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The International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO), founded in 2011, 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.

Deputy Safety Advisor

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The Deputy Safety Advisor will be responsible for the co-production of analytic and research products related to the security and humanitarian context in North East Nigeria under the supervision of the Safety Advisor and the Regional Analyst for the Lake Chad Basin. The work will involve multiple field trips across Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Gombe states, as well as creating and maintaining relations with other national researchers, scholars and journalists.

We are actually seeking for a Deputy Safety Advisor to support the Safety Advisor for Maiduguri and the Regional Analyst for the Lake Chad Basin region in the following areas of responsibility:

Provide contextually specific inputs for thematic & special reports, scenario forecasts, area briefs/assessments and other products:

  • Liaise closely with NGOs, the UN, local authorities, traditional and religious leaders, academic community, journalists and others to obtain relevant contextual information for NGOs use
  • Monitor media in local languages, providing summaries and translations
  • Monitor open sources for AOG and SF activity, statements, and external analysis related to the conflict
  • Identify useful sources of information, including public archives, and help building an INSO North East library
  • Contribute to enhance INSO’s analytical and research products with contextually specific knowledge on the political, ethnic and historical aspects
  • Conduct regular field trips to develop local expertise of the context
  • Suggest research topics and prepare research proposals
  • Support the Safety Advisor and the Regional Analyst with INSO scheduled services and products:
  • Prepare presentation drafts and give support during the scheduled presentation of INSO services
  • Conduct database searches, including manual disaggregation of incidents
  • Prepare drafts for INSO written scheduled products
  • Information and database management
  • Assist with database maintenance, regularly monitoring data consistency
  • Research on different models of graphic representation of data to enhance INSO analytical products
  • Assist in the preparation of presentations and meetings related to the products
  • Adhere to INSO safety policies and procedures.
  • Fully comply with INSO policy directives;
  • Observe and maintain the confidentiality and safety of all NGO information;
  • Observe and maintain the confidentiality and safety of any documentation/procedures as outlined by INSO
  • Adopts professional conduct and positive attitude
  • Other tasks may be requested and should be executed diligently
  • Manage your time in the office effectively.
  • Work to ensure a positive working atmosphere by enhancing a cordial working relationship.
  • In order to qualify as successful candidate, you should have:

Mandatory Qualifications:

  • Bachelor in either Journalism, Communication, Political Sciences, History, or any other equivalent diploma. Experience in journalism will also serve.
  • Excellent English writing skills as well as a fluent conversational level of at least one of the following languages: Hausa, Kanuri or other local languages relevant to North Eastern Nigeria.
  • A good understanding of NGO approaches to safety
  • A proven ability to develop and maintain working relationships with key safety interlocutors in the North Eastern Region
  • Excellent Computer skills and knowledge of Windows and Office programs
  • Nigerian nationality

Key Personal Competencies

  • Excellent understanding of the Nigeria North East context and curiosity
  • Ability to identify useful sources of information
  • Attention to detail and a good editorial eye for written texts
  • Excellent analytic skills
  • Creativity and proactive attitude
  • Good presentation skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
  • High level of confidentiality and integrity
  • Experience of working under high pressure, in fast-paced environments
  • Strong organizational skills ability to handle multiple priorities in an autonomous manner
  • Strong skills in data management

Method of Application

Only candidates meeting the mentioned criteria are invited to apply by sending their file to the email address: [email protected], writing in the subject of the mail: “INSO Deputy Safety Advisor – Maiduguri/Abuja” by 28 February 2019.

In order to be considered the application must contain the three (3) following documents:

Curriculum Vitae (up to 3 pages maximum)

Cover Letter specifying how your profile and experience meet the mandatory requirements.

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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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0 USD Abuja CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week International NGO Safety Organisation – INSO

The International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO), founded in 2011, 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.

Deputy Safety Advisor

Details:

The Deputy Safety Advisor will be responsible for the co-production of analytic and research products related to the security and humanitarian context in North East Nigeria under the supervision of the Safety Advisor and the Regional Analyst for the Lake Chad Basin. The work will involve multiple field trips across Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Gombe states, as well as creating and maintaining relations with other national researchers, scholars and journalists.We are actually seeking for a Deputy Safety Advisor to support the Safety Advisor for Maiduguri and the Regional Analyst for the Lake Chad Basin region in the following areas of responsibility:Provide contextually specific inputs for thematic & special reports, scenario forecasts, area briefs/assessments and other products:

  • Liaise closely with NGOs, the UN, local authorities, traditional and religious leaders, academic community, journalists and others to obtain relevant contextual information for NGOs use
  • Monitor media in local languages, providing summaries and translations
  • Monitor open sources for AOG and SF activity, statements, and external analysis related to the conflict
  • Identify useful sources of information, including public archives, and help building an INSO North East library
  • Contribute to enhance INSO’s analytical and research products with contextually specific knowledge on the political, ethnic and historical aspects
  • Conduct regular field trips to develop local expertise of the context
  • Suggest research topics and prepare research proposals
  • Support the Safety Advisor and the Regional Analyst with INSO scheduled services and products:
  • Prepare presentation drafts and give support during the scheduled presentation of INSO services
  • Conduct database searches, including manual disaggregation of incidents
  • Prepare drafts for INSO written scheduled products
  • Information and database management
  • Assist with database maintenance, regularly monitoring data consistency
  • Research on different models of graphic representation of data to enhance INSO analytical products
  • Assist in the preparation of presentations and meetings related to the products
  • Adhere to INSO safety policies and procedures.
  • Fully comply with INSO policy directives;
  • Observe and maintain the confidentiality and safety of all NGO information;
  • Observe and maintain the confidentiality and safety of any documentation/procedures as outlined by INSO
  • Adopts professional conduct and positive attitude
  • Other tasks may be requested and should be executed diligently
  • Manage your time in the office effectively.
  • Work to ensure a positive working atmosphere by enhancing a cordial working relationship.
  • In order to qualify as successful candidate, you should have:

Mandatory Qualifications:

  • Bachelor in either Journalism, Communication, Political Sciences, History, or any other equivalent diploma. Experience in journalism will also serve.
  • Excellent English writing skills as well as a fluent conversational level of at least one of the following languages: Hausa, Kanuri or other local languages relevant to North Eastern Nigeria.
  • A good understanding of NGO approaches to safety
  • A proven ability to develop and maintain working relationships with key safety interlocutors in the North Eastern Region
  • Excellent Computer skills and knowledge of Windows and Office programs
  • Nigerian nationality

Key Personal Competencies

  • Excellent understanding of the Nigeria North East context and curiosity
  • Ability to identify useful sources of information
  • Attention to detail and a good editorial eye for written texts
  • Excellent analytic skills
  • Creativity and proactive attitude
  • Good presentation skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
  • High level of confidentiality and integrity
  • Experience of working under high pressure, in fast-paced environments
  • Strong organizational skills ability to handle multiple priorities in an autonomous manner
  • Strong skills in data management

Method of Application

Only candidates meeting the mentioned criteria are invited to apply by sending their file to the email address: [email protected], writing in the subject of the mail: “INSO Deputy Safety Advisor – Maiduguri/Abuja” by 28 February 2019.In order to be considered the application must contain the three (3) following documents:Curriculum Vitae (up to 3 pages maximum)Cover Letter specifying how your profile and experience meet the mandatory requirements.

2019-03-01

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