Employer: Oxfam
Location:Globally Roving
Closing Date:31 January 2020
Hours:36 hours per week
Salary:£29,954 - £41,647
The Role
The Oxfam Global Security Team is looking for a Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSP) Security Advisor. As an HSP Security Advisor within the Global Humanitarian Team, you will be part of Oxfam’s Global Security Team (GST), which is a shared service covering the whole Confederation. You will be reporting to one of the four Global Security Advisors in the GST. Other GSAs have their focus areas, covering, for example, training, incident reporting and management and so on. Oxfam also has a network of Regional Security Advisors who
are the first points of contact for country-level Security Advisors/Focal Points and are part of the extended GST. In the HSP role, you will mostly be working at country level, but will also have contact and consultation with Regional and Global level advisors.
What we are looking for
Our HSP Security Advisor will strengthen Oxfam’s response to humanitarian emergencies by providing security management support to country and regional offices to which the post-holder is deployed for periods of up to six months, including building security management capacity for the future.
The post holder will undertake a series of assignments usually based in a country or region for which specific Terms of Reference will be negotiated and agreed with relevant parties, prior to deployment and or revised in the early stages of the deployment.
You will bring to Oxfam:
Considerable practical experience of security assessment, planning and implementation of procedures in the context of UN or NGO humanitarian operations;
Proven influencing and negotiating skills with internal and external audiences including in complex and stressful circumstances;
Proven experience of field-based training;
Ability to advise and support field staff in a consultative manner;
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, together with the capacity to remain calm under pressure and not lose sight of strategic priorities. Must be organised and efficient;
A sound understanding of the importance of gender in security and in humanitarian work;
Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts in diverse teams;
Willingness to travel at short notice, often in difficult circumstances;
Sympathy with the aims and objectives of Oxfam:
Committed to humanitarian principles and emergency response work;
Excellent written and spoken English. A good working capacity in written and spoken French is highly desirable.
We offer
Contract Type: 12 months (extendable)
Hours: 36 hours per week
This is a full-time role. However, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements, which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at interview stage.
Oxfam offers fair pay and a competitive benefits package, including up to 43 days holiday/TOIL per year, pension and medical cover, living and accommodation costs covered during deployments.
Location: Global, with deployments worldwide from your home country. You must be prepared to travel at short notice to emergency response countries (deployments are normally 3-6 months). This post assumes extensive travel up to eight months of the year.
Interviews: Interviews to take place in mid-February 2020
This role will give you the opportunity - as part of the broader Global Security Team - to make a difference, supporting Oxfam’s humanitarian work together with a group of passionate and committed professionals, contributing to supporting and improving on security management standards where it matters.
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Location:Globally Roving
Closing Date:31 January 2020
Hours:36 hours per week
Salary:£29,954 - £41,647
The Role
The Oxfam Global Security Team is looking for a Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSP) Security Advisor. As an HSP Security Advisor within the Global Humanitarian Team, you will be part of Oxfam’s Global Security Team (GST), which is a shared service covering the whole Confederation. You will be reporting to one of the four Global Security Advisors in the GST. Other GSAs have their focus areas, covering, for example, training, incident reporting and management and so on. Oxfam also has a network of Regional Security Advisors who
are the first points of contact for country-level Security Advisors/Focal Points and are part of the extended GST. In the HSP role, you will mostly be working at country level, but will also have contact and consultation with Regional and Global level advisors.
What we are looking for
Our HSP Security Advisor will strengthen Oxfam’s response to humanitarian emergencies by providing security management support to country and regional offices to which the post-holder is deployed for periods of up to six months, including building security management capacity for the future.
The post holder will undertake a series of assignments usually based in a country or region for which specific Terms of Reference will be negotiated and agreed with relevant parties, prior to deployment and or revised in the early stages of the deployment.
You will bring to Oxfam:
Considerable practical experience of security assessment, planning and implementation of procedures in the context of UN or NGO humanitarian operations;
Proven influencing and negotiating skills with internal and external audiences including in complex and stressful circumstances;
Proven experience of field-based training;
Ability to advise and support field staff in a consultative manner;
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, together with the capacity to remain calm under pressure and not lose sight of strategic priorities. Must be organised and efficient;
A sound understanding of the importance of gender in security and in humanitarian work;
Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts in diverse teams;
Willingness to travel at short notice, often in difficult circumstances;
Sympathy with the aims and objectives of Oxfam:
Committed to humanitarian principles and emergency response work;
Excellent written and spoken English. A good working capacity in written and spoken French is highly desirable.
We offer
Contract Type: 12 months (extendable)
Hours: 36 hours per week
This is a full-time role. However, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements, which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at interview stage.
Oxfam offers fair pay and a competitive benefits package, including up to 43 days holiday/TOIL per year, pension and medical cover, living and accommodation costs covered during deployments.
Location: Global, with deployments worldwide from your home country. You must be prepared to travel at short notice to emergency response countries (deployments are normally 3-6 months). This post assumes extensive travel up to eight months of the year.
Interviews: Interviews to take place in mid-February 2020
This role will give you the opportunity - as part of the broader Global Security Team - to make a difference, supporting Oxfam’s humanitarian work together with a group of passionate and committed professionals, contributing to supporting and improving on security management standards where it matters.
Apply Online