HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT PERSONNEL - SECURITY OFFICER

Job posted by: Oxfam GB - UK - Fri, 12 Jul 2019

Job Details:

Organisation: Oxfam GB - UK

Deadline Wed, 31 Jul 2019

Job type: Permanent

Location:

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We are looking for a Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSP) - Security Officer. As an HSP Security Officer within the Global Humanitarian Team, you will be part of Oxfam’s Global Security Team (GST), which is a shared service covering the whole Confederation. You will be reporting to one of the five Global Security Advisors in the GST. Other GSAs have their focus areas, covering, for example, training, incident reporting and management and so on. Oxfam also has a network of Regional Security Advisors who are the first points of contact for country-level Security Advisors/Focal Points and part of the extended GST. In the HSP role, you will mostly be working at country level, but will also have contact and consultation with Regional and Global level advisors.


To strengthen Oxfam’s response to humanitarian emergencies by providing security management support to country and regional offices, to which the post-holder is deployed, for periods of up to six months, including building security management capacity for the future.


The post holder will undertake a series of assignments either home-based or based in a country or region for which specific Terms of Reference will be negotiated and agreed with relevant parties, prior to deployment and or revised in the early stages of the deployment.

We offer

Contract Type: Open Ended.

Hours: 36 hours per week

This is a full-time role; however, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at interview stage.

Oxfam offers a wide range of benefits, including over 43 days holiday/TOIL per year, pension and medical cover, living and accommodation costs covered during deployments.

Location: Home based with deployments worldwide from your home country. You must be prepared to travel at short notice to emergency response countries (deployments are normally 3-6 months). This post includes extensive travel, up to eight months of the year.


This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in a Humanitarian context, to act as key contributor to the Global Humanitarian Team to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their fields etc, training and development, offers fair pay and competitive benefits package.

How to apply

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

For further information about the role and how to apply please go to: https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/10980/description

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.



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