Field Security Specialist World Central Kitchen

Location(s): Gaza-based in Jordan, with frequent travel to active relief sites throughout the Middle East.

Key Responsibilities

Safety and Security

• Assists in the selection, contracts, training, and mentoring of the local Security team in Gaza.
• Oversees safety and security analysis, planning and management including the implementation and regular update of Safety and Security Policy and Procedures for the Gaza activation.
• Coordinates the incident reporting process and ensures follow up inquiries where appropriate.
• Leads crisis management response in the field in case of safety, security and health-related emergencies.
• Coordinates regional safety and security assessments and works with Relief and Global Security leadership to analyze safety and security risks and improve procedures.
• Provides regular safety and security analysis and information to the Activation Director and Global Security Leadership.
• Spearheads the application of WCK s safety and security policies and procedures.

Safeguarding

• In collaboration with the HR Department, oversees the implementation and regular update of WCK s Safeguarding Policy. ensuring that relevant projects have up-to-date compliance plans.
• Promotes safe programming concepts in WCK s projects in Jordan, Egypt and Gaza by ensuring that safeguarding risk assessments are conducted.
• Spearheads capacity developments efforts, training, coaching on safeguarding matters.
• Leads the review of safeguarding incidents and concerns with program teams and consolidating lessons learned to improve program quality.

Internal Policies and Procedures

• Participates in cross-team initiatives to improve our safety and security, travel and risk management processes.
• Fields and responds to operations-related questions and ad hoc requests related to safety and security, safeguarding, travel, risk management, environmental performance.
• Develops and implements staff safety and security training and awareness-building activities including on Situational Awareness, HEAT, surveillance detection and mitigation, First Aid, and driver training.
• Develops, maintains, implements, and executes crisis management plans and incident management.

Risk Management

• Conducts preliminary, ongoing, periodic and event-initiated assessments of the safety and security of WCK s activities in Gaza, and staff deployment.

Other Duties

• Develop and maintain a system of authorization for movements and clearance/deconfliction of WCK locations within Gaza.
• Conduct daily meetings with the security leads on the ground in Gaza.
• Attend Team lead meetings in the Jordan office in order to stay well informed of operations, operational requirements and issues.