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In 2012 – 2013, DRC opened its operations in Upper Nile and Unity States to respond to the large influx of refugees coming from Blue Nile State and South Kordofan (Sudan). In addition to the refugee response and since 2014, DRC has been then actively engaged in responding to the humanitarian needs of IDPs affected by the internal conflict through the provision of integrated approaches.

With a total of 430 national staff, 50 expatriate staff and an annual budget of approximately USD 20 million, we are currently implementing multi-sectorial interventions through the provision of humanitarian services focused on CCCM, Protection, SGBV, FSL, Shelter and Infrastructure to both internally displaced persons and refugees across 5 field sites (Ajuong Thok, Bentiu, Maban, Malakal and Aburoc).

Purpose of the post

The Safety Advisor will contribute to creating a safe humanitarian space for the Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism (ERRM) community; focusing on affected populations through safety information sharing, coordination, and field assessments. The Safety and Access Adviser will provide analysis and advice to other international humanitarian organisations working within the ERRM sphere and will also represent the ECHO funded ERRM partners at wider coordination mechanisms.

With the aim of enabling safe and conflict sensitive programming across the humanitarian community through strong context and safety assessments, and understanding of the local environment, the Safety and Access Adviser plays a critical role in meeting the needs of affected populations. The Safety and Access Adviser will also ensure adherence to minimum operating safety standards.

The Safety Advisor will be expected to conduct regular assessments in various locations across South Sudan.

In addition to the core focus of supporting in the ERRM community in the field, the Safety and Access Adviser also serves as the DRC safety focal point for DRC ERRM team

Responsibilities

Representation and coordination

  • Hold regular meetings with NGO safety focal points within the ERRM (Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism).
  • Represent NGOs as safety focal point in safety related meetings and produce meeting notes, disseminating critical information to NGO representatives.
  • Represent (within limits agreed by SMTs of different organisations) the NGO humanitarian community in communication with relevant national stakeholders (representatives of beneficiary community, local government, local armed actors) on safety and security matters.
  • Coordinate activities related to safety with relevant parts of UNMISS (UNPOL, FPU, UNDSS, etc. E.g. Define and organise convoy procedures with and without UNMISS force protection.
  • Develop and maintain key contact lists of personnel involved in safety management. Act as a liaison between humanitarian partners and other safety agencies/personnel (including local actors).

Advocate for safety improvement where and when necessary

Responsibilities:

Representation and coordination

  • Hold regular meetings with NGO safety focal points within the ERRM (Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism).
  • Represent NGOs as safety focal point in safety related meetings and produce meeting notes, disseminating critical information to NGO representatives.
  • Represent (within limits agreed by SMTs of different organisations) the NGO humanitarian community in communication with relevant national stakeholders (representatives of beneficiary community, local government, local armed actors) on safety and security matters.
  • Coordinate activities related to safety with relevant parts of UNMISS (UNPOL, FPU, UNDSS, etc. E.g. Define and organise convoy procedures with and without UNMISS force protection.
  • Develop and maintain key contact lists of personnel involved in safety management. Act as a liaison between humanitarian partners and other safety agencies/personnel (including local actors).
  • Advocate for safety improvement where and when necessary.

Analysis and contingency planning

  • Build and maintain network of information sources which allow the gathering of reliable data and information to create an actor and incident data base.
  • Conduct safety assessments and provide humanitarian organisations with field reports including access recommendations and safety risk assessments.
  • Undertake periodic safety assessments in close co-operation with ERRM partners field team and safety focal points, analysing safety and security factors and levels of risk related to ERRM operations across different states in South Sudan.
  • Produce mission safety reports for humanitarian organisations, including analysis based on context flow and incident reports.
  • Produce regular alerts and advisories relating to incidents and context developments.
  • Maintain effective channels of communication for the humanitarian community, such as Skype groups, e-mail groups, etc.
  • Support the development of SOPs and contingency plans for NGO staff within the ERRM sphere; Medical evacuation, relocation, hibernation etc. (on request).
  • Provide general support to humanitarian partners on safety management; personal safety, radio communications, contingency planning, defining threat levels, etc.
  • On top of pre-existing packages, design and deliver Safety-related trainings to ERRM partners staff.

DRC safety focal point

  • Ensure compliance with DRC global safety policy, code of conduct and safety-related guidelines and ensure internal DRC contingency plans and SOPs reflect prevailing safety situation on the ground.
  • Regularly review and update DRC safety guidelines, safety level, and minimum operating safety standards (MOSS).
  • Responsible for monitoring DRC safety assets and stocks on site; hibernation stocks, radio and communication assets, first aid and trauma kits, etc.
  • Support the Area Manager in incident/crisis management situations, and liaise with Juba as necessary.
  • Provide a safety briefing to all DRC staff at morning meetings, or similar and update the DRC Country Safety Adviser on an ongoing basis.

Experience and technical competencies

  • Degree in developmental and/or political and/or conflict studies is attractive, but not essential.
  • Other security management related qualification
  • Minimum 1 year as safety manager/coordinator for an NGO in a high risk/conflict zone (or equivalent role).
  • Proven experience in safety context/analysis and advising/coordinating humanitarian personnel.
  • Experience of developing and updating SOPs, contingency plans and other risk assessment and management documents.
  • Proven in-country experience liaising with UN and CIVMIL peacekeeping missions or agencies.
  • Proven experience in incident/crisis management.
  • Experience of conducting safety training for international and national staff, and experience of capacity building of national staff.
  • Fluent English, and strong interpersonal, communication, and networking skills.
  • Ability to provide conflict analysis (written).
  • Proven ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines under pressure.
  • Computer literate, able to use all common software packages.
  • Be able to diffuse tensions and remain calm at all times and particularly following an incident
  • Be able to encourage, motivate and guide team members to approach safety and security issues with confidence especially during crises.
  • Be flexible to travel at short notice to difficult and risky areas.
  • Proven ability to work effectively with minimal supervision.

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The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing a broad range of activities relevant to conflict affected communities and persons. The activities are categorized in ten sectors:

Shelter and Non-food Items, Food Security, Protection, Income Generation, Coordination & Operational Services, Community Infrastructure & Services, Humanitarian Mine Action, Armed Violence Reduction (AVR), Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Education.

Here you can read some short exemplifications of what types of activities the respective sectors include:

Shelter and Non-food Items: Provision of emergency shelter, emergency cash grants, rehabilitation of housing, distribution of non-food items (NFIs) and provision of return and repatriation kits.

Food Security: Emergency food provision or food voucher programmes. Training and capacity development in agriculture, agricultural inputs (e.g. tools and seeds), agricultural grants.

Protection: Advocacy for the rights of displaced people in their context of displacement, child protection initiatives, individual protection assistance based on vulnerability, legal aid, land & property rights, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, registration services for the internally displaced and refugees, monitoring of rights and rights awareness-raising, facilitation of return and repatriation processes.

Income Generation: Business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, literacy and numeracy training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation.

Coordination & Operational Services: Coordination and management of refugee and IDP camps, active participation in UN cluster coordination, humanitarian surveys and studies, facilitation of NGO Networks focused on displacement solutions, capacity development, training and support to local NGOs, secondment of experts to UN emergency operations worldwide

Community Infrastructure & Services: Provision of physical infrastructure like roads, bridges, community centres, irrigation systems or other community structures, facilitation and training of infrastructure management groups at community level, facilitation and funding of community development plans, initiatives for disaster risk reduction at community level.

Humanitarian Mine Action: Manual or mechanical mine clearance, clearance of former battle areas, education for affected communities – with special focus on children on how to avoid harm from mines and UXO, surveys of expected and confirmed mined or UXO areas, explosive ordnance disposal and stockpile destruction, capacity building of national demining institutions.

Armed Violence Reduction (AVR): Education in procedures for safe storage and safe handling of small arms and light weapons (SALW), capacity building of institutions for safety, local and community level conflict management and mitigation.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH): Emergency water supply, hygiene item distribution, hygiene information and education, construction of latrines, installation water points, wells and water storage. Water purification.

Education: Education grants and fee support, school feeding programmes, teacher training and support, school materials provision and construction or rehabilitation of school structures.

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0 USD South Sudan CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

In 2012 - 2013, DRC opened its operations in Upper Nile and Unity States to respond to the large influx of refugees coming from Blue Nile State and South Kordofan (Sudan). In addition to the refugee response and since 2014, DRC has been then actively engaged in responding to the humanitarian needs of IDPs affected by the internal conflict through the provision of integrated approaches.

With a total of 430 national staff, 50 expatriate staff and an annual budget of approximately USD 20 million, we are currently implementing multi-sectorial interventions through the provision of humanitarian services focused on CCCM, Protection, SGBV, FSL, Shelter and Infrastructure to both internally displaced persons and refugees across 5 field sites (Ajuong Thok, Bentiu, Maban, Malakal and Aburoc).

Purpose of the post

The Safety Advisor will contribute to creating a safe humanitarian space for the Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism (ERRM) community; focusing on affected populations through safety information sharing, coordination, and field assessments. The Safety and Access Adviser will provide analysis and advice to other international humanitarian organisations working within the ERRM sphere and will also represent the ECHO funded ERRM partners at wider coordination mechanisms.

With the aim of enabling safe and conflict sensitive programming across the humanitarian community through strong context and safety assessments, and understanding of the local environment, the Safety and Access Adviser plays a critical role in meeting the needs of affected populations. The Safety and Access Adviser will also ensure adherence to minimum operating safety standards.

The Safety Advisor will be expected to conduct regular assessments in various locations across South Sudan.

In addition to the core focus of supporting in the ERRM community in the field, the Safety and Access Adviser also serves as the DRC safety focal point for DRC ERRM team

Responsibilities

Representation and coordination

  • Hold regular meetings with NGO safety focal points within the ERRM (Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism).
  • Represent NGOs as safety focal point in safety related meetings and produce meeting notes, disseminating critical information to NGO representatives.
  • Represent (within limits agreed by SMTs of different organisations) the NGO humanitarian community in communication with relevant national stakeholders (representatives of beneficiary community, local government, local armed actors) on safety and security matters.
  • Coordinate activities related to safety with relevant parts of UNMISS (UNPOL, FPU, UNDSS, etc. E.g. Define and organise convoy procedures with and without UNMISS force protection.
  • Develop and maintain key contact lists of personnel involved in safety management. Act as a liaison between humanitarian partners and other safety agencies/personnel (including local actors).

Advocate for safety improvement where and when necessary

Responsibilities:

Representation and coordination

  • Hold regular meetings with NGO safety focal points within the ERRM (Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism).
  • Represent NGOs as safety focal point in safety related meetings and produce meeting notes, disseminating critical information to NGO representatives.
  • Represent (within limits agreed by SMTs of different organisations) the NGO humanitarian community in communication with relevant national stakeholders (representatives of beneficiary community, local government, local armed actors) on safety and security matters.
  • Coordinate activities related to safety with relevant parts of UNMISS (UNPOL, FPU, UNDSS, etc. E.g. Define and organise convoy procedures with and without UNMISS force protection.
  • Develop and maintain key contact lists of personnel involved in safety management. Act as a liaison between humanitarian partners and other safety agencies/personnel (including local actors).
  • Advocate for safety improvement where and when necessary.

Analysis and contingency planning

  • Build and maintain network of information sources which allow the gathering of reliable data and information to create an actor and incident data base.
  • Conduct safety assessments and provide humanitarian organisations with field reports including access recommendations and safety risk assessments.
  • Undertake periodic safety assessments in close co-operation with ERRM partners field team and safety focal points, analysing safety and security factors and levels of risk related to ERRM operations across different states in South Sudan.
  • Produce mission safety reports for humanitarian organisations, including analysis based on context flow and incident reports.
  • Produce regular alerts and advisories relating to incidents and context developments.
  • Maintain effective channels of communication for the humanitarian community, such as Skype groups, e-mail groups, etc.
  • Support the development of SOPs and contingency plans for NGO staff within the ERRM sphere; Medical evacuation, relocation, hibernation etc. (on request).
  • Provide general support to humanitarian partners on safety management; personal safety, radio communications, contingency planning, defining threat levels, etc.
  • On top of pre-existing packages, design and deliver Safety-related trainings to ERRM partners staff.

DRC safety focal point

  • Ensure compliance with DRC global safety policy, code of conduct and safety-related guidelines and ensure internal DRC contingency plans and SOPs reflect prevailing safety situation on the ground.
  • Regularly review and update DRC safety guidelines, safety level, and minimum operating safety standards (MOSS).
  • Responsible for monitoring DRC safety assets and stocks on site; hibernation stocks, radio and communication assets, first aid and trauma kits, etc.
  • Support the Area Manager in incident/crisis management situations, and liaise with Juba as necessary.
  • Provide a safety briefing to all DRC staff at morning meetings, or similar and update the DRC Country Safety Adviser on an ongoing basis.

Experience and technical competencies

  • Degree in developmental and/or political and/or conflict studies is attractive, but not essential.
  • Other security management related qualification
  • Minimum 1 year as safety manager/coordinator for an NGO in a high risk/conflict zone (or equivalent role).
  • Proven experience in safety context/analysis and advising/coordinating humanitarian personnel.
  • Experience of developing and updating SOPs, contingency plans and other risk assessment and management documents.
  • Proven in-country experience liaising with UN and CIVMIL peacekeeping missions or agencies.
  • Proven experience in incident/crisis management.
  • Experience of conducting safety training for international and national staff, and experience of capacity building of national staff.
  • Fluent English, and strong interpersonal, communication, and networking skills.
  • Ability to provide conflict analysis (written).
  • Proven ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines under pressure.
  • Computer literate, able to use all common software packages.
  • Be able to diffuse tensions and remain calm at all times and particularly following an incident
  • Be able to encourage, motivate and guide team members to approach safety and security issues with confidence especially during crises.
  • Be flexible to travel at short notice to difficult and risky areas.
  • Proven ability to work effectively with minimal supervision.
2019-05-02

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