GENERAL CONTEXT
Médecins Sans Frontières is an international independent medical-humanitarian organization, which offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.
MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association. Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF.
The MSF movement is built around six operational directorates. MSF OCBA is one of those directorates. The operations are implemented by field teams and the mission coordination teams; together with the organizational units based in Barcelona and decentralized in Nairobi, Dakar and Amman. The field operations are guided and supported by 5 Operational Cells, the Emergency Unit and other departments supporting operations, including the Operational Department.
JOB ENVIRONMENT AND GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Within the Operational Department, the Security Focal Point position has the general objective of improving security risk management within MSF-OCBA operations and internationally by supporting and advising the line management.
The Security Focal Point reports hierarchically to the Director of Operations. Under the guidance and in close coordination with the DirOps, this position acts as “Security Focal Point” of MSF OCBA, is the coordinator of the Security Advisory Group and provides functional support to the other security advisors and mobile support technicians of the OPS department as well as to the Logistic Applied Security Advisor.
The position represents OCBA at the Intersectional platform of Security Advisors (SFPs).
MAIN RESPONSABILITIES, FUNCTIONS AND TASKS
1. Advising on the risk analysis and its management in correspondence with the operational strategy
2. Coordination of the security advisory group
3. Advising on the analysis of security/safety incidents and sharing of lessons learnt
4. Advising on improvement of skills in risk security management especially for key positions
5. Supporting the general implementation of risk security management
SELECTION CRITERIA
CONDITIONS
To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter:
https://careers.msf-applications.org/job-invite/7172/
Closing date: November 27th, 2022, 23:59 CET (Central European Time).
MSF is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, race, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We are committed to achieving a balanced gender distribution and therefore encourage women to apply.
All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. MSF provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, integrity and a healthy balance of work and life. MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference checks.
Médecins Sans Frontieres, as a responsible employer, under article 38 of “Ley de Integración Social del Minusválido de 1982 (LISMI)” invite those persons with a recognized disability and with an interest in the humanitarian area to apply for the above-mentioned position.
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