Security Officer at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) is an indigenous non-governmental organization that promotes socio-economic development by supporting a broad range of global health interventions, education, and economic initiatives in Nigeria. AHNi is an organization with robust interest in advancing the collective goals of the people and communities served. AHNi currently has its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.

To strengthen our operations and interventions in the country, we are seeking qualified candidates for the position below:

Job Title: Security Officer

Location: Taraba
Job Category: Fixed Term

Job Description

• Will provide programmatic and administrative support to the project Offices.
• Contribute to the design, planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of facility and community-based target driven activities focused on demand creation for uptake of HIV/AIDS services and quality service provision/delivery within the state or LGAs.
• Ensure adequate and timely activity implementation through periodic work plan review, processing memos, fund requests, monitoring of expenditure and initiating corrective actions to mitigate financial risk to the organization and adherence to donor and organizational policies and guidelines.
• Maintain program monitoring checklists and budget tracking tools to effectively supervise deliverables and burn rate of community-based target driven activities in the implementation of high-quality HIV/AIDS services at state, cluster and LGA levels; based on approved workplan.
• Facilitate filing of accurate documentation and maintain a database of all ad-hoc staff and program implementation resources.
• Support in the review, collation and submission of routine (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly) progress reports from the field teams including capturing of success stories in line with project and donor guidelines.
• Support the review of financial and programmatic reports on project deliverables to ensure compliance with donor and organizational policies and reporting timelines.
• Develop and maintain an efficient filing and tracking system for the project including minutes of meetings.

Minimum Recruitment Standard

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant certification in International Relations, Security Management, Risk Management, Humanitarian Work, ex-Military – Nigeria, SSS or Nigeria Police with 5 to 6 years’ experience
• A formal security qualification or security management training/work experience in complex environments (minimal 5 years)
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic team experience and knowledge of personnel and organizational security issues, threat/risk assessment, security management and security awareness in complex context.
• Up to 3 years working with an NGO or development organization preferred
• Experience in incident reporting, incident mapping, compilation of security reports and assessments
• Experience in training and coaching national staff in safety and security.

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2024.