Security Management
Security management is key to keeping your staff safe and delivering your humanitarian programmes effectively. If you are responsible for the safety and security of your organisation, you must understand what risks your team faces, how to mitigate those risks, and how to implement strong security practices every day.
This course helps you provide the security management that your organisation needs. To manage your organisation’s security and protect your staff, you must understand how to gauge risk, minimise your organisation’s vulnerability, and respond quickly and effectively to crises. We will cover all aspects of security management, from how to assess threats to your organisation, to developing meaningful security strategies, to communicating with your staff and leading organisational change. This course will enable you to incorporate good security practice into your organisation’s programmes, and everyday working life.
Course Objectives
- To enable you to identify, manage, and mitigate risks to your organisation.
- To help you create and maintain security strategies and plans that fit your organisation’s needs and allow you to respond to crises quickly and effectively.
- To empower you to lead your staff in implementing strong and sustainable security practices.
Topics Covered
- The Security Management Framework: Context. Risks, threats, and vulnerability. Organisational identity, values, and mission.
- Building and maintaining your organisation’s security strategy.
- Creating a Security Plan for your organisation—from prevention, to reaction, to contingency.
- Crisis Management: Standard operating procedures and contingency plans, including hibernation, relocation, and evacuation.
- Communication techniques to manage and reduce conflict and aggression, and change management principles to successfully lead organisational change.
- How security tools can be used effectively in everyday work.
- Building safety: selecting and improving offices, compounds, and guesthouses.
- Staff Management from a security perspective. This includes understanding types and causes of stress, a common source of security incidents.
- Incident reporting and analysis: how to use information sharing in the NGO community to improve your security and the security of other humanitarian organisations.
Armadillo understands that you will be the one to implement the knowledge gained from this course in your organisation. We will use practical exercises and examples from real-life scenarios in order to give you a thorough understanding of the concepts and skills that we teach. This course takes away the mystery of creating simple and effective security plans as part of everyday working life. We enable you to bring effective and sustainable change to your organisation’s security.
Contact us to learn more about this course.