Employer:Amnesty International
Location: London, Beirut, Dakar, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Tunis
Closing Date:27 May 2017
Salary: £57,460 - £68,018
Amnesty International need you to lead our Security function to cover our expanding global organisation; if you have been looking for just the right opportunity to bring your extensive experience in Security management, a desire to build a strong security culture working in the world’s foremost Human Rights organisation, working with our teams and offices across the world, then this is the opportunity for you.
Location: The role is ideally to be based in London, (open to sponsorship) and we will consider applications from candidates with the right to work in the following locations: Beirut, Tunis, Dakar, Nairobi and Johannesburg.
Let our Senior Director explain the role to you in his own words:
Dear Candidate,
Thank you for your interest in this key role in Amnesty International’s International Secretariat.
My team covering finance, IT, human resources, legal, security, workplace, and internal communications staff have been at the forefront of implementing the change programme we called “moving closer to the ground” over the past four years. This has been the process to establish integrated teams of managers, investigative researchers, campaigners, capacity building, content and media staff in eighteen locations primarily across the global south and east, increasing Amnesty International’s relevance and legitimacy and with the aim to fundamentally increase our human rights impact.
This global transition programme is nearing its end in terms of the physical establishment of the offices and recruitment of the new teams. Our focus now is to both help develop and mature our complex operation.
The Global Security programme was created two years ago to respond to the very different organisation model we were introducing and the changing threats to our work and our staff more generally, and in that time we have introduced multiple initiatives to safeguard our staff, but there is still much to do. Amnesty has always been subject to a unique set of risks due to the work we do and the future will be no different. You’ll need to employ a broad set of skills and knowledge from securing our offices to innovative solutions for operational security risks, delivering tailored training courses to leading crisis management teams. More importantly, you’ll need to put all of your effort into growing Amnesty’s burgeoning security culture both within the International Secretariat and across the wider Amnesty movement with offices in a further 70 countries.
This role offers both a big professional challenge and the opportunity to be part of something that is big and influential – with all the personal reward and satisfaction this can bring. We are looking for someone who relishes supporting and inspiring your own small team, an individual with real drive and with an engaging approach to influencing a wider leadership and staff team on a global basis across the security remit.
The role reports into me as Senior Director, People & Services and collaborating with your peers across our Directorate team our goals are collectively to:
Build an organisational culture that is engaging, positive and supportive
Innovate and harness information and technology systems and ways of working
Ensure the strength and stability of:
our finances and assets,
the safety and security of our people,
our information and our reputation
Improve and adapt our ways of working to strengthen our increasingly global organisation
It is my role to support you ensuring that the security agenda continues to be front and centre for Amnesty and that the Security culture we aspire to is robust and strong.
We are an organisation which like all our peers relies entirely on our people, their innovation, tenacity and energy to hold governments and non-state actors to account and create the change we are working for in the world. If you are the passionate leader who can contribute to our progressive security and allied agenda, I look forward to hearing from you!
Richard Eastmond Senior Director, People & Services
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardeastmond
And here are the views of our departing post holder:
In the past two years, we've taken global security from an idea to a reality. Amnesty staff have long been security-minded, but the organizational approach was largely ad hoc and disconnected. We've driven alignment to global standards, flexible yet still meaningful and relevant, through our Global Security Framework. We've built a robust training program that ensures staff receive the knowledge they need to stay safe while at work, when traveling, and in their personal lives. We've put support mechanisms, equipment, and backend processes in place to ensure we can keep track of our people and communicate with them in crisis. We've established incident reporting mechanisms and incorporated lessons learned into future operations, not just to avoid past mistakes but also celebrate our successes. We've codified crisis management and put forward a process to drill senior management through ever-changing scenarios.
But there is still much to do. We need to embed the global standards into a global culture. We need every staff member trained and eager to apply their knowledge to their work, day after day. We need to increase utilization of our security tools and ensure staff seek out ways to incorporate them in operations. We need to ensure every incident is reported and reviewed, and every staff member understands that anecdotes don't help keep us secure. We need to work hard to see every manager know exactly how to spring into action when plans fall to operational realities.
I'm proud of what I've accomplished in two years at Amnesty and I need your help to move it forward. It won't be easy, but if that sounds like a good thing then you may be the right fit. I've been lucky to work with some of the most energized and dedicated staff I have ever encountered, and this is truly meaningful work. If this is the kind of challenge you've been seeking and not just something you're up for, then I strongly encourage you to apply.
Chad Cole, Head of Global Security
Salary: £57,460 - £68,018
Amnesty International need you to lead our Security function to cover our expanding global organisation; if you have been looking for just the right opportunity to bring your extensive experience in Security management, a desire to build a strong security culture working in the world’s foremost Human Rights organisation, working with our teams and offices across the world, then this is the opportunity for you.
Location: The role is ideally to be based in London, (open to sponsorship) and we will consider applications from candidates with the right to work in the following locations: Beirut, Tunis, Dakar, Nairobi and Johannesburg.
Let our Senior Director explain the role to you in his own words:
Dear Candidate,
Thank you for your interest in this key role in Amnesty International’s International Secretariat.
My team covering finance, IT, human resources, legal, security, workplace, and internal communications staff have been at the forefront of implementing the change programme we called “moving closer to the ground” over the past four years. This has been the process to establish integrated teams of managers, investigative researchers, campaigners, capacity building, content and media staff in eighteen locations primarily across the global south and east, increasing Amnesty International’s relevance and legitimacy and with the aim to fundamentally increase our human rights impact.
This global transition programme is nearing its end in terms of the physical establishment of the offices and recruitment of the new teams. Our focus now is to both help develop and mature our complex operation.
The Global Security programme was created two years ago to respond to the very different organisation model we were introducing and the changing threats to our work and our staff more generally, and in that time we have introduced multiple initiatives to safeguard our staff, but there is still much to do. Amnesty has always been subject to a unique set of risks due to the work we do and the future will be no different. You’ll need to employ a broad set of skills and knowledge from securing our offices to innovative solutions for operational security risks, delivering tailored training courses to leading crisis management teams. More importantly, you’ll need to put all of your effort into growing Amnesty’s burgeoning security culture both within the International Secretariat and across the wider Amnesty movement with offices in a further 70 countries.
This role offers both a big professional challenge and the opportunity to be part of something that is big and influential – with all the personal reward and satisfaction this can bring. We are looking for someone who relishes supporting and inspiring your own small team, an individual with real drive and with an engaging approach to influencing a wider leadership and staff team on a global basis across the security remit.
The role reports into me as Senior Director, People & Services and collaborating with your peers across our Directorate team our goals are collectively to:
Build an organisational culture that is engaging, positive and supportive
Innovate and harness information and technology systems and ways of working
Ensure the strength and stability of:
our finances and assets,
the safety and security of our people,
our information and our reputation
Improve and adapt our ways of working to strengthen our increasingly global organisation
It is my role to support you ensuring that the security agenda continues to be front and centre for Amnesty and that the Security culture we aspire to is robust and strong.
We are an organisation which like all our peers relies entirely on our people, their innovation, tenacity and energy to hold governments and non-state actors to account and create the change we are working for in the world. If you are the passionate leader who can contribute to our progressive security and allied agenda, I look forward to hearing from you!
Richard Eastmond Senior Director, People & Services
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardeastmond
And here are the views of our departing post holder:
In the past two years, we've taken global security from an idea to a reality. Amnesty staff have long been security-minded, but the organizational approach was largely ad hoc and disconnected. We've driven alignment to global standards, flexible yet still meaningful and relevant, through our Global Security Framework. We've built a robust training program that ensures staff receive the knowledge they need to stay safe while at work, when traveling, and in their personal lives. We've put support mechanisms, equipment, and backend processes in place to ensure we can keep track of our people and communicate with them in crisis. We've established incident reporting mechanisms and incorporated lessons learned into future operations, not just to avoid past mistakes but also celebrate our successes. We've codified crisis management and put forward a process to drill senior management through ever-changing scenarios.
But there is still much to do. We need to embed the global standards into a global culture. We need every staff member trained and eager to apply their knowledge to their work, day after day. We need to increase utilization of our security tools and ensure staff seek out ways to incorporate them in operations. We need to ensure every incident is reported and reviewed, and every staff member understands that anecdotes don't help keep us secure. We need to work hard to see every manager know exactly how to spring into action when plans fall to operational realities.
I'm proud of what I've accomplished in two years at Amnesty and I need your help to move it forward. It won't be easy, but if that sounds like a good thing then you may be the right fit. I've been lucky to work with some of the most energized and dedicated staff I have ever encountered, and this is truly meaningful work. If this is the kind of challenge you've been seeking and not just something you're up for, then I strongly encourage you to apply.
Chad Cole, Head of Global Security
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-cole-18688937/
Please submit alongside your CV a supporting statement of no more than 1200 words setting out your interest in and match to our profile for this role, in particular focusing on your match to the skills and experience we seek.
Documents
1905 Global Head of Security.pdf (268.68 KB)
Amnesty International is committed to creating and sustaining a working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community.
APPLY FOR THIS ROLE
Please submit alongside your CV a supporting statement of no more than 1200 words setting out your interest in and match to our profile for this role, in particular focusing on your match to the skills and experience we seek.
Documents
1905 Global Head of Security.pdf (268.68 KB)
Amnesty International is committed to creating and sustaining a working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community.
APPLY FOR THIS ROLE