Jul 10, 2019

Security and Access Manager - Cameroon

Employer: Action Contre la Faim France
Location: Cameroon based in Buea

Closing date: 08 Aug 2019



Our 2020 strategy is based on responding to immediate humanitarian needs and contributing to economic recovery and strengthening resilience and social cohesion in Cameroon.

There are 140 employees on the mission, spread over 5 bases: Batouri in the East, Maroua and Kousseri in the Far North, Buéa in the South West and coordination in Yaoundé.

Cameroon is a fairly stable country. However, the Far North region remains an area of great vigilance with the presence of Boko Haram fractions on the border with Nigeria. Similarly, the Northwest / Southwest regions are very unstable.

The size of the team is small (17 staffs), with one assessment team and 2 mobile teams (one in partnership with Caritas). In Buea, the current project is a pilote to strengthen our presence in the South West, based on acceptance by communities and parties in the conflict. With an ECHO project coming, it is expected that the size of the response will grow, by 2 mobile teams, which will require close monitoring to ensure their safety. The security situation is very tense and fragile on this area and movement to the field are not yet validated, but pending security / access strategy which is under review.

Length of contract: 6 months, starting as soon as possible

The position: You will be responsible to ensure the safety of AAH in South West; whilst at the same time providing an enabling security environment to allow AAH teams to be at the cutting edge of operational implementation in South West.**

You key objectives will be:
To follow access issues in the field for ensuring staff safety
To negotiate when necessary on humanitarian access with all the involved actors
To implement and update AAH humanitarian access strategy
To implement and update AAH security management system
To train and make AAH staff aware of security environment, procedures and rules with briefings, awareness sessions and simulation exercises…

The applicant: You have at least 2 years of experience in program in INGOs on a similar position with a previous experience working in security fragile environment.

You are proficient in evaluating the risks in field missions and you have an confirmed experience in setting up and developing security management tools, procedures and rules, in conducting training on security environment. English (oral and written) is professional. For security reasons, the french speaker applicants would not be considered.

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply, please visit our website: http://recrutement.actioncontrelafaim.org/positions/view/4247/Security-a...