Security Specialist

**Company Description**:
**EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER (EDC)**

**Education Development Center (EDC)** is a global nonprofit that advances lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity, with a focus on vulnerable and under-served populations. Since 1958, we have been a leader in designing, implementing, and evaluating powerful and innovative programs in more than 80 countries around the world.

EDC promotes equity and access to high quality education and health services and products that contribute to thriving communities where people from diverse backgrounds learn, live, and work together. We support an inclusive workplace culture that embraces many perspectives and broadens our understanding of the communities we serve, enhancing and enriching our work.

**EDC is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.**

**Project Description**

The goal of the Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) project is to improve the quality and relevance of teacher preparation in Egyptian public universities so that current and future primary school teachers have enhanced skills to increase student learning and advance the Ministry of Education and Technical Education’s (MOETE) reform. The activity will achieve this goal through the following results:
50 Government of Egypt personnel from the MOETE, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR), and the Supreme Council of Universities demonstrate improved capacity to jointly plan, manage, and adapt teacher education.Position Description

The Security Specialist will contribute to ensuring the overall safety and security of the USAID TEI staff as well as risk mitigation measures as related to project implementation. This will be accomplished primarily through information collection and triangulation with a diverse group of stakeholders, followed by analysis and developing, rolling out and monitoring adherence to organizational policies and procedures as they relate to staff health, risk mitigation and security. The Security Specialist would be expected to review OSAC updates and other/USG networks for safety and security updates. This position reports to the Chief of Party and is expected to collaborate closely with EDC’s Project Director and Global Safety and Security Director.
- Essential Functions, but are not limited to:_

**Safety & Security Project Implementation**- Work with USAID TEI Chief of Party (COP) and other designated personnel to ensure coordination and compliance with USAID TEI project specific Security Management Plan, policies, and procedures across all USAID TEI project sites.-
- Advise COP and oversee the day-to-day conduct of project security, ensuring preparation of adequate responses to security incidents as well as natural and manmade disasters.-
- Devise, advise and implement access procedures for offices and international residences-
- Review weekly staff travel schedules and projected travel itineraries to identify potential security and safety related issues.-
- Serve as in country emergency point of contact for staff visiting from EDC Home Office.**Incident and Crisis Management**- Initiate emergency response actions in the event of an emergency or a direct or indirect threat.-
- Serve as advisor to the Incident Management Team as well as each project office Incident Response Team (IRT).-
- Coordinate all safety and security actions between USAID TEI and EDC in the event of a major incident or crisis.**Analysis**- Regular evaluation of the situation, flag potentially dangerous situations and significant deterioration to both HQ and Chief of Party.-
- Determines, reviews, or changes the levels of security regarding acceptable tensions levels, precautionary measures to be adopted, and restrictions in movement, relocation, or evacuation of personnel.**Document & Resource Maintenance**- Develops, reviews and/or edits area specific threat/risk assessment protocols, including threat/risk assessment indictors, travel recommendations during a permissive environment, uncertain environment, and a hostile environment, concerning USAID TEI’s daily activities for office and field staff.-
- Coordinates revisions of project specific Security Situation Plan and other security management documents on a quarterly basis or more frequently as required.-
- Maintains and updates all USAID TEI office contingency planning material, reference documents and annexes as on an annual basis.-
- Advises COP to ensure budgetary requirements for safety and security are prioritized and implemented across all projects.-
- Provide regular audit of security and safety procedures within project locations.**Training**- Train national and international staff at minimum in personal security, security management, crisis management and access procedures. This includes providing security briefing and training to visiting staff.-
- Organize periodic tabletop exercises to test the Security Situation Plan an