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Protection Consultant – CSO Jobs in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at Staffwise

Title: Protection Consultant – CSO

Company: Staffwise

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Full-time, Permanent, Work

Cape Town

Posted 4 months ago

About The Organisation And The Role

The Protection Consultant serves as a central coordination point for community-facing engagements. The role is responsible for ensuring the physical and technological integrity of security infrastructure across all community installations through ongoing assessments, upgrades, and improvements. In addition, the role provides oversight and support to the SSD Department, ensuring alignment with broader operational objectives while maintaining continuity and performance standards.

Success in this role is defined by the consistent delivery of well-managed projects, fully functional and secure infrastructure across all installations, strong stakeholder relationships, and high-quality reporting. The Protection Consultant must operate proactively, ensuring risks are identified early and addressed efficiently while maintaining alignment across all operational areas.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

  • Facility Protection and stakeholder engagement
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with community installation stakeholders, including outlying sites.
  • Conduct site assessments at all communal installations, ensuring that:
  • You build and maintain stakeholder relationships.
  • All installation security infrastructure is in place, maintained and operational, coordinating with the Control Room for any technological infrastructure.
  • Site visit is logged.
  • Any upgrade requirements are filtered into the project management workflow.
  • Meet bi-monthly with UHS leadership and bi-annually with the Jewish International Schools leadership.
  • Coordinate and oversee training for:
  • PCT/SCT teams (To be coordinated with the training department).
  • Administrative staff and Rabbis at community installations.
  • Security personnel at community installations
  • Act as the primary point of contact for all external protection-related queries.
  • Proactively identify risks and challenges, escalating where required.
  • Project Management
  • Follow up from installation site visits ensuring that:
  • Site assessment tracker is updated.
  • Recommendations are issued within 72 hours.
  • Implementation of recommendations is followed up with relevant stakeholders.
  • Manage security upgrade projects end-to-end, including:
  • Project proposals and submissions
  • Project timeline management.
  • Contractor coordination.
  • Financial management and tracking of expenditure according to contract requirements.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for all community installation upgrades.
  • Coordinate with the Control Room to ensure all technical infrastructure is functional and integrated.
  • SSD Programme Oversight
  • Oversight of the SSD Department in collaboration with the SSD HOD.
  • Attend SSD operational meetings and ensure alignment with broader organisational goals.
  • Ensure SSD training is conducted in collaboration with the training department in line with the training strategy.
  • Support HR-related matters in a line management capacity where required.
  • Act as the client liaison for SSD-related projects in partnership with the HOD SSD.
  • Monitor operational effectiveness and implement improvements where necessary, with consultation of site management.
  • Reporting & Documentation
  • Develop professional risk analyses and proof of concept proposals for all projects, including:
  • Identified risks.
  • Detailed recommendations.
  • Cost breakdowns.
  • Project timelines.
  • Compile structured weekly project updates for line management.
  • Compile and submit monthly operational reports (relevant sections) focused on facility updates.
  • Compile midway progress reports and completion reports for all projects and upgrades, including project close-out and documentation.
  • Compile and distribute minutes of:
  • UHS / JI meetings
  • Beneficiary/client meetings.

Required Skills & Experience

The ideal applicant will have the following competencies:

  • Work experience and industry exposure
  • Matric is essential; a tertiary qualification is an advantage.
  • Experience within the CSO, advantageous.
  • Background / understanding of the South African Jewish Community is essential.
  • Strong Communication and Interpersonal skills
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across internal and external environments
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong inter-personal skills with the ability to use your communication skills to inspire those around you and drive performance.
  • A confident and outgoing individual who is friendly and accessible and able to deal with people with sensitivity and respect regardless of the context.
  • Excellent Administration and Organisational Skills
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) with a good general technological literacy and understanding.
  • Strong project management and coordination capability
  • An organised and meticulous individual who is able to follow policies and procedures.
  • A flexible, self-driven individual who is able to work autonomously while maintaining open channels of communication with a team.
  • High attention to detail and structured follow-through
  • Able to manage conflicting priorities and work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines
  • Comfortable working in an unstructured environment and able to work well across cross-functional teams.
  • Specific Requirements
  • Proactive problem-solving and risk identification
  • Operational awareness with a solutions-driven mindset.
  • Strong financial management ability.
  • A good knowledge of systems is essential.
  • A community volunteer driven individual.
  • A physically fit individual.
  • Trustworthy and reliable with the ability to manage confidential information in a discrete and sensitive manner
  • Driver’s licence is essential as is own car that can be used for work purposes.
  • No criminal record.

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Closing date for applications: 11 May 2026

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Job Features

Job Category Security & Emergency Services Location: Gardens, Cape Town Reporting to: Operations Manager Nature of contract: Permanent Hours of work: 08h30 – 17h00 (overtime may be required) Salary range: Commensurate with skill and experience. Benefits: Cost to Company package – will include contribution toward medical aid, other personalised benefit options available. Closing date for applications: 08 May 2026 Interested? Click on the APPLY NOW / DOWNLOAD APPLICATION button above

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