Responsibilities

Provide leadership to the Team by: 

• Planning assignments for the team members during particular scheduled shifts. 
• Giving daily work instructions to the members of the team. 
• Ensuring team members are provided with uniforms, communication equipment, and other kits for duty. 
• Monitoring posts to ensure that they are effectively manned and that duties are properly executed. 
• Conducts daily briefings and assigns officers to various functions or posts.
• Supervises staff and carries out inspections to ensure that officers on duty are discharging their functions appropriately.
• Examines routine reports prepared by subordinates and certifies their accuracy.
• Assigns cases to investigators, recommending action to be taken; directs sensitive and/or complex investigations.

Enforce safety and security in the UN Complex by 

• Ensuring that security and safety rules and procedures are strictly adhered to.
• Supervise control room duties and ensure that the electronic surveillance equipment is properly monitored and discuss reports of initial investigation with the Investigator.
• Co-ordinate activities of the team through the Lieutenant and Inspector to the Assistant and Deputy Chiefs of the Security and Safety section by making daily reports on events, periodical reports on all investigated cases, make recommendations on improvement of work.
• Ensure that security equipment and vehicles are in good working order, supervise operations in the event of accidents independently and prepare reports after incidents; Conduct preventive searches in cooperation with the specialized services; Keep plans and instructions up to date and conduct searches for suspicious items. 
• Assists with the collection and analysis of data as well as preparation of data presentations and reports for information sharing, responding to queries, knowledge management, planning, and decision making.
• Assists with visualizations and updating information material such as web pages or brochures.
• Performs all other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Education

• Completion of a high school diploma or equivalent is required. 
• Supplementary post-secondary school training in security or military with a sound and thorough knowledge of security-related matters is required. 
• Passing of United Nations Security Officer Test (SOT) is required before the administration of a written assessment and/or interview.

Work Experience

• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in security, risk disaster, or emergency management in the public or private service areas, such as national security, military or police, or in a corporate environment is required. The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced by two years for candidates who possess a first-level University degree.
• A minimum of two (2) years of international experience in security management systems is required.
• One (1) year or more of experience in data analytics or related areas is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in  English is required. Working knowledge of Kiswahili is desirable. Knowledge of any other UN official languages is desirable.

NOTE: “Fluency equals a rating of “fluent” in all four areas (read, write, speak, understand), and ” Knowledge of” equals a rating of ” confident” in two of the four areas

How To Apply

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Deadline: Jan 5, 2024