Employer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Location: Hargeisa, Somalia
Our benefits
We are a provider of international cooperation services for sustainable development and work to build a future worth living around the world. We support projects in over 130 countries to achieve goals sustainably together with our partners.
Everyone has the same opportunities in our company, regardless of gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or physical disability. We recruit based on specialist expertise and social skills. Transparency and fair opportunities for career advancement are just as much a matter of course for us as gender not being a barrier to taking up a management position.
Your work will begin with an onboarding and preparation phase that will give you initial insights into GIZ and lay the groundwork for your upcoming assignment, establishing new contacts and building up your network.
We provide opportunities for taking part in training and professional development to all our staff. Our Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ) will help you develop your skills.
Ensuring the compatibility of career, family work and care commitments is part of our corporate policy. Flexible working hours and comprehensive preparation packages for families accompanying staff abroad are two examples of the opportunities that GIZ offers its employees. Our family-friendly philosophy also includes providing support for family members in need of care.
Flexi-time and the possibility for mobile working gives staff maximum flexibility.
We offer you various part-time working models to give you flexibility in planning your working and home lives.
We allow our staff to accrue working time credits in a long-term working time account. This credit can then be used to take a lengthy leave of absence.
Extensive check-ups and preventive measures (e.g. on appointment, before the outward journey, during the stay in a country of assignment, in an emergency) are provided to our staff and the family members accompanying them as a matter of course.
We reward staff who achieve their agreed annual targets with a variable remuneration component.
You will receive various additional benefits during your stay abroad that will depend on your country of assignment.
In many places, you will receive a subsidy towards the rent on your place of residence. If you have not yet found suitable accommodation at the time of your outward journey, you will receive a subsidy to put towards your hotel costs.
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Location: Hargeisa, Somalia
Assignment period:04/01/2021 - 11/30/2021
Type of employment:full- or part-time
Application deadline:03/02/2021
Job description
The Risk Management Office (RMO) Somalia is one of the rare Risk Management systems within GIZ, that is commissioned with own project funds. The project aims at creating the preconditions to minimize the current and potential security risks of GIZ staff and to ensure the secure implementation of GIZ projects throughout Somalia. The project is currently preparing its follow-on module starting in 2021, where the setting up of new offices in Somalia is intended.
Your tasks
Leading the Operations room and maintaining the security risk management system for specific assigned duty stations
Advising and overseeing the running and operations of the specific assigned duty stations
Laterally managing and advising a diverse part of the team, while maintaining day to day operational responsibility for the Operation’s room and allocated staff at the specific assigned duty stations
Preparing the setting up of operations of new sites to include, Mogadishu, Burtinle and Burco, in-line with the portfolio and project objectives stipulated by the project manager
Updating and developing appropriate procedures to include existing emergency procedures, preparing country risk assessment, operational location risk assessments and incident report summaries
Analysing security incidents throughout the specific assigned duty stations and collect, contextualize and evaluate security related information
Liaising and establishing a broad network with authorities, actors, and military forces for the purpose enhancing strategic engagement and whilst representing the RMO and GIZ portfolio
Availability during crisis situations
Your profile
University Degree in security, risk, crisis and disaster management, social science, international relations, peace and conflict studies or another relevant field
Several years of professional experience in development, humanitarian or international organizations in a similar role
Several years of working experience in a fragile/conflict-affected country, preferably in Africa or the Near/Middle East
Experience in (remotely) leading diverse staff members at different locations, with excellent communication and mediation competence
Experience in managing multiple complex work processes at a time under high pressure
Understanding of GIZ’s ‘quality in-line’ and administrative procedures
Excellent analytical skills as well as strategic and operational planning and implementation
Fluency in English; German language skills are highly desired
This job is suited to a full or a part-time position.
The willingness for travelling to different duty stations such as Puntland, Jubaland and Mogadishu is required.
Please understand that we can accept and process in principle only applications via our E-recruiting system. Following the confirmation of your successful application, kindly check your spam / junk mail folder on a regular basis, since some provider classify emails from our recruiting system as spam.
GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability, both in Germany and abroad. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.
You can get an overview of our benefits packages here.
Type of employment:full- or part-time
Application deadline:03/02/2021
Job description
The Risk Management Office (RMO) Somalia is one of the rare Risk Management systems within GIZ, that is commissioned with own project funds. The project aims at creating the preconditions to minimize the current and potential security risks of GIZ staff and to ensure the secure implementation of GIZ projects throughout Somalia. The project is currently preparing its follow-on module starting in 2021, where the setting up of new offices in Somalia is intended.
Your tasks
Leading the Operations room and maintaining the security risk management system for specific assigned duty stations
Advising and overseeing the running and operations of the specific assigned duty stations
Laterally managing and advising a diverse part of the team, while maintaining day to day operational responsibility for the Operation’s room and allocated staff at the specific assigned duty stations
Preparing the setting up of operations of new sites to include, Mogadishu, Burtinle and Burco, in-line with the portfolio and project objectives stipulated by the project manager
Updating and developing appropriate procedures to include existing emergency procedures, preparing country risk assessment, operational location risk assessments and incident report summaries
Analysing security incidents throughout the specific assigned duty stations and collect, contextualize and evaluate security related information
Liaising and establishing a broad network with authorities, actors, and military forces for the purpose enhancing strategic engagement and whilst representing the RMO and GIZ portfolio
Availability during crisis situations
Your profile
University Degree in security, risk, crisis and disaster management, social science, international relations, peace and conflict studies or another relevant field
Several years of professional experience in development, humanitarian or international organizations in a similar role
Several years of working experience in a fragile/conflict-affected country, preferably in Africa or the Near/Middle East
Experience in (remotely) leading diverse staff members at different locations, with excellent communication and mediation competence
Experience in managing multiple complex work processes at a time under high pressure
Understanding of GIZ’s ‘quality in-line’ and administrative procedures
Excellent analytical skills as well as strategic and operational planning and implementation
Fluency in English; German language skills are highly desired
This job is suited to a full or a part-time position.
The willingness for travelling to different duty stations such as Puntland, Jubaland and Mogadishu is required.
Please understand that we can accept and process in principle only applications via our E-recruiting system. Following the confirmation of your successful application, kindly check your spam / junk mail folder on a regular basis, since some provider classify emails from our recruiting system as spam.
GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability, both in Germany and abroad. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.
You can get an overview of our benefits packages here.
Our benefits
We are a provider of international cooperation services for sustainable development and work to build a future worth living around the world. We support projects in over 130 countries to achieve goals sustainably together with our partners.
Everyone has the same opportunities in our company, regardless of gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or physical disability. We recruit based on specialist expertise and social skills. Transparency and fair opportunities for career advancement are just as much a matter of course for us as gender not being a barrier to taking up a management position.
Your work will begin with an onboarding and preparation phase that will give you initial insights into GIZ and lay the groundwork for your upcoming assignment, establishing new contacts and building up your network.
We provide opportunities for taking part in training and professional development to all our staff. Our Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ) will help you develop your skills.
Ensuring the compatibility of career, family work and care commitments is part of our corporate policy. Flexible working hours and comprehensive preparation packages for families accompanying staff abroad are two examples of the opportunities that GIZ offers its employees. Our family-friendly philosophy also includes providing support for family members in need of care.
Flexi-time and the possibility for mobile working gives staff maximum flexibility.
We offer you various part-time working models to give you flexibility in planning your working and home lives.
We allow our staff to accrue working time credits in a long-term working time account. This credit can then be used to take a lengthy leave of absence.
Extensive check-ups and preventive measures (e.g. on appointment, before the outward journey, during the stay in a country of assignment, in an emergency) are provided to our staff and the family members accompanying them as a matter of course.
We reward staff who achieve their agreed annual targets with a variable remuneration component.
You will receive various additional benefits during your stay abroad that will depend on your country of assignment.
In many places, you will receive a subsidy towards the rent on your place of residence. If you have not yet found suitable accommodation at the time of your outward journey, you will receive a subsidy to put towards your hotel costs.
Apply Now