CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.
The Regional Security Manager (RSM) will work to reduce the risks faced by CARE personnel, assets and programs in CARE’s MENA Region, Country Offices and Program presences, through the provision of specialized, coordinated and focused safety and security preparedness and management support. This will include regional assessments as well as country office specific assessments.
The RSM will be responsible for managing, administrating, coaching, mentoring and developing the capacity of Safety & Security Managers and country office Safety & Security Focal Points, lead the regional Safety & Security Focal Point training as well as train and support general staff in order to ensure operational risks are maintained at appropriate levels.
The RSM will establish and implement processes and systems, drawing from the CSU’s best practices, to ensure an effective regional wide security system as well as train and support staff to ensure that operational risks are minimized. She/He will demonstrate a high level of socio-cultural, political and economic understanding of the many contexts in which CARE works. The RSM will also develop a solid working knowledge of CARE’s program framework in order to provide guidance and direction for safety and security to support CARE’s vision and mission. The RSM will be required to develop and maintain a network of information on strategic regional developments that could harm or influence CARE’s operations.
The RSM will be required to work closely with the Regional Director, Managing Deputy Regional Director and Country Directors in identifying priority issues for country offices and program presences, building capacity and systems as required. The RSM will be required to travel to CARE’s operational areas in the region, including volatile and hazardous locations to support Country Offices in addressing changing contexts, developing security plans, and providing technical and strategic assistance where appropriate.
The RSM will be responsible for managing the regional operational security budget and provide the Director of Operational Security with regular financial reviews and reports.
Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership, Coaching, Mentoring and Capacity Building
- Administrative and Financial Management Responsibilities
- Develop Strategies, Procedures and Protocols to manage security risk
- Assessments, Planning and Information Management
- Act in a crisis
- Regional liaison and representation
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in a field related to humanitarian work or security risk management
- Fluency in English
- Five years’ experience in assisting international organizations in developing security strategies for their operations in multicultural contexts, or directly related experience outside the INGO sector
- Five years’ experience in supervising security professionals and mentoring junior staff
- Experience living and working in fragile or conflict environments
- Experience of operating in the MENA region and familiarity with the different operating contexts
- Training experience in an adult learning context
How to apply
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