Regional Security & Safety Officer, West & Central AfricaNew

IUCN seeks a Regional Security and Safety Officer in Dakar to reduce risks across West and Central Africa. The officer will lead security systems and training, advise leadership on risk posture and crisis response, manage security budgets and reporting, develop procedures and threat assessments, support crisis-management teams and evacuations, investigate incidents, and represent IUCN in.

• Coach and develop regional safety and security stakeholders
• Provide security-posture and crisis-response guidance to leadership
• Manage regional security plans, budgets, reports and KPI records
• Develop risk-mitigation procedures and security-management plans
• Conduct threat and risk assessments across programme offices
• Coordinate crisis teams, incident follow-up and regional representation

• Bachelor’s degree related to humanitarian work or security risk management
• Formal safety and security qualification or training certification
• Fluency in French and English
• Five years security-strategy and security-professional management experience

• Advanced risk-management, emergency-response or business-continuity qualification
• Adult-training certification
• Complex or post-conflict environment experience

• Safety and security
• Risk assessment
• Crisis management
• Security planning
• Capacity building
• Incident management