Senior Security Manager at Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Security Manager

Location: Abuja
Job Type: Temporary, Full Time

Job Purpose

• The job holder will be responsible for ensuring that all project activities in states where the Malaria Consortium operates is implemented in a safe and secured manner, following agreed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and with daily decision making based on risk and security awareness.

Scope of Work

• The Senior Security Manager position will coordinate and oversee the security management of all Malaria Consortium operations, projects, and programmes to ensure the achievement of project goal and objectives.
• The position holder will analyse complex security issues and contexts, create, and continually update a country security communication tree and location specific Safety and Security Plans (SSPs) and associated SOPs, and give sound practical safety and security advice make decisions to support safe operations.
• S/he will also be responsible for providing guidance to the Country Director in the management of security situation within MC operations in Nigeria.

Key Accountabilities
General security duties (covering all states where Malaria Consortium operates) – 40%:

• Lead SMs in the delivery of effective and efficient safety and security management for Malaria Consortium in Nigeria
• Create the country security communications tree and ensure that it always remains updated.
• Work with SMs to coordinate the review the security risk profile of each ward, LGA and project states where Malaria Consortium plans to commence project activities.
• Work closely with the SMs and SSFPs to ensure that Security Adaptation Principles are strictly followed by all staff.
• Coordinate and work with the SMs in ensuring that security risk assessments are completed and signed off and agree implication on operations function and programme management with functional leads and project and programme leads.
• Ensure the development of risk mitigation measures and contingency plan drawing on result of the risk assessment, and all staff trained on the safety and security procedures for their respective project states, LGAs and wards.
• Ensure that all states have a designated fire warden, and that fire equipment checks, and fire drills are done at least once every 6 months.
• Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes national and state security actors, peer NGO security focal points and relevant security alert sources to obtain daily reliable and credible and relevant safety information.
• Ensure that all international visitors receive security briefings on arrival in Nigeria.
• Provide travel security clearance for in-country staff at the states’ offices within MC north-central zone and country headquarters travelling nationally and internationally.
• Support the SMs and SSFPs to ensure that Security Briefings are conducted for all new staff and all visitors to the states within the NC zone and country office (national and international).
• Work with relevant operations staff to ensure that all Malaria Consortium vehicles, offices and rented vehicles have the right equipment and tools to support good safety and security practices, and that all such equipment is regularly checked and tested.
• Support the SMs to conduct quarterly physical security assessments on states under his/her purview and carry out quality assurance on the security assessments conducted by the other Security Managers
• Serves as security focal person with donors as necessary.

Security Duties related to Project/Intervention Activities – 35%:

• Coordinate security assessment in all the states implementing SMC and LLINs campaigns at the planning state and ensure recommendations from the assessment feed into the micro plan and design of implementation strategies.
• Review the list of hospitals for the conduct of REVEAL activity and any such activities before commencement or research, data collection and other activities.
• Review security status of each state after each cycle, including level of compliance with security protocol in previous cycle and make recommendations accordingly, for the next cycle
• Input daily and weekly into all SMC project activity plans for the programme, LGA, Ward and community activities ensuring that all activities are planned based on the principle of ‘staff safety first’
• During major project activities, along with SMs, Project Leads, Operations and Project staff, make daily decisions from a security perspective, approving, restricting, or delaying activities and/or movements where needed.
• Working with the SMs, project, and state leads, maintain a movement tracker for the movement of all national, state, and temporary employees related to the major MC interventions (SMC, LLIN campaign), ensuring that it is updated daily and accurate at all times, and includes start and end locations, estimated start and end times, driver and passenger names and contact details, vehicle details.
• Ensure that for all national staff movements, there is an agreed mode of communication that is functional in the areas to be visited, with agreed check-ins for every trip
• Provide weekly security reports to the Country Director copying relevant Project Leads, the Country Operations, and the Global Operations Manager, including with a risk map by LGA and LGAs with planned activities for the following week where there is major project operations, highlighting relevant risks and mitigation plans.

Security Document Development, Updating and Capacity Building – 25%:

• Work with the SMs and State Security Focal Persons (SSFPs) to draft, implement and continually update (at least every 6 months) the location specific Safety and Security Plans, with associated SOPs, using the standard template which includes communications and movement protocols, security communication tree, information flows, etc.
• Review the security profile of each SMC state after each project cycle (as prepared by the SMs) and submit updated risk profile to the Country Operations Manager and Programme Directors for approval, at least two weeks to the next project cycle.
• Ensure that all staff in Malaria Consortium Nigeria receive a safety and security induction and have completed relevant internal and online security training courses.
• Collaborate and work with the SMs and SSFPs to ensure that all state staff are trained on and are familiar with and follow the programme Safety and Security Plan and associated SOPs.
• Work with the SMs and SSFPs to embed all safety and security SOPs and develop the safety and security capacity of the State staff.
• Conduct an awareness safety and security training/webinar to all staff via skype or zoom biannually to reinforce Malaria Consortium’s safety and security policy and provide updates on current threat trends in all MC states.
• Ensure that all staff working in Nigeria have completed the required online security trainings.

Security Management – 5%:

• Serve as the primary contact for the SSFPs in each state and the country office on safety and security incident reporting.
• Work with SSFPs and country office leadership in the management of security incidents.
• Monitor all agreed security management actions and provide update as necessary.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in security management of operations in a conflict situation, with extensive experience of security management in Nigeria
• Demonstrated courses in security management
• Has held a senior security manager role in an international NGO within the last years
• Significant experience in risk analysis and management
• Ability to demonstrate their links with relevant security networks in Nigeria
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team 
• An effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent analyst
• Ability to work effectively in a culturally sensitive setting
• Ability to explain complex security issues to a non-technical audience
• Ability to work independently in an organized manner but within an integrated team
• Ability to give attention to details

Application Closing Date
30th April, 2022 (23:59 BST).