Humanitarian Access & Security at Handicap International-apply!

YOUR MISSION:

• The Country Humanitarian Access & Security Manager (HASM), who reports to the Program Director, is responsible for developing HI’s access to vulnerable communities and ensuring the safety of HI personnel and resources. He makes certain that the national strategies of the involved nations are in harmony with the global strategy.

Your main missions will be:
Mission 1: MANAGEMENT

• Exemplary Manager: embodies HI’s values on a daily basis, and is a role model
• Meaningful manager: understands strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his team, leads the necessary changes. Gives meaning to every management action. Encourages inter- and intra-departmental exchanges of practice. Encourages innovation and risk-taking
• Operational Manager: organizes the operational management of his team, structures work around identified processes, monitors performance, and facilitates problem resolution

Mission 2: STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION

• Contributes to country strategies and ensures they are in line with global strategies
• Develops security strategy and operations through active promotion of HI’s institutional policy and optimization of resources
• Contributes to the drafting, revision and implementation of operational strategy (StratOp) within the scope of its responsibilities
• Creates and updates the risk map as part of its responsibilities, proposes and implements risk management measures
• Ensures HI’s external representation on security issues concerning its country (e.g.: forums, operational and strategic alliances); guarantees the development of local partnerships necessary for the development of its country of activity

Mission 3: STANDARDS AND EXPERTISE

• Ensures the development, updating and implementation of HI’s security system in the program (procedures, documents and tools)
• Verifies implementation of HI’s security policy, operational guide and new security directives issued by head office
• Develops a learning system based on program experience and lessons learned
• Oversees the drafting, revision and implementation of the operational strategy (StratOp) within the scope of its responsibilities

Mission 4: OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION

• Context monitoring and acceptance building in the program area
• Operational security management
• Humanitarian Access
• Capacity-building and training in security and humanitarian access

Requirements
YOUR PROFILE:

• You hold a university degree or equivalent certification in risk management, international relations or other discipline relevant to the position
• You have at least 3 years’ experience as a Security Manager, Analyst or Manager with security responsibilities in unstable countries
• You know how to develop an access strategy but also mitigation measures in line with humanitarian security approaches, to realize a security risk analysis
• You master security incidents/crisis management