Job Description
Do you have a Master’s degree in Security Management, International Relations, Risk Management, Humanitarian Security or related field.A Bachelor’s degree combined with relevant postgraduate or professional qualifications and significant experience of at least 10 years may be considered?
Do you at least 6 years’ experience of progressive senior experience in security risk management, humanitarian security, crisis response, and multi-country operational security?
Do you have proven ability to provide strategic security advisory, risk analysis, incident management and duty of care systems?
If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you.
The Role:
Oxfam is looking for Security Advisor
Duties and Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Security Risk Management & Analysis (20%)
The role leads the identification, assessment, and monitoring of security risks across the Cluster, ensuring that decision-making is informed by up-to-date and context-specific analysis.
Conduct and maintain security risk assessments across countries and programme areas
Monitor and analyse evolving security trends including conflict dynamics, political risks, civil unrest, environmental threats, organised violence, and access constraints and provide timely advise to SAF partners, operational teams and leadership.
Develop context-specific risk mitigation strategies
Strengthen scenario planning and strategic foresight.
Security Frameworks, Policies & Protocols (15%)
The role is responsible for developing and maintaining security policies and procedures that are aligned with organisational standards and adapted to local contexts.
Develop, update, and harmonise and maintain security policies, SOPs, Crisis protocols , travel systems, access frameworks and security governance tools.
Ensure alignment with Oxfam global security policies and duty-of-care frameworks, humanitarian principles, and safeguarding systems.
Support implementation and compliance across all operational hubs
Standardise security systems while adopting to local realities
Duty of Care & Staff Safety (15%)
The role ensures that duty-of-care obligations are met, with a strong focus on staff safety, wellbeing, and preparedness.
Advise on staff safety, field travel, access protocols, safe accommodation, and incident prevention.
Support development of safe working practices across all contexts
Work with People, Culture and Organisational Development Lead to integrate security into wellbeing systems, staff care, and crisis support.
Strengthen business continuity and safe operating environments.
Incident Management & Crisis Response (15%)
The role leads and supports effective response to security incidents, ensuring timely action, coordination, and learning.
Provide guidance during security incidents, critical events , emergencies, evacuations, and access disruption.
Lead or Support incident report coordination, escalation protocols, crisis management structures, and after-action reviews.
Ensure incidents are documented, analysed, reporting, and used for institutional learning.
Strengthen business continuity systems and contingency planning.
Security Capacity Building, Awareness & Organisational Culture (10%)
The role strengthens staff and partner capability to manage security effectively.
Design and deliver security training, HEAT-related preparedness, briefings, Incident simulations, and risk awareness systems
Build security competence across staff, leadership, partners, and field teams
Promote a culture of preparedness, accountability, safe decision-making, and risk awareness
Strengthen organisational confidence in high-risk contexts
Security Integration into Programme Design, Delivery & Humanitarian Systems (10%)
The role ensures programme ambitions remain aligned with operational realities.
Advise programme teams on risk-sensitive design, safe implementation, access strategies, and context adaptation
Strengthen integration of security considerations into programme planning, humanitarian response, partner-led systems, operational decision-making
Ensure programme continuity in volatile contexts.
Support ethical programming in fragile environments
Partner Security Support, Localisation & Responsible Risk Sharing (10%)
The role strengthens security systems within Oxfam’s partner-led model.
Support partners in security assessments, risk management, incident response, and security systems design
Strengthen partner organisational resilience and preparedness.
Promote responsible localisation by ensuring shared risk understanding, ethical risk transfer, and partner safety
Build partner capability without externalising disproportionate security burdens
Coordination, External Engagement & Security Network Management (5%)
The role strengthens Oxfam’s security ecosystem through strategic coordination.
Liaise with Oxfam global security teams, regional security networks, governments, security actors, and humanitarian coordination systems
Build credible external security relationships.
Support strategic coordination across countries and affiliates.
Strengthen information sharing and intelligence systems
Qualifications and Experience
What we are looking for:
We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.
An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:
Master’s degree in Security Management, International Relations, Risk Management, Humanitarian Security or related field.A Bachelor’s degree combined with relevant postgraduate or professional qualifications and significant experience of at least 10 years may be considered.
At least 6 years’ experience of progressive senior experience in security risk management, humanitarian security, crisis response, and multi-country operational security
Strong understanding of risk assessment, incident management, and duty-of-care frameworks.
Proven ability to provide strategic security advisory, risk analysis, incident management and duty of care systems.
Strong communication, leadership and systems capability.
Ability to build strong, credible relationships with internal and external individuals and organisations
Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English, with strong influencing and persuasive skills
A high level of self-awareness, personal energy, stamina and flexibility. Ability to work creatively, effectively and in an innovative manner, adjusting to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through
Proven experience as a team worker and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams
Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.
Excellent personal communication skills, in written and verbal English and Portuguese.
How to Apply
