Employer: VSO
Location:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Salary: Competitive depending on the country of residence
Contract type: Permanent
Full Time: 35 hours per week
Application Closing Date: 16 Oct 2017
Interview date: TBC
Start date: ASAP
VSO is the world's leading development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. We are unique in the way we bring people together to share their skills and experience, generate insights and ideas and, most of all, take action against poverty and exclusion. It's a highly effective approach that works, and today is helping millions of people in some of the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty.
Role overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a global leader in Safety and Security to support VSO International across their global portfolio of work in 30 countries. This is a senior global role, in which the post holder will be responsible for directing and overseeing the implementation of the safety and security management framework and strategy, including donor and budget management. Influencing skills are critical, the post holder will continue to build capacity in implementation of security and safety practice in country and nurture and promote a community of practitioners across VSO. There will also be the opportunity to influence throughout the sector, as part of the global engagement and leadership element of our strategy, collaborating with international NGOs, local and international partners and security groups across the countries where we work.
Skills, qualifications and experience
As the successful candidate, you will have a significant amount of experience working at senior management level in the global security sector with a non-profit or INGO with demonstrated capabilities in strategic planning at global level and in the field. You have a comprehensive understanding of global security and incident management, with strong experience of implementing security strategies and policies. You will have a track record of managing crises and substantial and documented experience in conducting security training at personal and management level to a wide range of audiences. Experience of working with volunteers and the target youth demographic and experience in the medical field and working with an in house medical team would be an advantage. This role will include regular international travel. Candidates should be able to work flexibly.
VSO reserves the right to close the vacancy at any time, if sufficient applications have been received.
We discourage candidates who have unsuccessfully applied for VSO positions in the past two years from applying.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position, so please ensure you have the right to work in either London, Nairobi or Pretoria before you apply.
If you’re interested in applying for this role, please download the job description for more information.
To submit your application, click on ‘Make an application’ and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.
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Salary: Competitive depending on the country of residence
Contract type: Permanent
Full Time: 35 hours per week
Application Closing Date: 16 Oct 2017
Interview date: TBC
Start date: ASAP
VSO is the world's leading development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. We are unique in the way we bring people together to share their skills and experience, generate insights and ideas and, most of all, take action against poverty and exclusion. It's a highly effective approach that works, and today is helping millions of people in some of the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty.
Role overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a global leader in Safety and Security to support VSO International across their global portfolio of work in 30 countries. This is a senior global role, in which the post holder will be responsible for directing and overseeing the implementation of the safety and security management framework and strategy, including donor and budget management. Influencing skills are critical, the post holder will continue to build capacity in implementation of security and safety practice in country and nurture and promote a community of practitioners across VSO. There will also be the opportunity to influence throughout the sector, as part of the global engagement and leadership element of our strategy, collaborating with international NGOs, local and international partners and security groups across the countries where we work.
Skills, qualifications and experience
As the successful candidate, you will have a significant amount of experience working at senior management level in the global security sector with a non-profit or INGO with demonstrated capabilities in strategic planning at global level and in the field. You have a comprehensive understanding of global security and incident management, with strong experience of implementing security strategies and policies. You will have a track record of managing crises and substantial and documented experience in conducting security training at personal and management level to a wide range of audiences. Experience of working with volunteers and the target youth demographic and experience in the medical field and working with an in house medical team would be an advantage. This role will include regular international travel. Candidates should be able to work flexibly.
VSO reserves the right to close the vacancy at any time, if sufficient applications have been received.
We discourage candidates who have unsuccessfully applied for VSO positions in the past two years from applying.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position, so please ensure you have the right to work in either London, Nairobi or Pretoria before you apply.
If you’re interested in applying for this role, please download the job description for more information.
To submit your application, click on ‘Make an application’ and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.
MAKE AN APPLICATION
Know someone who would be amazing at this role?
If you know the perfect person for this opportunity, tell them about it here.
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