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Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. DRC is present in more than 30 conflict territories around the world assisting displaced people with shelter, food, income generating activities, and wide range of other assistance. It is of utmost importance for DRC to work in compliance with the DRC Accountability and Quality Management system and national legislations. Smooth, reliable and effective operational systems are preconditions for DRC to maintain its position as a trustworthy and reliable partner for our donors and an accountable organisation towards our beneficiaries.

Safety Officer

Location: Damaturu, Yobe

Key Requirements
Essentials:

  • The role of the Safety Officer will be responsible for supporting the day to day oversight of DRC staff movements and ensuring that key information relevant to staff safety and security is disseminated. Advisories, Alerts and Reports to disseminate to all staff. Administrative and Safety operational tasks that support the day to day running of the Safety Unit’s Operations. The Safety Officer will maintain a high level of contextual awareness and strong coordination with Program and Program support teams at the field level. The Safety Officer will report directly to the Head of Base or the Area Manger with Technical support from Safety Advisor, and will be an integral part of DRC’s Safety Unit.

The Safety Officer responsibilities include:

Staff movement oversight and support:

  • Travel Security Clearances: Prior to any movement complete all security briefings for staff traveling to high risk field locations. Ensure that established movement tracking protocols are adhered to by both the Safety Unit and all DRC staff.
  • Field movement tracking: Coordinate with logistics staff when directed to support Field level movement oversight and support.
  • Maintain car folders: Maintain car folders and all DRC vehicles and support logistics staff in maintaining the car folders.
  • Driver orientation: Responsible to orient drivers on current context and road conditions. Train drivers on regulations and road safety.

Security incidents and data management:

  • Incident database: Maintain a current database from various sources of all security incidents relevant to DRC operations in Nigeria
  • Contextual reporting: Utilizing the security incident database, develop weekly contextual assessment reports and share it with Safety Advisor for review.
  • SMS Advisories: Draft and disseminate as required SMS alert advisories for DRC staff when relevant and significant security incidents occur or elevated threat levels are reported
  • Email Advisories: Draft and disseminate detailed Email advisories for DRC staff when relevant and significant security incidents occur or elevated threat levels are reported.
  • Additional information dissemination: Ensure non-DRC support staff (Guards) is kept up to date on current advisories through face to face briefings and coordination with the Guard force management.
  • Safety Unit documents: Prepare/Translate Safety documents in local languages and coordinate with field office for their support. Maintaining a central folder for all Safety documents.
  • Contextual monitoring: Responsible for monitoring the security environment of operational areas and disseminate information in consultation with Safety Advisor. Continuously monitoring the security environment in all DRS’s operational areas and consolidating feedback from the Field Safety Officer.

Administrative and Operational support:

  • Guard force management: Management of the guard force through ensuring standards of readiness are maintained, guard protocols adhered to and coordination with the guard force supervisors is routinely conducted.  Ensure that guard payments and other administrative matters that have a direct impact on guard force readiness are completed in a timely manner. Ensuring that the contracted guard force maintains a high standard of guarding for all DRC offices and residences, and when required take corrective action in coordination with the Guard force management
  • Procurement: Planning of quarterly and annual procurement plan through initiating/follow Order Requests (ORs) and coordination with the DRC Logistics and Procurement Unit to ensure all goods and services are delivered in a timely manner.
  • Asset management: Maintain the Safety Unit’s current asset register and oversight on all assets that are both utilized and stored.  Coordinate with the DRC Logistics and Procurement department to ensure that the overall DRC asset register reflects the Safety Unit’s current asset register.
  • Physical security readiness: Conduct quarterly reviews of DRC facility physical security readiness within Damaturu and developing and implementing required repair or upgrade plans to currently installed physical security measures.
  • Weekly and Monthly report: Responsible for compiling a weekly and monthly report for Safety Unit.
  • Staff briefings: Provide DRC staff with current contextual briefings.
  • Translation: Translate Safety documents (where required) in local languages and coordinate with field office for their support. Maintaining a central folder for all Safety documents.

Support to International Visitors:

  • Visitor arrival packet compilation: Compile a current visitor arrival packet as directed. Responsible for maintaining the international visitor orientation record.
  • Visitor briefings and orientation: Conducting visitor briefings and orientation on DRC safety systems, and briefing on emergency procedures, and safe rooms etc.
  • Carry out any additional responsibilities and tasks as assigned by Safety Advisor.

The responsibilities listed in the JD are not exhaustive and may be readjusted according to operational needs but will remain in line with the overall purpose of the role.

Requirements
Essential:

  • Sound judgment and the ability to work effectively with others at all levels.
  • Strong assessment, evaluation, analysis and strategic planning skills.
  • IT literate, MS – Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Experience in developing security related technical tools guidelines and systems.
  • Interpersonal communication and proven written / presentation skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage under stressful conditions.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the historical and socio-political context of Nigeria.

Desirables:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to Humanitarian Work or Risk Management
  • Competent and literate in English, verbal and written, with a sound knowledge of technical expressions.
  • Demonstrative experience in INGO/NGO or UN field (operations) with experience of safety and security.

Conditions

  • Salary and conditions: In accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment;
  • The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.
  • Availability: 15th April 2018

Application Instructions/Notice

  • CV and Cover Letter indicating and explaining the suitability to the position applied not more than 2 pages.
  • Provide contact details (name, position, email address and tel. no.) of 3 professional non-related references, whereas 1 must be for the latest employer. Please do not attach any written recommendations.
  • Applications should be addressed to: Recruitment manager
  • Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered. CV-only applications will not be considered.
  • “DRC-DDG Nigeria does not charge any fees for recruitment and does not use any employment mediator’’.
  • Applications sent/received after the above deadline will not be considered.
  • Only short-listed applicants will be invited for written test and oral interview.

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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 Borno State CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Danish Refugee Council (DRC) Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. DRC is present in more than 30 conflict territories around the world assisting displaced people with shelter, food, income generating activities, and wide range of other assistance. It is of utmost importance for DRC to work in compliance with the DRC Accountability and Quality Management system and national legislations. Smooth, reliable and effective operational systems are preconditions for DRC to maintain its position as a trustworthy and reliable partner for our donors and an accountable organisation towards our beneficiaries.

Safety Officer

Location: Damaturu, YobeKey Requirements Essentials:

  • The role of the Safety Officer will be responsible for supporting the day to day oversight of DRC staff movements and ensuring that key information relevant to staff safety and security is disseminated. Advisories, Alerts and Reports to disseminate to all staff. Administrative and Safety operational tasks that support the day to day running of the Safety Unit’s Operations. The Safety Officer will maintain a high level of contextual awareness and strong coordination with Program and Program support teams at the field level. The Safety Officer will report directly to the Head of Base or the Area Manger with Technical support from Safety Advisor, and will be an integral part of DRC’s Safety Unit.

The Safety Officer responsibilities include:Staff movement oversight and support:

  • Travel Security Clearances: Prior to any movement complete all security briefings for staff traveling to high risk field locations. Ensure that established movement tracking protocols are adhered to by both the Safety Unit and all DRC staff.
  • Field movement tracking: Coordinate with logistics staff when directed to support Field level movement oversight and support.
  • Maintain car folders: Maintain car folders and all DRC vehicles and support logistics staff in maintaining the car folders.
  • Driver orientation: Responsible to orient drivers on current context and road conditions. Train drivers on regulations and road safety.

Security incidents and data management:

  • Incident database: Maintain a current database from various sources of all security incidents relevant to DRC operations in Nigeria
  • Contextual reporting: Utilizing the security incident database, develop weekly contextual assessment reports and share it with Safety Advisor for review.
  • SMS Advisories: Draft and disseminate as required SMS alert advisories for DRC staff when relevant and significant security incidents occur or elevated threat levels are reported
  • Email Advisories: Draft and disseminate detailed Email advisories for DRC staff when relevant and significant security incidents occur or elevated threat levels are reported.
  • Additional information dissemination: Ensure non-DRC support staff (Guards) is kept up to date on current advisories through face to face briefings and coordination with the Guard force management.
  • Safety Unit documents: Prepare/Translate Safety documents in local languages and coordinate with field office for their support. Maintaining a central folder for all Safety documents.
  • Contextual monitoring: Responsible for monitoring the security environment of operational areas and disseminate information in consultation with Safety Advisor. Continuously monitoring the security environment in all DRS's operational areas and consolidating feedback from the Field Safety Officer.

Administrative and Operational support:

  • Guard force management: Management of the guard force through ensuring standards of readiness are maintained, guard protocols adhered to and coordination with the guard force supervisors is routinely conducted.  Ensure that guard payments and other administrative matters that have a direct impact on guard force readiness are completed in a timely manner. Ensuring that the contracted guard force maintains a high standard of guarding for all DRC offices and residences, and when required take corrective action in coordination with the Guard force management
  • Procurement: Planning of quarterly and annual procurement plan through initiating/follow Order Requests (ORs) and coordination with the DRC Logistics and Procurement Unit to ensure all goods and services are delivered in a timely manner.
  • Asset management: Maintain the Safety Unit’s current asset register and oversight on all assets that are both utilized and stored.  Coordinate with the DRC Logistics and Procurement department to ensure that the overall DRC asset register reflects the Safety Unit’s current asset register.
  • Physical security readiness: Conduct quarterly reviews of DRC facility physical security readiness within Damaturu and developing and implementing required repair or upgrade plans to currently installed physical security measures.
  • Weekly and Monthly report: Responsible for compiling a weekly and monthly report for Safety Unit.
  • Staff briefings: Provide DRC staff with current contextual briefings.
  • Translation: Translate Safety documents (where required) in local languages and coordinate with field office for their support. Maintaining a central folder for all Safety documents.

Support to International Visitors:

  • Visitor arrival packet compilation: Compile a current visitor arrival packet as directed. Responsible for maintaining the international visitor orientation record.
  • Visitor briefings and orientation: Conducting visitor briefings and orientation on DRC safety systems, and briefing on emergency procedures, and safe rooms etc.
  • Carry out any additional responsibilities and tasks as assigned by Safety Advisor.

The responsibilities listed in the JD are not exhaustive and may be readjusted according to operational needs but will remain in line with the overall purpose of the role.Requirements Essential:

  • Sound judgment and the ability to work effectively with others at all levels.
  • Strong assessment, evaluation, analysis and strategic planning skills.
  • IT literate, MS – Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Experience in developing security related technical tools guidelines and systems.
  • Interpersonal communication and proven written / presentation skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage under stressful conditions.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the historical and socio-political context of Nigeria.

Desirables:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to Humanitarian Work or Risk Management
  • Competent and literate in English, verbal and written, with a sound knowledge of technical expressions.
  • Demonstrative experience in INGO/NGO or UN field (operations) with experience of safety and security.

Conditions

  • Salary and conditions: In accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment;
  • The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.
  • Availability: 15th April 2018

Application Instructions/Notice

  • CV and Cover Letter indicating and explaining the suitability to the position applied not more than 2 pages.
  • Provide contact details (name, position, email address and tel. no.) of 3 professional non-related references, whereas 1 must be for the latest employer. Please do not attach any written recommendations.
  • Applications should be addressed to: Recruitment manager
  • Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered. CV-only applications will not be considered.
  • “DRC-DDG Nigeria does not charge any fees for recruitment and does not use any employment mediator’’.
  • Applications sent/received after the above deadline will not be considered.
  • Only short-listed applicants will be invited for written test and oral interview.
2019-04-04

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