Deputy Security Manager – EACOP

About the role

The Deputy Security Manager at EACOP organizes, coordinates and supervises all security activities related to the project's operational assets, working under the Security Manager. The role is open to Ugandan nationals only, is full-time and temporary, and covers a geographically dispersed environment including pipeline infrastructure, pump stations, facilities and maritime export infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor the security situation, maintain situational awareness with Government Security Forces, local authorities and communities, and protect critical infrastructure, personnel, information and assets
• Coordinate security support for operations, maintenance campaigns, special projects and shutdowns
• Manage security incidents, threats, anomalies and near misses, develop corrective and preventive actions and share lessons learned
• Take part in security risk identification and assessment, and support security and contingency plans
• Review contractor performance, support annual security training plans, deliver VPSHR awareness and security inductions, and take part in emergency drills and crisis rehearsals
• Liaise with Government Security Forces and authorities, and work with Operations, HSE, Logistics, Land & Social, Commercial and Legal

Required profile

• Master's degree in public or private security operations management
• At least 15 years of proven security management and operational leadership experience, with exposure to QHSSE systems in complex industrial or infrastructure settings
• Experience running large security forces or companies to ISO 18788 (2015) and VPSHR standards, and experience with Government Security Forces liaison and ideally port facility security
• Strong people and asset protection background and threat analysis experience
• Fluent English, ability to travel to remote locations and work in a multi-cultural project team

Required skills

• International security best practices: ICoCa, ASIS International Protection of Assets, IOGP reference material, ANSI/API Standard 780
• Integrated QSSHE management systems and risk-based management
• Security risk assessment tools per ISO 31010:2011, threat and risk assessment (TARA)
• VPSHR, including the UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms and the UN Code of Conduct for law enforcement officials
• ISO 18788:2015 and ISO 28007-1:2015