Humanitarian Access & Security – Sudan (Kenya Based)

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organisation works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Since its creation in 1982, HI has run development programmes in more than 60 countries and responded to numerous emergencies. Today, we have a budget of approximately 255 million euros, with 4794 employees worldwide.

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JOB CONTEXT:

HI intervention in Sudan:

Humanity & Inclusion (HI) and a national NGO has started a project in Sudan. Due to the administrative constraints to obtain visas in Sudan and pending registration approval the HI team are based in Nairobi, providing remote support to the national partners. Depending on visa approval, HI team will travel to Sudan for field and monitoring visits. The project includes physical and functional rehabilitation, MHPSS, Protection and Inclusive Humanitarian Action activities. Finally, HI has developed a 2025 strategy with the objective to scale up is intervention, from both geographical and sectoral perspectives.

YOUR MISSION:

Reporting to the Program Director, the role of the Country Humanitarian Access & Security Manager (HASM) is to ensure the security of HI staff and assets, and to develop HI’s access to vulnerable populations as much as possible. He ensures that the strategies of the countries concerned are in line with the global strategy.

Your main missions will be:

Mission 1: MANAGEMENT

• Exemplary Manager: embodies HI’s values on a daily basis, and is a role model.
• Meaningful manager: understands strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his team, leads the necessary changes. Gives meaning to every management action. Encourages inter- and intra-departmental exchanges of practice. Encourages innovation and risk-taking.
• Operational Manager: organizes the operational management of his team, structures work around identified processes, monitors performance, and facilitates problem resolution.

Mission 2: STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION

• Contributes to country strategies and ensures they are in line with global strategies.
• Develops security strategy and operations through active promotion of HI’s institutional policy and optimization of resources.
• Contributes to the drafting, revision and implementation of operational strategy (StratOp) within the scope of its responsibilities.
• Creates and updates the risk map as part of its responsibilities, proposes and implements risk management measures.
• Ensures HI’s external representation on security issues concerning its country (e.g.: forums, operational and strategic alliances); guarantees the development of local partnerships necessary for the development of its country of activity.

Mission 3: STANDARDS AND EXPERTISE

• Ensures the development, updating and implementation of HI’s security system in the program (procedures, documents and tools).
• Verifies implementation of HI’s security policy, operational guide and new security directives issued by head office.
• Develops a learning system based on program experience and lessons learned.
• Oversees the drafting, revision and implementation of the operational strategy (StratOp) within the scope of its responsibilities.

Mission 4: OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION

• Context monitoring and acceptance building in the program area
• Operational security management
• Humanitarian Access
• Capacity-building and training in security and humanitarian access

YOUR PROFILE:

• You hold an university degree or equivalent certification in risk management, international relations or other discipline relevant to the position.
• You have at least 3 years’ experience as a Security Manager, Analyst or Manager with security responsibilities in unstable countries
• You know how to develop an access strategy but also mitigation measures in line with humanitarian security approaches, to realize a security risk analysis
• You master security incidents/crisis management

CONDITIONS:
At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission. https://hi.org/en/join-the-team

• 02 months International contract starting from 15th November 2024;
• Work in remote from Kenya as it stands, but staff would be expected to travel to Sudan if access if granted
• The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:
  • Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals;
  • Pension scheme;
  • Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution;
  • Repatriation insurance paid by HI;
• Salary from 2860€ gross/month upon experience;
• Perdiem paid in the field: 510,43€ net/month for Kenya
• Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
• R&R: 1 day per month for Kenya
• Position unaccompanied:
• Housing: Collective taken in charge by HI;