Health Safety and Security Officer Mozambique Pemba

Contract

This is a Professional contract (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract (NRC) contracts.

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

Generic responsibilities

1. Provide Area Management Group (AMG) with advice based on changes to the context.
2. Maintains an active network of contacts to ensure active communication between NRC and its counterparts at local level
3. Conduct Security Risk Analysis (SRA) and reviews under supervision of HSS Manager
4. Develop and maintain area HSS documents and procedures.
5. Oversee and support Area Office HSS risk management to staff, assets, operation, and reputation of NRC.
6. Implement the NRC Global HSS Management System at area level and provide reports as required.
7. Act as an adviser to the Area Incident Management Team leader during a crisis.
8. Organize and facilitates trainings for all staff on area level

Qualifications

1. Competencies

Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following two categories:

1. Professional competencies

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Understanding and experience in community-based work in Cabo Delgado
• Real interest and capacity to create positive relations between groups and individuals.
• Experience in liaising with a variety of civilian, administrative, and military actors
• Minimum 1-year experience working as a Security Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Knowledge of humanitarian security management best practices.
• Fluency in the use of Microsoft Office software.
• Fluency in English is strongly valued.
• Fluency in at least one of the languages commonly used in Cabo Delgado is mandatory.
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• Capacity to react promptly in the case of a security incident, manage stress and provide adapted advice

• Good analytical capacity, resourcefulness and creativity when faced with unforeseen challenges and barriers

  Context/Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Strong inter-personal, communication and network-building skills.

• Contextual analysis skills related to the security, political and social situation.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets.
• Willingness to work and travel in often difficult and insecure environments

Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities

• Assists the Area Manager in the analysis of the area context evolution to support informed decision making in regards operations implementation.
• Collect information on ongoing and forecasted security issues, and share information with staff in a timely manner; this includes maintaining and managing an information network of key stakeholders, as well as liaison, and access monitoring. Key relationships include but are not limited to: INGO Forum members, community leaders, security forces, other NGOs, other actors.
• Keep abreast of key events and contextual developments that may impact on health, safety and security and issue weekly, monthly and need-to-know basis reports.
• Maintain NRC records on all occurrences of incidents.
• Ensure proper health, safety and security resources and equipment are available and in good working order, in line with minimum standards and operational requirements and internal compliance.
• Deliver and document HSS briefings to NRC staff as needed. This includes HSS briefings to new staffs and visitors at area level, as well as weekly briefings during meetings.
• Assist in the facilitation of HSS trainings for staff.