Safety Advisor

Organisation Background

Founded in 2011, the International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) is an international NGO that supports humanitarian aid workers by establishing safety coordination platforms in insecure contexts. INSO provides registered NGOs with a range of free services, including real-time incident tracking, analytical reports, safety-related data and mapping, crisis management support, staff orientations, and training.

INSO provides daily support to more than 1200 NGOs operating in 18 of the world’s most insecure countries.

INSO is registered in the Netherlands, with its headquarters based in The Hague, the international city of peace and justice.

INSO Ukraine

INSO Ukraine opened in 2015. Since the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, it has rapidly expanded to a complete platform serving the needs of NGOs in a fast-evolving conflict. Currently, more than 380 national and international NGOs receive INSO services, in both Ukrainian and English, including information, analysis and advice through a wide range of written products, meetings and briefings, tailored assessments, crisis support, and a broad range of training courses. Our country office is in Kyiv, supported by field offices in Dnipro, Odesa, and Kharkiv.

The scale and intensity of the conflict in Ukraine continue to pose significant humanitarian safety challenges, particularly around heavily contested frontline areas where the humanitarian footprint has expanded since 2023. As part of INSO Ukraine, you will play a key role in supporting NGOs and helping aid reach people in need in a safer manner, while at the same time being part of a vibrant and growing humanitarian community bringing together experiences from across the globe.

INSO is now seeking an experienced professional to join our team as a Safety Advisor (for the period of absence of the main employee).

Job Summary

The Safety Advisor provides security analysis and advice that is vital to the efforts of the NGO community to deliver aid and assistance to the thousands of people who need it. Build and maintain a diverse network of contacts, articulate complex political and socio-economic analysis from an objective, neutral perspective, and produce and disseminate written products and deliver briefings on a time-sensitive basis. Identify trends and patterns within quantitative datasets of security incidents, linking this information to broader political and socio-economic development. Safety Advisor also represents INSO among a diverse and important audience of members and a wide network of contacts, including UN agencies, international donors and organizations, local communities, and their leaders.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes NGOs, the UN, military forces, and other national and international security actors to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
• Provide NGOs with timely and credible security information and contextual analysis of the local security situation through daily alerts and reports, weekly incident lists, bi-weekly analytical reports, and other thematic reports.
• Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables.
• Assist NGOs in developing their own security management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site-security surveys, and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
• Manage a small office team, including supervising national staff and oversight of local logistics and administration.
• Effectively represent, promote and protect INSO’s mandate of independence, impartiality, and neutrality.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills and the keenest eye for detail.
• Significant experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
• Personal and professional resilience in a fast-moving, high output, quality-driven program.
• Experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management and/or humanitarian access sectors.
• Independent drive, motivation, excellence, and ability to operate and sustainably manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.
• Well-developed personal, organizational, and team management skills and standards in a diverse multicultural setting.
• Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles.
• Graduate-level education in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience in an inter-agency role.
• Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
• Existing information networks.
• Personal Attributes
• Confidentiality, integrity, and a sense of conflict-of-interest prevention.
• Self-motivation, courtesy, and humility.
• Team spirit and good management of interpersonal relationships.
• Know how to plan and organize your work.
• Be flexible, dynamic, and know-how to propose initiatives.
• Be able to work under pressure.
• Effective communicator.
• Capacity to work in multicultural environments.

Personal Attributes

• Confidentiality, integrity, and a sense of conflict-of-interest prevention.
• Self-motivation, courtesy, and humility.
• Team spirit and good management of interpersonal relationships.
• Know how to plan and organize your work.
• Be flexible, dynamic, know how to propose initiatives.
• Be able to work under pressure.
• Effective communicator.
• Capacity to work in multicultural environments.

INSO’s Safeguarding Policy

INSO is fully committed to the safe recruitment, selection and vetting of all potential new staff, trustees, and volunteers, and we will ensure rigorous compliance with our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policy throughout the recruitment process.

Terms & Conditions

Official Employment Contract with a 3-month probationary period with an expected starting date 13 October 2026, UAH 116 150 Gross salary, 13th Salary, 2 days annual leave per month, and Health insurance.

INSO Ukraine, unfortunately, does not provide a military exemption.

Please note: this position is opened for the period of absence of the main employee.

How to apply

Please send the following to [відгукнутися] and reference «Safety Advisor, Dnipro» in the subject line of the email before 23 September 2026. The following documents should be in PDF format and in English:

• Cover Letter specifying how you meet the mandatory requirements, any preferred characteristics, your motivation for applying, and what you hope to bring to INSO.
• Updated CV.

Please do not send any additional information. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.