INSO recruits 01 Safety Advisor

INSO recruits 01 Safety Advisor

Organisation Background

Founded in 2011, the International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) is an international charity that supports the safety of aid workers by establishing safety coordination platforms in insecure contexts. INSO provides registered NGOs with a range of free services including real-time incident tracking, analytical reports, safety related data and mapping, crisis management support, staff orientations and training.

INSO services help NGOs with their day-to-day risk management responsibilities and improve their overall situational awareness to support evidence-based humanitarian access decisions.

The Organisation has grown from innovative start-up to become a globally recognised charity and a highly valued component in the humanitarian safety coordination system.

The strong focus on humanitarian principles and exclusive NGO-only membership criteria have meant that INSO is now accepted as a standard component of modern humanitarian response offering independent frontline reporting and coordination services that save lives, strengthen operational practice and enable humanitarian access.

Today the organisation provides daily support to more than 850 NGOs in eleven of the world’s most insecure countries and has earned a strong reputation for performance, principles & professionalism.

INSO Afghanistan Country Office

INSO began as a project in Afghanistan in 2002 and became an International NGO in 2011. INSO Afghanistan provides services to enhance the delivery of aid and preserve the safety of staff employed by more than 260 Afghan and International NGOs that provide humanitarian and emergency assistance to people living in the country.

We are now seeking a qualified and experienced individual to join our team as the Safety Advisor—North Region, a position based in Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan’s Balkh Province. The expected start date for the position is as soon as possible.

Safety Advisor positions are highly rewarding roles, offering a unique opportunity to work in a close knit team giving security analysis and advice that is not only some of the best of its kind, but that is also vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it. Successful candidates will be outgoing and resilient, with the ability to analyse complex security issues and contexts, give sound practical safety and security advice, communicate to an excellent standard of English both verbally and in writing, and above all else share INSO’s commitment to humanitarian principles.

Safety Advisor positions are offered on a one-year renewable term.

Major Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes NGOs, the UN, military forces, and other national and international security actors to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
• Provide NGOs with timely and credible security information and contextual analysis of the local security situation through: daily alerts and reports, weekly incident lists and bi-weekly analytical reports.
• Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables.
• Assist NGOs in developing their own security management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site-security surveys, and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
• Manage a small office team, including supervision national staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
• Effectively represent, promote and protect INSO’s mandate of independence, impartiality and neutrality.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills and the keenest eye for detail.
• Significant experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
• Personal and professional resilience in a fast moving, high output, quality-driven program.
• Experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management and/or humanitarian access sectors.
• Independent drive, motivation, and excellence, and ability to operate and sustainably manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.
• Well-developed personal, personnel, organisational and team management skills and standards in a diverse multi-cultural setting.
• Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.
• Graduate level education in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.

 Preferred Characteristics:

• Recent professional experience in Afghanistan – ideally in the humanitarian sector.
• Prior experience in an inter-agency role.
• Local language skills.
• Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
• Existing information networks and/or local language skills.

Key Personal Competencies

• A good listener
• An effective communicator
• Excellent analyst
• Team player
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• A people manager
• Outgoing and proactive personality

Interested applicants are requested to send the following to jobs@afg.ngosafety.org and reference “Safety Advisor- North” in the subject line of the email. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Cover Letter specifying how you meet the mandatory requirements, any preferred characteristics, your motivation for applying, and what you hope to bring to INSO Afghanistan (2 page maximum).
• Updated CV (5 page maximum).
• One relevant and substantive writing sample in English that demonstrates your analytical and report writing abilities (10-page maximum, for internal candidates a longer analytical INSO report for which you are the sole author will be accepted).

Please do not send any additional information (such as copies of certificates, copies of diplomas, other writing samples, etc.) and keep the total size of your application under 2MB if possible.