Location: Erbil, Iraq
Deadline: 27 May 2022
Required: Fluency in English
We are now seeking an experienced analyst to join our team as Safety Advisor.
Job Summary
Safety Advisor positions are highly rewarding roles, offering a unique opportunity to work in a close-knit team giving security analysis and advice that is not only some of the best of its kind, but that is also vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it. Successful candidates will be outgoing and resilient, with the ability to analyse complex security issues and contexts, give sound practical safety and security advice, communicate to an excellent standard of English both verbally and in writing, and above all else share organization’s commitment to humanitarian principles.
Safety Advisor positions are offered on a one-year renewable term.
Major Responsibilities:
Deadline: 27 May 2022
Required: Fluency in English
We are now seeking an experienced analyst to join our team as Safety Advisor.
Job Summary
Safety Advisor positions are highly rewarding roles, offering a unique opportunity to work in a close-knit team giving security analysis and advice that is not only some of the best of its kind, but that is also vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it. Successful candidates will be outgoing and resilient, with the ability to analyse complex security issues and contexts, give sound practical safety and security advice, communicate to an excellent standard of English both verbally and in writing, and above all else share organization’s commitment to humanitarian principles.
Safety Advisor positions are offered on a one-year renewable term.
Major Responsibilities:
Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes NGOs, the UN, military forces, and other national and international security actors to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
Provide NGOs with timely and credible security information and contextual analysis of the local security situation through daily alerts and reports, weekly incident lists, bi-weekly analytical reports, and other thematic reports.
Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables and orientations.
Assist NGOs in developing their own security management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site-security surveys, and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
Manage a small office team, including supervision national staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
Effectively represent, promote, and protect organization’s mandate of independence, impartiality, and neutrality.
Mandatory Requirements:
Provide NGOs with timely and credible security information and contextual analysis of the local security situation through daily alerts and reports, weekly incident lists, bi-weekly analytical reports, and other thematic reports.
Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables and orientations.
Assist NGOs in developing their own security management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site-security surveys, and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
Manage a small office team, including supervision national staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
Effectively represent, promote, and protect organization’s mandate of independence, impartiality, and neutrality.
Mandatory Requirements:
Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills and the keenest eye for detail.
Significant experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
Personal and professional resilience in a fast moving, high output, quality-driven program.
Experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management and/or humanitarian access sectors.
Independent drive, motivation, and excellence, and ability to operate and sustainably manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.
Well-developed personal, organisational and team management skills and standards in a diverse multicultural setting.
Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.
Graduate level education in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
Preferred Characteristics
Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills and the keenest eye for detail.
Significant experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
Personal and professional resilience in a fast moving, high output, quality-driven program.
Experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management and/or humanitarian access sectors.
Independent drive, motivation, and excellence, and ability to operate and sustainably manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.
Well-developed personal, organisational and team management skills and standards in a diverse multicultural setting.
Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.
Graduate level education in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
Preferred Characteristics
A year’s (recent) experience working in Iraq with a humanitarian NGO and demonstrable understanding of the context.
Experience in staff capacity development and training.
Experience with NGO project management.
First-hand experience of crisis management.
Prior experience in an inter-agency role.
Existing information networks and/or local language skills.
Detailed understanding of organization mandate & services.
Key Personal Competencies:
Experience in staff capacity development and training.
Experience with NGO project management.
First-hand experience of crisis management.
Prior experience in an inter-agency role.
Existing information networks and/or local language skills.
Detailed understanding of organization mandate & services.
Key Personal Competencies:
A good listener.
An effective communicator.
Excellent analyst.
Team player.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
A people manager.
Outgoing and proactive personality.
Safeguarding Policy:
Organization is fully committed to safe recruitment, selection and vetting of all potential new staff, trustees and volunteers and we will ensure rigorous compliance with our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policy throughout the recruitment process.
Terms & Conditions:
12-month renewable contract based in Erbil, €4,550 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month and 3 days of R&R every 3 months with an allowance of €750 each R&R cycle, housing, global medical coverage (excluding USA) and USD $200,000 AD&D coverage.
How to Apply
Submit application to: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.com (Email is hidden and is available to Subscribers Only )
An effective communicator.
Excellent analyst.
Team player.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
A people manager.
Outgoing and proactive personality.
Safeguarding Policy:
Organization is fully committed to safe recruitment, selection and vetting of all potential new staff, trustees and volunteers and we will ensure rigorous compliance with our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policy throughout the recruitment process.
Terms & Conditions:
12-month renewable contract based in Erbil, €4,550 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month and 3 days of R&R every 3 months with an allowance of €750 each R&R cycle, housing, global medical coverage (excluding USA) and USD $200,000 AD&D coverage.
How to Apply
Submit application to: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.com (Email is hidden and is available to Subscribers Only )