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Saturday, October 17, 2026

Director of safety and security - ReliefWeb

Around the world, courageous people and communities are fighting to turn the tide of authoritarianism, environmental destruction, and social injustice. But they face attacks, harassment, and censorship from powerful vested interests.

This is where you come in.

You will be leading an international team of consultants providing security mentoring and capacity building to organisations and activists under threat in violent environments and closed civic spaces. You will be liaising with international foundations and high-profile nonprofits in the human rights, environmental, and humanitarian worlds. And you will be central to the organisational culture and strategic planning needed to grow our organisation in a sustainable manner.

Role description

As our director of safety and security, you will:

  1. Continuously develop and promote our safety and security services.

  2. Complete security risk management and duty of care audits and produce bespoke security risk management frameworks and other higher-level products (approximately 20% of time).

  3. Respond to enquiries from clients and liaise with them and our consultant team through any subsequent contracts.

  4. Process and manage our responses to requests and referrals for funded support for at-risk activists and low-resource civil society organisations.

  5. Manage an international and multilingual team of 11 consultants and trainers providing safety and security support to clients and recipients, including:

    Quality assure and provide expert...



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