Security Liason Officer At Médecins Du Monde 136 views2 applications


Médecins du Monde or Doctors of the World, is an international humanitarian non-profit organization that provides emergency and long-term medical care to vulnerable populations while advocating for equal access to healthcare worldwide.

Security Liason Officer

POSITION :
Security -Liaison Officer at base level

LINE MANAGER
Field Coordinator

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the supervision of Log Coordinator, the Security-Liaison Officer at base level will be responsible to develop and follow up a context analysis mechanisms, to adapt and implement a security and safety frame, to set up and maintain a network of relations with authorities, other NGOs and field-level focal points to proceed for assessment of new areas of intervention, request of access authorizations, to report and to anticipate security-related events, in accordance to national and MdM internal procedures, under a confidentiality based approach.

ACTIVITIES DESCRIPTION:
Security management

  • Identify a contact list (from authority, security entities, community leaders, HF staff, district office staff, local council  …etc.) that can be used in case of the team having problem in the field/check points, to ensure safe access to implement MDM medical activities.
  • Assess on a daily basis the security context. Global and Local.
  • Analyze and report the security and contextual data using MDM validated tools.
  • To support and monitor the implementation of the security pack in all operational bases
  • Validate staff movements when needed.
  • Ensure proper update and delivery of constant companion cards for key staffs
  • Conduct on-going security risk and threats assessment
  • monitor a mechanisms of security alerts to all key staff
  • Brief incoming national personnel and ensure personnel are kept up to date on changing security conditions.
  • Maintain and analyse an incident reporting system.
  • Advise on technical protection and communications matters, such as site selection and protection, as well as the functioning and good use of communications equipment
  • Be involved in incident response and crisis management and subsequent reviews and evaluations in collaboration with the Log Coordinator.
  • Brief expatriates or any new external visitor about the national context
  • Brief expatriates or any new external visitor about cultural and social customs
  • Oversee adherence to procedures and plans.
  • Liaison with Authorities and Humanitarian Actors
  • Develop, maintain and establish an effective communication and good relationship with authorities and other humanitarian actors in order to proceed for: Facilitating visits of MDM staff with authorities, and obtaining access authorization for current and potential intervention areas
  • Keep informed the Log Coordinator of any information concerning changes in the procedures and/or the legal context frame.
  • Participate to any scheduled technical and coordination meetings when needed
  • To be the main interlocutor with security forces and armed groups in the country
  • Liaise with and exchange information with other aid organisations and with the authorities.
  • To represent MDM values as secular, independent association whose commitment is to support sustainable improvement of health policies.

Assessment:

  • To develop SOP, validation procedures and briefing prior to fieldtrips to new and/or sensitive areas
  • Develop and update a focal points database for info collection in permanent basis.
  • During identification of MDM new locations of interventions, security-liaison officer should collect information about the possible places from the different networks (i.e. Authority, community leaders, MAG, other relevant actors) and gather needed information about the location safety, access, and other relevant actors on the screen.
  • To get verification of safe access by communication with key people (to be identified in each targeted location) before each field visit.
  • During fieldtrips, to coordinate the convoy, represent MDM in check points, and to introduce the objective of the assessment, importance, and methodology if needed.
  • Request to medical team any information/issues/concerns that might affect the team safety or MDM acceptance in the area of intervention (i.e. if they face/feel community resistance for family planning, vaccination, handling GBV case… etc.

Project implementation:

  • Security-liaison officer is the person in charge to answer authority non-technical questions, (example in check points)
  • He is in charge to introduce MDM team to people and to explain about MDM, presence, activities. etc.
  • Identify possible places for team hibernation in the field and advise on adaptation of security pack based on new needs and context factors.
  • Identify relevant actors in the area and get involved in the actors mapping, including analysis of relationships and dynamics between different actors and impact on MDM intervention.
  1. OTHERS:
  • Be flexible in performing his duties
  • Inform immediately the log coordinator in case of any security problem
  • Realize a weekly and monthly activities report to submit to the General coordinator
  • Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (general, admin, security…)
  • Ensure the translation of documents when needed.
  • Perform other additional duties on request of the country representative and logistic coordinator

III.Essential Qualification:

  • University degree or a diploma in social sciences or other related field
  • Very good research and analytical skills
  • Proven ability to write in a clear and concise manner and to communicate effectively, including ability to prepare reports, make presentations
  • Full command in writing, reading and speaking of English and Hausa
  • Proven experience of working effectively in complex security environments
  • Experienced and knowledgeable in security/safety-related subjects, threat/risk assessment, strong representation and negotiating skills, security management, networking and personal and organizational security awareness
  • Be proactive in improving skills by keeping up to date with new / latest development in safety and security operations procedures

Method of Application

To apply, please submit: a two page curriculum vitae; three work-related references; a one page cover letter explaining how your skills and experience match the job requirements stated above. If possible, please send all the above in one document – MS Word or PDF. Also, write the job title and your name in the subject line. Send to [email protected]

Deadline for submission: 6 Oct. 2017

Only applications by email will be considered

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

We are unable to accept phone calls.

Information:

  • Starting date:  Asap
  • Place of office: Maiduguri
  • We’ll pay attention only to the complete files in English.
  • Our process of selection include some written tests and oral interviews.

Please notice that if you have not heard from MdM within 2 weeks, after the close of this positionyou should presume you were not short listed for this position. However, MdM thanks you for your interest and encourages you to apply for other openings where your skills and experience match.

MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.

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Médecins du Monde (MdM; French pronunciation: [medsɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d]) or Doctors of the World, provides emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people. It also advocates to end health inequities.

It was founded in 1980 by a group of 15 French physicians, including Bernard Kouchner. It works in both the developed and developing world.

MdM was formed with a mission to provide timely emergency medical care, free of legal and administrative restrictions; to work with local populations to ensure long-term sustainability of healthcare systems; and to advocate on behalf of client populations.

After more than 35 years of work, MdM is a famously active advocate for its beneficiaries, and works to change the underlying inequalities that affect people's ability to access medical care.

MdM was formally established on 1 February 1980. Its goals were "to go where others will not, to testify to the intolerable, and to volunteer".

Its origins lay in a 1979 intervention to assist a drifting boat of Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea. Kouchner, with volunteer doctors, journalists, and others organized a hospital boat, L'Île de lumière, to provide medical care and to report the refugees' suffering.

MdM was founded as Bernard Kouchner and 14 others doctors split from the group he previously founded, Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF, or Doctors WIthout Borders). It has been reported Kouchner felt that MSF was giving up its founding principle of témoignage ("witnessing"), which refers to aid workers making the atrocities they observe known to the public.

Kouchner was president of MdM from 1980 to 1982. In 1989, the foundation of MdM Spain paved the way for the creation of the MdM international network. In 2015, the MdM global network consisted of fifteen associations; France (founded 1980), Spain (founded 1989), Greece (founded 1990), Italy and Switzerland (both founded 1993), Sweden (founded 1994), Cyprus (founded 1995 by Elena Theoharous[1]), Argentina (founded 1998), Belgium, Canada and Portugal (all founded 1999), as well as in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Netherlands, and the USA.

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Médecins du Monde or Doctors of the World, is an international humanitarian non-profit organization that provides emergency and long-term medical care to vulnerable populations while advocating for equal access to healthcare worldwide.

Security Liason Officer

POSITION : Security -Liaison Officer at base levelLINE MANAGER Field CoordinatorMAIN RESPONSIBILITIES Under the supervision of Log Coordinator, the Security-Liaison Officer at base level will be responsible to develop and follow up a context analysis mechanisms, to adapt and implement a security and safety frame, to set up and maintain a network of relations with authorities, other NGOs and field-level focal points to proceed for assessment of new areas of intervention, request of access authorizations, to report and to anticipate security-related events, in accordance to national and MdM internal procedures, under a confidentiality based approach.ACTIVITIES DESCRIPTION: Security management

  • Identify a contact list (from authority, security entities, community leaders, HF staff, district office staff, local council  ...etc.) that can be used in case of the team having problem in the field/check points, to ensure safe access to implement MDM medical activities.
  • Assess on a daily basis the security context. Global and Local.
  • Analyze and report the security and contextual data using MDM validated tools.
  • To support and monitor the implementation of the security pack in all operational bases
  • Validate staff movements when needed.
  • Ensure proper update and delivery of constant companion cards for key staffs
  • Conduct on-going security risk and threats assessment
  • monitor a mechanisms of security alerts to all key staff
  • Brief incoming national personnel and ensure personnel are kept up to date on changing security conditions.
  • Maintain and analyse an incident reporting system.
  • Advise on technical protection and communications matters, such as site selection and protection, as well as the functioning and good use of communications equipment
  • Be involved in incident response and crisis management and subsequent reviews and evaluations in collaboration with the Log Coordinator.
  • Brief expatriates or any new external visitor about the national context
  • Brief expatriates or any new external visitor about cultural and social customs
  • Oversee adherence to procedures and plans.
  • Liaison with Authorities and Humanitarian Actors
  • Develop, maintain and establish an effective communication and good relationship with authorities and other humanitarian actors in order to proceed for: Facilitating visits of MDM staff with authorities, and obtaining access authorization for current and potential intervention areas
  • Keep informed the Log Coordinator of any information concerning changes in the procedures and/or the legal context frame.
  • Participate to any scheduled technical and coordination meetings when needed
  • To be the main interlocutor with security forces and armed groups in the country
  • Liaise with and exchange information with other aid organisations and with the authorities.
  • To represent MDM values as secular, independent association whose commitment is to support sustainable improvement of health policies.

Assessment:

  • To develop SOP, validation procedures and briefing prior to fieldtrips to new and/or sensitive areas
  • Develop and update a focal points database for info collection in permanent basis.
  • During identification of MDM new locations of interventions, security-liaison officer should collect information about the possible places from the different networks (i.e. Authority, community leaders, MAG, other relevant actors) and gather needed information about the location safety, access, and other relevant actors on the screen.
  • To get verification of safe access by communication with key people (to be identified in each targeted location) before each field visit.
  • During fieldtrips, to coordinate the convoy, represent MDM in check points, and to introduce the objective of the assessment, importance, and methodology if needed.
  • Request to medical team any information/issues/concerns that might affect the team safety or MDM acceptance in the area of intervention (i.e. if they face/feel community resistance for family planning, vaccination, handling GBV case… etc.

Project implementation:

  • Security-liaison officer is the person in charge to answer authority non-technical questions, (example in check points)
  • He is in charge to introduce MDM team to people and to explain about MDM, presence, activities. etc.
  • Identify possible places for team hibernation in the field and advise on adaptation of security pack based on new needs and context factors.
  • Identify relevant actors in the area and get involved in the actors mapping, including analysis of relationships and dynamics between different actors and impact on MDM intervention.
  1. OTHERS:
  • Be flexible in performing his duties
  • Inform immediately the log coordinator in case of any security problem
  • Realize a weekly and monthly activities report to submit to the General coordinator
  • Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (general, admin, security…)
  • Ensure the translation of documents when needed.
  • Perform other additional duties on request of the country representative and logistic coordinator

III.Essential Qualification:

  • University degree or a diploma in social sciences or other related field
  • Very good research and analytical skills
  • Proven ability to write in a clear and concise manner and to communicate effectively, including ability to prepare reports, make presentations
  • Full command in writing, reading and speaking of English and Hausa
  • Proven experience of working effectively in complex security environments
  • Experienced and knowledgeable in security/safety-related subjects, threat/risk assessment, strong representation and negotiating skills, security management, networking and personal and organizational security awareness
  • Be proactive in improving skills by keeping up to date with new / latest development in safety and security operations procedures

Method of Application

To apply, please submit: a two page curriculum vitae; three work-related references; a one page cover letter explaining how your skills and experience match the job requirements stated above. If possible, please send all the above in one document – MS Word or PDF. Also, write the job title and your name in the subject line. Send to [email protected]Deadline for submission: 6 Oct. 2017Only applications by email will be consideredOnly shortlisted candidates will be contactedWe are unable to accept phone calls.Information:

  • Starting date:  Asap
  • Place of office: Maiduguri
  • We’ll pay attention only to the complete files in English.
  • Our process of selection include some written tests and oral interviews.

Please notice that if you have not heard from MdM within 2 weeks, after the close of this positionyou should presume you were not short listed for this position. However, MdM thanks you for your interest and encourages you to apply for other openings where your skills and experience match.MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.

2017-10-07

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