Feb 17, 2022

Humanitarian Access & Security Manager , Iraq

Employer: Handicap International - Humanity & Inclusion
Location: Iraq
Closing date9 Mar 2022

Job Context:  
HI is managing a large humanitarian program from three different hubs (Beirut, North-West, and North-East), along four main pillars:

Support to health partners (hospitals, psychosocial support centers, local NGOs) for the provision of multidisciplinary rehabilitation services (physical rehabilitation, psychosocial support and/or prosthetics and orthotics) and standalone psychosocial support services, through training, technical supervisions, and donations of assistive devices and/or equipment;

Education to the risks and effects caused by conventional weapons (including mines, explosive remnants of war, and small arms light weapons) and non-technical survey of hazardous areas;

Livelihoods assistance, with a combination of cash for work, vocational training, small grants for businesses and apprenticeships;

Training and technical support to other humanitarian actors on the inclusion of persons with disabilities and other vulnerable persons in the humanitarian response (with a special focus on inclusive health and inclusive livelihoods).

The actual intervention is based on a mix of remote management of national teams, remote partnerships with local structures and organizations, and direct implementation programs.

YOUR MISSION:

The role of the Humanitarian Access & Security Manager (Specific area) is aimed at helping to ensure the safety and security of HI’s mission staff and goods at all times through ensuring proper risk analysis, security frameworks, tools and protocols in place and at the same time supervising their correct and effective implementation. The secondary objective is to develop HI’s capacity to analyze, dialogue, and negotiate in order for populations to fully access humanitarian aid. The position is directly under the Humanitarian Access & Security Manager (Country) or the Area Manager line management.

Responsibility 1 – You contribute to the country strategies in line with the global strategies

-You steer security strategy and functioning through the active promotion of HI’s institutional policy and the optimization of resources
-You contribute towards the drafting, revision and implementation of operational strategy (stratop) in the specific area;
-You produce and update the risk map covering the specific area; You propose and implement risk mitigation measures;
-You contribute to incident reporting within your scope of responsibility;
-You produce, compile and analyse dashboard data;
-You represent HI externally on security matters concerning your specific area (e.g. forums, operational and strategic alliances); You ensure the development of local partnerships necessary to the development of your specific area of activity.

Responsibility 2 - Standards and Accountability

-You ensure respect and application of HI standards and of the mission for the whole of your professional sector, with regard to policy, processes and tools;
-You adapt and contextualize these standards according to specific local characteristics;
-You oversee internal control for your whole area of responsibility;
-You guarantee compliance with and application of institutional donor rules on your activity sector on all the projects implemented in your specific area.

Responsibility 3 - Operational security management

-You gain a thorough understanding on security issues in the specific area and develop an effective and efficient security related information collection.
-You support the Area Manager in the security watch;
-You follow the evolution of local and regional context as well as national and international context when its necessary;
-You support the diversification of information sources and capitalize information about key contacts on the specific area;
-You develop your own networking in order to gather and cross check information obtained from the area;
-You provide context analysis, potential scenario and mitigation measures through regular reporting;
-You ensure the link with the Area Manager, the Humanitarian Access and Security Manager (Country) and the HQ Security Advisor to share and strengthen analysis;
-You ensure that the program is in-line with HI’s security policy;
-You support the development, update and implementation of the security system for HI in the specific area (procedures, documents and tools);
-You follow up the application of security procedures, analyses and formalized lessons learnt to Area Manager;
-You propose to Area Manager and Humanitarian Access and Security Manager (Country) improvements for the management of security in the program and participate to the planning of security procedures implementation;
-You provide feedback and advice on security risks, as well as resources, security documents, strategies and good practice for security management of the HI activities into the area including direction for future project proposals;
-You conduct regular field visit for security assessments and to support mission bases/offices on the area;
-You provide support to Incident Management Support when needed and relevant;
-You track HI’s acceptance among the area communities, ensuring an active acceptance strategy is in place.

Responsibility 4- Representation and coordination

-You represent HI in bilateral meeting with humanitarian actors and with local actors when requested by the Area Manager and the Humanitarian Access and Security Manager (Country);
-You maintain and expand HI’s network of contact with key staff of INGOs or UN agencies specialized in analysis and security and with security access referent of other governmental entities in the area if required;
-You maintain regular discussion and organize regular updates on security and context with the Humanitarian Access and Security Manager (Country).
-You liaise and coordinate with support services Managers to ensure proper capacity, resources and assets are available for security follow-up at mission level.

Responsibility 5- Training and management

-You assess risk behavior from HI staff (national and international) in the area;
-You provide training and on the job training toward persons who have security responsibilities in the area;
-You organize and provide extensive training on any security related issues to all HI staff of the area; induction for newcomers, regular briefing for international and national staff on security rules and procedures and any other specific training for staff.

You assume the role and stance of manager with regard to your staff:

-You foster a team spirit and team works to ensure the necessary synergies between each entity within the mission. You encourage the exchange of practices between each HI entity in the area;
-You contribute towards the professional development of hyour team members: sets individual objectives, ensures that the know-how and motivations of his/her staff meet the organization’s needs;
-You provide individual and collective recognition;
-You develop your staff‘s ability to work autonomously;
-You embody and transmits HI’s values, ensures respect of its code of conduct and institutional policies and is vigilant with regard to expected attitudes and individual and collective behaviors.

Responsibility 6- Humanitarian Access

-You continually analyze the humanitarian context on the area, identifying challenges to access, opportunities for improvement, and key actors;
-You support the Area Manager in creating a program-specific strategy for improving humanitarian access;
-You support the Area Manager in dialogue and negotiations to obtain access with authorities and key stakeholders;
-You support the Area Manager on the preparation of exploratory visit and the opening of new areas.

Responsibility 7- Reporting

-You provide monthly security sitrep and contribute to monthly mission sitre
-You provide quality reporting in case of incident (online application system)
-You participate with inputs in any relevant document preparation (proposal, report, project risk analysis, assessments internal or external visits…)

YOUR PROFILE:
· You hold a degree in security management
· You have at least 4 years of experience in the humanitarian sector and 2 years on security management
· You have experience of emergency missions in unstable security context
· You have a good command of team management and experience in capacity building
· You are rigorous, autonomous and patient
· You are committed and versatile
· You are able to work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team

CONDITIONS:
At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission. https://hi.org/en/join-the-team

· 12 months International contract starting from May 2022
· The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:**

o Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals**
o Pension scheme adapted to the situation of our employees: If you already have a personal pension scheme HI will contribute at the same level of your personal monthly contribution with a maximum of 272.53€/month ; If you do not have a personal pension scheme, we will open a private pension account with your contribution of 272.53€/month and a contribution of HI of the same amount**
o Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution **
o Repatriation insurance paid by HI**

· Salary from 2813 € gross/month upon experience
· Per diem: 553 € net/month - paid in the field
· Hardship: 500 € net/month paid with your salary
· Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
· R&R: 5 days every 8 weeks => + possible transport/package support.
· Position unaccompanied : Payment for travel costs (air ticket & visa) and transport of your personal effects (from 12 months of mission)
· Housing: Collective taken in charge by HI

If you are resident in the country: local package


How To Apply
Only online by joining a CV and cover letter via the following link:
http://www.jobs.net/j/JAOrEURJ?idpartenaire=136&jobdetails=true

Only successful candidates will be contacted.**