Vacancy - NGO Security Officer - Darfur
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Vacancy - NGO Safety and Security Officer - Sudan
Vacancy - NGO Security Officer (ARC) - Darfur
Desired Qualifications:
• 5 years field security related experience with humanitarian agencies and/or military/peacekeeping experience in insecure and/or hostile environments.
• 2 years supervising national staff.
• Training skills and experience in security/safety related subjects such as threat/risk assessment, security management, personal & organization security awareness, and incident analysis.
• Competency and training experience in field based communications systems such as Codan, IKOM, Barrett, HG, Motorola, BHF, fixed and mobile satellite systems.
• Sudan or Africa experience preferred.
• Ability to work under pressure in an unstable security environment and excellent English oral and written communication skills.
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Darfur 'No Fly Zone'?
NGO security advisors are advised to reassess their medical evacuation plans for Darfur. The lack of reliable aeromedical evacuation capability increases the threat to life and limb of even relatively minor medical events.
Vacancy - Safety and Security Coordinator - Sudan
Requirements:
A formal security qualification or appropriate security management training.
Practical field experience in staff safety & security management in an NGO in an area of conflict.
Previous UN and/or NGO experience.
3 to 5 years security related experience with humanitarian agencies, military or peacekeeping experience.
Previous overseas experience in conflict and/or post conflict environments.
Competency and training experience in field based communications systems such as Codan and VHF radio, Motorola and fixed and mobile satellite systems.
Instructor level experience in the training of security/safety related subjects.
Experience in management and building capacity of staff.
Computer proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and ideally in Access and other database/mapping systems.
Willingness to travel extensively in Darfur (60-70% of work time).
Proven ability and experience interacting with all parties while upholding humanitarian principles like impartiality and neutrality.
Strong interpersonal skills.
Excellent English oral and written communication skills.
Arabic skills a plus.
Darfur, Afghanistan, Beer, and Breakfast
For those who haven't seen it before Google Trends compares the relative Google search frequency of up to five user specified terms. For example if you want to compare relative search interest in various hot beverages you might enter "coffee, tea, cocoa" and press search. Google Trends returns a nice neat chart that shows how many searches were made for each term over time. It also shows a "news reference volume" chart, or in other words the frequency with which the term has shown up in the media.
The chart above was
generated when I compared relative interest in
Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Congo, with Sweden
as a control.
The results were pretty interesting. Searches for
Iraq seem to correspond with increases in media
coverage. No surprises there. The big surprise for me
was Sweden. Google user are more interested in Sweden
than they are in Darfur, Afghanistan, and the Congo.
Talk about forgotten conflicts!
Flag B is interesting. It marks George Bush's call
for more NATO troops in Afghanistan and clearly shows
an increase in media coverage of Afghanistan. It even
overtook coverage of Iraq for a short while. However,
the general public took no notice.
The regions chart is
enlightening. Americans are predominantly interested
in Iraq and seem to have forgotten about Afghanistan.
The Canadians, who have troops in Afghanistan but not
Iraq seem equally interested in both countries. And
finally, the Swedes seem to be totally obsessed with
Sweden.
Not without trepidation
replaced Sweden with "beer" in my search terms. I
shouldn't have. I now know that your average computer
using westerner is more interested in beer than they
are in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. "Darfur?...
never heard of it... do they have good beer?"
If you are feeling particularly masochistic try
breakfast
or worse boobs.
For a brief while in 2004 your average Google user
was more interested in what was happening in Iraq
than what they were going to have for breakfast.
That aberration hasn't repeated itself since. Its
also interesting to note that while American's
seem equally fascinated by Iraq and breasts,
Canadians have a distinct preference for the
later.
"...we keep them alive, until they are massacred."
Jan Egeland on the need for more than just humanitarian aid:
"...in the old days, they said, "Send the Marines." Now it's, "Send the humanitarians. They will keep them alive, and we can maybe forget about it." Well, we keep them alive, until they are massacred."
Jan on humanitarian security in a post UN Bahgdad bombing world:
"...it is a watershed when we go from just preparing ourselves to survive in crossfire with militias, with child soldiers, with drunken soldiers, with mines, and so on—we have lots of procedures to survive in such circumstances, but we do not know how to survive when a well-financed, ruthless organization plans for one month to kill you."
You can watch a video excerpt of the presentation below.
If you have good bandwidth you can watch the full video presentation...
or you can listen to the audio archive...
or if your connection is very slow take a look at the transcript.