Global Safety & Security Coordinator

Global Safety & Security Coordinator

Contract type: 3 Years Fixed Term, Full Time– 40 hours per week

Location: The role can be based in Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Nepal, subject to right-to-work eligibility in the respective country.

Salary: Competitive Salary with Excellent benefits.

Change starts with water. Change starts with you.

Every day, millions of people live without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid exists to change that – for everyone, everywhere. Join us, and your energy will help unlock people’s potential and create a fairer future.

About WaterAid

We’re a global federation driven by one vision: a world where everyone, everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. Powered by our values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation, we work alongside communities, partners and supporters to make change happen.

About the team

As part of the WaterAid People Team, the Safety & Security function plays a key role in equipping and empowering our people, managers, and leaders to create safe and secure working practices in every aspect of our work. We enable the delivery of WaterAid UK’s work across 19 countries and 4 Regions.  In addition, we provide tailored support to 7 international member offices in the UK, Canada, Japan, Sweden, India, Australia, and America: crafting strategic level policy, advising on procedures, and delivering training to build capacity across the organisation.

About the role

As our Global Safety & Security Coordinator, you will coordinate core safety and security processes and work closely with country programmes, regional teams, the Global Safeguarding team, and the Global Safety & Security Lead to ensure safety & security risk management systems are embedded, consistent and effective across the organisation.

As a small and collaborative team, we value open communication, curiosity, and respectful challenge. The postholder will play a key role in providing a fresh perspective and constructively questioning assumptions — especially in a context where many decisions involve complexity and risk.

This role does not require a technical security background, and your independent viewpoint will be essential to helping ensure our work is practical, inclusive, and grounded.

We recognise that in some cultures challenging a manager may feel uncomfortable or inappropriate — but please be assured that in this team, your insight and challenge will be actively encouraged and always respected. Your voice matters.

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate global incident reporting systems and safety & security compliance tracking
• Organise logistics for global safety & security training and simulations
• Support the maintenance of internal guidance, dashboards, and intranet resources
• Provide surge support during real or simulated incidents and contribute to After Action Reviews
• Champion WaterAid’s commitment to equity, inclusion and safeguarding.

To be successful, you will need:

• Exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail
• Confidence to constructively challenge senior colleagues, including your manager, in a respectful and solution-focused way — especially when offering a different perspective.
• Proven experience in coordination, administration, or project support in a global or cross-cultural organisation
• Demonstrated ability to manage systems for tracking compliance, reporting, or risk-related data
• Excellent communication and digital literacy skills, with comfort working across time zones

Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:

• Experience in safety, security, safeguarding, or compliance-related work
• Degree-level education or equivalent work experience
• Professional working proficiency in French

View the full job description here

Closing date: Applications close 12:00 PM UK time on 29 September 2025. Interviews may be scheduled on a rolling basis, and the role may close earlier if a suitable candidate is found.

How to apply: Click Apply to answer the Pre-screening questions and upload your CV only.

Can I use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in my application?

At WaterAid, we strongly advise against using AI technology at any stage of the recruitment process. Our goal is to ensure a fair and transparent process that provides every applicant with an equal opportunity to succeed. We value hearing about your unique experiences and perspectives in your application, and, if shortlisted, during the interview as well.

Pre‑employment screening

To apply for this role, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the respective country. All pre-employment checks will be carried out according to local law and WaterAid’s Safer Recruitment policy.

As a global organisation, WaterAid is committed to creating an environment where you can thrive and be yourself at your very best. Alongside our inspiring mission and meaningful work, we offer a range of benefits tailored to each country’s context and policies. These will be shared during the process

Our Global Commitment:

Our People Promise

We will work with passion and focus to make sure everyone everywhere has clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.

Equal Opportunities

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions, ways of life and status. This includes, but is not limited to, race, ethnicity, caste, colour, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability status, neurodiversity, age, marital and family status, sexual orientation and gender identity, health status, place of residence, economic and social situation.

Safeguarding

We are committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero- tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and to any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks).

Together, we’ll change the world through water.

Join us and be part of the change !