Security Support Vacancy at Solidarites International

Solidarites International – For over 35 years, the humanitarian aid organization SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL has been committed to providing aid in the event of conflict and natural disasters. Our mission is to provide aid as quickly and as efficiently as possible to endangered populations by meeting their vital needs: drinking water, food and shelter.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Security Support

Locations: Abuja & Borno
Desired start date: 15/03/2017
Duration of the mission: from 15/03 to 30/04

About the mission
SI has been operating in Borno State since July 2016, and is strongly focusing on the massive life-saving needs of the conflict-affected populations, through a 3-legged strategy:

• Multisectorial early recovery interventions in secured areas, implemented at neighborhood level in order to take into consideration the environmental context, risk factors, availability of resources and resilience capacities at a community level. This holistic approach entails a vulnerability-tailored assistance combined with a capacity building component.
• Acting on water to fight against malnutrition: SI with its partner, a medical NGO, is doing its best to reduce malnutrition rates, especially of under-5-year children, alongside host communities and displaced people. To do so, SI equips nutrition and healthcare centers with water treatment and sanitation systems. In parallel, in host communities in both cities and in the camp in which 40,000 displaced people are living, within the walls of an old school in the city of Monguno, our teams are renovating water points, building toilets and working on water treatment solutions.
• Reducing food insecurity: In Maiduguri and especially Muna Garaje, SI is implementing cash distribution programmes with vouchers (particularly for families with acute-malnourished children) to permit food access to the most vulnerable populations. SI aims to reduce significant food insecurity in the area. The other important line is that our team is acting on the stabilisation and safeguarding of livelihoods, to empower populations and decrease their dependence on food assistance, and furthermore, to reduce food insecurity.
• An emergency multisectoral assessment capacity in remote areas: RRM-inspired, and taking into consideration Borno State-related security and access situation, this axis would allow the provision of concrete, response-sizing oriented data to the humanitarian community, in strong coordination with mapping and coordination actors (OCHA, IOM database, Intersos interactive mapping database).
• Rapid response mechanism in IDPs camp-like settings outside Maiduguri: subsequently to the assessment axis, SI is aiming at covering the basic needs of displaced and non-displaced populations pockets in Borno most affected LGAs, in completion of ICRC’s current one-shot coverage. In this perspective, SI is going tomade available a warehouse in Monguno for humanitarian actors working in Borno state in order to support their intervention in Monguno and areas around Monguno.

Organization of the Mission

• The Nigeria mission is currently stabilizing its opening process. Due to projects’ expansion, a substantial increase in base staffing is ongoing in February and March 2017.
• Coordination is expected to spend a considerable amount of time in Maiduguri, in direct support of field based operations.
• Therefore, the mission has a coordination team based between Abuja and Maiduguri, which includes a Head of Mission, an Administrative coordinator, a Logistics Coordinator and a Deputy Country Director.
• Operations are to be based in Maiduguri, Monguno and other relevant areas such as Dikwa and N’gala.
• In Maiduguri the team is currently composed of one Field Coordinator, Project Manager(s), a Base Logistician and an Administrator.
• The Monguno sub-base is composed of a Responsible of Base supervising the Administrative and Logistics supported by a Log/Admin assistant recruited as national staff and an activity manager. One PM Multi sector and one PM Logistic.
• The Dikwa sub base will open in March 2017 and will have the same set up.

Bases / Teams:

• Abuja: Mission Coordination team
• Maiduguri, Monguno, potentially Dikwa & Ngala bases

Objectives of the Mission

• The mission will cover 4 bases and sub-bases of Abuja, Maiduguri, Dikwa and Ngala).
• The mission will cover 5 distinct working sessions/groups with 5 main teams (Mission Coordination, Field team in Maiduguri, Monguno, Dikwa and Ngala).
• Tentative in-country schedule, subject to validation upon arrival to mission and if security / logistics allow:
  • Abuja: 2 days
  • Maiduguri: 24 days
  • Monguno: 2 days
  • Dikwa: 2 days
  • Ngala: 2 days
  • In any case, maximum of 30 days in-country
• Accompany the update of the national (coordination level) and local (field offices levels) contexts and risks analysis, put the update process in place in coordination with the relevant people so as to ensure its sustainability at each level:
  • Get security context updates (facts, analysis and consequences on SI’s security setup) from SI teams (managers and team members).
  • Where relevant, i.e. if it appears that information & analysis can or must be completed, promote internal and external meetings/discussions, to confirm/complete information and analysis. Based on the above and in accordance with the organization’s existing and planned activities, update the risks analysis in coordination with the relevant team members.
  • Security assessment of current facilities (conclusions to be added in the work plans and/or final report)
  • Regularly share on the above mentioned activities to the Head of Mission (and Field Coordinator where relevant), so as to promote
  • Quick decisions on tasks prioritization and availability of team members;
  • sustainable hand-over of the context analysis process to the management.
• Setting-up of the new internal Security Management System at country (coordination) and local (field offices) levels, ensure its sustainability at each level through training (on the job or more formal as required) and coaching of the management structure:
  • Get familiar with the updated security management system, procedures and documents templates
  • Get familiar with the existing security plans currently existing at mission level updated security management system, procedures and documents templates
  • Ensure that all relevant contents of the above-mentioned contexts and risks analysis are capitalized using the relevant components of the security management framework (particularly the “Mission Secu Pack”), and additional ones if/as required.
  • Using the existing mission / bases security documentations and based on the above-mentioned contexts and risks analysis, create the standard “Mission Secu Pack” (new security management system) in coordination with the team members in charge.
  • Organize trainings of all relevant team supervisors on the relevant processes so as to insure they understand and follow the updated security management system and can ensure briefings to their teams with minimal external support.
  • Train the persons in charge so as to ensure a proper follow-up and update of the security management system
  • In collaboration with the Field coordinator and Heads of Bases, create a specific mechanism (including the information network) to collect and process security information. Improve or re-design the existing quick security assessment procedures and tools.
• Additional objectives:
  • Support the management structure in the organization and implementation of practical / “how to react” sessions on the most pressing security risk mitigation procedures, based on logistics / time constraints. Minimum practical sessions should be:
  • Base night evacuation preparation
  • Base hibernation preparation
  • Other sessions / bases as needed and possible

Deliverables
5 Updated “Mission Security Pack” (Abuja + Maiduguri + Monguno + Dikwa + Ngala), ready for validation by the Head of Mission and Desk Manager:

• At mission level, to the Head of Mission (Editable format electronic files, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• At HQ level, to the Desk Manager (Editable format electronic files, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Training materials: as used for the sessions with the teams (only where additional documentation is created besides the “Mission Secu Pack” -which can be used as training material for standard purpose-):

• At mission level, to the Head of Mission (Editable format electronic files, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• At HQ level, to the Desk Manager (Editable format electronic files, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

5 Mission and field offices levels work plans (Abuja + Maiduguri + Monguno + Dikwa + Ngala),:

• At mission level, to the Head of Mission (Editable format electronic files, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• At HQ level, to the Desk Manager (Editable format electronic files, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Mission Report:

• Narrative context analysis, if needed as a complement to existing documentation done at mission level (“Mission Security Pack”) – (Editable format electronic files, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Possible identified / observed weaknesses in the mission while implementing security measures + suggestions and ways forward if not included in the work plans (Editable format electronic files, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

We Offer
A salaried post:

• According to experience from 2000 euros gross per month, plus 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly, and a monthly Per Diem.
• As a special benefit for the Nigeria mission from the 1st of January until the 30th of June 2017, each expatriate will receive 500 euros on his monthly gross salary.
• Accompanied with 600 usd monthly per diem.

Social and medical cover: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which reimburses all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.

Vacation:

• During the assignment, the expatriate is entitled to R&R every three months: two weeks at three months with a 500 euro allowance and two weeks at six months with a plane ticket back home covered by Solidarités.
• After 6 weeks one the field, expatriate will be encouraged to take 1 week in Abuja (3 days off and 2 days in office)

How to Apply

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Note

• Please send us your CV and Cover letter in English. CV only applications will not be considered.
• The vacancy may close before the deadline. Thank you for your comprehension.