Security Analyst, Access and HMI SC8

World Food Programme•Lebanon, PA

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About The Position

Assisting more than 115.5 million people in 120 + countries each year, the World Food Program (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and helping individuals and communities find life-changing solutions to the multiple challenges they face in building better futures. In conflict situations, we bring relief to exhausted populations and use food assistance to build pathways to peace and stability – work for which WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. WFP Lebanon provides cash assistance to Syrian refugees and in-kind assistance to vulnerable Lebanese, while supporting the Government in strengthening social safety nets. WFP supports resilience-building activities, and its school meals programme improves nutrition and school attendance. Since October 2023, WFP has provided food and cash assistance to people affected by the conflict and has scaled up its food assistance including the distribution of daily meals following the recent escalation. Under the guidance of the Head of Security, the Security Analyst, Access, HMI ( Humanitarian Military Interaction, will play vital role in supporting decision-making and ensuring operational success by providing technical support services in the access, analysis and contextualization of security incidents using specialized processes, tools, and platforms aligned with WFP security standards. The current state of humanitarian response in the Middle East and North Africa is characterized by increasingly complex and protracted conflict-driven crises involving a multiplicity of humanitarian actors and state/military entities. The incumbent will be required to establish a more standard approach to, and more structured dialogue with military sector entities in areas of operation to improve information-sharing, coordinate predictable and systematic access of WFP personnel and cargo and ensure appropriate logistics planning and response.

Requirements

Advanced University degree in Security Management, International Relations, Development, Political Science, Social or Military Science, Conflict Analysis, Criminology, law, Executive Business Management, or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses
At least one (1) or more years of postgraduate professional experience (after completion of Advanced University degree) or, three (3) years or more after completion of First University degree in humanitarian sector, analysis, emergency management/implementation, risk management, HMI, or related field.
Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Arabic.
Negotiation and communication skills.
Strong analytical and reporting skills.
Knowledge of humanitarian principles, humanitarian law
Familiarity with local context and key stakeholders.
Knowledge of security and political dynamics of Lebanon
Experience in handling analysis platforms

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of French language is desirable.

Responsibilities

Support the head of security with the enhancement and modernization of its analytical capability, including leveraging the use of AI
Contribute to comprehensive research, analysis, and reporting on security-related data and civil-military relations, including trends, incidents, and emerging threats, while collaborating with internal stakeholders and external partners to validate data and ensure accuracy and relevance in the analysis.
Contribute to the development of topic assessments for individual and/or multiple significant incidents that have potential impact on WFP program delivery, mandate implementation, staff movements, safety and security.
Monitor the media, UN resources and other reliable official sources to develop security reports and analysis based on trends and pattern analysis that gives the CO management a guidance on operational aspects, staff movements and other security decision making.
Provide technical advice and support to CO as needed, focusing on addressing civil-military challenges in the country and region, and identifying potential or actual coordination issues between military and security forces and the humanitarian community
Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including local authorities, UN agencies, and humanitarian organizations, to address and mitigate access challenges, support basic civil-military and HMI capacity building, and support civil-military coordination principles and best practices to improve field operations.
Participate in working groups, meetings, humanitarian access forums, and consultations with UN agencies and partners; organize meetings on UN–civil-military coordination matters as required, and represent the organization in access coordination forums and negotiations, including interagency access working groups and WFP access meetings
Provide normative and technical support on civil-military coordination (CMC) to CO, as required, in order to support field operations. This also includes providing any necessary input and/or support in the drafting of context-specific strategies and civil-military guidance.
Provide regular analysis that gives guidance to management to decide on contextual matters such as WFP access and accessibility, alike aspects that has reputational context against WFP related to safety and security.
Support to manage WFP Lebanon’s Humanitarian Notification System (HNS) for static and temporary notifications, ensure deconfliction of locations and assets, and support to assess and make recommendations on on the future development of humanitarian notification systems.
Establish rapport/engage with Country Office (CO) level counterparts, as well as UN agencies and other humanitarian actors in the country to ensure oversight and the appropriate level of preparedness and exchange of information on civil military coordination.
Contribute to the development and update of access mapping tools and strategies to support operational planning.
Maintain WFP platforms related to staff movements, operational distribution that provide timely visibility to management on the footprint.
Contribute to, if appropriate and contingent on the needs of COs and the region, a regional civ-mil strategy, in consultation with RB key functions and regional leadership
Perform other duties if/as applicable.