Rainforest Builder is Africa’s leading forest restoration company, on a mission to restore one million hectares of degraded land to natural tropical forest. Our team combines top global scientists and foresters into one integrated company specialized in large-scale tropical forest restoration. We have well-established partnerships with many of the world’s largest companies to support them in meeting their decarbonization goals.

Our operations today focus on the restoration of Africa’s most degraded rainforest landscape, the Upper Guinean Forest, where we have two existing projects and a growing high-quality pipeline for further expansion. Each project is large-scale (100,000 hectares+) and long-term (71+ years), with additional measures taken to ensure permanence long after we are gone. We directly undertake all stages of each project’s lifecycle, including origination, carbon asset development, forestry operations, monitoring, and analytics. Working closely with communities, our 2,000-strong team therefore provides our partners with complete assurance on the quality and transparency of our operations.

Your Role

We seek a dedicated, full-time Security Manager with expertise in managing forestry or plantation security, fire protection operations, and emergency preparedness. The Security Manager will play an essential role in supporting the Head of the Silviculture Department by ensuring all of our leased and planted areas are protected from illegal farming, logging, and mining (Galamsey). This position requires a high level of commitment, honesty, integrity, and hard work as well as alignment with project goals.

Your Responsibilities

• Security Guards Recruitment: Recruit capable security guards
• Security Guards Training: Train new guards to become physically and mentally alert to the security work.
• Security Guards Deployment: Develop a deployment plan for 24/7 security of all the compartments
• Patrols, Supervision, and Inspection: Ensure all checkpoints, duty posts, and hotspots are monitored day and night
• Encroachment Removal and Reporting: All encroachments must be removed and reported
• Engage Communities on Encroachment Prevention: Communicate with all communities about the benefits of the projects and the negative effects of the encroachments
• Conflict Management: Ensure there is peace in our communities by managing disagreements
• Stakeholder Management: Establish cordial relationships with all relevant law enforcement agencies
• Data Collection, Reporting, and Analysis: Collect relevant data for daily, weekly, and monthly security reports as well as decision-making
• Emergency Response Training: Plan and lead the company’s emergency preparedness training

Requirements

• Relevant post-secondary education qualification
• Experience in managing plantation security and fire protection operations
• Experience in managing a team with advanced leadership skills
• Ability to effectively supervise security guards to get work done
• Ability to generate plans and execute them accordingly
• Absolute integrity, honesty and reliability
• Comfortable to live and work in very remote areas
• Strong in writing weekly, monthly, quarterly operational reports
• Skilled at onboarding and training
• Maintains utmost confidentiality and discretion
• Good written and verbal communicator at all levels
• A motorcycle and vehicle driver’s license are a prerequisite
• Good computer skills