Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of five years’ experience in security management of operations in diverse situations, including stable and conflict-riddled and security-challenged environment, with extensive experience of security management in Nigeria
  
• Demonstrated courses in security management
  
• Has previous experience as a Security Officer in an international NGO within the last 3-5 years
  
• Experience in risk analysis and management
  
• Ability to demonstrate their links with relevant security networks in Nigeria
  
• Conversant with the geography of the zone of interest and speaks the local language(s) of the zone
  

General Security Management of MC Zonal security hubs operations – 40%

• Create the zonal security communications tree for their zones and ensure that it is always updated.
  
• Ensure that all states’ offices within their zones have a designated fire warden, and that fire equipment checks, and fire drills are done at least once every 6 months.
  
• Establish and maintain an active information network within their zones, which includes state security actors, peer NGO security focal points and relevant security alert sources to obtain daily reliable and credible and relevant safety information.
  

Intervention/Project-specific security management – 60%

• Conduct security risk assessment prior to the commencement of all community-level project intervention, especially ITN Campaigns. When necessary, SMC campaign within their zones, and ensure recommendations from the assessment feed into the planning and design of implementation strategies.
  
• Review the security profile of each state within each zone at the end of each ITN Campaign/distribution and SMC cycle and submit updated risk profile at least two weeks to commencement of the next cycle.
  
• Conduct post-implementation security status review of each state within their zones after each ITN distribution and after each cycle (in case of SMC) and completion of phased out implementation, for level of compliance with security protocol in previous cycle and make recommendations accordingly, for the next cycle / next phase of project activities.
  
• Input daily and weekly into all project activity plans in the states within their zones, the LGAs, Wards and community ensuring that all activities are planned based on the principle of ‘staff safety first’.