Safety and Security Advisor (Retainer)

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Organization: ActionAid

Deadline: August 9, 2026

Job Description

About ActionAid Ethiopia

ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) is a Gender justice and poverty eradication organization. In Ethiopia, ActionAid works to challenge gender inequalities and the structure causes of poverty through empowering communities to create critical mass of communities especially women and Girls living in poverty and exclusion.

ActionAid Ethiopia believes that Gender justice and poverty eradication are achieved through purposeful individual and collective action to bring socio-economic changes from household level to local, national, and international levels. Empowerment of people living in poverty and women leadership with the support of their allies is crucial to drive change that will ensure equality and poverty eradication.

• Position: Safety and Security Advisor (Retainer)
• Duty Station: Addis Ababa, with occasional field travel as required
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Development (HROD)
• Contract Type: Retainer/Consultancy (Part-time) Reporting to: Head of HROD

Role Purpose

ActionAid Ethiopia is seeking an experienced and strategic Safety and Security Advisor to provide highlevel technical and advisory support in strengthening the organization’s Safety and Security Risk Management (SRM) systems. The Advisor will support the development and review of policies, SOPs, and security frameworks; provide contextual analysis and incident-based advisory support; and strengthen staff capacity through trainings and awareness initiatives.

The role requires a highly skilled professional with strong experience in humanitarian and development settings, capable of supporting operational decision-making in complex and high-risk environments while ensuring alignment with ActionAid’s values, Duty of Care obligations, and global standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advisory support on safety, security, access, and risk management matters.
• Conduct context analysis and provide regular security updates, alerts, and risk assessments.
• Review and strengthen safety and security systems, policies, SOPs, contingency plans, and incident management mechanisms.
• Support incident and crisis management processes, including post-incident reviews and lessons learned.
• Advise on humanitarian access strategies, stakeholder engagement, and risk-informed programming.
• Design and deliver security inductions, trainings, simulations, and staff awareness initiatives.
• Support integration of safety, wellbeing, and Duty of Care considerations across organizational operations and programmes.
• Provide technical guidance to strengthen partner safety and security risk management capacity.