Safety & Access Coordinator (SAC) at DanChurchAid (DCA) Ukraine

DCA programme in Ukraine is newly established, and we are looking for a Safety & Access Coordinator (SAC) to work across our programmes, which includes humanitarian and demining projects targeting war-affected populations across Ukraine and working with local partner organisations.

Position objectives:

The overall objectives of this position is to provide operational input and planning to all DCA projects and work to ensure that organizational security policies and procedures are responsive to the context, adequate and known to all staff and visitors to the programme. You will advise on humanitarian access processes and approaches, develops and facilitates access in existing and new locations for DCA offices and activities. The SAC is part of the Senior Management Team and reports directly to the Country Director.

The SAC will be based in DCA’s office in Lviv, with extensive travels to other DCA sites in Ukraine to be expected.

Regardless of the content of this job description the employee is expected to participate in any task necessary for the organization delegated by the manager at all times.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support to the Country Director on all policies, procedures, guidelines and planning for staff safety, operational security and programme continuity;
• Travel regularly to field locations and assess all project location access routes and areas;
• Develop, evaluate, review and update the security management plans on a regular basis. Reference and ensure compliance with DCA Security Policies, Manuals and Frameworks within the Security Management Plan and all annexes;

Conduct and update security assessments for DCA’s areas of operation, and formulate and share comprehensive security and risk assessment reports;

• Work with CD and the Senior Management Team to develop, consolidate, implement and update operating procedures and contingency plans;
• Participate in the country office incident management team (IMT)
• Develop and maintain relationships with local authorities, local leaders and other power brokers within DCA areas of operations. Work to ensure that DCA, its mission and work in the areas of operations is known and accepted by all stakeholders. Report outcomes, updates and recommendations to CD;
• Liaise with all relevant local, national and international security actors, and security management counterparts within the humanitarian community including INSO and attend roundtables/meetings;
• Monitor the security situation in country on a daily basis. Ensuring staff are made aware of relevant security information and advising as to any necessary changes to operating procedures as required
• Ensuring safety and security equipment is procured, allocated as determined by the risk assessment and maintained in working order
• Work closely with logistics and financial department on the preparation of well-formulated and realistic security budgets as well as to ensure assets control;
• Provide Safety and security briefings to all country visitors and newly employed staff and include them in all safety and security plans.
• Formulate and maintain up to date risk analysis matrix for DCA areas of interest;
• Conduct DCA premises and visitor hotel site security surveys
• Ensure adequate security measures are in place for DCA premises, DCA staff, DCA assets, and DCA operations;
• Ensure the preparation of bomb shelters, hibernation kits, first aid kits and grab bags and ensure they in place and used as per security SOPs.
• Be the main point of contact for security incident reporting, receiving information and submitting final reports:
• Develop security training programme for DCA international and national staff and provide regular trainings for DCA staff on security preparedness, prevention and response. Trainings should include Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs), Contingency Plans (CPs); Security Management; Incident Reporting; Prevention and Response Mechanisms; Communication methods and protocols, etc.

We are looking for the following qualifications and experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or similar work experience
• A minimum of 3 years of work experience in a similar role
• Computer literacy essential including proficiency in Excel, Word, Power Point, etc.;
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Ukrainian
• Preferably NGO experience

We offer:

• A contract until end of 2023 (renewable based on funding etc).
• A competitive salary package in the INGO sector.
• An interesting and challenging experience addressing humanitarian needs.
• A dynamic, flexible and respectful working environment that will give you the freedom to work and support to succeed, and the opportunity to grow and advance within the organisation.

Closing date of application is 14 August 2022 at 23.59. A screening process is expected to be held in the following week, and with the starting date as soon as possible thereafter.

Qualified and interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic affiliation are encouraged to apply for the vacancy.

Only applications in English and consisting as a minimum of a CV and a cover letter will be considered, and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Everyone applying for a job with DCA must be ready to comply with our Staff Policy on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment policy, Child Safeguarding policy and Counter-Terrorism policy.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. The interviews with the shortlisted candidates are expected to take place the week following the closing date. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete a written test prior to the interview. Initial interviews will take place using Teams.

2022-08-02T08:39:24.000 2022-08-14T23:59:59.000 Full time / Повна зайнятість DanChurchAid (DCA) Ukraine