Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED endeavors to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential.
We go the last mile: ACTED’s mission is to save lives and support people in meeting their needs in hard-to-reach areas. With a team of 5,900 national staff and 400 international staff, ACTED is active in 38 countries and implements.
more than500 projects a year reaching over 20 million beneficiaries. More on www.acted.org
Key roles and responsibilities
Main objective:
• Ensure the safety, security and integrity of ACTED staff, assets, premises, and programs in country, by constantly monitoring and anticipating security risk, by designing and enforcing context specific risk mitigation rules and procedures, by closely monitoring movements, by ensuring MOSS compliance in all ACTED premises, by providing all ACTED staff with appropriate security training/briefing.
Duties and Responsibilities.
1 : Department management
1. Make frequent site visits to ACTED premises to provide constant support to the security team
2. Maintain open lines of communications with all field staff
2. Context & Risk analysis
1. Support the CSM in developing and regularly updating the country security profile (with regards to the socio-economic, political and/or military situation in country, the country criminality profile, the nature of ongoing conflicts or crises climatic & seismic hazards and health risks)
2. Follow-up on major country events and developments
3. Analyse and locate key local stakeholders
4. Ensure internal incident tracking system is utilized properly: create a security incident database and perform incident mapping and analysis
5. Carry out security assessments of new ACTED areas of intervention.
3.Develop and update Country Security Plans, SOPs and Contingency Plans *
1. Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) adapted to the local context
2. Ensure preparedness to evacuation and contingencies (check contingency kits, first aid kits etc.)
3. Design and drill a security communication tree (warden system), emergency radio network, and provisioning of emergency supplies for field personnel
4.Daily Security Management
1. Coordinate and monitor security activities to ensure that safety and security policies and procedures are implemented
2. Ensure that all field staff are fully cognizant of prevailing security threats and fully advised on means to reduce their vulnerability to those threats
3. Monitor the security preparedness of country staff and enforce staff compliance with internal security rules and SOPs, ensuring they are communicated to all staff and understood
4. Ensure compliance with Minimum Operating Security Standards (MOSS) and develop action plans for security upgrade
5. Carry out security assessments of new ACTED facilities, ensure a standard level of facilities protection, and supervise guards
6. Ensure missions have adapted communication means and ensure maintenance to support the Logistic team in Country. Ensure constant update of the emergency contact list and timely issuance of ID cards
7. Ensure a proper level of preparation before movement on the field, ensure transportation means are adapted, ensure a good fleet maintenance, and set movement rules which are adapted to the local context to support the Logistic team in Country
8. Ensure operational follow-up of movements
5.Crisis management
1. Act as a point of contact for the Crisis Management Team, you should ensure that safety policies and procedures are implemented
6.Reporting
1. Produce real-time incidents report (using Form SEC-03)
2. Brief CSM weekly on current context/issues/problems faced.
7.Training and briefing
1. Conduct security briefing for each new international staff arriving in country
2. Brief staff to increase their awareness and sense of responsibilities
8.Develop and maintain a security network
1. Actively participate in Weekly and Monthly Coordination Meetings
2. Create an information network in the country, identifying key informants
3. Build strong professional relationships with UN agencies, local authorities, other NGO’s (local and international), and all relevant stakeholders
9.Ensure external representation
4. Attend security coordination meetings and update Country Director/Country Security Manager on current security issues.
5. Contribute to the creation of a positive image and overall credibility of the organization, notably through the application of the ACTED Code of Conduct, values, and policies with regard to internal and external stakeholders.
Required qualifications and technical competencies
• Bachelor’s Degree in any related field
• Any other trainings in security management from recognized institutions is an added advantage.
• A minimum of 5yrs experience as a security focal person in any big reorganized institutions preferably NGOs.
• % Compliance with Minimum Operating Security Standards (MOSS)
• Regular sending of security incident reports when an incident directly affecting ACTED occurs
• Regular and timely submission of weekly/monthly security reports
• Number of training and drills conducted
• Technically proficient with Excel or other databases
• Technically proficient with Word / PowerPoint or other
• Proficient in English or Spanish or French. (Reading, writing and speaking)
• This position is STRICTLY for Ugandan Nationals.
Job application procedure
• Qualified Uganda Nationals with the required qualifications/skills are invited to submit their applications accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter as a single Document in PDF with the cover letter being on the first page and the CV starting on the second page, detailing three work related referees and contacts. Send to uganda.jobs@acted.org before 5:00PM before the 12 of May 2024 with the subject line as SECURITY FOCAL PERSON. Note that Applications sent without this exact subject line will not be shortlisted.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisting will be done on rolling basis and ACTED reserves the right to hire before the deadline.
• ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent(s) in connection with recruitments. ACTED is committed to protecting beneficiaries within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and any kind of misconduct. ACTED has specific policies, including PSEA and Child Protection, which outlines the expected behavior and the responsibility of all staff, beneficiaries, consultants and other stakeholders and has zero tolerance towards misconducts. Any candidate offered a job with ACTED will be expected to sign ACTED’s organizational Policies and Code of Conduct as an annex to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
• ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer
More Information
- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
