Allied Talent Partners

Security Risk Management Specialist

Allied Talent Partners

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇿🇦 South Africa

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SeniorLead

About the role

  • Provide institutional-level advisory support on security risks across FCV projects.
  • Review and strengthen ESMS procedures to integrate FCV-specific security requirements.
  • Develop tools and templates including SRA methodologies, SRAMP and LSMP templates, incident reporting protocols, and approval-gate processes.
  • Provide specialised input on high-risk projects to senior decision-making forums.
  • Deliver internal training and organisational capacity building on FCV operations and security oversight.
  • Conduct FCV-related security screening across the investment pipeline.
  • Integrate security considerations into screening notes, concept papers, E&S management documents, and contractual agreements.
  • Identify red-flag risks and requirements for SRAs, SRAMPs, and crisis management measures.
  • Conduct field missions to assess contextual and project-specific vulnerabilities.
  • Advise on contractual requirements for implementing partners, contractors, and public or private security providers.
  • Lead or quality-assure SRAs for projects in FCV or high-risk environments.
  • Ensure assessments include conflict analysis, threat assessments, stakeholder mapping, likelihood/impact scoring, and proportionate mitigation measures.
  • Ensure alignment with recognised good practice on human rights, community safety, and conflict-sensitive operations.
  • Support or quality-assure the development of project-level SRAMPs.
  • Ensure plans address governance structures, security personnel requirements, vetting and conduct standards, weapons control, journey management, SEA/SH-sensitive protocols, incident escalation, and crisis management.
  • Ensure security obligations cascade consistently across implementing partners, contractors, and sub-contractors.
  • Support PIUs and contractors in operationalising mitigation measures.
  • Participate in project supervision missions.
  • Review security reports, incident logs, and performance of security providers.
  • Provide early warning analysis and scenario planning.
  • Ensure timely escalation and response to serious incidents.
  • Conduct post-incident reviews and audits of security arrangements.
  • Identify lessons learned and support corrective actions.
  • Train staff, PIUs, implementing partners, and contractors on SRAs, SRAMPs, incident reporting, human rights-aligned security practices, and security provider oversight.
  • Develop learning materials, checklists, and quick-reference guides.
  • Strengthen long-term institutional capacity to manage FCV-related risks.
  • Embed a systematic approach to security risk oversight across the project cycle.
  • Ensure alignment with international standards for security, human rights, and risk management (e.g., ISO 31000, good practice for security personnel).
  • Promote a culture of safety, do-no-harm, and human rights due diligence.
  • Provide senior leadership with portfolio-level insights and risk trends.

Requirements

  • 10+ years’ experience in security risk management within FCV or high-risk environments.
  • Proven track record developing SRAs and SMPs for development, humanitarian, or multilateral-funded projects.
  • Strong knowledge of international good practice for oversight of security personnel and human-rights–aligned security approaches.
  • Experience working with governments, communities, implementing partners, and field teams.
  • Ability to design governance structures, escalation systems, journey management procedures, and crisis response frameworks.
  • Strong analytical, communication, reporting, and training capabilities.
  • Understanding of FCV dynamics in Eastern and Southern Africa.
  • Knowledge of risk management frameworks and human rights principles relevant to security.
  • Experience supervising or quality-assuring security service providers.
  • Strong risk analysis, scenario planning, and decision-support skills.
  • Strategic, decisive, and principled.
  • Calm and reliable in uncertainty or high-pressure contexts.
  • Strong relationship-builder and communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • High ethical standards, confidentiality, and integrity.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
security risk managementSRA methodologiesSRAMP developmentincident reporting protocolscrisis management measuresconflict analysisthreat assessmentsstakeholder mappingjourney management proceduresrisk management frameworks
Soft skills
analytical skillscommunication skillsreporting skillstraining capabilitiesrelationship-buildingstrategic thinkingdecisivenessprincipled decision-makingcalmness under pressureintegrity