Duties and Responsibilities
The Physical Security consultant will be responsible
for the following duties:
- Provides substantive inputs in the designing of the physical
security environment and the UN’s security and operational responses.
- Using analytical techniques and collaborative team research,
supports planning and ensure awareness of the current trends to enhance or
adjust security programmes.
- Maintains continuing lines of communication with DSS and all
other concerned offices involved in physical security arrangement to
ensure maximum security coordination.
- Under UNDSS guidance, assesses prevailing local security
conditions, identifying security trends and advising project personnel on
potential security problems on the designing and construction of new
buildings.
- Coordinates the issuance of identity cards, submission of
background checks, and entry control.
- Provides notification to relevant issues coming through the
project team and provide support where possible to actions requested.
- Advises on, and supports, the inclusion of physical security
arrangement in all stages of the project activities and programmes.
- Provides advice and support to the project team responsible
for security.
- Enables the delivery of mandates and programmes through direct
operational assistance.
- Supports and collaborates with relevant parties, building
consensus to ensure alignment and support for physical security
arrangement and initiatives to best enable the project.
- Monitors and contributes to the project activities that relate
to the implementation and evaluation of preparedness and compliance;
drives results that help support efficiency and effectiveness of the
project operations.
- Enhances communication and trust through active collaboration,
consultation and exchanges with the Gigiri Master Plan Project team, and
other stakeholders, for information sharing, coordination of responses,
provision of physical security arrangement.
- Supports organizational resilience and contingency planning,
crisis decision-making by providing information and analysis including
situational monitoring and updates.
- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and
provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data
visualization methods to enable data-driven planning,decision-making,
presentation and reporting.
- Ensures the project activities are in line with the UN
Headquarters Minimum Security and Safety Standards (HMOSS), fire safety
guidelines, host country fire and safety codes, other applicable
guidelines, codes and standards.
- Perform any other duties as assigned.
Qualifications/Special Skills
- An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent)
in criminal justice, law, security management, architecture or engineering
or related fields is required.
- A first-level university degree may be accepted in lieu of an
advanced university degree provided that the first-level university degree
is accompanied by a diploma or continuing education certificate (s) issued
by a police or military education institution, college or academy obtained
over a minimum of a three-year period.
- Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs
in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is
desirable.
- At least five (5) years of progressively responsible
experience in military, police, security and safety services or related
area are required.
- Experience in the management of design and/or construction of
physical security installations, either stand-alone or part of a capital
construction project in the UN or similar International Organisation is
required.
- Experience in planning, design, implementation, or review of
risk mitigation measures related to operations impacted by insecurity is
desirable.
- Experience in the design of a Security Management System
within the United Nations or similar International Organizations is
desirable.
Deadline: Jul
8, 2024
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