Safety Advisor – Northeast 46 views4 applications


Organisation Background

Founded in 2011, the International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports humanitarian 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 works in 16 of the world’s most insecure countries with its headquarters in The Hague, the international city of peace and justice.

INSO Nigeria

INSO Nigeria began in April 2016 with the establishment of an office in Maiduguri, supported by a country office in Abuja. INSO Nigeria covers 4 states in the Northeast, and liaises with neighbouring INSO offices in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, to provide context analysis in the Lake Chad Basin Region.

Since 2024, INSO Nigeria has expanded its coverage to the Northwest of Nigeria, opening two sub-offices in Katsina and Sokoto.

INSO Nigeria supports humanitarian access, by providing high-quality services to 96 humanitarian organisations in the country.

Job Summary

Safety Advisor Northeast position is a highly rewarding role, offering a unique opportunity to work in a close-knit team giving security analysis and advice that is vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it.

You will be outgoing and resilient, with the ability to analyse complex security issues and contexts, give practical safety and security advice and above all else share INSO’s commitment to humanitarian principles.

This position is based in Maiduguri, Borno state and reports to the Deputy Director.

Major Responsibilities

  • Establish and maintain an active information network to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
  • Provide NGOs with timely and credible safety information and contextual analysis of the local operating environment.
  • Develop analytical products on regional and country-wide dynamics or developments of relevance to NGOs.
  • Deliver INSO’s services in Maiduguri, like roundtables, orientation briefing, reports, alerts, and on-request services.
  • Assist NGOs in developing their own safety management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site surveys, and assisting in crisis planning.
  • Manage a team, including supervision of staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
  • Effectively represent, promote and protect INSO’s mandate of independence, impartiality and neutrality.

Requirements

  • Fluency in English.
  • Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills and the keenest eye for detail.
  • Personal and professional resilience in a fast moving, high output, quality-driven program.
  • Experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management.
  • Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.
  • Graduate level education in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
  • Ability to manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.

Nice to have

  • Recent experience in Northeast of Nigeria.
  • Demonstrable understanding of security dynamics in the Lake Chad Basin.
  • Local language skills.
  • Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
  • Existing local information networks.

Key Personal Competencies

  • A good listener
  • An effective communicator
  • Excellent analyst
  • Team player
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Outgoing and proactive personality

INSO’s Safeguarding Policy

INSO is fully committed to safe recruitment, selection and vetting of all potential new staff, trustees and volunteers and we will ensure rigorous compliance with our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policy throughout the recruitment process.

Terms & Conditions

12-month renewable contract.

For international staff, €5000 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month (including weekends) and 7 days of R&R every 2 months with a €1,250 R&R allowance each cycle, global medical coverage (excluding USA) and AD&D insurance.

For national staff: conditions based on the national staff regulation and salary grid.

Please send an updated CV to [email protected] and reference “Safety Advisor Northeast” in the subject line of the email.

Please do not send any additional information. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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  • Job City Maiduguri
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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.ContextContemporary armed conflict poses unprecedented challenges to humanitarian organisations in delivering aid to vulnerable populations.Whereas in the context of international armed conflicts aid workers are attributed formally recognised protection under international humanitarian law; today the changing nature of conflicts and the proliferation of non-state armed groups often mean that this assurance is no longer guaranteed.Across the globe, aid workers are subject to violent attacks with 2 - 4 deaths per week worldwide.While many NGOs take individual measures to mitigate the risks, coordinated action between agencies - seen by many as the more important requirement -  has lagged behind with no common system at field level prior to 2011.INSO was designed to fill this gap and today provides the humanitarian sector with a globally standardised mechanism for establishing and operating such platforms wherever they are needed.Humanitarian AccessHumanitarian access is the ability of NGOs to reach populations in need as well as the ability of those populations to reach the aid and protection they need. It is a complex and ever changing dynamic involving a host of considerations and challenges.INSO works to support the first side of this equation - NGOs accessing populations in need - by improving situational awareness and enabling humanitarians to make more evidence-based access decisions.Of course, situational awareness alone does not create humanitarian access - and can do the opposite - but where NGOs are seeking to expand access high quality, relevant and up to date safety information has been shown to play a vital role in the process.AccountabilityAny co-operation mechanism is only as good as the participation it enjoys from its members, which is why all INSO platforms are started and monitored by the humanitarian communities they serve through a voluntary Advisory Board.Each Advisory Board represents the NGO community towards INSO in that country and holds concrete powers to set the services and monitor INSO's performance in delivering them.This simple yet highly effective mechanism guarantees transparency, participation and accountability even as the context changes.Internally, INSO ensures the confidential management of information and registration processes and provides a comprehensive internal policy environment that guarantees accountability and protects against risk.ImpactSince 2011, INSO has revolutionized the humanitarian safety coordination sector by introducing a robust and high quality field safety platform model that has been deployed in some of the world’s most high-risk settings.The strong focus on humanitarian principles and exclusive NGO-only membership criteria have caused INSO to become generally accepted as a standard component of modern humanitarian response offering independent frontline reporting and coordination services that save lives, strengthen operational practice and enable humanitarian access.

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Organisation Background

Founded in 2011, the International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports humanitarian 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 works in 16 of the world’s most insecure countries with its headquarters in The Hague, the international city of peace and justice.

INSO Nigeria

INSO Nigeria began in April 2016 with the establishment of an office in Maiduguri, supported by a country office in Abuja. INSO Nigeria covers 4 states in the Northeast, and liaises with neighbouring INSO offices in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, to provide context analysis in the Lake Chad Basin Region.

Since 2024, INSO Nigeria has expanded its coverage to the Northwest of Nigeria, opening two sub-offices in Katsina and Sokoto.

INSO Nigeria supports humanitarian access, by providing high-quality services to 96 humanitarian organisations in the country.

Job Summary

Safety Advisor Northeast position is a highly rewarding role, offering a unique opportunity to work in a close-knit team giving security analysis and advice that is vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it.

You will be outgoing and resilient, with the ability to analyse complex security issues and contexts, give practical safety and security advice and above all else share INSO’s commitment to humanitarian principles.

This position is based in Maiduguri, Borno state and reports to the Deputy Director.

Major Responsibilities

  • Establish and maintain an active information network to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
  • Provide NGOs with timely and credible safety information and contextual analysis of the local operating environment.
  • Develop analytical products on regional and country-wide dynamics or developments of relevance to NGOs.
  • Deliver INSO’s services in Maiduguri, like roundtables, orientation briefing, reports, alerts, and on-request services.
  • Assist NGOs in developing their own safety management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site surveys, and assisting in crisis planning.
  • Manage a team, including supervision of staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
  • Effectively represent, promote and protect INSO's mandate of independence, impartiality and neutrality.

Requirements

  • Fluency in English.
  • Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills and the keenest eye for detail.
  • Personal and professional resilience in a fast moving, high output, quality-driven program.
  • Experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management.
  • Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.
  • Graduate level education in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
  • Ability to manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.

Nice to have

  • Recent experience in Northeast of Nigeria.
  • Demonstrable understanding of security dynamics in the Lake Chad Basin.
  • Local language skills.
  • Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
  • Existing local information networks.

Key Personal Competencies

  • A good listener
  • An effective communicator
  • Excellent analyst
  • Team player
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Outgoing and proactive personality

INSO’s Safeguarding Policy

INSO is fully committed to safe recruitment, selection and vetting of all potential new staff, trustees and volunteers and we will ensure rigorous compliance with our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policy throughout the recruitment process.

Terms & Conditions

12-month renewable contract.

For international staff, €5000 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month (including weekends) and 7 days of R&R every 2 months with a €1,250 R&R allowance each cycle, global medical coverage (excluding USA) and AD&D insurance.

For national staff: conditions based on the national staff regulation and salary grid.

Please send an updated CV to [email protected] and reference “Safety Advisor Northeast" in the subject line of the email.

Please do not send any additional information. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

2024-11-22

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