Security Manager At Terre des hommes

WHAT WE DO, IN EUROPE AND UKRAINE

Terre des hommes (Tdh) is the leading Swiss organisation for children’s aid. Since 1960, Tdh has helped build a better future for children and youth, especially those most exposed to risks, making an impact with innovative and sustainable solutions. Active in more than 30 countries, Tdh works with its own teams and/or local and international partners to develop and implement field projects which significantly improve the daily lives of over four million children and members of their communities every year, with a focus on mother and child health, migration, and access to justice for children.

In Europe, Tdh strives to ensure the full realisation of children’s rights, equally and without discrimination. We are present in Albania, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, and Greece, while together with partners, we reach children in other 14 European countries.

In Ukraine, Tdh has legally established its offices in 2014. Since 2015, Tdh has been providing various services to children, youth and their families in the conflict affected area, with a strong focus on psychosocial support.

For more information, please check https://www.tdh.org, https://tdh-ukraine.org, www.facebook.com/TdhUkraine/

The Tdh Security Manager assists and supports the Country Representative (CR) in ensuring the safe-ty and security of Tdh’ staff, assets and programs through the implementation and compliance over-sight of relevant security policies and procedures, as well as the establishment of analysis grids of events.

To that end, s/he will work with the CR to confirm those related organizational poli-cies/procedures/tools are responsive to the context, adequate and known to staff, and will advise on design of humanitarian access strategy in close coordination with the heads of sectorial units.

Under the supervision of the CR, the Security Manager will participate to the analysis of security trends as well as advise on the implementation of the Tdh’s Security Management Plan.

The Security Manager will streamline humanitarian access approaches in line with humanitarian principles, humanitarian needs, and the Tdh’s strategy action plan for Ukraine.

The Security Manager will conduct onsite security trainings for staff, facilitate the development and implementation of appropriate risk response plans.

S/he will provide expert humanitarian risk and access advice to all levels of Tdh staff in the country office including access negotiations and mediation, context and conflict analysis, advisories, and in-cident management.

More specifically s/he has the following responsibilities:

Security Management:

Elaborate / revise the relevant security documents (risk analyses, security plans, contingency plans, security and safety standard operating procedures (SOPs), etc.), in collaboration with the Country Representative.
Contribute to the implementation of security and safety procedures in the country.
Design and drill warden systems, emergency communications networks, and provisioning of emergency supplies for field personnel.
Ensure internal incident tracking system is utilized properly and perform incident mapping and analysis.
Act as a key member of the Security Management Team when required during a crisis so that safety policies and procedures are implemented.
Audits communications equipment and facilitates communications-related assistance when necessary.
Recommends changes in country security plans to CR and Security Management Team as needed.
Support the CR in the management of security incidents.

Access:

Support the CR in the negotiations to obtain access with civilian and/or military authorities (in case of need)
Support the organization of assessment visits in security-sensitive areas (networking, road analysis, specific SOP, etc.).
Participate to assessment visits.
Contribute to the elaboration / experimentation of adapted access modalities in security-sensitive areas (e.g. delocalised teams, innovative forms of partnerships, etc.)

Context analysis:

Contribute to regular qualitative follow up of the political, military and security context in the country.
Contribute to regular quantitative analysis of the security incidents and trends (through internal and external data) in the country.
Support the CR for the analysis of local stakeholders, power dynamics, ethno-confessional factors, acceptance factors, and other relevant political, social and cultural issues.

Reporting:

Ensure regular (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) security reports are completed and sent to headquarters, providing timely updates of all situational and security developments including investigation of security incidents.
Conducts and submits Security Risk Assessments of programs, as required.
Conducts and submits full Site Security Surveys of every site visited.
Conducts and submits Trip Reports of all high-risk field deployments.
Keep excellent records and logs to ensure continuity of this position.

Human Resources:

Oversee the recruitment and selection of qualified national security field staff, recommend promotions, disciplinary action and termination of staff in consultation with the CR.
Make frequent site visits to facilities to carry out security assessments and ensure appropriate care and training are being conducted. Maintain open lines of communications with all field staff.

Training/ Capacity Building:

Supervise and train national Security staff and Security Focal Points.
Ensure systematic induction security briefings are conducted to all arriving staff, visitors or volunteers.
Support the CR in ensuring that all field staff are fully cognizant of prevailing security threats and fully advised on means to reduce staff vulnerability to those threats.
Provide ad hoc training on specific security and/or safety issues to relevant staff (when needed)
Train senior national staff to increase their responsibilities in order to build capacity and ensure sustainability.
Monitors the security preparedness of country staff and works with CR to ensure staff compliance with internal security policies and SOPs.

Representation and coordination:

Attends security coordination meetings and updates CR on current security issues.
Represent Tdh in bilateral meetings with humanitarian actors and with local actors (in coordination with the CR).
Maintain / expand Tdh’s network of security, context, and access contacts, among local NGOs, international NGOs, local authorities, and other relevant entities.
Maintain regular discussions / organise regular updates on security and context with the Roving Risk Specialist and the HQ Risk Department.
Contribute to the creation of a positive image and overall credibility of the organization, notably through the application of the organizations Code of Conduct, ethics, values and standpoint with regard to internal and external actors.

As well as the following specific “Professions” skills:

3 years of field security experience in hostile environments, previous experience working in NGO
Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently.
Extremely flexible with the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustrations.
Demonstrated knowledge of linking security activities with other humanitarian sectors.
Ability to effectively present information (both written and verbally) and respond appropriately to questions from senior managers in the field and HQ, counterparts, senior government.
Experience and understanding of key intuitional donors’ policies, guidelines and strategies e.g. USAid, OFDA, ECHO, DFID and UN
Ability to understand gender related challenges within the beneficiary groups.
Works well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure well.
Demonstrated experience of working closely with support functions (finance and logistics) on activity and procurement planning.
Fluent in English and Ukrainian is mandatory.

Child Safeguarding Policy:

To commit to respect Tdh Risk Management Policies including Child Safeguarding Policy, Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption Policy, Whistle Blowing Policy.

GDPR compliance:

By sending your application, you agree that your personal data will be used in the recruitment process. All the documents we will request in different steps of the recruitment process will only be used for this purpose.

All staff involved in recruitment and selection are aware that data protection rules apply, and that personal information will be treated confidentially. According to our policy, we will keep your application documents for the period of the recruitment only.

Due to an anticipated high number of applications, Tdh is not in a position to respond to every applicant individually. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the first interview.