Humanitarian Access and Safety Officer (ASO)

Contract

This is a DRC - National contract. More about DRC - National contracts.

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently looking for a highly qualified Access and Safety Officer.

DRC selects the best-qualified candidate for any role, based on pre-defined criteria, such as competencies, qualifications, and values. We strive for diversity and inclusion in all our recruitments, by selecting the best-suited candidate based on the requirements for the job without discriminating against age, gender, ethnicity, religion, marital status, or those with a disability or similar.

About the job

The overall aim of the Access and Safety Officers' post, he/she will be responsible for supporting the day-to-day Access functions and oversight of the DRC Libya East Safety Risk Management function at the NW level while having the capacity to rove throughout the region when/if required. This includes ensuring compliance with the DRC Libya Mission safety policies, plans and procedures within his/her areas of responsibility; monitoring staff movements; delivering safety orientation and pre-departure briefings; static guard management; conducting State and area level and site-specific security risk assessments and safety improvement plans; staff movements acting as movement tracking focal point, and communications; providing safety advisories and notifications and aiding in the delivery of safety training and capacity building of program staff to enable DRC Libya East Mission operations to be implemented safe and secure manner.

Responsibilities:

1. Humanitarian Access:

• Implement the DRC Benghazi Missions humanitarian access strategy and set approaches tailored to local contexts in field sites within the East Region of Libya.
• Ensure humanitarian access approaches are responsive to the local context and include overarching community engagement components during all operational phases.
• Ensure that the DRC Libya, Benghazi region field teams conduct principled and sustainable negotiations with relevant actors in all areas of intervention while following the humanitarian principles, humanitarian needs, and duty of care principles.
• Work to ensure that the DRC Libya Benghazi Mission, its mandate, and work in the areas of operations are known and accepted within the East region.
• Provide technical input and advice in assessments to consider new DRC programs in new geographic areas within the region and regular assessment reviews for existing locations as directed by the Base Manager.
• Ensure maintaining a good partnership with commission of civil society CCS, conduct regular visits and communicate essential document required by the commission to relevant department.
• Provide technical advice to the Project Manager field teams on implementing program activity and reviewing tailored acceptance strategies as directed by the Base Manager.
• Maintain a high level of preparedness vis-a-vis predicted contextual fluctuations operationally and programmatically.
• Work with the Base Manager/ PMs to ensure timely and appropriate follow-up to violations of the DRC Code of Conduct and operational breaches of humanitarian principles.

1. Staff movement, communications and equipment issues, oversight, and support:

• Review, and action respective Field Travel Authorization requests, ensuring all information is complete and correct and a rapid security risk assessment is conducted, followed by the issuing of clear safety-related advice and guidance to field teams deploying within his/her areas of responsibility before forwarding to the respective supervisor for final review and operational approval.
• Ensuring the issue of serviceable safety equipment is completed to support all field deployments and program staff; Delivering equipment familiarization with program staff to ensure correct usage is maintained while in the field; Equipment maintenance completed to ensure serviceable safety equipment is available to support all program activities.
• Coordinate with the respective DRC Benghazi, logistics and fleet staff when directed to support field-level movement oversight and support; Ensure all movements are always conducted and in line with the DRC Mission Field Travel Safety and Security SOPs and.

1. Staff briefings and new staff orientation:

• Deliver new staff safety orientation briefings to all new DRC Benghazi Mission staff, visitors, and consultants (both national and international) as and when required to ensure the area, state and country-level safety policies, plans, procedures, and protocols are fully acknowledged, understood, and always adhered to.
• Deliver pre-departure and post-safety briefings to all field staff prior to and post-field deployments to ensure the staff are familiar with and fully understand the DRC Mission safety policies, plans, standard operating procedures, and protocols.
• In cooperation with base manager, ensure that national safety policies, plans, standard operating procedures and protocols are updated in regular basis.

1. Administrative and Operational support:

• Guard force management: Management of the guard force through ensuring standards of readiness are maintained, guard protocols adhered to.
• Ensure that guard payments and other administrative matters that have a direct impact on guard force readiness are completed in a timely manner by working with SC team to submit payment request to the guards’ services.
• Daily Weekly and Monthly Security Briefing: Responsible for compiling daily, weekly, and monthly report for BM.
• Staff briefings: Provide DRC staff with current contextual briefings.
• Ensure that the DRC owned, and rental vehicles fulfills the minimum safety and security requirements.
• Ensure safety and security protocols of DRC facilities and premises.
• Ensure that all the first aid equipment’s and firefighting equipment are fulfills the minimum safety and security requirements around the office and Guest house.

The responsibilities listed in the JD are not exhaustive and may be readjusted according to operational needs but will remain in line with the overall purpose of the role.

About you

To be successful in this role you must have:

Experience and technical competencies:

Required

• Two years of experience working with INGOs or UN agencies.
• Previous services with any Libyan Disciplined forces (police, Army, etc.) will be a desired advantage; a certificate of discharge or recommendation from an immediate supervisor will be required as proof.
• Master’s in security risk management, Security Operations, Law, Management, Communication, Criminology, Public Administration or related field.
• Computer literate, MS Office, security technology .
• Good writing/reporting skills.
• Fluency in Arabic.
• Full professional proficiency in English.

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer

Contract length: 6 months

Band: H

Designation of Duty Station: Benghazi

Start date: ASAP

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates; please refer to drc.ngo under Vacancies.

Application process

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. A****pplications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 15 NOV 2023

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.