Employer: Amnesty International
Location: UK / Northen Ireland
Closing date: 27 Aug 2017
PLEASE NOTE: This is re advertisement for this role and previous applicants should not reapply. Thank you.
Dear Candidate,
Thank you for your interest in this key role in Amnesty International's International Secretariat.
My team, covering finance, human resources, IT, internal communications, legal, security, and workplace 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 fifteen 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, 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 in support of our investigative teams working in high risk locations; from delivering tailored training courses to leading crisis management teams; from ensuring our policy frameworks are fit for purpose to ensuring our information security protocols are in place and understood. Most importantly, you'll need to put all of your effort into pulling all these strands together and growing Amnesty's burgeoning security culture within the International Secretariat.
Moving forwards the resources available to you will be expanding to include a coordinator and a Regional Security manager as we extend the remit of the role to advise 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:
1 Build an organisational culture that is engaging, positive and supportive 2 Innovate and harness information and technology systems and ways of working 3 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 and able to demonstrate a structured approach to balancing risk and mitigation and clear knowledge of the levers by which you build a security culture and engage management and staff in doing so, I look forward to hearing from you!
Richard Eastmond Senior Director, People & Services
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardeastmond
Please submit alongside your CV a supporting statement, which will be a key route to determining our interview short list. This should be of no more than 1200 words (around 2 A4 pages) setting out your interest in this role, and how your skills and experience match what is set out both above and within the job description.
APPLY ONLINE
Location: UK / Northen Ireland
Closing date: 27 Aug 2017
PLEASE NOTE: This is re advertisement for this role and previous applicants should not reapply. Thank you.
Dear Candidate,
Thank you for your interest in this key role in Amnesty International's International Secretariat.
My team, covering finance, human resources, IT, internal communications, legal, security, and workplace 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 fifteen 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, 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 in support of our investigative teams working in high risk locations; from delivering tailored training courses to leading crisis management teams; from ensuring our policy frameworks are fit for purpose to ensuring our information security protocols are in place and understood. Most importantly, you'll need to put all of your effort into pulling all these strands together and growing Amnesty's burgeoning security culture within the International Secretariat.
Moving forwards the resources available to you will be expanding to include a coordinator and a Regional Security manager as we extend the remit of the role to advise 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:
1 Build an organisational culture that is engaging, positive and supportive 2 Innovate and harness information and technology systems and ways of working 3 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 and able to demonstrate a structured approach to balancing risk and mitigation and clear knowledge of the levers by which you build a security culture and engage management and staff in doing so, I look forward to hearing from you!
Richard Eastmond Senior Director, People & Services
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardeastmond
Please submit alongside your CV a supporting statement, which will be a key route to determining our interview short list. This should be of no more than 1200 words (around 2 A4 pages) setting out your interest in this role, and how your skills and experience match what is set out both above and within the job description.
APPLY ONLINE