Position: Global Security Manager

Location: wherever + or – 3 hours GMT

Reporting to: HR manager

Starting date: May 1^st, 2025

Application deadline: February 28^th, 2025

Family Duty Station: N/A

R&R: N/A

Contract Type: Expatriate (International) or Temporary Italian Contract

Working Context

WeWorld believes that Safety and Security risk management across the countries where WeWorld operates both with emergency and development programmes is a key enabler for its work in the world’s most vulnerable communities and that it is central to achieving its collective mission. WeWorld maintains and hold a serious commitment to ensure that its staff, partners and beneficiaries can work in the safest possible conditions and that the WeWorld safety and security standards are respected and applied.

Purpose of the Role

He/she is the focal point for managing the safety and security needs across the Organisation and he works in close contact with Regional Coordinators and Country Representatives deployed around the world.

The Security manager will plan his work according to the priorities defined by the Organisation and he reports directly to the head of the HR department.

Main tasks and responsibilities

The Security Manager is responsible for ensuring security in all WeWorld operations, supporting staff in various missions, and providing technical expertise on security management.

He/she leads, supports, and suggests mitigation actions in the process of security risk analysis of the Organization’s overseas operations and maintaining an effective security network at office locations, with both internal and external partners.

The Security Manager tasked with monitoring adherence to security plans, producing analysis and reports, and conducting field missions as needed. The role involves drafting and updating Country Security Plans, offering technical support for context analysis and risk assessments, and providing guidance during critical incidents.

He/she develops, promotes, updates and monitors the application of the measures included in the policies adopted by the organization on security and compliance.

Promotes staff training with particular regard to the figures delegated to security in-country.

WHO WE ARE

We support people in overcoming emergencies and we strive to guarantee that everyone can have a decent and dignified life as well as opportunities and a better future. We work in 26 countries around the world, including in Italy, with more than 179 emergency, humanitarian aid and development projects. Our activities mainly involve women, girls and young people, actors of change in every community for a fairer and more inclusive world.We operate in several natural and man-made crisis in various regions of the world. The emergency response, coordinated by the Humanitarian Aid Unit, is composed by multi-sectorial interventions comprising of WASH, EiE, CVA, Food Security, Protection, and others. We operate also in protracted crisis with provision of humanitarian aid through a prevention, emergency relief and rehabilitation approach.In the last 4 years we have strengthened the regions and the countries where we have been working, we have created new programs, developed new quality and compliance systems and now we need new people who want to join us to build the world we want in the coming years. Join us.