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Regional Safety & Security Director at International Rescue Committee
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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 5 days ago (22 Oct 2026) Updated about 4 hours ago
Job Description
The regional director provides senior leadership for safety and security across East Africa, developing strategies to protect staff, assets, and program continuity. They advise senior management, integrate gender and inclusion considerations, and establish guidelines for humanitarian access. Overseeing contingency planning and responding to conduct violations are also key duties.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • Bachelor’s degree in Security Studies, International Relations, or related field
- • Minimum ten years of experience in international humanitarian safety and security leadership
- • Proven ability to develop and execute regional security strategies in high‑risk environments
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Provide strategic leadership for safety, security, and humanitarian access across the East Africa region
- • Develop and implement a comprehensive risk mitigation strategy to protect staff, assets, and program continuity
- • Advise the Regional Vice President and senior management on security‑related decisions and risk‑informed planning
- • Integrate gender, equality, diversity, and inclusion considerations into security risk analyses and policies
- • Create context‑specific guidelines for humanitarian access and engagement with state and non‑state actors, aligned with IRC policy and international humanitarian law
- • Guide country programmes in designing contingency plans and ensuring preparedness for political or security crises
- • Coordinate response to violations of the IRC Code of Conduct and breaches of humanitarian principles
- • Lead performance management, recruitment, and development of safety and security staff