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Humanitarian Access & Security Manager

Area: Coordination

Location: Ukhiya

Closing date: 12 April 2025

Humanitarian Access & Security Manager

Vacancy:

01

Job Category:

Coordination

Job Level:

Mid

Job Type:

Full time

Job Location:

Ukhiya

Area / Headquarters:

Site Office

Workplace:

Work at office

Role Type:

Staff

Job Context:

Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion (HI) has been working in Bangladesh since 1997, focusing on creating sustainable changes to ensure the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in society. HI is an independent and impartial aid organization working in Bangladesh in poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster situations. With projects in different districts of the country, HI works not only with people with disabilities and other vulnerable populations but also with their families, their communities, and local humanitarian actors to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions, promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights, and provide sustainability in its action. As one of the key organizations in the disability sector, HI has a wide range of projects that assist in promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities and their issues in emergency and development contexts, building capacities of local stakeholders, and reducing the impact of natural and human-made disasters. Particularly in Cox's Bazar district, HI is providing services in rehabilitation, MH/PSS, SRH, protection, and inclusive education with an inclusion mainstreaming approach to refugees and host populations affected by the forcibly displaced undocumented Myanmar nationals. HI's multi-sectoral mobile units (MU) and static method are currently working in 15 camps located in both Teknaf and Ukhiya Upazilas and surrounding host areas, providing comprehensive services in physical rehabilitation, primary health care, protection, and MHPSS.

HI is currently implementing a development and humanitarian response project in Kurigram and Cox's Bazar district through 3 project offices (Kurigram, Ukhiya, and Teknaf) and 1 coordination office (Dhaka).

Operational Thematic: Livelihood, Health and Rehabilitation, Protection, Inclusion, Education, and Atlas Logistics. 

The Humanitarian Access and Security Manager's role is to help ensure the security of HI personnel and assets by ensuring that risk analyses, security frameworks, protocols, and tools are in place while overseeing their correct and effective implementation. To this end, the HAS Manager is involved in the planning and monitoring of operations and plays a key role in incident management. The HAS Manager is also responsible for strengthening HI's analytical, dialogue, and negotiation capacities to ensure that populations have full access to humanitarian assistance. This position reports directly to the Country Manager.

Line Manager: Country Manager

Type of Contract: Fixed-term

Duration of the Contract: As early as possible to April 2026 (Contract duration will be initially 1 year from the date of joining.)

Job Location: Ukhiya

Special Attention: "You are cordially requested not to apply if the salary range, job location, contract duration, and other terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement do not match your expectations."

Responsibilities:

Mission 1: Contribute to country strategies in line with overall strategies.

  • Guiding the strategy and security framework through the active promotion of HI's institutional policy and the optimization of our resources
  • STRATOP: Contribute to the drafting and revision (when needed) and implementation of the operational strategy (StratOp) within the framework of its responsibilities.
  • RISKS: Create and update risk analysis tables as part of his/her responsibilities and propose and implement risk management measures.
  • INCIDENTS: Contribute to the reporting of incidents within the scope of his/her responsibilities.
  • INDICATORS: Produce, compile, and analyze data for the scoreboard.
  • Representation: Ensure HI's external representation on security issues concerning its county (e.g., forums, operational and strategic alliances); guarantee the development of local partnerships necessary for the development of activities in the country.

Mission 2: Operational Security management

  • Context analysis: monitoring and analyzing the evolution of the local, regional, national, and international context.
  • Programme network: Support the diversification of information sources and capitalize on information from key contacts.
  • HAS network: Develop your own network to collect and verify information from the field operation and offices. 
  • Ensure good internal coordination on all security-related matters, especially with operations and logistics for safety reasons.
  • Security framework:
  • Conduct risk analysis workshops with all staff on the program
  • Support the development, update, and implementation of the HI safety system in the program (procedures, documents, and tools);
  • Ensure the application of security procedures, analyses, and experiences gained. 
  • Security management: 
  • Provide security analysis and recommendations to the Country Manager, Operations Manager and Area Manager; and participate in the planning of operations and the resulting security framework.
  • Provide advice and guidance on evolving security risks, resource requirements, security frameworks and documents, strategies, and sharing of best practices for the security management of HI activities in the country, including input into the definition of future project proposals.
  • Conduct regular field visits for security assessments and to support provincial offices.
  •  Incident management : 
  • Participate in incident/crisis management: analysis, technical support, recommendations, implementation, reporting, lessons learned, and adjustment of frameworks...
  • Reinforce as much as necessary the level of acceptance of HI in the different intervention areas.
  • Ensure its role of alert and "check & balance" in the monitoring and management of the program's security.

Mission 3: Humanitarian Access

  • Continuously analyze the humanitarian context, identify obstacles to access, opportunities for improvement, and key actors
  • Support the Country Manager, Operations Manager and Area Manager: 
  • In creating a program-specific strategy to improve humanitarian access
  • In contacting and conducting humanitarian negotiations with authorities and key actors
  • In the preparation of exploration visits and the opening of new area

Mission 4: Capacity Building and Training on Security and Access

  • Assess the needs of HI staff on the program (national and international)
  • Support the implementation of a HAS training plan for all HI staff (including internal and external training);
  • Ensuring the training and continuous capacity building of security staff,
  • Develop the security culture within the program.
  • Integrate new arrivals.
  • Conduct regular security updates for all staff.
  • Promote internal coordination with all departments concerned (information sharing, bilateral meetings, etc.)

Educational Requirements:

  • Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Business Studies, Commerce, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or any relevant discipline. Bachelor’s Degree in Humanitarian Security, Security Management, Management, Public Administration, International Relations, Political Science, or any relevant field. Preferable: Master’s degree in a relevant field. "You are cordially requested not to apply if you don’t have the academic qualifications mentioned in the job advertisement."

Additional Requirements:

  • Age Minimum 18 years

  • Both males and females are allowed to apply

  • At least 05 years of experience in a volatile security context with security responsibilities or the access and security humanitarian sector.
  • Experience in security context and security risk analysis.
  • Skills in developing mitigation measures concerning humanitarian security approaches.
  • Skills in developing the access strategy. 
  • Experience security incident/crisis management.

Required Expertise:

  • Security

Required Skills:

  • Security

Salary:

TK. 183498 to 205767

Additional Salary Info:

Special Attention: "You are cordially requested not to apply if the salary range, job location, contract duration, and other terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement do not match your expectations."

  • Salary will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and budget availability.

Compensation & Other Benefits:

  • Festival Bonus: 02

  • Gratuity/End of Service Benefits

  • Leave: Sick leave, Annual leave, Casual leave, Event Leave and Compensatory Leave

  • Maternity Coverage for Staff & Dependents

  • Medical Coverage for Staff & Dependents including General/Outpatient, Hospitalization, Dental, and Optical

  • Mobile Allowances

  • Per diem

  • Provident Fund

  • Staff Group Life Insurance

  • Weekly Holiday: 02

  • Medical Coverage: Staff and dependents will get general/outpatient, hospitalization, dental, and optical medical insurance facilities as per the HI policy.
  • Maternity Coverage: Staff & dependents will get maternity medical coverage facilities per the HI policy.
  • Group Life Insurance Coverage: Staff will get the death benefit, accidental benefit, permanent partial disability, permanent total disability benefit, and critical illness benefit as per the HI policy.
  • Leave: Staff will get sick leave, annual leave, casual leave, medical leave, and event leave as per HI policy.
  • Allowance for Children's Education: Staff will get an allowance for children's education as per the HI policy.
  • National travel cost of child caretaker: Female staff will get a reimbursement for the cost of national travel of the child caretaker as per the HI policy.
  • Additional Responsibility (Interim) Allowance: Staff will get an allowance for additional responsibility (interim) as per the HI policy.
  • Relocation Allowance: Staff will get an allowance for relocation allowance as per the HI policy.
  • Work From Home: Staff will get work-from-home facilities as per the HI policy.

Published on:

27 March 2025

Deadline on:

12 April 2025

Special Instruction:

Read Before Applying:

Special Attention: "You are cordially requested not to apply if the salary range, job location, contract duration, and other terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement do not match your expectations." 

Interested candidates meeting the above requirements should apply with the updated/latest personal resume along with three references (current or last supervisor only), including the Head of HR of the current and last employer, by Saturday, 12 April 2025. Only Bangladeshi national candidates are eligible to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified, potential, matched female candidates and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply, and they will be preferred in cases of similar qualifications to other candidates. HI promotes and upholds the principles of equal opportunities and policies (PSEAH, Child Protection, etc.).

HI has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to or exploitation of a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners. Recruitment for all jobs in HI includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.

HI is committed to a safe workplace for everyone to grow professionally regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, or race. HI extends this commitment to equality and Do No Harm to all staff, volunteers, partners, and beneficiaries. The humanitarian principles focus on equity and inclusion, with a solid commitment to these values.

A competitive candidate will uphold and implement these values in their personal and professional lives. Any persuasion by the person by phone, email, or other means in this regard will automatically disqualify the candidate. The selected employee should clearly understand that all final offers of employment are contingent upon a successful reference check. The pre-employment screening will be performed for all selected applicants.

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Job Summary

  • Published on: 27 March 2025
  • Vacancy: 1
  • Employment Status: Full time
  • Experience: 5 year(s)
  • Gender: Both
  • Age: Minimum 18 years
  • Job Location: Ukhiya
  • Salary: 183498 to 205767
  • Application Deadline: 12 April 2025