Title: Security Manager Consultant

• Duty Station: Home-based with field missions (as required)
• Duration: 9 months / 2.5 days per week (renewable)
• Reporting to: Director of Finance and Business Support
• Start Date: 1 April 2026

Background

HelpAge operates in fragile and conflict-affected environments across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Ensuring the safety, security, and operational continuity of staff and programmes is central to its humanitarian mandate.

The organisation seeks to strengthen its global Security Risk Management (SRM) framework and enhance field-level capacity for security, access negotiation, and crisis management.

To support this, HelpAge is seeking a part-time (20 hours per week) Security Manager Consultant to provide technical expertise, strategic direction, and mentoring support to global and country teams.

Objective

The objective of this consultancy is to provide technical advice and capacity strengthening to enhance HelpAge International’s security risk management systems, policies, and practices, ensuring safe and effective programme delivery.

The consultant will support HelpAge in strengthening its institutional security risk management framework, improving operational access, and embedding best-practice standards for safety, security, and duty of care.

Scope of Work

The consultant will undertake the following tasks:

• Strategic Security Risk Management
• Review, refine, and harmonise the organisation’s global SRM framework in alignment with GISF and UN standards.
• Develop or update global and country-level security policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Provide strategic advice to senior leadership on emerging security threats, geopolitical developments, and access implications.
• Operational Support and Capacity Building
• Conduct Security Risk Assessments (SRA) and country audits in priority operations.
• Facilitate staff capacity development through tailored trainings (HEAT, Crisis Management, Family Liaison).
• Mentor regional and national safety focal points, building sustainable internal security management capacity.
• Support the integration of Gender, PSEAH, and Duty of Care principles into security management systems.
• Crisis and Incident Management
• Strengthen the organisation’s crisis management structures, including contingency planning, communication protocols, and decision-making processes.
• Facilitate after-action reviews of major incidents and develop learning reports and recommendations.
• Advise on access negotiation, staff evacuations, and emergency response planning in high-threat environments.
• Representation and Coordination
• Liaise with peer agencies, UN, INSO, GISF, and host government authorities to ensure effective coordination and information sharing.
• Represent the organisation in global or regional security networks and forums as required

Qualifications and Experience

• At least 20 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian security risk management and access coordination.
• Proven leadership experience as Global or Regional Security Advisor in major INGOs.
• Demonstrated expertise in crisis management, conflict analysis, and negotiation with non-state actors.
• Certified instructor in HEAT, or equivalent field safety training.
• Proven ability to design SRM frameworks and policies for international organisations.
• Advanced academic background in International Relations, Public Policy, Security Studies, or related disciplines.
• Fluency in English; working proficiency in other languages is an asset.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified consultants are invited to submit a short Expression of Interest (EOI), including a cover letter and CV to jobs@helpage.org with the subject line Consultancy – Security Manager. Applications close on Friday, 6 February 2026.