Re-advertisement: Security Manager, (P-4), FT, Gaza, State of Palestine, MENA

Organizational Context

UNICEF operates in over 190 countries, dedicated to saving children's lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfill their potential. We are committed to promoting the rights of every child, offering diverse opportunities for professional and personal development in a passionate and diverse culture.

Job Purpose

The Security Manager (P-4) in Gaza is crucial for ensuring the safety and continuity of UNICEF's humanitarian operations in a highly complex and volatile environment. This role involves independently managing sensitive security coordination responsibilities, including engagement with de facto authorities, local power brokers, armed actors, and humanitarian partners to facilitate operational access while upholding UN security management policies and humanitarian principles. The position plays a key role in implementing humanitarian movement and security risk management measures, supporting emergency programs, inter-agency movements, partner operations, and high-risk field missions. The Security Manager provides operational leadership and supervision of Gaza-based security personnel, ensuring effective implementation of security risk management, humanitarian access coordination, emergency preparedness, and operational security compliance, thereby enabling UNICEF to fulfill its mandate for every child.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior operational security focal point for UNICEF Gaza operations, providing operational leadership and supervision of Gaza-based security personnel. Ensure effective implementation of UNICEF security risk management, humanitarian access coordination, emergency preparedness, and operational security compliance. Support senior management through operational analysis, crisis coordination, humanitarian liaison, and field-level operational decision support in a highly volatile operating environment. Work in close collaboration with the Country Office Security Manager in Jerusalem on technical issues. Advise the Senior Emergency Coordinator (SEC)/Chief Field Office (CFO) on their security duties and responsibilities in the area of responsibility, in accordance with UN and UNICEF Security Management Systems. Contribute to the UNICEF mandate through strong security risk analysis, advice, and relevant mitigation strategies. Independently manage sensitive security coordination responsibilities, including engagement with de facto authorities, local power brokers, armed actors, convoy coordination mechanisms, community leaders, and humanitarian partners to facilitate operational access while ensuring compliance with United Nations security management policies and humanitarian principles. Play a key role in the implementation of humanitarian movement and security risk management measures enabling the continuity of UNICEF humanitarian operations across Gaza, including support to emergency programmes, inter-agency movements, partner operations, and high-risk field missions.

Work Experience

At least 8 years of relevant work experience in security, security management, risk management, emergency response, humanitarian access, crisis coordination, incident management, movement coordination, civil-military coordination, physical security, and capacity building.

Skills

Security Management, Coordination, Leadership, Analysis, Humanitarian Operations, Emergency Coordination, Risk Management, Incident Management, Movement Coordination, Civil-Military Coordination, Physical Security, Capacity Building

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