[Hiring] Security Risk Management Specialist @Alliedtalentpartners

Role and Responsibilities

• Provide institutional-level advisory support on security risks across FCV projects. 
• Review and strengthen ESMS procedures to integrate FCV-specific security requirements. 
• Develop tools and templates including SRA methodologies, SRAMP and LSMP templates, incident reporting protocols, and approval-gate processes. 
• Provide specialised input on high-risk projects to senior decision-making forums. 
• Deliver internal training and organisational capacity building on FCV operations and security oversight. 

• Conduct FCV-related security screening across the investment pipeline. 
• Integrate security considerations into screening notes, concept papers, E&S management documents, and contractual agreements. 
• Identify red-flag risks and requirements for SRAs, SRAMPs, and crisis management measures. 
• Conduct field missions to assess contextual and project-specific vulnerabilities. 
• Advise on contractual requirements for implementing partners, contractors, and public or private security providers. 

• Lead or quality-assure SRAs for projects in FCV or high-risk environments. 
• Ensure assessments include conflict analysis, threat assessments, stakeholder mapping, likelihood/impact scoring, and proportionate mitigation measures. 
• Ensure alignment with recognised good practice on human rights, community safety, and conflict-sensitive operations. 
• Provide actionable recommendations for project design, risk acceptance, and implementation. 

• Support or quality-assure the development of project-level SRAMPs. 
• Ensure plans address governance structures, security personnel requirements, vetting and conduct standards, weapons control, journey management, SEA/SH-sensitive protocols, incident escalation, and crisis management. 
• Ensure security obligations cascade consistently across implementing partners, contractors, and sub-contractors. 
• Support PIUs and contractors in operationalising mitigation measures. 
  
  

• Participate in project supervision missions. 
• Review security reports, incident logs, and performance of security providers. 
• Provide early warning analysis and scenario planning. 
• Ensure timely escalation and response to serious incidents. 
• Conduct post-incident reviews and audits of security arrangements. 
• Identify lessons learned and support corrective actions. 

• Train staff, PIUs, implementing partners, and contractors on SRAs, SRAMPs, incident reporting, human rights-aligned security practices, and security provider oversight. 
• Develop learning materials, checklists, and quick-reference guides. 
• Strengthen long-term institutional capacity to manage FCV-related risks. 

• Embed a systematic approach to security risk oversight across the project cycle. 
• Ensure alignment with international standards for security, human rights, and risk management (e.g., ISO 31000, good practice for security personnel). 
• Promote a culture of safety, do-no-harm, and human rights due diligence. 
• Provide senior leadership with portfolio-level insights and risk trends. 

• Annual Work Plan for security support in FCV contexts 
• Project-level SRAs and SRAMPs (or QA thereof) 
• Security oversight reports and quarterly risk analyses 
• Capacity-building workshops and training materials 
• Crisis-response support when required 
• End-of-year performance and lessons-learned report 

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in security risk management within FCV or high-risk environments. 
• Proven track record developing SRAs and SMPs for development, humanitarian, or multilateral-funded projects. 
• Strong knowledge of international good practice for oversight of security personnel and human-rights–aligned security approaches. 
• Experience working with governments, communities, implementing partners, and field teams. 
• Ability to design governance structures, escalation systems, journey management procedures, and crisis response frameworks. 
• Strong analytical, communication, reporting, and training capabilities. 

• Understanding of FCV dynamics in Eastern and Southern Africa. 
• Knowledge of risk management frameworks and human rights principles relevant to security. 
• Experience supervising or quality-assuring security service providers. 
• Strong risk analysis, scenario planning, and decision-support skills. 

• Strategic, decisive, and principled. 
• Calm and reliable in uncertainty or high-pressure contexts. 
• Strong relationship-builder and communicator across technical and non-technical audiences. 
• High ethical standards, confidentiality, and integrity.