The Organization

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

We recognize that our staff and associates may work in or travel to hostile and complex environments that present unique safety and security risks, and we are proactive in identifying and mitigating these risks. We understand that security management should be an enabler rather than a barrier. Plan International is committed to fulfilling its duty of care to our staff and providing a safe and secure environment so that we can better fulfill our purpose and objectives.

As the Head of Security Risk Analysis you will be working within Plan International’s Global Safety and Security Team, and will oversee the creation of a new analysis function to further professionalize and be more predictive in our organizational security risk management.

You will be required to provide analysis and advice to the Plan International Leadership Team and Regional and Country Management Teams on key security trends facing our staff and operations.

You will promote a positive security culture, focused on advancing our Security for All initiative to create a more inclusive and intersectional approach to security risk management. As well as encourage staff to report security concerns and incidents, follow-up and/or investigate as needed, and ensure management incorporates lessons learned into future operations.

The Requirements

• Deep knowledge of security risk and geopolitical analysis methodology
• Experience building analysis systems and products
• Deep conceptual understanding of security risk management and risk assessment processes
• Experience working in high risk areas, including disasters and fragile and conflict affected states
• Experience working in an international NGO
• Experience leading diverse and geographically dispersed teams
• Able to build networks and relationships under challenging conditions
• Communicate clearly and effectively
• Comfortable in challenging at all levels
• Able to deliver on time, to work under long term pressure and to prioritize
• Able to work with standard IT equipment and software suites (eg Office)
• Strong written and spoken English
• Risk management and/or project management certification, as well as ability to work in an additional language, eg French or Spanish is highly desirable

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Location:  This can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live.
Type of Role:  Permanent or maximum fixed term contract available as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.

Reports to:  Director of Safety & Security

Salary:  We will be happy to disclose the salary and applicable benefits to applicants as part of this process, however, please kindly note that the salary and employment benefits will be set according to your location and therefore it is not possible to include full details here .

Closing Date:  Tuesday 25th July