Deputy Security Manager – EACOP Site, Uganda

About the role

Q-Sourcing, acting on behalf of its client EACOP, is recruiting a Deputy Security Manager to work at the EACOP site in Uganda. The role organises, coordinates and supervises all security activities for EACOP's operational assets, working under the Security Manager and supporting the implementation of the EACOP Security Management Framework, national legislation, company standards and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPSHR). It sits in line with the Security Manager (N+1) and the Managing Director (N+2) and manages four staff.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor the security situation and recommend mitigation measures, keeping close contact with Government Security Forces, local authorities, communities and other stakeholders
• Protect critical infrastructure, personnel, information, assets and operations, and coordinate security support for operations, maintenance campaigns, special projects and shutdowns
• Ensure security incidents, threats, anomalies and near misses are reported, investigated and analysed, with corrective and preventive actions tracked and lessons learned applied
• Take part in identifying and assessing security risks, supporting security and contingency plans, and reviewing contractor performance
• Support annual security training plans, VPSHR awareness programmes, inductions, emergency drills and crisis management exercises
• Liaise with Government Security Forces and interface with Operations, HSE, Logistics, Land & Social, Commercial, Legal and other departments
• Comply with EACOP HSE requirements and standards

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 liaising with Government Security Forces; port facility security experience preferred
• Good background in people and asset protection and threat analysis
• Fluent English, able to travel to remote locations and work in a multi-cultural project team

Required skills

• Knowledge of international security best practice (ICoCa, ASIS International Protection of Assets, IOGP, ANSI/API 780)
• Integrated QSSHE management systems and risk-based management
• Security risk assessment tools per ISO 31010:2011 and 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