Job ID
47408
Job Title
Security Manager
To work for
Secours Islamique France (SIF)
Country
Syria
City
Damascus
Field of Work
Security/Guard Services - Administrative - Humanitarian/Disasters
Job Type
Project Based
Military service
Not Specified
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
1. Personnel Security & Safety
• Provide tailored security orientations, training, and briefings for expatriate and national staff, considering contextual differences in exposure and movement.
• Conduct background checks, vetting, and security clearances for staff and contractors.
• Maintain effective track staff movements, ensuring strict adherence to call-in protocols and travel restrictions.
• Maintain 24/7 emergency support and provide real-time guidance during incidents affecting staff.
• Conduct security orientations, briefings, and refresher trainings for expatriate and national staff.
• Gender-sensitive risk assessments and tailored safety measures for female, national, and international staff.
2. Physical Security & Facility Protection
• Oversee security measures for SIF offices, guesthouses, warehouses, and field sites.
• Maintain updated evacuation and contingency plans for all facilities and ensure staff/visitors are covered.
• Verify the reliability of access control systems, alarms, and protective barriers.
3. Mapping & Zone Classification
• Maintain updated mapping of red zones, green zones, and restricted-access areas, based on verified intelligence and operational risk assessments.
• Regularly update field teams and management on changes in movement zones, ensuring clear communication of safe vs. restricted areas.
• Adapt staff movement authorizations according to zone classifications, ensuring maximum safety and Communicate movement restrictions and authorizations based on zone classifications.
• Provide tailored movement protocols for expatriates vs. national staff, considering exposure risks.
• Develop tailored movement protocols for expatriates and national staff, considering varying exposure risks.
• Liaise with local actors and UN/INGO forums to validate and adjust access and security mapping.
4. Emergency Planning & Continuity of Operations
• Ensure the Crisis Response Plan (CRP) reflects evolving threats and remains understood by all staff.
• Maintain active crisis communication channels (emergency call trees, satellite phones, WhatsApp groups).
• Lead incident management, including evacuation coordination and relocation strategies.
• Liaise with international security consultants and humanitarian coordination forums to align contingency planning.
5. Security Protocols & Compliance
• Implement office, residential, drivers SOPs across all mission locations.
• Ensure strict adherence to SIF’s travel safety procedures, including approvals and movement tracking.
• Monitor compliance with SIF’s global and mission-specific travel protocols.
• Safeguard sensitive project and personnel information (digital and physical).
• Conduct regular security drills, compliance checks, and refresher trainings.
6. Security Intelligence & Reporting
• Track and analyze daily political, conflict, and security developments in Syria, producing timely risk assessments.
• Produce timely, high-quality weekly/monthly security reports, risk assessments, and flash alerts for HoM, SMT, and HQ, including actionable recommendations. Represent SIF in local security networks and maintain close liaison with UNDSS, INGO security forums, local authorities, and humanitarian actors.
• Track, verify, and analyze daily political, military, and security developments across Syria using multiple sources (UNDSS, INSO, local networks, open-source intelligence)
• Actively represent SIF in security coordination forums (UNDSS, INGO security cell, local networks) and build trusted relationships with authorities and humanitarian actors to enhance access and information sharing
• Lead post-incident reviews, lessons learned processes, and updates to security plans to prevent recurrence.
7. Staff Capacity-Building & Awareness
• Establish and lead security education and awareness programs for all staff.
• Conduct regular scenario-based trainings (evacuation, checkpoints, hostile environment awareness).
• Mentor and build the capacity of national security focal points in the field offices.
• Foster a security-aware organizational culture across all departments.
• Provide tailored security orientations, training, and briefings for expatriate and national staff, considering contextual differences in exposure and movement.
• Conduct background checks, vetting, and security clearances for staff and contractors.
• Maintain effective track staff movements, ensuring strict adherence to call-in protocols and travel restrictions.
• Maintain 24/7 emergency support and provide real-time guidance during incidents affecting staff.
• Conduct security orientations, briefings, and refresher trainings for expatriate and national staff.
• Gender-sensitive risk assessments and tailored safety measures for female, national, and international staff.
2. Physical Security & Facility Protection
• Oversee security measures for SIF offices, guesthouses, warehouses, and field sites.
• Maintain updated evacuation and contingency plans for all facilities and ensure staff/visitors are covered.
• Verify the reliability of access control systems, alarms, and protective barriers.
3. Mapping & Zone Classification
• Maintain updated mapping of red zones, green zones, and restricted-access areas, based on verified intelligence and operational risk assessments.
• Regularly update field teams and management on changes in movement zones, ensuring clear communication of safe vs. restricted areas.
• Adapt staff movement authorizations according to zone classifications, ensuring maximum safety and Communicate movement restrictions and authorizations based on zone classifications.
• Provide tailored movement protocols for expatriates vs. national staff, considering exposure risks.
• Develop tailored movement protocols for expatriates and national staff, considering varying exposure risks.
• Liaise with local actors and UN/INGO forums to validate and adjust access and security mapping.
4. Emergency Planning & Continuity of Operations
• Ensure the Crisis Response Plan (CRP) reflects evolving threats and remains understood by all staff.
• Maintain active crisis communication channels (emergency call trees, satellite phones, WhatsApp groups).
• Lead incident management, including evacuation coordination and relocation strategies.
• Liaise with international security consultants and humanitarian coordination forums to align contingency planning.
5. Security Protocols & Compliance
• Implement office, residential, drivers SOPs across all mission locations.
• Ensure strict adherence to SIF’s travel safety procedures, including approvals and movement tracking.
• Monitor compliance with SIF’s global and mission-specific travel protocols.
• Safeguard sensitive project and personnel information (digital and physical).
• Conduct regular security drills, compliance checks, and refresher trainings.
6. Security Intelligence & Reporting
• Track and analyze daily political, conflict, and security developments in Syria, producing timely risk assessments.
• Produce timely, high-quality weekly/monthly security reports, risk assessments, and flash alerts for HoM, SMT, and HQ, including actionable recommendations. Represent SIF in local security networks and maintain close liaison with UNDSS, INGO security forums, local authorities, and humanitarian actors.
• Track, verify, and analyze daily political, military, and security developments across Syria using multiple sources (UNDSS, INSO, local networks, open-source intelligence)
• Actively represent SIF in security coordination forums (UNDSS, INGO security cell, local networks) and build trusted relationships with authorities and humanitarian actors to enhance access and information sharing
• Lead post-incident reviews, lessons learned processes, and updates to security plans to prevent recurrence.
7. Staff Capacity-Building & Awareness
• Establish and lead security education and awareness programs for all staff.
• Conduct regular scenario-based trainings (evacuation, checkpoints, hostile environment awareness).
• Mentor and build the capacity of national security focal points in the field offices.
• Foster a security-aware organizational culture across all departments.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s/ master's degree in security studies, International Relations, Political Science, Risk Management, or a related field.
Professional certifications in security management, risk assessment, crisis management, or HEAT/SSAFE trainings are strongly preferred.
Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in security management, preferably in conflict or post-conflict environments such as Syria or the wider MENA region and An extensive INGO/UN security experience, may be considered in lieu of a relevant degree.
Proven leadership skills with experience managing and supervising staff, including national security personnel and guard forces.
Strong analytical capacity to identify, assess, and adapt security strategies in a rapidly changing and high-risk context.
Demonstrated ability to collect, verify, and analyze security information from multiple sources and provide actionable intelligence to senior management.
Experience working in high-stress, high-pressure environments, with ability to respond effectively to emergencies and critical incidents.
Previous experience with international development, humanitarian, or non-profit organizations in fragile contexts.
Strong computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and security databases/tools.
Excellent report-writing skills in English, including risk assessments, incident analysis, and security updates.
Proven ability to liaise effectively with government security authorities, UNDSS, NGOs, and other security coordination bodies in Syria.
Language skills: Fluency in English and Arabic required; French is an asset for coordination with HQ and francophone partners.
Professional certifications in security management, risk assessment, crisis management, or HEAT/SSAFE trainings are strongly preferred.
Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in security management, preferably in conflict or post-conflict environments such as Syria or the wider MENA region and An extensive INGO/UN security experience, may be considered in lieu of a relevant degree.
Proven leadership skills with experience managing and supervising staff, including national security personnel and guard forces.
Strong analytical capacity to identify, assess, and adapt security strategies in a rapidly changing and high-risk context.
Demonstrated ability to collect, verify, and analyze security information from multiple sources and provide actionable intelligence to senior management.
Experience working in high-stress, high-pressure environments, with ability to respond effectively to emergencies and critical incidents.
Previous experience with international development, humanitarian, or non-profit organizations in fragile contexts.
Strong computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and security databases/tools.
Excellent report-writing skills in English, including risk assessments, incident analysis, and security updates.
Proven ability to liaise effectively with government security authorities, UNDSS, NGOs, and other security coordination bodies in Syria.
Language skills: Fluency in English and Arabic required; French is an asset for coordination with HQ and francophone partners.
Salary and Benefits
The advertisement will be closed manually after 2 weeks of announcement, Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the vacancy will be closed once a suitable candidate is identified.
About us
Founded in 1991, Secours Islamique France (SIF) is a nongovernmental organization devoted to international solidarity, social and humanitarian causes in the fields of humanitarian assistance and development aid, both in France and in the world.
SIF is dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest people in France and around the world. It acts wherever humanitarian and social needs require mobilization of emergency relief and implementation of development programmes. SIF is inspired by the values of Islam, solidarity and respect for human dignity, which are at the heart of its concerns. Through its commitment, values and missions, it calls for the building of human solidarity that transcends differences and borders.
SIF has started to work in Syria since 2008 and has been operating in many governorates namely, Aleppo, Damascus, Dara’a, Hama, Homs, Rural Damascus, and Quneitra. Shelter support is among their main programs along with Education, community services, and provision of water, sanitation and hygiene.
SIF is dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest people in France and around the world. It acts wherever humanitarian and social needs require mobilization of emergency relief and implementation of development programmes. SIF is inspired by the values of Islam, solidarity and respect for human dignity, which are at the heart of its concerns. Through its commitment, values and missions, it calls for the building of human solidarity that transcends differences and borders.
SIF has started to work in Syria since 2008 and has been operating in many governorates namely, Aleppo, Damascus, Dara’a, Hama, Homs, Rural Damascus, and Quneitra. Shelter support is among their main programs along with Education, community services, and provision of water, sanitation and hygiene.
Required employees number
1
Posted On
Mar 17, 2026
Expiry Date
Apr 15, 2026
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CV Language
English
Additional questions for applicants
Q1: Have you ever been arrested, Indicted, or summoned into court as a defendant in a criminal proceeding, or convicted, fined or imprisoned for the violation of any law (exclude minor traffic violation).?
Q2: Please confirm that you have never been subject to sanctions (disciplinary, administrative or criminal) arising from an investigation in relation to PSEA,or left employment.
Q3: Please Confirm that you don’t suffer from any health issues (Chronic disease, injuries,) that prevent or limit your ability to perform your tasks properly.
Q2: Please confirm that you have never been subject to sanctions (disciplinary, administrative or criminal) arising from an investigation in relation to PSEA,or left employment.
Q3: Please Confirm that you don’t suffer from any health issues (Chronic disease, injuries,) that prevent or limit your ability to perform your tasks properly.