Safety & Security Coordinator – IPDHE

Job Title: Safety & Security Coordinator – IPDHE

Job Purpose: To provide technical guidance and operational and programme support to project team, management and partners to ensure compliance with safety & security policies in line with donor expectations and the VSO volunteering for development approach. To build understanding and capacity for safeguarding with partners, CSOs and networks.

Task Responsibilities

Technical support – Operational

• Map local service provision and existing referral systems in the programme delivery area to access and/or mobilise should a crisis occur.
• Develop agreements with key local service providers
• Update the risk register and mitigation measures (including relocation protocols) with detailed information and review and update risk register every 6 months
• Identifying additional PSS support to staff, volunteers and partners and refer within VSO
• Support project team to carry out mandatory due diligence assessments and provide partner support in building security capacities where necessary.
• Provide advice to project team on national laws and regulations relating to safety &security
• Collate, analyze and disseminate security & safeguarding information to project staff, volunteers and ensuring the information remains accurate and neutral.
• Ensure ongoing development and regular review of project safeguarding and security protocols.

Technical support – Programme

• Mapping and Capacity assessment of community level structures and systems (e.g. DRR, Peace Committees)
• Develop and deliver safety & security (and support on safeguarding) capacity building to community level CSOs as part of project implementation
• Accompany CSOs to strengthen their policies and practices
• Link CSOs into existing crisis response and referral systems both within VSO and existing community referral systems

Incident & Crisis Management Response

• Ensure timely escalation and management of, and learning from security and safeguarding incidents in line with VSO global policy & procedures
• Engage with existing local and national organisations/networks on case management
• Data, analysis & reporting
• Ensure effective auditing, accountability and report handling procedures related to the security system are in place and applied.

Capacity building

• Project team at VSO and partner’s project teams are inducted and provided with ongoing accompaniment and training on safeguarding & security.
• Fulfil other appropriate level responsibilities as defined by the line manager from time to time

Knowledge/qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience in safety and security in fragile, conflict affected areas.
• Undertaken safeguarding training

Experience:

• Significant of experience managing safety & security in the context of humanitarian, development and peacebuilding programmes in Ethiopia. Experience of cross border/multi country projects an advantage
• Experience of safeguarding incidences and responses at an organizational level
• Experience of strengthening local community capacity on safety & security
• Practical experience of designing and delivering training and ongoing capacity building in security. Similar experience in safeguarding an advantage.
• Experience of working in a cross-cultural context an advantage
• Experience of working with volunteers an advantage

Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills with good command of both spoken and written English, Amharic. Fluency in Oromo an advantage.
• Ability to handle highly confidential information with tact, discretion, and sensitivity.
• Ability to develop, manage and maintain efficient systems and work under pressure.
• Self-motivated, ability to use own initiative and flexibility.
• Able to travel across project implementation sites and spend time away from work- base location and home.