With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Here’s where you come in:
As the Country Security Manager for World Vision Democratic Republic of Congo, you will support the National Director in ensuring that effective security measures for programmes within the Democratic Republic of Congo are appropriately planned for and addressed within the Country Context. You will lead in the optimisation of organisational security and the mitigation of operational risks for ministry effectiveness by establishing security systems and mechanisms for institutionalising an organisational culture and practice of safety and security. You will work with a wide range of stakeholders across multiple functions in support of key projects and will be responsible for ensuring end-to-end security capability and operational delivery to the field, based on the changing context and work requirements. This position will supervise Deputy Country Security Manager, Officers and Focal Points. You will provide analysis and intelligence to the National Director and Programmes to make timely strategic programming decisions.
Requirements include:
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree (Master preferred) in Security Management, Risk Management, Strategic Studies, International Relations or Emergency Management. Or 3 years equivalent field experience in organizational Security Risk Management senior role.
- Previous experience in the professional security arena (INGO, Corporate, Military, Law Enforcement, or Emergency Services).
- Understanding of setting threat or risk levels for specific contexts, considering the strategic and tactical situation as applied to humanitarian operations.
- Understanding of programme delivery and security cost identification in humanitarian relief operations.
- Sound knowledge of INGO security practices with proven experience in Security Risk Assessments (SRA), security planning and crises management in the humanitarian context.
- Fluency in both written and spoken English and French is required
- The position requires ability and willingness to travel nationally and internationally up to 40% of the time.
- Must be prepared to travel to ‘high risk’ security environments at short notice.
Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply via the link. We will be accepting applications until the right candidate is found.
World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org. Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.
