Security and Access Officer

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Job Description

Job Overview/Summary: The overall objective is to reduce the risks posed to all national and international IRC staff in Rakhine State through the provision of specialized, coordinated and focused security management support as well as liaising with humanitarian organizations and other relevant actors in Maungdaw, to ensure efficient information exchange. This position will assess the security of the operational environment and maintain an effective security management system in accordance with International Rescue Committee policies and standards. This position is based on Maungdaw, Rakhine State.

Reporting Lines

The position holder will directly report to the Field Manager and will have to give regular input to the Field Coordinator and Senior Government Liaison and Access Advisor, based in Sittwe. Working closely with the Security and Access officer based in Sittwe and the Security Focal points across all locations in IRC Rakhine and Chin operations. Close collaboration with all department heads and relevant staff in Maungdaw, Buthedaung and other locations across Rakhine.

Key Duties on Safety and Security:

- Assess program activities and their impact on staff security and make recommendations to reduce staff vulnerability. - Monitor the security environment and make recommendations to adjust the security policies and procedures accordingly. Maintain and review the incident reporting and mapping system. Ensure that up to date incident map is available for all IRC staff on a regular basis. - Ensure that regular security meetings are conducted with relevant IRC staff. - Produce weekly and monthly security reports that review any incidents in IRC sites, summarize relevant external sitreps, and analyze/verify security/social/political/economic information from the wide range of information sources available that may impact the operation of IRC’s programs in Maungdaw and Buthedaung, and across Rakhine. - Ensure that all incidents are reported, analyzed and actions taken where necessary. Implement incident tracking system for Maungdaw and Buthedaung, in collaboration with the Security and Access officer based in Sittwe. - Ensure that the Security Management Plans and relevant Annexes are reviewed and updated on a regular basis and consistent with International Rescue Committee standards; ensure that all staff are familiar with its content and agree to abide by its policies and procedures. - Ensure that all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) relating to safety and security are reviewed and updated on a regular basis. - Develop contingency plans, ensuring that staff understand their roles in an emergency and that IRC has the resources to carry out the contingency plans. - Maintain an Emergency Contact database with up to date information for all staff. - Ensure that security information is updated and accessible on the shared drive. - Strengthen and apply office and residential facilities’ security standards and selection procedures; strengthen and apply facility access procedures. - Ensure that appropriate fire safety equipment is in place in offices, compounds and vehicles. Ensure that staff are aware of what to do in the event of a fire. - Liaise with the Supply Chain officer to ensure that all vehicles have the necessary safety and security equipment. - Update the security induction materials on a regular basis and provide inductions to all new staff and ensure that all new employees, international or national, receive appropriate security orientation within 48 hours of arrival in the field. - Identify trainings that are appropriate to the needs of IRC staff and maintain a database of security trainings undertaken by individual IRC staff. These trainings include, but are not limited to, personal safety, first aid, mine risk education, driving and trip management and security management. - Attend security coordination meetings and report back to the Field Manager and SFPs on relevant information. - Develop contacts and information gathering systems amongst UN, NGOs, and INGOs, government agencies and other relevant actors and share security information with them on a regular basis. - Carry out Security Risk Analysis for Maungdaw and Buthedaung bi-annually. - Assess communication equipment in each field site to ensure that it is adequate, in working order, kept in accessible and secure locations and that staff are trained on the various forms of communication available to them. - Visit field sites on a regular basis and provide assistance as per the TOR agreed with the Field Managers/Coordinator and DDO e.g Security Risk Assessment review; provide detailed field reports at the end of each trip. - Provide recommendations to IRC staff as to ways in which they can effectively reach out to, gain acceptance from and improve their image in host communities. - Make available to participate in project proposal stage to assure that safety and security budget allocation is put in the proposed budget for each field offices. - Cooperate with technical advisors to put measures in the programs for the safety and security of female staff in the field sites. - Proactively engage with the Safeguarding focal and the Gender Equality Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) focal points to ensure their input in all safety and security assessments and analysis. - Ensure to establish a network between YGN and each field offices to have a proper and quick information sharing mechanism in regular basis

Key Duties on Access:

- Establish, maintain and regularly update a network of local contacts (UN, international and local NGOs, civil society, authorities, military, etc.). - Keep an updated database of all operational areas in the townships of coverage in collaboration with the program teams and Field Manager, and share regularly when changes occur to all Security Focal Points and relevant colleagues. - Keep an updated and current contact lists of key contacts from all operational areas, with support of the program teams and Field Manager. - Participate in field visits with the active teams every month to regularly assess and monitor the situation in the areas of programming, actively alerting on changes relevant for the safety, security and access of the field teams. - Regularly update and share with relevant teams route mapping and checkpoint mapping on the routes, and perform road/route assessments in new operational areas. - Closely collaborate with Security and Access officer based in Sittwe to ensure all internal trackers and documents are properly and timely updated. - Participate external meetings related with area security and access issues and draft minutes for each meeting attended and share with Field Manager and SFPs. - Monitor media and social media, and ensure to document and immediately share relevant information with Field Manager, Field Coordinator and Security Focal points. - Monitor and document relevant Government, EAO and other relevant actor announcements, statements, regulations and share with Field Managers/Security Focal points regularly. - Contribute to the Daily Situation Report and other Safety, Security and Access reports as per need - Perform other duties as requested by Supervisor.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

Experience:

- 2 years’ experience working with UN/INGOs - 1 year experience working in the relevant position in UN/INGOs

Preferred Skills/Experience:

- Good command of English and Myanmar is necessary - Knowledge on local context, dialects and network is necessary and an asset - Ability to work with a multicultural team - Ability to work under pressure to pursue multiple tasks simultaneously to successful conclusions - Strong analytical and briefing skills - Solid training skills; the ability to develop and implement successful training sessions - Strong computer skills in Microsoft packages, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook (particular emphasis on Excel) - Committed team player

- Capacity to work well under pressure, and the ability to communicate cross-culturally is critical - Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.

Added 1 year ago - Updated 11 months ago - Source: rescue.org