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Africa Regional Security Manager Non-profit Careers – Food for the Hungry (FH)
Job Title: Africa Regional Security
Manager
Organization:
Food for the Hungry (FH)
Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Food for the Hungry
(also known as FH) is a Christian international relief, development, and
advocacy organization with operations in more than 20 countries. Food for the
Hungry was founded in 1971 by Dr. Larry Ward. Food for the Hungry’s stated
mission for long-term development is to graduate communities of extreme poverty
within 10–15 years. The organization does this by going to some of the hardest
places with an exit strategy, empowering local leaders and walking
“together” with them, as they lead their communities into being
thriving, self-sustainable places to live.
Job Summary: The Regional Security Manager (RSM) is
primarily responsible for security management in the region. The RSM is
responsible for providing leadership on safety and security policy management
and operational support to enable the safest and most effective implementation
of FH programs and activities. The RSM will do this by facilitating and
delivering high quality, standards driven security risk management practices
including training, influencing all staff and response.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Track and support
the implementation of FH’s minimum operating security standards (MOSS) at the
country-level
- Monitor, evaluate and report security risk management, travel
security and duty of care application and adherence of policy, standards
and processes. - Perform regional threat reviews, risk assessments and analysis, and
deliver solutions and recommendations to leaders. - Oversee the facilitation, development and review of country-level
security plans according to FH standards and using established processes,
forms and templates. - Conduct risk assessments to support country offices as needed, with
an emphasis on moderate and high-risk countries. - Standardize templates and processes for site-specific security
assessments for FH offices, warehouses, and other property locations. - Ensure risk assessments for new project or emergency response
locations are conducted accurately and timely using established processes. - Develop and conduct trainings and drills that support security awareness,
standard operating procedures, contingency plans and emergency response. - Promote international travel security standards to and from the
region, and ensure countries are knowledgeable and can execute travel
security standards. - Maintain compliance records and communicate compliance to the
Security Department and Regional Directors. - Ensure operational plans and budgets reflect responsibilities for
staff management, training, support, security and well-being. This may
include reviewing grant proposals and evaluating security needs for safe
implementation.
Training and
Influence
- Provide functional supervision and support to the country security
managers / focal points. - Ensure regions / country offices receive training support for their
staff in order to help meet our duty of care and minimum security
standards. - Strengthen security awareness and skills of staff, through
motivational and creative learning opportunities. - Support the regions and countries in delivering in-person trainings
where there is limited or no local capacity to do so. - FH values team collaboration. The RSM will train, coach, and mentor
staff at all levels on integrated security and leadership development in
order to strengthen their skills in their own professional area. - This is toward the goal of mainstreaming / integrating security
management into all project designs, country strategies and departmental
processes. - Long-term mentoring and coaching of country-level security focal
points. This includes but is not limited to regular field visits, creating
intentional training and coaching opportunities, developing individualized
learning plans and continual encouragement. Collaboration with the
Security Department on the security focal point (SFP) development program.
Dialog regularly with the Security Department and Country Directors on
SFPs development progress. - Provide technical direction, advice, and support to the RDs, CDs and
others on security issues and its likely impact to programs and people. - Maintain the global security training register using established
criteria and registers. - Promote recognition and teamwork to retain country-level security
managers and focal points. - Promote in-country learning and networking by identifying
interagency forums. Promote CD leadership in security forums such as OSAC. - Active participation and regular coordination with the regional
senior leadership team.
Threat and Incident
Management
- Collaborate with security team members to effectively mitigate
incidents. Incidents may include a wide range of issues, including natural
disasters, extreme weather, demonstrations, terrorism, crime, workplace
violence, kidnapping, detention and imminent threat to events, locations
and personnel. - Ensure threats / incidents that could potentially impact regional
operations or personnel are being formally communicated and escalated to
relevant stakeholders in a timely manner, and conduct incidence analysis
and share the information with country leadership and the Security
Department. - Responsible for information management during a critical event and
maintain all notes, logs, and information. - Conduct yearly drills and scenario exercises to build incident
response capacities in the field. - Report and update incidents using the established protocols and IR
platform. - Support the Security Department and regional leaders with incident
response, reporting and post incident action and follow-up. - Perform surge capacity in region during sudden-onset critical
events.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Food for the Hungry job placement must
hold a University degree in a related field with at least five (5) years
of working experience in security management with an International
Non-Governmental Organization or other international organization and (1)
one year in a high-risk environment; or equivalent combination of
education and experience. - Training or teacher certification and experience desired.
- Project management desired.
- Vibrant personal relationship with Jesus Christ and Christian
commitment to serving the poor and in full agreement with FH’s Christian
foundation and beliefs as expressed in The Heartbeat: our Values, Vision,
and Purpose. - Excellent people skills including warmth and sensitivity,
conversational, able to relate to and effectively communicate with people
from different cultures (at various levels within the organization). - High integrity and a strong sense of professional ethics.
- Able to work a flexible schedule (including weekends, holidays and
non-business hours). - Must be able to deploy on short-notice for extended time.
- Ability to manage large-scale demanding and dynamic projects.
- Substantial demonstrated experience and desire to train and coach
all staff levels using various training methods. - Experience developing and implementing security risk management
standards in NGOs. - Strong analytical (tactical & strategic), organizational, and
problem solving skills. - Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills, with the
ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse
tasks and responsibilities. - Strong communication, both verbal and written, people management and
interpersonal skills in English, with experience in leading multicultural,
multi-location, values-driven teams. - Demonstrated computer-operating skills, including proficiency in
Microsoft Office products, Google platform, and virtual technologies such
as Skype and/or other virtual meeting software. - Excellent organizational skills; ability to plan and coordinate
work, ensure the efficient flow of projects and processes. - Competency in field-based communications systems such as HF Codan,
Motorola VHF, Thuraya, satellite and incident mapping platforms desired. - Medical fitness to live and travel in rural and urban areas with
extreme conditions and limited medical support. - Ability to travel up to 50% of time per year in the US and
internationally, to insecure countries or locations. - Language: Proficiency
in spoken and written English. For positions in French speaking countries,
fluency in French required. For positions in Latin America, Spanish
fluency required. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business
periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or government
regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and
procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond
to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general
public
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