Regional Security Manager - ECA & SA at CARE

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership, Staff Management, Coaching, Mentoring and Capacity Building
• Build and maintain a cohesive professional team focused on the safety and security of staff and the delivery of CSU goals.
• Lead the development of team annual goals and activities.
• Coach, mentor and professionally develop ECA’s and SA’s safety and security stakeholders. This will require a significant portion of the RSM's time as the two regions operate with a range of safety and security personnel; from Sub-Regional Security Officers (SRSOs) and professional safety and security managers.
• Develop Strategies, Procedures and Protocols and assess Country Office Security Management
• Develop activities and goals in line with the Regional and CSU roadmaps. Ensure that the planned annual activities for the RSM and SRSOs contribute to the realization of the CSU roadmap.
• Advise the two Regional leadership and 14 Country Directors and work with regional safety and security stakeholders so that best practice models and approaches to safety and security can be developed.
• Based on the findings of the threat and risk assessments, oversee the development of relevant procedures
• Assessments, Planning and Information Management
• Conduct strategic regional assessments and/or specific assessments as prioritized in collaboration with the RD and CDs. Develop and maintain a robust contextual understanding of our areas of operations, in consultation with program, safety and security stakeholders, staff and peer security advisors.
• Oversee country or presence specific security assessments and, through SRSOs, assist Country Offices to prepare and maintain comprehensive Threat and Risk assessments of CARE vulnerabilities.
• Administrative and Financial Management Responsibilities
• Ensure that the administration and logistical requirements of reporting staff are completed in a timely, and regular fashion.
• Develop, manage, monitor and report on the RSM ECA/SA budget (includes all RSM and reporting staff expenses).
• Ensure that the country office operational security budgets are completed, updated, and reflect the operational needs of the operational environment.
• Complete and participate in a personal annual performance assessment, and conduct similar appraisal activities.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in a field related to humanitarian work or security risk management.
• Formal safety and security qualifications and/or formal training certification.
• Fluency in French and English.
• Five years’ experience in assisting international organizations in developing security Strategies for their operations in multicultural contexts
• Five years’ experience in managing security professionals and mentoring security focal points
• Three years’ experience working living in developing countries/contexts with at least two years operations in complex/post-conflict environments.