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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 provides daily support to more than 1000 NGOs operating in 16 of the world’s most insecure countries.

INSO is registered in the Netherlands with its headquarters based in The Hague, the international city of peace and justice.

INSO South Sudan

Founded in 2018, INSO South Sudan addresses the insecure operating environment all NGOs face in the country. The platform currently supports 257 NGOs including a large number of local partners, enhancing safety preparedness and providing support through reports, alerts, training and more. We cover all ten states and three administrative areas in South Sudan with a country office in Juba and field offices in Yambio, Wau, Rumbek, Bentiu, Malakal, and Bor. Working with INSO South Sudan offers you the chance to be part of a dynamic and growing program alongside a diverse team.

We are now hiring our Safety Advisor-Northeast with a start date of 14 April. This position in based in Juba and reports to the Deputy Director.

Job Summary:

As Safety Advisor-Northeast, you will work in a team giving security analysis and advice focusing on the Greater Upper Nile region that is not only some of the best of its kind, but that is also 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 and give sound practical safety and security advice.

Major Responsibilities:

  • Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes NGOs, the UN, military forces, etc. to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
  • Provide NGOs with timely and credible security information and contextual analysis of the local security situation.
  • Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables.
  • Assist NGOs in developing their own security management capacities and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
  • Manage a small team, including supervision of national staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
  • Effectively represent, promote, and protect INSO’s mandate of independence, impartiality and neutrality.

Mandatory Requirements:

  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
  • Masters level education or equivalent in a relevant field.
  • Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills.
  • Personal and professional resilience in a fast-moving, high-output, quality-driven program.
  • Independent drive, motivation, and excellence, and ability to operate and sustainably manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.
  • Well-developed personal, organisational and team management skills and standards in a diverse multicultural setting.
  • Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.

Desirable:

  • Recent experience in South Sudan.
  • Experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
  • Demonstrable understanding of security dynamics in South Sudan.
  • Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
  • Experience in the humanitarian, humanitarian access or risk management sectors.
  • Existing information networks.
  • Local language skills.

Key Personal Competencies:

  • A good listener
  • An effective communicator
  • Excellent analyst
  • Team player
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • A people manager

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, €4550 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month and 7 calendar days of R&R every two months with a €1250 allowance each R&R cycle, housing, global medical coverage (excluding USA), and USD $200,000 AD&D insurance.

Please submit completed applications to [email protected] and reference “SA-Northeast” in the subject line. Applications should be in English and include:

  • An updated CV.
  • A one-page cover letter detailing why you are interested in working for INSO and how your qualifications align specifically with the competencies required for the role.
  • One relevant and substantive writing sample in English that demonstrates your analytical and report writing abilities (10 pages max).

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

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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 Juba CF 3201 Abc road Fixed Term , 40 hours per week International NGO Safety Organisation – INSO

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 provides daily support to more than 1000 NGOs operating in 16 of the world’s most insecure countries.

INSO is registered in the Netherlands with its headquarters based in The Hague, the international city of peace and justice.

INSO South Sudan

Founded in 2018, INSO South Sudan addresses the insecure operating environment all NGOs face in the country. The platform currently supports 257 NGOs including a large number of local partners, enhancing safety preparedness and providing support through reports, alerts, training and more. We cover all ten states and three administrative areas in South Sudan with a country office in Juba and field offices in Yambio, Wau, Rumbek, Bentiu, Malakal, and Bor. Working with INSO South Sudan offers you the chance to be part of a dynamic and growing program alongside a diverse team.

We are now hiring our Safety Advisor-Northeast with a start date of 14 April. This position in based in Juba and reports to the Deputy Director.

Job Summary:

As Safety Advisor-Northeast, you will work in a team giving security analysis and advice focusing on the Greater Upper Nile region that is not only some of the best of its kind, but that is also 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 and give sound practical safety and security advice.

Major Responsibilities:

  • Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes NGOs, the UN, military forces, etc. to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
  • Provide NGOs with timely and credible security information and contextual analysis of the local security situation.
  • Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables.
  • Assist NGOs in developing their own security management capacities and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
  • Manage a small team, including supervision of national staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
  • Effectively represent, promote, and protect INSO's mandate of independence, impartiality and neutrality.

Mandatory Requirements:

  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
  • Masters level education or equivalent in a relevant field.
  • Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills.
  • Personal and professional resilience in a fast-moving, high-output, quality-driven program.
  • Independent drive, motivation, and excellence, and ability to operate and sustainably manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.
  • Well-developed personal, organisational and team management skills and standards in a diverse multicultural setting.
  • Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.

Desirable:

  • Recent experience in South Sudan.
  • Experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
  • Demonstrable understanding of security dynamics in South Sudan.
  • Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
  • Experience in the humanitarian, humanitarian access or risk management sectors.
  • Existing information networks.
  • Local language skills.

Key Personal Competencies:

  • A good listener
  • An effective communicator
  • Excellent analyst
  • Team player
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • A people manager

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, €4550 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month and 7 calendar days of R&R every two months with a €1250 allowance each R&R cycle, housing, global medical coverage (excluding USA), and USD $200,000 AD&D insurance.

Please submit completed applications to [email protected] and reference “SA-Northeast” in the subject line. Applications should be in English and include:

  • An updated CV.
  • A one-page cover letter detailing why you are interested in working for INSO and how your qualifications align specifically with the competencies required for the role.
  • One relevant and substantive writing sample in English that demonstrates your analytical and report writing abilities (10 pages max).

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

2023-02-25

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