Safety & Security Coordintor

The Organization:

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.

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Position: Safety& Security coordinator ( National Only )

Location: Taiz

Grade: 3b

Contract Length: Till June 2026 with possibility to extended

The Opportunity:

The Security Coordinator will provide support on all tasks related to the safety and security needs of staff and programmes operating within Taiz Governorate. He/She will facilitate the implementation of Save the Children’s Safety and Security Policy and Standards across all Taiz-based operations, strengthen the quality of safety and security management, and support programme teams in achieving full compliance with organisational requirements.

The role holder will conduct safety and security assessments, provide clear recommendations, and ensure consistent follow-up to maintain an effective security management system in line with Save the Children standards. He/She will also promote and advance the organisation’s security ethos and play a key role in building the capacity of Safety & Security field staff, programme/project officers, and other personnel in alignment with global Learning and Development strategies.

In addition, the Security Coordinator will serve as a key liaison with government authorities, security institutions, and relevant stakeholders at the Taiz Governorate level to ensure smooth operations, maintain positive relationships, support programme access, and facilitate timely coordination on matters related to staff movement, safety, and security compliance.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

• Engage management and staff at all levels to facilitate the adoption and compliance with the Save the Children’s Safety and Security Policy and Standards
• Undertake Security Risk Assessments for SCI operational areas.
• Develop reliable information networks to gather information from various sources and triangulate this information into actionable points for program teams.
• Provide safety and security management advice, guidance and support.
• Assist in the evaluation and implementation of actions to reduce risk across the country Programmes
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to the in implementing action plans
• Develop staff capacity by training, and promoting staff as appropriate and in coordination with HR and S&S officers, and country security manager.
• Strengthen and apply office and residential facilities security standards.
• Regularly assess communication needs, endure availability of appropriate communication procedures; test the emergency communication system regularly, analyze results and make appropriate revisions.
• Assess security situation and its impact on the program activities and make recommendations to reduce the staff vulnerability, while ensuring continuation of the program activity.
• Maintain an up to date security plan consistent with save the children standards and ensure that all staff are familiar with its content and agree to abide by its policies and procedures.
• Develop security briefing materials for new staff and visitors. Provide security orientation/briefing for newly appointed SC staff and CO visitors.
• Ensure all SC staff understand and comply with incident reporting requirements and procedures. Follow-up as necessary re: issues related to reported incidents.
• Collect and disseminate incident report data – make sure that the right people are included in the dissemination
• Ensure that appropriate systems are in place to effectively disseminate safety and security information and updates of the security situation to SC staff.
• Ensure that regular safety and security meetings are conducted with relevant SC staff.
• Liaise with administration and logistics offices re: vehicle movement and facility safety and security. Ensure established standards and procedures are followed
• Represent SCI at interagency safety and security forums
• Liaise with INGOs, UN, government, and community leaders in the process of gathering and verifying safety and security information on a regular basis.
• The post-holder will comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child safeguarding, safety and security, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant poli

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving, and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable, and maintain our culture of child safeguarding.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their personal development, and encourages their team to do the same
• Future-oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members, and external partners and supporters
• Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives; knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working.
• Communicates clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust.
• Invests time and energy to actively develop self and others to help realise their full potential, and to build the organisation’s capability for the future.

Creativity:

• Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards; promotes and shares best practices within and outside the organization.
• Develops and implements innovative solutions to adapt and succeed in ever-changing and uncertain global and working environments.
• Takes effective, considered, and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating relevant information from within or outside the organization.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence.

Displays consistent excellent judgement.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES.

• Bachelor’s / Masters degree in a related field
• Formal security qualification or advanced security management training
• Advanced level of understanding with the philosophy and mode of operation of NGOs
• Recommended a minimum of 3 years field based experience in complex and insecure settings.
• Experience of incident reporting, incident mapping, intelligence collation and analysis functions, set up and execution of an incident warning system (warden system), compilation of security reports and assessments
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Experience of liaising and negotiating with state and non-state actors
• Full understanding of the security context in Yemen.
• Ability to develop and implement successful training sessions.
• Native Arabic speaker and advanced English language skills a necessity (reading, writing, speaking).
• Competency in Internet and Microsoft Office systems including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and other database/mapping systems
• Commitment to Save the Children values

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply

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“Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply”