About One Acre Fund
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1.6 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms more productive. Our 10,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across ten African countries, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers' homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve earn 40 percent more profits on the land they enroll with One Acre Fund.
The Nigeria program is headquartered around Minna, Niger state. We’re serving 100,000+ unique farmers across the state via our inputs on credit ‘Core’ program, inputs on cash ‘Retail’ program, and have a free seedlings distribution ‘Agroforestry’ program. To learn more about our work, look at our Nigeria program blog.
About the Role
The Safety & Security Coordinator will be an integral member of the Nigeria team and will report to the Government Relations lead. You will ensure effective security operations, risk mitigation and staff care to support our staff and keep operations up and running. You will develop a safety and security strategy, build capacity for staff on security management, monitor security threats and trends, responding where required, providing the country team with information and technical and operational assistance, and monitoring the compliance to security risk management plan by all staffers. You will be the point person for staffers on safety & security issues.
Responsibilities
- Analysis, Reporting and Coordination
- Conduct Situational and Security Risk Assessments to determine risk levels for staff, provide operations updates and recommendations.
- Conduct security trend analysis and provide advice for program planning.
- Engage with stakeholders in coordination of contingency plans and information.
- Monitor the security preparedness of country staff and enforce staff compliance with internal security rules and SOPs, ensuring they are communicated to all staff and understood.
- Ensure regular communication GR lead and country director on key security issues and imperative for business.
- Provide HSS advice and support to 1AF Nigeria leadership decision-making, providing valuable information for the Country Crisis Management Team.
- Develop relationships with local security contacts and independently expand networks of information sources.
- Strategy Development & Management
- Develop and ensure compliance with Country Security Plans, policies, Contingency Plans, SOPs, mitigation measures, and Minimum Operating Security Standards (MOSS).
- Ensure internal incident tracking system is utilized; create a security incident database and perform incident mapping, assessments and analysis.
- Update the Risk Analysis Matrix (threat, likelihood, impact, level of vulnerability, level of risk).
- Be the primary responder to security incidents involving staff during and after office hours, and escalating incident response management to leadership when needed.
- Staff Training & Capacity building
- Ensure all field staff are fully cognizant of prevailing security threats, duly advises on means of reducing their vulnerability to those threats and develops action plans for security upgrades.
- Conduct capacity building, coaching and drilling with concerned staff to enhance their capacity in implementation of the preparedness and security measures.
Career Growth and Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- At least two years of professional experience on similar roles.
- A relevant university degree or equivalence
- Experience developing security risks mitigation strategies.
- Demonstrated experience in conducting security risk assessments and reporting.
- Experience engaging with external partners to gather information.
- Experience analyzing information and providing recommendations and advisory to organizations’ leadership.
- Demonstrated project management abilities, in unstructured environments
- Collaborative approach and ability to work across many different departments effectively
- Proficiency in MS Suite, particularly spreadsheets (can maintain complex spreadsheets) for contact and risk management experience
- Language: English required
Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible
Job Location
Abuja, Nigeria with travels across project locations
Benefits
Health insurance, paid time off
Eligibility
This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Nigeria.
Women are strongly encouraged to apply
Application Deadline
03 May 2024
One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
