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Safety and Security Officer
Country Afghanistan Province Kabul,
Categories Security, Type Full Time
Post Date 2022-06-08 Close Date 2022-06-15
Vacancy No AFG-2022-024 Gender male female
No Of Jobs 1 Contract Duration 1 Year ( Depending on Funding availablity)
Education Completed Degree of Higher Education in relevant fields such as Law, Social Sciences or business administration. Experience At least 5 years in a similar position
Organization Opportunities for you Salary Based on GC salary Scale

About Company

About Geneva Call: Geneva Call is a neutral and impartial non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting respect for international humanitarian norms in armed conflict and other situations of violence. Geneva Call is currently focusing its efforts on banning the use of anti-personnel mines, protecting children from the effects of armed conflict, prohibiting sexual violence in armed conflict and the protection of the medical mission.

Job Description

Under the supervision of the Support Coordinator, The purpose of this role is to ensure that Geneva Call and local personnel are working within an environment consistent with accepted minimum safety and security standards. This encompasses the  development of security plans and of mainstreaming the individual and collective sense of security and safety awareness and responsibility. It also consists of advising the Country Director on security challenges, developing risk assessments and proposing risk reduction measures in addition to developing, maintaining, updating and implementing when necessary, security protocols and operating procedures according to the changing situation.

Job Requirement

Core responsibilities

Country teams are supported in designing contextualized security frameworks for their region:

  • To support GC country offices with identification of threats & analysis of risk levels. This will in turn help teams to identify informed and nuanced Risk V Benefit levels (personal/institutional risk levels compared to humanitarian relevance of the activities).
  • To implement security plans including risk analysis, risk reduction measures (S.O.Ps & site protection), incident management and contingency planning in GC country offices.
  • To conduct theoretical and practical (simulations & ?on site?) trainings for risk reduction measures, incident management and contingency planning.
  • To coach and train GC staff (international & national) to understand the environment within which they are working and risk management tools to minimize GC teams’ exposure.
  • To support the HORs and HOMs in developing standardized GC Security management formats and tools and trainings including their implementation in countries/HQ.

Main qualification

Education

  • Completed Degree of Higher Education in relevant fields such as Law, Social Sciences or business administration.

Work experience

  • At least 5 years in a similar position. 
  • Experience with international organisations is preferred. 
  • Experience dealing with bilateral and multilateral donor funding.

 

Technical skills

  • IT Tools (MS Office, Excel, accounting software, Reporting tools); Financial and Human Resource Management tools.

Languages

  • Required: English, Dari and Pashto.

Personal skills

  • Have strong knowledge of Afghanistan context.
  • Risk analysis ability.
  • Able to prepare complex security plans for country.

Performance management

The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with the GC Performance Management p. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

  • The Job Description
  • The individual Work- and Professional Development Plan
  • The Competency Framework

 

Conflict of interest

Any candidate affiliated to, or openly supporting, one or more interest groups opposed to the Foundation’s principles and values, or whose previous position could engender safety issues for co-workers at Appel de Genève / Geneva Call, will be excluded from this selection process.

Conditions

  • Position : Security and Safety Officer
  • Type of Contract: Fixed term contract (National position)
  • Activity rate: 100%, full-time position
  • Work place: Kabul, Afghanistan
  • Preferred start date: June 15th, 2022

Application

No later than June 15th, 2022.

All applications will be kept confidential. Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidate will be contacted for further process.

Submission Guideline

https://genevacall.novative.net/NOVA/Offre/Ref221.html

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