Senior Advisor, Global Safety & Security (P4)

Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.

Summary

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks to staff and ensuring staff are given training, support, and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families.

The Senior Advisor, Global Safety and Security, reporting to the Head, HR Operations, is a key member of the Global Safety and Security (GSS) team. You will lead on maintaining an effective safety and security management program for Save the Children US and ensuring staff are trained on domestic safety and risk management. The Senior Advisor, Global Safety & Security will lead efforts for our programs and staff domestically and will be responsible for critical incident and crisis management as well as travel safety security.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Safety and Risk Management

• Lead efforts to improve domestic safety, travel, and security for operations programs and staff, including emergency response programs
• Maintain and update SCUS policies, procedures, and standards as necessary and ensure staff are trained
• Manage security risks to SCUS by directing the development and integration of enterprise level safety and risk management approaches
• Conduct domestic security assessments, analysis, and audits to identify vulnerabilities and recommend appropriate measures to mitigate them
• Ensure compliance with regulations and standards nationally; align with SCI or other members regarding international regulatory needs
• Coordinate with Office of Head Start for Head Start locations, when needed
• Coordinate and align with SCI and other members on international travel as necessary

Critical Incident Management and Crisis Management

• Ensure SCUS maintains capacity to manage critical safety and security incidents
• Prepare for and manage crises, including business continuity planning
• Maintain crisis management policies and ensure staff are trained
• Ensure effective use of external provider resources (i.e. travel tracking, special insurances, and other outside vendors, etc.)

Travel and Safety Security

• Manage threat monitoring and maintain incident response systems
• Manage security training program for SCUS travelers
• Maintain security and risk management for travel and ensure compliance by monitoring trends, incorporating best practices, and reviewing incidents
• Maintain effective travel security planning; together with Lead Associate, update PDI documents for all SCUS sites and programs

Lead Global Safety & Security Staff

• Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission, ensuring that the working environment continually fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging – supporting Save the Children values

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Experience working in conflict affected areas as well as knowledge of security policies, practices and procedures; successful security coordination with partners, donors, and governmental institutions
• Experience in analyzing security threats, risks, and vulnerability in international settings
• Knowledge of issues related to the security and protection of humanitarian workers including legal protections and right for aid workers and the populations they assist
• Experience with incident reporting and incident mapping
• Ability to travel for up to 25% of time (may include limited international travel)
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $108,800 – $121,600 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $98,600 – $110,200 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $88,400 – $98,800 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.