Safety & Security Manager

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline.
  
• 3-5 years field experience in safety and security with a humanitarian or development non-governmental organization.
  
• Extensive experience in setting up and managing safety and security systems and protocols and provide training to staff and partners.
  
• Demonstrated understanding of complex emergencies, related security concerns, and appropriate responses to such emergencies. Good context analysis skills.
  
• Excellent negotiation and representation skills and the ability to work comfortably with an ethnically diverse staff in a very sensitive environment.
  
• Effective skills in coordination, organization and prioritization as well as in Microsoft Office applications.
  

Security information & analysis:

• Work with SFPs, SO, Heads of Office and the SMT to monitor the security environment in the designated areas of Nigeria, with particular focus on the Northeast.
  
• Prepare analytical reports, based on information from internal and external sources, to support policy and procedure reviews as well as to mitigate risks to programming.
  
• Prepare weekly security brief and share with all relevant staff, including program managers, SFPs and security management team.
  
• Be readily available at all times to the Country Director and field staff to advise on security developments.
  

Security System Management:

• Develop, review and ensure effective implementation of the MC Nigeria Security Management Plans including a security plan in assigned offices, together with key actors.
  
• Develop, review and ensure the effective implementation of hibernation and evacuation SOPs.
  
• Actively participate in SMT meetings and support members in sharpening their skills in risk and vulnerability assessments, evaluating information and developing security protocols and strategies that work for the team and allow to progress safely and with the lowest risk possible.
  

Staff management and technical support:

• Participate in the identification of SFPs and recruitment of Security Officers as necessary. Lead the onboarding and training of these staff.
  
• Supervise the SO in NE Nigeria, including setting objectives, developing quarterly work plans, performance evaluation, etc. Assist SFPs in developing a monthly/quarterly work plan that can be monitored by the Head of Office, and remotely by SSM and Country Director.
  
• Mentor the SFPs to fulfill their safety and security responsibilities at the field-level.
  

Coordination:

• Place high value on inter-agency coordination in security. Actively participate in security coordination activities in the Northeast and encourage SFP and Heads of Office to participate in coordination activities at the field-level.
  
• Daily check-ins with humanitarian teams posted in the Northeast.
  
• Actively seek opportunities for formal and informal cooperation in security.
  
• Develop a network of relationships with peers in the humanitarian community (UN, NGO, ICRC, appropriate governmental offices, etc.).
  

Organizational Learning:

• As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve - we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
  

Accountability to Beneficiaries:

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.