Operations risk manager Libya

Chemonics seeks an operations risk manager for the ongoing OTI-funded Libya Transition Initiative. The Libyan operational context is complex and involves a mildly antagonistic patchwork of tribal, militia, local, and federal authorities that exert different levels of influence in particular areas of the country. The operations risk manager is the senior security position for Chemonics in Libya and requires high performance in intelligence/information collection and analysis, networking, incident management, and risk analysis and personnel management. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Responsibilities include:

• Advise chief of party, operations director, regional program managers, and home office on security matters
  
• Collect information and data beyond open sources
  
• Analyze information to produce actionable recommendations and reports
  
• Disaggregate threats into perceived, actual, direct, and indirect
  
• Develop risk analysis and mitigation measures
  
• Assess security risks impacting the project's expatriate and local staff
  
• Network and liaison with international and local actors including representatives of informal power structures (tribes, militias, elders), nongovernmental organizations, religious authorities, and corporations
  
• Establish strong working relationships with a number of local and international organizations and entities ​
  
• Develop strong ties with the various official or semi-official security forces in Libya ​
  
• Develop a list of emergency contacts
  
• Conduct personnel, facility (office and residences), and operational threat and risk assessments for the project
  
• Recommend security enhancements and modifications; ensure that approved recommendations are implemented
  
• Analyze risk related to programmatic considerations, such as provision of implementation mechanisms for grants and programmatic mitigation measures
  
• Review and update the Chemonics project security manual, including the communication, emergency, and information security plan; create and document any additional security protocols and procedures as necessary
  
• Implement a country-wide crisis communications plan (involving staff training and ensuring project sites have reliable communications/radio technologies) and ensure that it includes location-specific emergency action plans
  
• Advance planning and coordination for all movements of our staff, including coordinating security details (if necessary) for Chemonics expatriate staff in Libya
  
• Provide regular security briefings and training for project staff, including drivers
  
• Provide timely reports to senior management and the chief of party to keep them abreast of the security status and risks
  
• Prepare and submit a weekly operations risk report to the home office
  
• Act as a local crisis manager and coordinate security lock-downs, evacuations, and response to security incidents
  
• Develop the professional competency and capabilities of a Libyan counterpart who will be purposefully trained to assume the role of operations risk manager

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
  
• Minimum 10 years of experience in security, crisis management, and research and analysis
  
• Strong understanding of the security situation in Libya; experience in Libya strongly preferred
  
• Experience in remote programming support
  
• Experience in low visibility approaches to security platforms
  
• Ability to establish strong working relationships with project stakeholders
  
• Ability to develop relationships with security community, international community, local formal and informal power structures, and other local actors
  
• Experience managing other security personnel
  
• Ability to lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team under difficult and challenging circumstances
• Demonstrated ability to resolve conflicts and crises effectively
  
• Ability to work and travel in remote areas of Libya to oversee program implementation and provide technical expertise
  
• Familiarity with tracking systems desired
  
• Proficiency in acceptance-based risk mitigation strategies
  
• Ability to train and explain acceptance to national staff and other relevant stakeholders
  
• Proven capability in gathering and analyzing information associated with physical, psychological, business, and operations risks
  
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
  
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills
  
• English fluency required; Arabic proficiency strongly preferred

Application Instructions:

Please send electronic submissions to LTIRecruitment@chemonics.com by Friday, August 24, 2012. Please include the "Operations Risk Manager" in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

In addition, please download and complete Chemonics’ equal employment opportunity self-identification form and submit it separately to EEOselfidentify@chemonics.com with only "Libya Transition Initiative - Operations Risk Manager" in the subject line. If you prefer not to disclose your sex, race, or ethnicity, you may check “I do not wish to complete the information requested.” Thank you for completing the form and supporting our equal employment opportunity reporting requirements.

Chemonics is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.​​