Job Title:                          Global Technical Adviser – Security

Reports to:                       Emergency Director

Department:                   Emergency

Terms:                               Permanent/Fixed Term, Full time 2 years contract

Location:                          Dublin Ireland w/frequent travel to Concern’s countries of operation. 

Salary:                               GB6 / €57,683 - €64,092

Requirements:               

Total travel time approx up to a total of 120 days across the course of the year.

About Concern:              

Established in 1968, Concern is a non-profit, non-governmental humanitarian organisation, dedicated to the reduction of suffering and the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Concern’s vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. Concern strives for a world free from poverty, fear and oppression.

Our culture is values driven and we believe that our people are central to all that we do and are key to delivering on our goal of Reaching the Furthest Behind First. We are committed to ensuring a workplace where everybody feels valued and are enabled to succeed in their work and contribute to delivering on our mission.

Role Purpose:  

To support and strengthen Concern’s safety and security management practice to ensure that it is consistent with good practice and commensurate with the level of threat faced by our country programme teams.  Concern’s country programmes are largely organised into five regions, and this role will support at least two regions. To work with country teams in two regions – particularly Security Focal Points (SFP) and Security Focal Groups (SFG) – to reinforce and support essential contextual analysis, situational monitoring specifically in rapidly changing risk environments.

To work with country teams, particularly SFPs and SFGs, to ensure that their security risk management practice, documentation and incident reporting remains commensurate with security risk profiles in their specific locations.  To work with country teams and regional desks on preparation and response plans to ensure the safety of Concern staff in the event of fire and selected natural hazards including extreme wind events, earthquakes, floods and volcanoes.

Responsibilities:

Major Security Tasks

• Undertake security reviews and audits of countries’ security and safety management practice
• Develop in-depth contextual knowledge of the assigned regions of responsibility to support and reinforce country teams’ analysis
• Support the regular analysis of changing/disimproving contexts
• Deliver security management training to staff and partners
• Support the delivery of online HEAT training
• Support countries in the development, preparation and review of Security Management Plans (SMP) and scenario planning for major events such as elections
• Support the management of the Concern security incident data base (SIRT) and share information about incidents with appropriate staff and international security databases
• Respond to serious security incidents by following up with CDs or SFPs to discuss how they will address the deterioration through, for example, further analysis or the revision of SOPs
• Contribute to post-incident reviews following serious incidents reported on SIRT
• Carry out security risk assessments as requested
• Prepare occasional advisories and briefing notes for staff on security issues as required
• Contribute to any revisions of SMP², the SMP template and the Security Policy or the individual security briefing notes that exist, or develop new ones as needed in agreement with the Emergency Director
• Actively engage with relevant regional security fora in the assigned regions of responsibility
• Attend GISF, Alliance2015 Security Group and other occasional security related meetings as required
• Brief new staff on Concern Approach to Security Risk Management as required and at formal induction weeks
• Encourage and assist with appropriate security management support to partners

Major Safety Tasks

• Develop guidelines for staff safety for selected natural hazards
• Develop guidelines for hazards such as fires in offices, residences and warehouses
• Maintain an overview of and provide updates on airlines that have been banned for safety reasons
• Conduct audits as needed to ensure that countries are compliant with these guidelines during field visits
• All staff are responsible for upholding and promoting Concern’s values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, and safeguarding values.
• All staff are required to participate and contribute as necessary towards Concern’s emergency response as and when required.

Role Holder Requirements:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Minimum of five years’ experience of working in insecure environments for a humanitarian organisation
• Fluent spoken and written English
• Proficiency in French required, proficiency in Arabic would also be an advantage
• Detailed knowledge of INGO security management approaches and practice
• Good understanding of humanitarian principles and practice
• Experience of developing and delivering training courses and workshops
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop staff capacities in security awareness and practice
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Good writing and computer skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability and willingness to travel to and operate in insecure environments

To apply:  CVs should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by the closing date.

Please note that Concern Worldwide does not provide Visa sponsorship.

Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be shortlisted on a regular basis and we may offer posts before the closing date. 

If you have any concerns about our recruitment process and need particular assistance - for example if you have a visual impairment or are neurodivergent - please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you. 

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.

Your Personal Data

During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.

Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year.  Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List). 

Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment. 

By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned lists

In certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them - so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.

For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.

You have certain rights under data protection legislation. For more information on how to exercise those rights please visit www.concern.net/about/privacy

Please only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.