VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Plan international Inc., acting through its branch office in Cameroon is an international child centered community development organization with no religious, political or governmental affiliation working in Cameroon since 1996. We promote equal opportunity employment and pay special consideration to female candidates.

Plan is a children’s organization with primary concerns on children right, safety and well-being and has in its interest to create safe environments for children with more attention paid to child protection. All employees are therefore expected to comply with our child protection policy.

Plan Cameroon is looking for a suitable candidate for the position of Security Advisor to be based in its Country Office (Yaoundé). The contact is for one year renewable. It will be governed by Cameroon Labor Law.

Main duties and responsibilities

Under the authority of the Deputy Country Director, the Security Advisor will responsible for the development and implementation of security policies, guidelines and procedures in order to ensure the security of all Plan staff, reporting and operations. This will involve, but is not limited to: promoting a culture of security; security incident reporting, security guard oversight and management; monitoring and analyzing the security situation in Cameroon, promulgating and maintaining security related standard operating procedures (SOPs). The scope of responsibility is for both Plan Cameroon and all authorized visitors and include:

• Advise plan Cameroon on all aspects of national security management issues and trends;
• Develop/maintain an appropriate framework of security measure standard operating procedures (SSOPs), which will increase plan Cameroon’s overall capacity to protect staff, programs, and property;
• Ensure that plan Cameroon SSOPs reflect risk levels referenced in plan’s global security policy and ensure SSOPs are compliant with all Plan’s policies
• Lead the response to all security threats/incidents in a timely, professional and appropriate manner
• Review existing security risk assessments (SRAs) and conduct same at least annually or according to the current country and Pus security phase requirements in all plan operational locations as well as whenever the security situation changes and develop local capacity to conduct self-assessments
• Regular attendance at relevant Cameroon and Cameroon-connected security meeting and forums. Represent plan Cameroon in WARO annual security Workshop
• Co-lead the security review Team (SRT) with CD or designate and host meeting of the SRT on at least a quarterly basis sharing relevant points (minutes) with WARO RSA.
• Develop and test contingency plans based on results and anticipation of security threat/risk assessment and develop staff preparedness/capacity to respond, staffing collaboration with focal persons at the district/PU level
• Build the capacity of all staff on security including safety aspects with the HR department cooperation
• Manage the budget related to security effectively
• Perform other security related duties as the need arises and/or as defined

Qualification and experience

• Bachelor Degree in Security or any related field
• Demonstrable knowledge and practical work experience, preferably with non-profit or NGO within international humanitarian assistance programs, with proven capabilities in planning, organizing and executing security operation in the field;
• At least 3-5 years’ experience of security, and safety management or similar capacity
• Good understanding of Cameroon security related issues and their relations to Plan’s context;
• Experience in conducting participatory risk assessments and preparing situational analyses, including the analysis of factors from both the internal and external environments, identifying crucial risks that have to be addressed, setting objectives and developing plans of action
• Good communication skills (written and verbal) both in French and English language in order to present and garner information quickly and clearly to a variety of audiences
• Computer: MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook

Applications procedure:

All applications should include:

1. Cover letter 
2. comprehensive CV

Interested applicants should submit their applications no later than March 29th by e-mail to the address: plan-Cameroon.jobvacancies@plan-international.org with a subject title: application for the position of Safety Advisor.

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.