and computer skills
· Fluent spoken and written English and excellent spoken French (to a standard whereby training can be developed and delivered)
· Ability and willingness to travel to and operate in insecure environments
Desirable
· First Aid skills
· Knowledge of Concern countries of operation
· Other languages
Concern's Programme Participant Protection Policy and Concern Code of Conduct has been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants, especially beneficiaries, from abuse and exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, partner organisations, and anyone engaged by Concern or visiting our programmes, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context all Concern staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their work in accordance with Concern's core values and mission.
Concern's Programme Participant Protection Policy and Concern Code of Conduct have been appended to this contract for your signature. By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and Concern Code of Conduct you demonstrate that you have understood their content and agree to conduct yourself in accordance with the provisions of this document.
A breach of this policy will result in disciplinary action up to, and including, dismissal.
Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on Concern ensuring that the names of any new employee or volunteer do not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).
Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will not be made pending a clearance check being conducted on the applicant. For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.
Concern Worldwide is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. '
Location: Ireland
Closing date: 08 Mar 2017
Reports to: Senior Humanitarian Adviser and Emergency Director
Liaises with: Inside Concern: Emergency Directorate, Regional Directors, Desk Officers, Country Directors, Country Security Focal Points and Groups
Outside of Concern may include: Security Focal Points of Alliance2015 agencies, EISF, INSO, INSSA, UNDSS, Eurocheck, Aid Worker Security Database
Job location:
Dublin, with frequent travel to Concern’s countries of operation. Total travel time may be for up to 120 days of the year
Contract details:
Two year fixed-term contract
Pay band:
Grade Five: €41,747 - €49,114
Job purpose:
To support and strengthen Concern’s safety and security management practice to ensure that it is consistent with current good practice and commensurate with the level of threat faced by our country programme teams.
To work with country teams, particularly Security Focal Points and Security Focal Groups, to ensure that their security practice and documentation remains commensurate with security risk profiles in their specific locations
To work with country teams and regional desks on preparation and response plans to ensure the safety of Concern staff in the event of fire and selected natural hazards including extreme wind events, earthquakes, floods and volcanoes.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Major Security Tasks
· Undertake security reviews and audits of countries’ security management practice
· Develop and deliver security management training to staff as required
· Support countries in development, preparation and review of SMPs, SOPs and scenario planning for major events such as elections
· Manage the Concern security incident data base and share information about incidents with appropriate staff and international security databases
· Carry out security risk assessments as requested
· Prepare occasional advisories for staff on security issues as required
· Contribute to any revisions of SMP², SMP format and the Security Policy or the individual security guidance notes that exist, or develop new ones as needed
· Contribute to developing policy and practice around Concern’s strategic objective of working in conflict as requested
· Attend EISF, Alliance2015 Security Group and other occasional security related meetings as required
· Brief new staff on Concern Approaches to Security as required and at formal induction weeks
Major Safety Tasks
· Establish a safety framework for overseas operations
· Develop guidelines for staff safety for selected natural hazards
· Develop guidelines for hazards such as fires in offices, residences and warehouses
· Maintain an overview of and provide updates on airlines that have been banned for safety reasons
· Conduct audits as needed to verify that countries are compliant with these guidelines during field visits
Person specifications:
Essential
· Educated to degree level or equivalent
· Minimum of five years’ experience of working in insecure environments for a humanitarian organisation
· Detailed knowledge of INGO security management approaches and practice
· Good understanding of humanitarian principles and practice
· Experience of developing and delivering training courses and workshops
· Ability to coach, mentor and develop staff capacities in security awareness and practice
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
· Good writing and computer skills
· Fluent spoken and written English and excellent spoken French (to a standard whereby training can be developed and delivered)
· Ability and willingness to travel to and operate in insecure environments
Desirable
· First Aid skills
· Knowledge of Concern countries of operation
· Other languages
Concern's Programme Participant Protection Policy and Concern Code of Conduct has been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants, especially beneficiaries, from abuse and exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, partner organisations, and anyone engaged by Concern or visiting our programmes, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context all Concern staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their work in accordance with Concern's core values and mission.
Concern's Programme Participant Protection Policy and Concern Code of Conduct have been appended to this contract for your signature. By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and Concern Code of Conduct you demonstrate that you have understood their content and agree to conduct yourself in accordance with the provisions of this document.
A breach of this policy will result in disciplinary action up to, and including, dismissal.
Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on Concern ensuring that the names of any new employee or volunteer do not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).
Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will not be made pending a clearance check being conducted on the applicant. For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.
Concern Worldwide is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. '