Senior Advisor - Security Training

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

The Security, Safety & Resilience (SSR) group combines the key people risk and resilience functions of staff care, safety, security, organizational resilience, fleet management, and employee relations/staff conduct into a single forward-looking business unit. SSR focuses on ensuring that people are at the center of risk and resilience practice; while also creating agile, innovative, and dynamic ‘end to end’ security, safety, and resilience solutions across the organization.

The Senior Advisor – Security Training, is part of the realigned Development and Capacity team which is progressively reimagining how we deliver ‘people risk’ learning and training solutions to the organization and developing internal capacity in SSR. This senior global role is focused on all aspects of ‘security training’ development and delivery of blended (instructor lead & e-learning) targeted training and learning solutions that prepare staff and leaders to operate in dynamic, fragile, and insecure operational environments. The role holder is also expected to work collaboratively with the group Director and other senior staff in the ongoing development of learning needs assessments, innovative learning design, appropriate delivery methods, and impact measurements - creating an agile and engaging learning journey for SSR staff, and collaborating with regional leads to deliver innovative learning solutions across key areas of delivery. The role will focus on clear learning needs assessments, gaps analysis, training ROI, and impact measurements for security training across the organization.

The position has multi-faceted leadership responsibilities but with a clear operational focus on the delivery of targeted security training programs for staff operating in medium/high-risk environments. World Vision operates a model where interdisciplinary ‘Integrated Security Teams’ (IST’s) deliver holistic operational and training solutions, the Senior Advisor – Security Training will be a key senior member of the global team.

Key Responsibilities

Safety & Security Training Development and Delivery

• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Security and wider ‘Security Group’ to identify training needs, skills gaps, and key learning outcomes related to security operations in high-risk environments.
• Drive the development of a blended organisational ‘security training’ program (face-to-face, e-learning & m-learning) with targeted learning solutions that prepare staff and leaders to operate in insecure, fragile, and dynamic operational environments.
• Ensure training participation in the Regional ‘Integrated Security Teams’ (ISTs); providing training design and delivery expertise to mitigate identified security risks and assist with operational security management as required.
• Act as the senior Development & Capacity representative on the Global IST (GIST).
• Daily management of Global Advisors ensuring the delivery of high-quality ‘risk-based’ security training focused on mitigating risks in operational contexts.
• Development of clear learning needs assessments, gaps analysis, training ROI, and impact measurements for all security training.

SSR Functional Training Development

• Assist the Director DevCap, in collaborating with Regional functional leads to co-create learning strategies, innovative learning solutions, and agreed training measurements.
• Assist the Director DevCap in supporting the development of context-appropriate learning solutions and delivery methods for Regional and Field Offices to strengthen local capacity in key SSR functional areas.

S****SR Capacity Development

• Assist in the development of coaching, mentoring, and career development practices for Global & Regional SSR staff.
• Collaborate with Regional IST and Global IST to identify talent and facilitate career development pathways in collaboration with functional leads.
• Assist in the design of ‘learning journeys’ for SSR staff that identify skills gaps, career aspirations, and organizational capacity requirements.
• Identify opportunities to upskill and reskill staff as required.
• Assist in the development of agile and targeted instructional design methodologies that embody an ‘inclusion’ approach.

Regional/Security Group Operation Support

• Support the Global & Regional ISTs and wider SSR Security Group with operational deployments where/if required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or

Certification

• Associate/Bachelor Degree (or equivalent experience) in one or more of the following: Education/Professional Education, Training, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Security Management, Risk Management, Strategic Studies, Law, Disaster Management, International Studies, or significant industry experience.

Required Professional Experience

• Minimum of 10 years working internationally in a complex global organization, ideally with experience in an INGO setting.
• A firm understanding of humanitarian security risk management that will inform a balanced approach in relation to staff security training for high/medium risk deployment.
• Experience developing learning strategies, needs assessment, gaps analysis, instructional design, and learning metrics ideally in an NGO, UN, Military, Law Enforcement, or Emergency Services environment.
• Understanding of L&D (Learning and Development) and capacity-building practices, challenges, trends, and accepted practices within the humanitarian sector.
• Instructional design, coaching, facilitation, and training skills are preferable.
• Ability to operate effectively and responsively in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment and deal with high-pressure situations calmly with energy and resilience while managing multiple priorities and deadlines, often with sporadic and conflicting information.
• Demonstrated understanding of adult learning concepts and principles and contemporary learning and development practice and demonstrated strong instructional skills.
• Solid interpersonal, negotiating, and networking skills. Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.

Required Language(s)

• Highly proficient in written and verbal communication in English. Additional language skills desirable - French, Spanish, or Arabic.

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

• The position requires the ability and willingness to travel internationally up to 33% of the time and could include travel to high-risk locations with minimal notice.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only