Senior Humanitarian Access, Safety and Security Coordinator (HASSC)

The IRC is seeking a Senior Humanitarian Access, Safety and Security Coordinator (HASSC) for its Ethiopia program, based in Addis Ababa with frequent travel to program sites.

The HASSC will be responsible for ensuring that IRC's safety and security policies and procedures are adapted to the context, adequate, and known by staff. The HASSC will also advise on humanitarian access in close coordination with program teams.

Major Responsibilities:

Humanitarian Access:

• Develop and implement humanitarian access strategies and approaches tailored to local contexts at field sites across Ethiopia
• Ensure access approaches are sensitive to the local context and include community engagement components
• Build relationships with formal and informal stakeholders in government and communities
• Provide technical input for assessments of new program locations and for regular reviews of existing locations

Operational Safety and Security Management:

• Provide technical support on all policies, procedures, guidelines, and planning related to staff safety, operational security, and program continuity in Ethiopia
• Develop, review and regularly update security management plans, policies and SOPs for each location
• Monitor compliance with IRC global security policies and standards

Monitoring, analysis, context understanding and reporting:

• Build and maintain security information networks that serve all IRC teams in Ethiopia
• Advise the Country Director on the security context, with balanced, evidence-based analysis that supports decision-making
• Compile and submit regular reports on incidents and trends in humanitarian access and the local security context

Training and capacity building:

• Identify safety, security and access learning and development needs for country program staff
• Deliver regular training on humanitarian principles and on safety and security preparedness
• Work with partners to assess capacity-building needs and provide advice and support where feasible and necessary

Program development and support:

• Take part in program design in close coordination with program and operations leadership, Technical Coordinators and the Grants team
• Work with the SMT, Technical Coordinators and the Grants team so security budgets and staffing levels match the assessed risk in each location
• Support program and field management to develop conflict-sensitive, context-appropriate approaches in Ethiopia

Emergency preparedness and crisis response:

• Contribute actively to SMT discussions on programs, strategy and operations, bringing a security and access perspective to decisions
• Set the strategy, annual work plan and budget for the Safety & Security department
• Recruit, supervise and develop team members, including the Safety and Security Manager and field security staff and security focal points