Security Officer – NOC

13 يناير، 2023

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance. WFP is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status, physical or mental disability.

JOB TITLE:	Security Officer
TYPE OF CONTRACT:	Fixed-Term, NO-C
UNIT/DIVISION:	WFP Colombia, Human Resources
DUTY STATION (City, Country):	Bogotá, Colombia
DURATION:	1 year (extendable)

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger. In Colombia, the support that WFP provides to the national government responds to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 and 17 using innovative tools such as cash transfers and local purchase of food through farmer associations. WFP's activities in Colombia focus on the most vulnerable populations, which include victims of violence, marginalized communities, and ethnic groups. This is done progressively through the development of the capacities of local authorities to implement responsible programs that contribute to reducing food insecurity and malnutrition.

With 8 field offices strategically located in the capitals of the departments of Arauca, Caquetá, Córdoba, Chocó, La Guajira, Nariño, Norte de Santander, and Valle del Cauca, WFP operates in 23 departments saving lives and changing lives, promoting local socio-economic recovery and development and providing transformative and sustainable solutions through nexus approaches linking humanitarian, peace, and development efforts.

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Country Director for Support Services, job These roles are likely to be found in Headquarters (HQ) or Country Offices (COs). Job holders report to the Division/Country Director or the designate. Job holders at this grade level demonstrate adaptive capacities in effective security management and make significant independent contributions to the planning and development of security policies and procedures. Job holders are expected to manage a variety of security activities and conduct analytical work of considerable complexity, often manage and complete projects or assignments of a major nature achieving effective outputs. Job holders typically anchor a team ensuring high performance and development.

JOB PURPOSE:

To support the management of WFP’s security operations to enable the effective delivery of programmes that meet food assistance needs and maintain the security and safety of WFP personnel, activities and facilities

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):

Provide technical advice, guidance and support e.g. security assessments and plans to COs to strengthen the capacity within security management and crisis readiness and preparedness, contributing to the development of country strategy, policies and planning.
Develop systems and tools for the monitoring and assessment of security situations needs in line with innovative methodologies and best practice.
Conduct context analysis in conflict affected areas of operations, determining the key characteristics and locations of non-state armed groups (NSAG).
Communicate and negotiate security guarantees or “acceptance” for WFP to operate in NSAG’s areas of control.
Keep up to date with and advise upon local security developments and issues and the potential impact upon WFP operations to inform security and operational activities.
Monitor and maintain an effective security management communications system that enables rapid and co-ordinated security activities.
Build and maintain productive relationships with local partners to align activities and optimise the best protection for staff, activities and facilities.
Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts to align activities with wider programmes and activities and ensure compliance with security policies and procedures.
Manage junior security staff, providing coaching and guidance as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.
Represent WFP at local and inter-agency meetings e.g. Security Co-ordination Cells to present relevant security issues and contribute to technical discussions, exchange of knowledge and experience.
Facilitate training sessions as required to build the security capabilities of WFP and external partners.
Oversee and prepare accurate and timely reporting, e.g. mandatory Field Security reports that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
Support the monitoring and evaluation of WFP activities, providing technical analysis and information as required to support the assessment of activity impact.
Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
Other as required.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS (details to be determined by Post Managers):

This section is optional to describe other duties, skills & knowledge required for the specific job.

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK: COMMON STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR

Leads by Example with Integrity

Upholds WFP values, principles, and standards

Demonstrates and encourages others to uphold the WFP values, principles and standards

Respects others and values diversity

Values diversity using respectful and inclusive language, and encourages others to do the same

Stays focused and calm under pressure

Stays focused and calm when under pressure, encourages others to do the same, and offers guidance and

support to manage

difficult situations

Demonstrates humility and a willingness to learn

Demonstrates humility and a willingness to learn and share knowledge, frequently seeking and acting on feedback, and pursuing opportunities to develop

Drives Results and Delivers on

Commitments

Delivers results for maximum impact

Identifies and aligns objectives to the required outcomes, holding self and/or others accountable for the delivery of results for maximum impact

Delegates appropriately

Delegates responsibly and provides appropriate support empowering others to deliver results

Adapts readily to change

Responds readily to change in different contexts and adapts accordingly

Fosters Inclusive and Collaborative

Is inclusive and collaborative

Promotes inclusive teamwork and psychological safety by encouraging colleagues to collaborate by sharing ideas and openly raising issues

Gives timely and constructive feedback

Supports development for others by giving timely and constructive feedback

Builds and shares new perspectives

Seeks out, trusts and listens attentively to diverse views to capture, learn, build and share new perspectives

Applies Strategic

Thinking

Communicates and

fulfils WFP’s vision

Communicates and

fulfils WFP’s vision and operational outcomes to deliver meaningful solutions

Embraces curiosity and new ways of doing things

Demonstrates

curiosity, designs and implements new ways of doing things when relevant

Analyses and evaluates data

Gathers data and

different perspectives, shares knowledge and uses evidence to inform decision making

Considers the impact of decisions

Implements decisions, considering the risks and implications of actions for teams, projects and other

initiatives

Builds and

Maintains

Sustainable

Partnerships

Builds partnerships

Initiates and builds partnerships by identifying and promoting opportunities for mutual areas of interest and benefit

Collaborates to deliver common objectives

Collaborates with partners to deliver common objectives by sharing information and cocreating innovative solutions with beneficiaries when appropriate

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES:

Capability Name	Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Strategic approach to security risk management	Supports in the development of security risk management strategy and leads in its implementation to ensure safety and security of staff.
Operational knowledge of security risk management	Leverages deep understanding of security operations in order to develop multifaceted solutions to highly complex organisational security challenges.
Security resource management	Monitors trends in staffing and financial resource usage to anticipate and escalate potential issues to programme leaders.
Analysis and solution development	Utilises good understanding of UN inter-governmental body partner agencies to interpret information and reports and provides tactical recommendations for the mitigation of threats and vulnerabilities to WFP’s operations.
Planning compliance and emergency management	Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritise staff safety and security while ensuring strict compliance with established policies and procedures. Provides suggestions into how these practices may be improved.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:

Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in security management, business administration, political/social science, psychology, criminal justice, law, international relations or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A first-level university degree may be substituted with a diploma from a police or military education institution, college or academy obtained over a minimum of a three-year period..

Required

Experience:

Desired

Experience:

Five (5) or more years of progressively responsible experience in security, risk or disaster or emergency management in the public or private service areas, such as national security, military or police, or in a corporate environment is required.
Management experience in the public, private or corporate sector is required.
Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and experience in handling of web-based management systems.
Has provided direction and instruction to more junior staff members within area of expertise.

Work experience within the United Nations system or similar international organization and knowledge of the work of WFP is desirable.
Has contributed to the development of systems and tools for the monitoring and assessment of security situations in line with innovative methodologies and best practice
Has provided support in the provision of technical security operations advice to strengthen the security management function of WFP
Has developed some experience managing resources in the STLDU or Operations

Languages:

Fluency in Spanish and English (Level C).

Application deadline: 29 January 2023

For this vacancy, only applications of candidates with Colombian nationality that comply with all the requirements established in the job profile, will be taken into consideration. Applications using P11 format are encouraged, and it may be found by typing "Fomato P11" in the search engine of your preference. Download it, fill it out, sign it and attach it to your application.

All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks and all employment applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.

Successful candidates will be placed in a roster for two (2) years.

Please visit the following website for more information on the work that WFP does (http://www.wfp.org).

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13 يناير، 2023

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