IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.
Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Manager, Regional Security Operations
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description
- Supervision and implementation of the company’s regional security plan.
- Serve as the loss prevention manager for the region.
- Lead engagement and interaction with Government Security Forces (GSF) at the regional level, ensuring actions from GSF that could affect business operations are timely managed.
- Directly oversees the management of security guards at IHS regional office, warehouses, tank farms and guest houses within the region.
- Maintain integrity of the access control systems to include, but not limited to: CCTV, ID systems, ID cards, etc.
- Implement processes and procedures to improve access management on sites in the region for all categories of customers and stakeholders.
- Supervise and manage Specialist, Security & Community Intervention on all field operational processes and procedures.
- Compile crime reports from states in the region for the assessment of company security risk and proactively proffer possible mitigations strategies for the safety of all teams in the region.
- Liaise regularly and hold monthly or weekly regional meetings with functions across the business to resolve site access issues in any site within the region.
- Provide meaningful recommendations to HQ on the integration of current operational and investigation best practices to ensure a solid and robust security framework for the department.
- Respond to community letters and ensure proper representation of regional security team at Community Development Area (CDA)/ Estate meetings.
- Ensure all compensation requests are investigated and closed on time in line with company-approved policy/ guidelines.
- Set up awareness campaign to enlighten communities about IHS policies, processes, and procedures that affect community demands/ expectations.
- Conduct regular security awareness training for staff, contractors, and visitors.
- Collate all community agitations and responses reported by team members and share with HQ on a weekly basis and advise on corporate social responsibility (CSR) interventions where appropriate.
- Track all escalated issues community demands, payments made, and issues resolved.
- Prepare and submit weekly reports to the Senior Manager, Security Operations on all matters pertaining to security operations and community Interventions in the region.
- Perform other tasks, duties and responsibilities as assigned by Senior Manager Security Operations.
- Ensure compliance with Voluntary Principles of Human Rights by GSF deployed to support IHS operations
Qualifications
- HND / Bachelor’s Degree in any relevant discipline.
- +5 years’ relevant work experience.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online