Global Safety and Security Senior Manager

The Opportunity

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as the Global Safety and Security Senior Manager in the UK (London or Remote) or any existing Save the Children International Regional or Country office worldwide.

Role Purpose:

Save the Children International (SCI) operates in more than 60 countries, with a portfolio of over 1.2 billion USD and a workforce of 17,000 staff. The Global Safety & Security Senior Manager is a home based deployable role, the successful candidates will require to travel 70% of their time to SCI county and response offices, sometimes at short notice and for variable periods. The successful candidates will also deliver, support SCI’s ambitious, locally led accredited trainings, including but not limited to HEAT.

With ever-increasing complexities and crises in the global context that SCI works, we are striving to be locally led, and globally connected, in order to deliver on our ambitious mission for children. SCI has identified that these increasing complexities and crises require the strengthening of our safety, and security governance, policy, procedures, and standards, especially in our very high-risk contexts. In order to achieve this SCI safety and security needs to be more agile with two new deployable Global Safety & Security Senior Managers to join the Global Safety and Security (GSS) team.

This is an exciting opportunity for two experienced and highly motivated safety and security professionals who excel in operational work in the field. Providing timely, accurate, actionable information, capacity support, and response to enable the delivery of work class humanitarian and development programmes for children.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• A degree in Security Management, Risk Management, International Relations, or a related field
• Desirably a certification in health and safety management or a relevant field, such as NEBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health) or equivalent
• Requirement for strong interpersonal and communication, and networking skills
• Experience in delivering training sessions in a variety of contexts including local and global
• Ability to deploy, sometimes at short notice with varying length of time (up to 70% travel in this position)

We can offer circa £62,000 per annum (If based in the UK) with an option of flexible working hours. If the role is based outside of the UK, National Terms & Conditions (including pay and benefits) will apply.

This role can be based in the UK (London or Remote) or any existing Save the Children International Regional or Country office location on approval, provided the successful candidate has proof of eligibility to work from the preferred location for the duration of the contract.

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The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.