Aug 2, 2022

Safety Advisor- East , Nigeria

Job Location: Nigeria


Closing date18 Aug 2022
Base Salary:  €4,550 per month


Description:
As Safety Advisor- East, you will combine a strong humanitarian and safety background with experience in a similar risk context with a clear understanding of humanitarian safety principles, conflict analysis and a flexible, outgoing personality.

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 needit. You will be outgoing and resilient, with the ability to analyse complex security issues and contexts, give sound practical safety and security advice and communicate to an excellent standard of English.

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 incident alerts, weekly incident lists and bi-weekly analytical reports.
Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables.
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 of national staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
Effectively represent, promote and protect INSO's mandate of independence, impartiality and neutrality.
Support the Deputy Director for Support and the Director in the development of context-specific analysis across the region

Mandatory Requirements:
Fluency in English (written and spoken).
Graduate level education or equivalent work experience.
Experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
Strong writing and proven analytical abilities.
Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles

Preferred Characteristics:
Recent experience in the Lake Chad Basin region - ideally in an NGO safety role or equivalent - and demonstrable understanding of the security dynamics and context.
Experience with NGO security and/or project management.

Key Personal Competencies
A good listener
An effective communicator
Excellent analyst
Team player
Excellent interpersonal skills
A people manager


Terms & Conditions: 12-month contract based in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, €4,550 per month salary, 4 days annual leave per calendar month and 7 days of R&R every 2 months with an allowance of €1250 each R&R cycle, housing, global medical coverage (excluding USA) and USD $200,000 AD&D coverage.

How to apply
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