FRANCIS MARIAO EKUNOIT

• Oversee the country offices duty of care and minimum-security standards.
• Monitoring evaluating and reporting security risk management, travel security and duty of care application and adherence of policy, standards and processes.
• Oversee the facilitation, development and review of country security plans according to GIZ standards.
• Coordinate with the Security regional hub on security issues in the region and development of new security management strategy.
• Ensure operational plans reflect responsibilities for, training, support, security and well-being. This may include evaluating security needs for safe program implementation.
• Perform threat reviews, risk assessments and analysis, and deliver solutions.
• Conduct regular risk assessments to support country offices.
• undertake location risk assessments for new project or emergency response locations.
• Collaborate with project team leasers and security focal points in mitigate incidents and issues.
• Ensure threats / incidents that could potentially impact GIZ operations or personnel are being formally communicated and escalated to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner and conduct incidence analysis and share the information with country Director.
• Responsible for information management during a critical event and maintain all notes, logs, and information.
• Conduct annual drills and scenario exercises to build incident response capacities in the field.
• Support the project team leads and staffs with incident response, reporting and post incident action and follow-up.
• Provides security training coordination and maintains all training plans for the region; ensuring appropriate training is being delivered by context experts and maintains documentation on our investment.
• Collaborates with Security unit at the HQ in the development of an effective security training strategy GIZ strategic direction, operational threat environment and international practices.
• Support the countries office and projects in delivering in-person trainings..

• Ensure protective security for all persons and property and advises the Speaker and the Clerk on the same.
• Overseeing implementation of security measures and regulations by staffs and visitors.
• Safeguarding security of assets against theft, pilferage, damage, misuse or sabotage.
• Liaising with law enforcement agencies to ensure effective execution of security services
• Conduct security briefing for new staff and visitors.
• Supervising contracted and seconded security personnel to ensure value for money.
• Undertaking investigations of motor accidents involving County Assembly vehicles and taking the necessary actions.
• Evaluating changes to the security environment for impact and presenting findings to management.
• Carries out periodical security surveys and conducts institutional risk assessment.
• Coordinating investigations on all acts of crime or any losses incurred against the Institution and taking necessary action.
• Ensure fire prevention and safety of the facilities.
• Ensure compliance with occupational health requirements/standards.
• Crowd management.

During this time, I oversaw the implementation of the following project:
• A livelihood and food security project funded by US ADF
• Environment Natural resource management project funded by Gov of Sweden and UKAID
• Livelihood project funded by USAID (Co-implemented with IRC)
• Strengthening human security in the border communities funded by IOM
Duties /Deliverables:
• Support the Executive Director in developing and managing relationship with the donors.
• Lead on development of programme ideas into quality grant proposals through a community based, participatory approach.
• Ensure close monitoring of the program works in the field to ensure alignment and contribution to organization strategy, monitor flow of information and systemic documentation of quantitative and qualitative achievements in the field and lessons learned thereof
• Ensure quality and timely submission of quarterly and annual or required Programme and Project Performance Reports as per desired standards and guidelines.
• Ensure compliance of approved Programme and Project plans.
• Promote evidence-based learning and the agenda of advancing alternatives
• Represent the organization in various programme-related knowledge sharing and learning forums, document and share feedback with the team
• Track trends in contemporary development programming and programme management practices, document and provide advice to SMT.
• Develop, monitor, review and update the Programme department activity, work plan to ensure that it attains its objectives as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible
• Review and approve programme concepts, financial requests as per organizational process and procedures.
• Monitor and advise on programme and project spending and variance reports per organizational process and procedures
• Establish and implement a performance management process for all program staff
• Recognize areas for internal improvement and developing plans for implementing them.

Project: Changieni Rasilimali (CRM) facility project).
Goal: Promoting good governance and advocacy in the sustainable utilization of environmental,
natural resources in Turkana County.
Duties /Deliverables:
• Coordinate activities related to the project management disciplines.
• Performing project administrative duties including disseminating project Information to project stakeholders.
• Monitoring the achievement of project activities on behalf of the project manager.
• Developing and maintaining project deliverables under the direction of the manager and Program Coordinator.
• Gather and input data into databases.
• Plan logistics for meetings, conferences, trainings, and other project-related events.
• Organizing project committee meetings and preparing the necessary materials including reports, presentations, agendas and other meeting collateral.
• Excellent transcribing and recording of key decision and action resulting from meetings.

Research: Exploring aspects of demand creation and mobilization of male circumcision among older men in Turkana, Kenya.
Duties /Deliverables:
• Carryout Interview, record, Transcribe and translate In-depth interviews and Focus groups.
• Name and store collected qualitative data.
• Mobilization for data collection.

• Receiving, verifying prioritizing and dispatching situational reports and emergency reports through radio sets.
• Search and rescue.
• Working in partnership with communities, liaising with community groups and individuals;
• Conducting patrol duties on foot and by car.
• Sensitizing community on how identify individuals in locations at risk of being involved in crime.
• Keeping the peace at public meetings, social events, processions, trade disputes or strikes;
• Diffusing potentially volatile situations with due regard for the safety of all involved.
• Conducting investigations, gathering evidence, taking statements and complying with relevant legal requirements; Interviewing suspects, victims and witnesses in accordance with the Law.
• Conducting arrests with due regard for the human rights, security and health and safety of detained individuals, members of the public, colleagues and self.
• Preparing crime reports and presenting case files; attending and giving evidence in court and at other hearings.
• Submitting internal crime reports and criminal intelligence reports;
• Gathering, recording and analyzing intelligence to achieve community safety and crime reduction objectives and providing crime prevention advice.
• Attending road-related incidents, including collision scenes, vehicle checkpoints and traffic offenses; and guarding vital installation