Oxfam is a confederation of 17 Affiliates committed to creating a just world without poverty. In Nigeria Oxfam works in the areas of Economic Justice/Sustainable Livelihoods, Humanitarian programming to save lives, Advancing Gender Justice and Good governance, adopting a right based approach.
Oxfam in Nigeria with funding support from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is implementing a five year Livelihoods and Nutrition Empowerment (LINE) project in Bauchi State. The project is aimed at improving the livelihoods for 10,000 poor and vulnerable households through increased farm productivity, enhanced market access, better nutrition and a more enabling environment for business development in 6 LGAs in Bauchi State.
We are recruiting to fill the position below for the Line Project:
Job Title: Security Officer
Location: Bauchi
Job Purpose
- Ensure that the security strategy for the LINE Project is developed, implemented, monitored and reviewed; consistent with Oxfam policies, standards and requirements.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Ongoing analysis of the context and developments in relation to the security situation.
- Develop and maintain up-to-date context analysis and risk assessment.
- Develop and maintain incident reporting system.
- Maintain close contacts with all relevant stakeholders to develop a network and build relationships with key actors to ensure gathering of reliable security information.
- Provide crisis management support to the Project Manager for incident response, reporting and analysis.
- Ensure that all staff and visitors receive appropriate security briefing.
- Any other duties as delegated.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor's degree in Security Management, Sociology, Criminology, International Relations, or related discipline.
- Considerable practical experience in conducting security assessments, planning and implementation of procedures in the context of UN or INGO.
Application Closing Date
17th February, 2017.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application letter and Curriculum Vitae as one attachment to:
[email protected] with the position title as the subject of your email.
Note
- Applications sent in the required format will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.
- For enquiries contact Stella Yani at: [email protected]