Security Consultants - Nigeria at COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale

COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale is an humanitarian, non confessional and independent Foundation (NGO) that fights against all kinds of poverty to make the world a better place. Founded in 1965, COOPI is based in Milan and it has 24 headquarters in the South of the World.

COOPI works in different sectors: agriculture, water and sanitation, health care and nutrition, humanitarian assistance, human rights, education, socio-economic services, migration and relies on the expertise of 32 employees and 47 consultants in Italy, 121 expatriates and 4.500 local operators. In 2012, COOPI reached 3,6 millions beneficiaries.

Coopi is looking for a motivated candidate who will be in charge of the financial and administrative aspects of our country programme, to fill the position of:

Job Title: Security Consultant - Nigeria

Job ID: #1251111
Locations: Abuja and Potiskum, Yobe State
Duration of the assignment: Two weeks, start ASAP

Overall Purpose of the Consultancy

• The overall objective of the deployment is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the key risks/threats to the safety and security of COOPI personnel, premises and assets in Nigeria and to implement practical mitigation measures to address these that are appropriate to the operational context.

Specific Responsibilities
Specific deliverables from the deployment have to include:

• To revise and update the COOPI Nigeria Security Plan and Standard Operating Procedures, and Crisis Management Plans, ensuring that the necessary controls suitable for the Nigeria context are in place.
• To ensure that basic controls to enhance the security of all premises used by COOPI, including the field operational base, are in place. This has to include necessary improvements to improve physical security and control egress and ingress to COOPI bases;
• To include in the security SOPs improved methods of evacuation from relevant operations bases through road or air.
• To implement measures to improve COOPI Nigeria’s communication infrastructure, including embedding standard processes for routine communication checks;
• To review existing external security coordination mechanisms at all COOPI operational bases and provide recommendations to improve the flow of external security information into the programme and onward distribution to field operational bases;
• To provide guidelines on best practice for the recruitment of guards for each base;
• To design and implement basic training packages for all recruited guards and drivers;
• To update SOPs for movement of personnel and equipment, particularly by road and ensure that these are relevant to external threats associated with the Nigeria context;
• To provide training to COOPI personnel on appropriate actions to take for scenario events such as kidnapping, small arms fire, base raids, carjacking, hostile behavior at checkpoints, etc;
• To provide a general threat update for the programme management team based on the most up to date information available, including the provision of key indicators to trigger an escalation in programme security levels.

Outputs:

• COOPI security plan is reviewed and updated.
• SoPs for different scenarios are produced and attached to the Security Plan.
• COOPI staff is trained on the SoPs.

Application Closing Date
Monday, 16th November, 2015.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online