Hiring Organization: GiveDirectly
Job Location: Kenya
Location: This role is fully remote but must overlap with the East Africa timezone by at least 6 hours.
The Kenya base salary for this role is $75,000 USD.
About this role
Our team, with an incredible dedication to being Recipients First, encounters a variety of challenges as they work to reach Recipients each day. We operate in 12 different countries in both development and humanitarian contexts, each with unique risks and complexities. In this role, you will ensure we’re upholding our Team Next value by crafting the nuanced policies, processes, and protocols that will keep our team safe. You’ll own training on and auditing of compliance with those safety and security measures. You’ll sit within the Global People team, and work with stakeholders from across the organization, including local safety and security officers, program operations leadership, and global leadership to assess the risks to our staff safety and security, propose the appropriate mitigation measures, policies and procedures and implement those measures. You’ll also be “on call” to lead incident and crisis response as needed.
Reports to: VP, People
Level: Senior Manager
What you’ll do:
Job Location: Kenya
Location: This role is fully remote but must overlap with the East Africa timezone by at least 6 hours.
The Kenya base salary for this role is $75,000 USD.
About this role
Our team, with an incredible dedication to being Recipients First, encounters a variety of challenges as they work to reach Recipients each day. We operate in 12 different countries in both development and humanitarian contexts, each with unique risks and complexities. In this role, you will ensure we’re upholding our Team Next value by crafting the nuanced policies, processes, and protocols that will keep our team safe. You’ll own training on and auditing of compliance with those safety and security measures. You’ll sit within the Global People team, and work with stakeholders from across the organization, including local safety and security officers, program operations leadership, and global leadership to assess the risks to our staff safety and security, propose the appropriate mitigation measures, policies and procedures and implement those measures. You’ll also be “on call” to lead incident and crisis response as needed.
Reports to: VP, People
Level: Senior Manager
What you’ll do:
Work with senior leadership to identify and define our risk appetite, and develop a safety and security risk management framework to aid in quick assessment and mitigation in new contexts
Develop and continuously improve policies and processes intended to keep our team safe, including crisis management plans, incident review processes, evacuation plans
Regularly visit GD country offices to review and improve country security protocols, quality assure implementation, and provide technical oversight of local safety and security advisors
Provide capacity building to in-country security managers and Country Directors- serve as thought partner and advisor
Ensure all team members are properly trained for the potential risks they may encounter and feed into the global HR team ideas and suggestions that could help us improve in this
Ensure we have the proper equipment and logistics required - including communications devices, personal protective gear, etc.
Regularly audit adherence to safety and security policies, and develop accountability structures and escalation protocols for non-compliance
Lead crisis/incident management teams with Country Directors, and support local security advisors to lead, and manage our reporting and response protocols.
What you’ll bring:
Develop and continuously improve policies and processes intended to keep our team safe, including crisis management plans, incident review processes, evacuation plans
Regularly visit GD country offices to review and improve country security protocols, quality assure implementation, and provide technical oversight of local safety and security advisors
Provide capacity building to in-country security managers and Country Directors- serve as thought partner and advisor
Ensure all team members are properly trained for the potential risks they may encounter and feed into the global HR team ideas and suggestions that could help us improve in this
Ensure we have the proper equipment and logistics required - including communications devices, personal protective gear, etc.
Regularly audit adherence to safety and security policies, and develop accountability structures and escalation protocols for non-compliance
Lead crisis/incident management teams with Country Directors, and support local security advisors to lead, and manage our reporting and response protocols.
What you’ll bring:
Alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
Exceptional critical thinking, operations, and project management skills
Strong emotional intelligence and communication skills - ability to influence and motivate and work across multiple cultures and levels
Skilled at building, coaching and mentoring teams and individuals
Experience living and working in high-risk areas (i.e. conflict zones), with experience in multiple geographies/contexts, ideally within MENA and/or sub-saharan africa.
Willingness to travel - we expect this role to be traveling at least 30% of the time, and especially to spend time in our more conflict-prone regions and country offices.
(strongly preferred) Experience working with INGOs in conflict zones, understands the nuance of managing security in high-risk areas alongside humanitarian operations, and understands the importance and complexities of working with communities.
Compensation
At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to ensure that staff’s total compensation package (base compensation + bonus) falls within the 75th percentile of similar roles, at similar organizations. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.
The Kenya base salary for this role is $75,000 USD.
This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.
Exceptional critical thinking, operations, and project management skills
Strong emotional intelligence and communication skills - ability to influence and motivate and work across multiple cultures and levels
Skilled at building, coaching and mentoring teams and individuals
Experience living and working in high-risk areas (i.e. conflict zones), with experience in multiple geographies/contexts, ideally within MENA and/or sub-saharan africa.
Willingness to travel - we expect this role to be traveling at least 30% of the time, and especially to spend time in our more conflict-prone regions and country offices.
(strongly preferred) Experience working with INGOs in conflict zones, understands the nuance of managing security in high-risk areas alongside humanitarian operations, and understands the importance and complexities of working with communities.
Compensation
At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to ensure that staff’s total compensation package (base compensation + bonus) falls within the 75th percentile of similar roles, at similar organizations. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.
The Kenya base salary for this role is $75,000 USD.
This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.