South Sudan: Safety Advisor – Mobile, based in Juba

Organisation Background:

Founded in 2011, the International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) is a British charity that supports the safety of aid workers by establishing safety coordination platforms in insecure contexts. INSO provides registered NGOs with a range of free services including real-time incident tracking, analytical reports, safety related data and mapping, crisis management support, staff orientations and training.

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.

The organisation has grown from innovative start-up to become a globally recognised charity and a valuable component of the humanitarian safety coordination system.

Today the organisation provides daily support to more than 850 NGOs in eleven of the world’s most insecure countries and has earned a strong reputation for performance, principles & professionalism.

South Sudan Country Office:

INSO launched operations in South Sudan in early 2018. INSO South Sudan aims to provide free services to more than 100 local and international NGOs in the country to enhance the delivery of aid and preserve the safety of their staff. Specifically, the programme shall provide the NGO community with tailored safety support through three main services: Capacity Building (provision of training to humanitarian workers); Information and Advice (provision of regular context reports, risk assessments and tailored advice on humanitarian access); and Response (support during crisis and critical incident management). INSO services are envisioned to cover the whole country, with field offices expected to open in 2018.

We are seeking an experienced individual to join our team as Safety Advisor- Mobile to be based in Juba, South Sudan, with frequent travel to field sites.

The Mobile Safety Advisor will combine a strong humanitarian and safety background with experience of a similar country risk context, a clear understanding of humanitarian safety principles, conflict analysis and with a flexible, outgoing personality he/she will be able to interpret and articulate and publish best information and principled, expert advice to a broad range of humanitarian actors.

Job Summary:

Safety Advisor positions are highly rewarding roles, offering a unique opportunity to work in a close-knit team giving security analysis and advice that is not only some of the best of its kind, but that is also vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it. Successful candidates will be outgoing and resilient, with the ability to analyse complex security issues and contexts, give sound practical safety and security advice, communicate to an excellent standard of English both verbally and in writing, and above all else share INSO’s commitment to humanitarian principles. They will also be able to build and maintain a diverse network of contacts, articulate complex political and socio-economic analysis from an objective, neutral perspective, and produce and disseminate written products and deliver briefings on a time-sensitive basis.

In addition, the applicant will be able to identify trends and patterns within quantitative datasets of security incidents, linking this information to broader political and socio-economic developments.

The applicant must use his or her experience as a functional practitioner within insecure/post-conflict environments and his or her knowledge of the humanitarian community to ensure that analytical products are tailored to offer practical guidance and operational support.

The applicant must also be an appropriate representative of INSO among a diverse and important audience of members and a wide network of contacts, including UN agencies, international donors and organizations, local communities and their leaders.

In addition to providing potentially life-saving advice and analysis, our Safety Advisor must consistently represent INSO's mandate of neutrality and independence, while upholding humanitarian principles and actively promoting the improvement of operating practices, to allow access to be retained and expanded, and vital services to be delivered safely and promptly.

Major Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes NGOs, the UN, military forces, and other national and international actors to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
• Participate to humanitarian coordination meetings and provide access and security enabling information.
• Provide NGOs with timely and credible information and contextual analysis of the local security situation through: daily incident alerts, reports, weekly incident lists and bi-weekly analytical reports.
• Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables.
• Assist NGOs in developing their own security management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site-security surveys, and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
• Manage a small office team, including supervision national staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
• Manage regional teams while there is a gap in SA coverage
• Translate perspective of regional teams’ operations into insights which can improve the quality and efficiency of INSO programming.
• Acts as a country analyst incorporating various regional perspective.
• Effectively represent, promote and protect INSO's mandate of independence, impartiality and neutrality.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken).
• Graduate level education or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
• Strong writing and proven analytical abilities (proven written/published sample requested).
• Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles and their application.
• Experience with humanitarian NGO security and/or project management.

Preferred Characteristics:

• 1-year recent experience in South Sudan ideally in an NGO safety or analysis role and demonstrable understanding of the security dynamics and context.
• Strong experience in team management, mentoring, and training.

Key Personal Competencies:

• A good listener.
• An effective communicator.
• Excellent analyst.
• Team player.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• A people manager.

Terms & Conditions:

*12-month contract with preferred start date of mid-June 2018,€4550 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month and 7 days of R&R every 3 months with a €1000 allowance per each R&R cycle, in-country housing provided, global medical coverage and AD&D coverage.*

Interested persons are requested to send the following to jobs@ngosafety.org by 25 April 2018 and ensure to reference "INSO-SA Mobile-SSD” in the subject line of your email.

• Cover letter specifying how you meet the mandatory requirements, your motivation in applying and what you hope to bring to INSO (1-page maximum).
• Up to date CV (4-page maximum).

Please note that during the course of the recruitment process, one relevant writing sample in English that demonstrates your analytical and report reporting abilities (10 pages maximum) will be required.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted after the closing date.

Please do not send any additional information (certificates, other writing samples, etc.) and keep the total size of your application under 3MB if possible.