Overview
The role leads the identification, assessment, and monitoring of security risks across the Cluster, ensuring that decision-making is informed by up-to-date and context-specific analysis. The role is responsible for developing and maintaining security policies and procedures that are aligned with organisational standards and adapted to local contexts.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct and maintain security risk assessments across countries and programme areas
- Monitor and analyse evolving security trends including conflict dynamics, political risks, civil unrest, environmental threats, organised violence, and access constraints and provide timely advise to SAF partners, operational teams and leadership.
- Develop context-specific risk mitigation strategies
- Strengthen scenario planning and strategic foresight.
- Develop, update, and harmonise and maintain security policies, SOPs, Crisis protocols , travel systems, access frameworks and security governance tools.
- Ensure alignment with Oxfam global security policies and duty-of-care frameworks, humanitarian principles, and safeguarding systems.
- Support implementation and compliance across all operational hubs
- Standardise security systems while adopting to local realities
- Advise on staff safety, field travel, access protocols, safe accommodation, and incident prevention.
- Support development of safe working practices across all contexts
- Work with People, Culture and Organisational Development Lead to integrate security into wellbeing systems, staff care, and crisis support.
- Strengthen business continuity and safe operating environments.
- Provide guidance during security incidents, critical events , emergencies, evacuations, and access disruption.
- Lead or Support incident report coordination, escalation protocols, crisis management structures, and after-action reviews.
- Ensure incidents are documented, analysed, reporting, and used for institutional learning.
- Strengthen business continuity systems and contingency planning.
- Design and deliver security training, HEAT-related preparedness, briefings, Incident simulations, and risk awareness systems
- Build security competence across staff, leadership, partners, and field teams
- Promote a culture of preparedness, accountability, safe decision-making, and risk awareness
- Strengthen organisational confidence in high-risk contexts
- Advise programme teams on risk-sensitive design, safe implementation, access strategies, and context adaptation
- Strengthen integration of security considerations into programme planning, humanitarian response, partner-led systems, operational decision-making
- Ensure programme continuity in volatile contexts.
- Support ethical programming in fragile environments
- Support partners in security assessments, risk management, incident response, and security systems design
- Strengthen partner organisational resilience and preparedness.
- Promote responsible localisation by ensuring shared risk understanding, ethical risk transfer, and partner safety
- Build partner capability without externalising disproportionate security burdens
- Liaise with Oxfam global security teams, regional security networks, governments, security actors, and humanitarian coordination systems
- Build credible external security relationships.
- Support strategic coordination across countries and affiliates.
- Strengthen information sharing and intelligence systems
Required Experience
At least 6 years’ experience of progressive senior experience in security risk management, humanitarian security, crisis response, and multi-country operational security. Proven ability to provide strategic security advisory, risk analysis, incident management and duty of care systems.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Security Management, International Relations, Risk Management, Humanitarian Security or related field. A Bachelor’s degree combined with relevant postgraduate or professional qualifications and significant experience of at least 10 years may be considered.
