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Become safety advisor of NGO Safety Organisation based in Khost, Afghanistan!
The International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) is an international non-governmental organization that supports humanitarian aid workers by establishing safety coordination platforms in insecure contexts. INSO services help NGOs with their day-to-day risk management responsibilities and improve their overall situational awareness to support evidence-based humanitarian access decisions.
Safety Advisor positions are highly rewarding roles. It offers a unique opportunity to work in a close-knit team giving security analysis and advice that is also vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it. Safety Advisor positions are offered on a one-year renewable term.
Major Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain an active information network to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
- Provide NGOs with timely and credible security information and contextual analysis of the local security situation through daily alerts and reports, weekly incident lists, and bi-weekly analytical reports
- Also, facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables.
- Assist NGOs in developing their security management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site-security surveys, and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
- Manage a small office team, including supervision of national staff and oversight of local logistics as well as administration.
- Moreover, effectively represent, promote and protect INSO’s mandate of independence, impartiality, and neutrality.
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Mandatory Requirements:
- Fluency in English, both written as well as spoken.
- Proven writing, editing, as well as analytical skills, and the keenest eye for detail.
- Significant experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
- Personal and professional resilience in a fast-moving, high output, quality-driven program.
- Also, experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management and/or humanitarian access sectors.
- Independent drive, motivation, excellence, and ability to operate and sustainably manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.
- Well-developed personal, personnel, organizational, and team management skills and standards in a diverse multi-cultural setting.
- Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.
- Graduate-level education in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
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Preferred Characteristics:
- Recent professional experience in Afghanistan – ideally in the humanitarian sector.
- Prior experience in an inter-agency role.
- Also, local language skills.
- Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
- In addition, existing local information networks.
How to apply:
Interested applicants are requested to send the following to [email protected] and reference “Safety Advisor Southeast” in the subject line of the email. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Cover Letter specifying how you meet the mandatory requirements, any preferred characteristics, your motivation for applying, as well as what you hope to bring to INSO Afghanistan (2-page maximum).
- CV (5 pages maximum).
- Also, one relevant and substantive writing sample in English that demonstrates your analytical and report writing abilities
Please do not send any additional information and keep the total size of your application under 2MB if possible.
Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | General Job |
|---|---|
| Deadline | 04 February,2022 |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Company Name | NGO Safety Organization |
| City | Khost |