Chief, Security and Safety/Global Security and Safety Advisor, Nairobi, Kenya, P5 FTA

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In doing so, UN Member States took an historic step in accelerating the Organization’s goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bri…

Chief, Security and Safety/Global Security and Safety Advisor, Nairobi, Kenya, P5 FTA

Key Functions and Accountabilities:

Strategic Leadership, Policy Development and Planning:

• Directs the development, implementation, and continuous refinement UN-Women global security, safety, business continuity, crisis management and occupational health and safety policies, frameworks, standards and guidance, ensuring alignment with UN System requirements and organizational priorities;

• Provides authoritative interpretation of applicable UN and UN Women policies and ensures their consistent and effective implementation across all organizational locations;

• Leads preparation of briefing notes, positions papers and strategic inputs for senior management and executive-level decision-making;

• Monitors and analyzes international developments, emerging threats and evolving risk environments, assessing their implications for UN-Women operations and personnel globally, and determining appropriate professional responses;

• Ensures effective and timely access by UN-Women managers and Security, Safety, Business Continuity, Crisis Management and Occupational Health and Safety personnel and Policies advisors to prescriptive content such as policy, risk management methodologies, etc.

• Directs the formulation and oversees execution of the Security and Safety Services annual work plan, ensuring strategic alignment, prioritization and optimal use of resources;

• Leads security and safety related change management initiatives, promoting innovation, efficiency and strengthened organizational resilience, collaborating strategically with other sections within the Division to drive efficiencies, effectiveness, and automation.

Authoritative Professional Advice and Corporate Risk Oversight:

• Provides authoritative proactive and strategically informed advice to the Executive Director, Senior Management and field leadership on security, safety, business continuity, crisis management and occupational health and safety risks, compliance and mitigation measures

• Determines professional risk management approaches and recommends risk tolerance, mitigation strategies and resource requirements to support informed decision making and programme delivery Delivers timely, proactive, and expert advice and comprehensive support to the UN-Women Headquarters Divisions and organizational offices for role specific needs, ensuring effective implementation and follow-up on risk management measures,  recognizing that personnel rely also on country-specific security arrangements;

• Coordinates and leads security and safety assessment missions to high-risk locations as required; ·

• Directs the formulation and manages appropriate role-related responses to requests from all levels of the organization, endeavoring to ensure quality and consistency;

• Ensures organization wide compliance with applicable UN Security Risk Management (SRM), Residential Security Measures (RSM) and related operating standards, directing corrective actions where required;

• Assesses and addresses where required, needs associated with programme, operations and premises to ensure compliance with UN and UN-Women associated policies and operating standards to ensure effective response.

• Provides expert advice on selection, procurement and deployment of role-related equipment (vehicles, telecommunications equipment, OHS etc.).

Strategic Integration of Security, Safety, Business Continuity, Crisis Management, and Occupational Health and Safety Gender-Responsive Programming:

• Directs the strategic integration of security, safety, business continuity and crisis management considerations into UN Women programme planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring, ensuring systematic incorporation of gender responsive perspectives;

• Champions and leads the systemic inclusion and mainstreaming of security, safety, business continuity, crisis management and gender-specific considerations within all programme planning and programme frameworks;

• Provides organization wide professional guidance on mainstreaming functional risk considerations into programme and project design, ensuring costs are appropriately reflected as part of the cost of doing business;[/Conducts comprehensive analysis of the impact of functional role factors on UN-Women programme designs and delivery, as well as the potential impact that programmes might have on stability and security (both positive and negative), developing and communicating recommendations to senior management regarding strategic support needs and improvements;

• Addresses office needs associated with programmes, operations and premises to achieve compliance with UN and UN-Women role functional policies, processes and operating standards to ensuring effective and timely response;

• Leads efforts to mainstream security, safety, business continuity and crisis management as an integral component of UN-Women operations and projects, ensuring costs are appropriately reflected in programme and project budgets as the cost of doing business.

Managerial Leadership and Oversight: