Brief introduction
GIZ, the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, provides services worldwide in the field of international technical cooperation. In Somalia, it has been active since 1964, and up to now implements programs in a wide variety of areas including Economic development and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Agriculture, rural development and water resource management, Resilience building to address the root causes of migration. The projects and programmes are managed from GIZ’s country office in Kenya. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The Risk Management Office supports the safe and effective implementation of GIZ projects across Somalia through a state-of-the-art security risk management system in order to minimize the risks faced by GIZ staff members and projects.
B. Responsibilities The ‘Operations room assistant’ is responsible for: ▪ Conducting the daily head count and report on any irregularities. ▪ Travel tracking for all road missions in Somaliland; ▪ Travel tracking for all missions to Kismayo and Mogadishu; ▪ Regular update on the mission schedule and reporting of any changes; ▪ Monitoring the various forms of communications equipment in the Operations Room. ▪ Ensuring all communications equipment is working and in good order ▪ Working in shifts to provide, as part of a team of Operations Room Officers, 24/7 emergency communications coverage in support of project activity in Somaliland. ▪ Ensuring the Ops Room is clean and ready at all times to host and inform the Crisis Management Team
The ‘Operations room assistant’ performs the following tasks:
C. Tasks
Operations Room Assistant :-
▪ Monitors Somali language media, including social media, for information of relevance to GIZ project implementation ▪ Prepare and send out security alerts under the supervision of the Chief Operations room and permission/clearance of the RMA.
▪ Ensure all equipment is clean and well maintained while on shift. ▪ Assists project staff in the training for and use of common communications equipment like VHF and Sat phone.
D. Required qualifications, competences and experience
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