Feb 21, 2023

Safety Advisor – North, Mozambique

Job Location: Pemba, Mozambique
Deadline: 2 March 2023

Required: Fluency in English, working knowledge of Portuguese

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 vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it.

You will be outgoing and resilient, with the ability to analyze complex security issues and contexts, give sound practical safety and security advice and above all else share INSO’s commitment to humanitarian principles.

Main Responsibilities
Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes NGOs, the UN, military forces, and other 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.
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.

Mandatory Requirements
Working knowledge of Portuguese.
Fluency in English.
Graduate level education and/or experience in a relevant field.
Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills.
Personal and professional resilience in a fast-moving, high-output, quality-driven program.
Independent drive, motivation, and excellence.
Well-developed personal, organisational and team management skills and standards in a diverse multicultural setting.
Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.

Preferred Characteristics
Prior experience with INSO
Experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
Existing regional information networks.
Detailed understanding of INSO mandate & services.
Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
Experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management and/or humanitarian access sectors.
Experience working in Mozambique with a demonstrable understanding of the context, alternatively experience in another African country

Personal Attributes
Highly organised
Effective communicator
Be able to work under pressure.
Capacity to work in multicultural environments.

Terms & Conditions
12-month contract based in Pemba, Cabo Delgado with €4,550 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month and 7 days of R&R every 3 months with an allowance of €1000 each R&R cycle, housing, global medical coverage (excluding USA) and USD $200,000 AD&D coverage.



How to apply
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