Global Safety and Security Manager
Location: Brighton/Hybrid (UK working only)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Circa £45,000 dependent on experience
Closing Date: Tuesday 25th August 2026 (please note, we will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis, early applications are encouraged)
About Itad
We are a global consultancy providing evidence, learning and strategy services to help solve complex challenges.
We aim to build a more equitable, sustainable, and secure world by helping organisations use evidence to learn and take action.
In fast-moving, complex environments, we create space to reflect, make sense of change, and enable informed decisions. Through evidence, insight, and learning, we unlock strategies for better performance and lasting change
The Role
The GSS Manager leads Itad's Global Safety & Security function, ensuring the organisation meets its duty of care obligations through effective governance, risk management and specialist safety and security support. The role works closely with Practices, who are responsible for planning and managing travel delivery within approved frameworks.
The GSS function provides a high quality technical service to Practices, helping project teams plan and deliver work safely in line with Itad’s risk appetite. This includes specialist advice and practical support for medium, high and extreme risk deployments, including risk assessment, mitigation planning, traveller support and deployment approvals where required. A key part of the role is translating Itad’s organisational risk appetite into practical standards, guidance, decision points and escalation routes that can be applied consistently across project delivery, while also leading on crisis preparedness, travel risk management and continuous improvement of Itad's duty of care framework.
Key Responsibilities
The GSS Manager has four main areas of responsibility:
Governance and assurance of international travel within Itad’s risk appetite.
- Provide assurance of travel undertaken by Itad, supporting Practices to deliver travel safely and effectively within agreed policies, risk requirements and duty of care obligations. For high and extreme deployments lead the arrangements.
Strategic development, governance and continuous improvement of Itad’s GSS framework.
- Lead the development and ongoing improvement of Itad's Safety & Security framework, ensuring it remains proportionate, practical and aligned to organisational needs.
Governance, risk oversight and operationalisation of Itad’s risk appetite.
- Facilitate safety and security governance, advise on risk decisions, and translate Itad’s risk appetite into practical thresholds, mitigations, approval routes and assurance processes.
Leadership and management of the GSS Team.
- Lead and develop the GSS team, ensuring appropriate capability, performance and resilience. Work closely with Safeguarding and Supplier Management teams to support a coordinated approach to duty of care, risk management and support for staff, partners and suppliers.
Role Overview
Governance and assurance of international travel within Itad's risk appetite
Working collaboratively with Practices, Project Teams and Safeguarding colleagues, the GSS Manager provides oversight and assurance of travel undertaken on behalf of Itad. Whilst Practices are responsible for travel planning and delivery, the GSS function provides governance, guidance and specialist support to ensure compliance with Itad's policies, procedures and duty of care requirements.
The role leads Itad's approach to travel in higher risk destinations, ensuring appropriate security advice, risk assessment, mitigation planning and travel approval processes are in place. Through the GSS team and specialist advisers where required, the function supports travellers and project teams with risk assessments, traveller briefings, incident response arrangements and monitoring processes that are proportionate to the operating environment and risk profile.
The GSS Manager provides a high-quality technical service to Practices, helping project teams identify practical and proportionate safety and security arrangements that enable delivery within Itad’s risk appetite. The role works through collaboration, advice and facilitation, supporting teams to build safety and security into project planning and delivery rather than operating as a separate control function. The role also manages strategic relationships with travel, security and assistance providers, ensuring high quality support, value for money and alignment with Itad's operating model.
Strategic development, governance and continuous improvement of Itad's GSS framework
Working with Itad's retained security advisers, the GSS Manager is responsible for ensuring the Safety & Security framework remains current, proportionate and effective, including alignment with safeguarding requirements and wider duty of care obligations. The role translates Itad’s agreed risk appetite into practical policies, procedures, guidance and tools that can be used consistently across project delivery.
The role works closely with Practices and support functions to build organisational capability through guidance, training, inductions and practical tools. It ensures that safety and security responsibilities, accountabilities and decision making requirements are clearly understood by staff, partners and suppliers, and that the framework supports effective and timely delivery.
Governance, risk oversight and evolution of Itad's risk appetite
The GSS Manager monitors travel and deployment activity against Itad's risk appetite, supported by external security advisers and reporting through the Audit, Risk and Resilience Committee. This includes maintaining country risk assessments, monitoring emerging risks and turning organisational risk appetite into clear operational decisions, thresholds and escalation routes for different types of deployment.
The role chairs the Travel, Safety and Security Committee, facilitating decisions on mitigation measures, travel to high risk locations and support arrangements for national consultants. The GSS Manager is responsible for maintaining and evolving Itad's risk appetite framework and ensuring the Crisis Management Team remains appropriately prepared, trained and equipped to respond to incidents and crises.
Leadership and management of the GSS team
The GSS Manager is responsible for ensuring the GSS team is appropriately resourced, capable and equipped to meet organisational requirements. This includes business planning, workload management, capability development and continuous improvement of the service provided across the organisation. The role works closely with Safeguarding and Supplier Management teams to ensure a coordinated approach to duty of care, risk management and support for staff, partners and suppliers.
The role oversees Itad's Duty Officer rota, ensuring adequate coverage, capability and resilience across the team, whilst also undertaking Duty Officer responsibilities as required. The GSS Manager contributes to the leadership and development of the wider function, promoting collaboration across Practices and support functions, including Safeguarding and Supplier Management, and supporting succession planning and professional development opportunities for team members.
Professional Expertise & Key Competencies
To be successful in this role, you will have significant experience in safety, security and risk management within an international organisation. You will be a collaborative leader with strong judgement, excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to balance operational requirements with duty of care obligations in a complex and evolving environment.
In addition, you will have:
- Significant experience leading safety, security and travel risk management within a global organisation, ideally including operations in fragile, conflict affected or higher risk environments.
- Experience developing and implementing organisational frameworks, policies, governance arrangements and risk management processes relating to safety, security and duty of care.
- Strong risk management, decision making and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex situations and recommend proportionate mitigations.
- Experience operating in a matrix environment, influencing stakeholders and building trusted relationships where there is limited or no direct authority.
- Strong leadership and people management skills, including workforce planning, capability development, succession planning and team leadership.
- Experience working across organisational functions and governance structures, including senior committees, project delivery teams, safeguarding, supplier management and operational support functions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, commercial awareness, and a practical, solutions focused approach to balancing risk, operational delivery and organisational objectives.
Benefits
- A matched company pension up to 5% with a wide range of fund options.
- 26 days holiday per year, plus 3 flexible days and the option to purchase another 5 days, flexible bank holidays (you can take these whenever you wish) and the opportunity to buy holiday
- Hybrid and flexible working from anywhere in the UK
- Cycle to work scheme
- Itad Rewards: Offers up to 20% discount at over 100 UK retailers. There are savings on gym memberships, holidays, restaurants, cinemas, and gym memberships and an average of 5% discount on supermarkets - giving you the option to take advantage of the benefits which are most impactful for you.
- Discretionary bonus scheme
If you’re enthusiastic about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway and demonstrate how your experience is transferrable. You may be just the right candidate.
We are committed to equality and inclusion to empower people both within our organisation and through our work. We know that employees with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences make us a more effective and innovative company and we therefore welcome and encourage applications from interested candidates regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.
We are not able to support a work permit for this role so candidates must already hold the right to live and work in the UK independently.
Please note, we will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis, early applications are encouraged.
