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Background:
ABOUT RI: Relief International is an international non-profit organization that partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience and promote long-term health and wellbeing. Our team of more than 7,000 staff and local volunteers work in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, providing Health and Nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Education and Livelihoods programming that creates the foundation for community resilience. We do this by working with local actors to develop safe and inclusive local programming that is evidence-based, conflict-sensitive, climate-smart, and reaches those in need.
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Duties and responsibilities:
POSITION SUMMARY:RI is seeking a Security Coordinator for Aljazeera State Office who will be responsible for the implementation of RI’s Safety and Risk Management (SRM),ensuring and managingoversight of safetyand access policiesand strategies, developing contextual analysis, buildingcapacity within the Madani and Elmanagil offices safety and access teams, and developing and implementing context appropriate RI safety protocols and procedures (SOPs). This position is Roving Madani Elmanagil and with a significant portion of time spent visiting the field in Aljazeera state and providing recommendations and guidance to the Aljazeera State. The position requires providing direct support to the Al Jazeera State for the oversight of operations in Elmanagil and Madani. In addition, ensuring that he/she works closely with staff, partners, communities, and peers to enhance the capacity of RI offices in Aljazeera, providing routine and timely analysis and incident reports to the AM, deploying as needed in support of Aljazeera Office teams, and developing regionally consistent strategies for the management of safetyand security. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Planning and Preparation - Design, establish and maintain safety support systems, conducting scheduled and ad-hoc field visits at each program sites, including Madani and Elmanagil offices and program delivery location for safety and access assessments, safetyrelated audits and awareness trainingacross Aljazeera State.
- Conduct a comprehensive safety assessment including, but not only, with the local counterpart and audit of all existing safety and access policies and procedures and their application and practice by all staff at program sites, offices, residencies/guest houses, and concerning allvehicles, drivers and standing SOPs; provides and implements recommendations in consultation with the AM to make changes to meet the compliancy with RI Field Operational Procedures, templates and SOPs.
Advice and Report - Leads an ongoing process of design, establishment, review of safety policies and procedures to ensure understanding, “buy-in “, and compliance by staff; routinely revises safety and access plans to adapt to evolving safety situations in conjunction with the Area Manager
- Maps and reports safety incidents, ensures weekly safety and access reports in all Sudan locations and understands trends and threats; facilitates the development of situation-specific, coordinated evacuation plans; writes well-researched securityincident reports for review by Area Manager
Strategy development - Supports RI Al Jazeera teams with strategy as a whole.
- Set out a clear vision for knowledge and skills transferto the staff.
- Work with the Security country team to ensure funding for humanitarian access is built into all new awards.
Analysis and assessment - Ensure that analysis of the Sudan context is kept relevant and up to date with RI programs. Advise Area Manager on any important developments. Advocate for contingency planning where necessary and support teams in thinking about scenario planning and trend analysis.
- Ensure application of situation appropriate rules and guidance per RI’s Field Security SOP’s, RI Global Safety & Safety and UNDSS; conducts visits to field project in Aljazeera and residential sites in Aljazeera to assess safety and access conditions; developscomprehensive risk assessments.
- Ensure humanitarian access approaches are responsive to the local context and include overarching communityengagement components.
- Provide relevantinput on all existing and new programconcerning Sudan both with pre-analysis prior to go no go decisions as well as full involvement in budgeting at the time of proposal writingto ensure staff safety needs are met.
Capacity-building and gap-filling - Train, supervise and mentor national staff on safety staff/focal points. Recommend and/or provides staff training on safety and access proactively and positively that promotes inclusion, participation, and leadership among the entire RI team, including expatriates, relocatable and local national staff.
- Takes a lead on very regular safety and access drills for support offices inside Aljazeera and supporting hubs: conducts safety and access drills, trains country counterparts in how to conduct drills,and ensures that counterparts implement drills regularly.
- Work with programs and operations colleagues in ensuring constructive relations with de facto authorities at the provincial and district levels.
Coordination - Ensure RI is linked via all inter-agency and safety & access coordination lists and fora to ensure RI safety presence in the INGO community withinthe areas of operation.
- Liaises with local and regional UN & inter-agency safety personnel on safety & access matters for country programs; advises Area Manager on safety issues; provides safety briefings and updates for RI staff and visitors.
RI SRM Compliance - Ensure all Al Jazeera areas of compliance are met. At a minimum, biannual Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) for all areas concerned is updated, as are country safety plans, RIGSS, etc. Further to this, the implementation of compliance is considered in all areas as mandatory. Ensure that Sudan RIteams regularly comply and carry out evacuation drills, head counts,travel authorization, etc.
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