What we are looking for

NRC is looking for a Health, Safety, and Security Manager to join the Bangladesh mission. The role holder will be the technical lead on safety and security risks and crisis management, and ensure compliance with the health, safety, and security minimum standards and in reducing the overall risk on operations across the country. He/she will also be responsible for coordinating and conducting training courses.

If you are an influential, analytical, and visionary leader; with strong communications, networking, and collaborative skills; and resilience and adaptability; as well as the dexterity to meet new challenges and navigate through insecure environments, then this is the role for you!

What you will do

• Health, Safety, and Security risk management culture promotion.

• Health, Safety, and Security management system implementation.

• Health, Safety, and Security risk management oversight and support.

• Security risk analyses oversight.

• Strategic advice provision.

• Support provision during critical incidents and/or crises.

• Health, Safety, and Security strategy, budget, documents, procedures, etc. development, maintenance, and implementation.

• Support, manage, train, and develop staff.

• Report preparation.

• External stakeholder networking, communication, and cooperation.

What you will bring

• Security management experience in a humanitarian/recovery context.

• Humanitarian access exposure.

• NGO operations and the dynamics of a displacement-response context knowledge.

• Civilian and military interlocutors exposure.

• Training and presentation demonstrable skills.

• Complex and volatile context exposure.

• English fluency, both written and verbal.

What makes this position attractive?

• 2025 marks eight years since violence broke out in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, when over 742,000 Rohingya men, women, and children fled across the border into neighbouring Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Today more than 1 million Rohingya refugees currently live in 33 camps across Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char, heavily depending on humanitarian aid. Local integration challenges arise from socio-economic pressures, resource constraints, and social tensions. Addressing these issues needs comprehensive international support, sustained humanitarian aid, and collaboration between the Bangladeshi government, regional, and global stakeholders.

• This is an opportunity to work in the steadily growing NRC mission of Bangladesh that has scaled up since inception in 2018 to respond to the Rohingya influx, and that has an increasingly growing portfolio and funding. NRC interventions are based on the humanitarian principles and are used to increase the acceptance of humanitarian assistance amongst target Rohingya and Bangladeshi populations, as well as to facilitate and enable access.

• NRC provides lifesaving, multisectoral assistance and works towards self-reliance and durable solutions of both Rohingya refugees and host communities affected by the refugee influx, operating in 25 Rohingya camps and 8 unions in the Teknaf and Ukhiya Upazilas of Cox’s Bazar. NRC also hosts the Rohingya Response NGO Platform, which brings together more than 150 NGOs coordinating the Rohingya crisis humanitarian response. NRC Bangladesh reached over 140,000 project participants in 2024.

• In addition to the existing Rohingya refugee response, NRC’s integrated activities are addressing the impacts of displacement from climate change. As of 2022, NRC is working to respond to severe floods. Bangladesh is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries while also hosting one million Rohingya refugees. This is now considered a protracted emergency in which displacement and recurrent climate disasters combine.

• This is also set against a backdrop of continued conflict in Rakhine State, steady attenuation of humanitarian access, and political pressure to repatriate refugees. The humanitarian context is characterised by multiple localised emergencies adversely affecting communities and populations with low levels of resilience, high vulnerability, and acute poverty.

• Meaningful work that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities. The current context is set against a backdrop of continued conflict in Rakhine State, steady attenuation of humanitarian access, and political pressure to repatriate refugees. This is characterised by multiple localised emergencies adversely affecting communities and populations with low levels of resilience, high vulnerability, and acute poverty.

• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

What we offer

• Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh duty station.

• 24-month contract duration.

• 10% travel, approximately.

• Grade 9 in NRC’s Salary Scale, with accompanying terms and conditions. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

• NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

The full Job Description can be found on our website.

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