Security Coordinator

Job Overview and Reporting Line:

You will be reporting to the Global Head of Risk and Compliance. As a Security Coordinator, you will be responsible for coordinating with Tetra Tech projects and staff to ensure they are compliant with corporate strategy.  Reporting to the Global Head of Risk and Compliance, you will act as the point of contact for security-related issues, providing support across the Tetra Tech project portfolio. Duties will include the following, but not be limited to. 

Main Duties:

• Ensuring that all overseas employee travel is properly risk-assessed and that the necessary security controls are implemented for employees and contractors deployed overseas.
• Monitor for security risk escalations in countries where the company's employees and assets are deployed or located.
• Be a point of contact for employees for duty of care queries.
• Maintain travel advisories for international employee members travelling abroad, ensuring all employees are briefed on the risks associated with their trip.
• Analyse and process compliance requests for contracted individuals and firms working on Tetra Tech’s programs.
• Conduct essential due diligence assessments of contractors' and suppliers' risk management and security processes.
• Manage the corporate incident management system (TOTAL), which includes writing up reports and conducting investigations of incidents and near misses.
• Disseminate routine and timely security updates and alerts to deployed projects and employees.
• Liaise with security managers and focal points to produce and maintain project-level IHSS documentation.
• Deliver open-source analysis risk assessment on overseas locations and institutions that Tetra Tech operates within.
• Ensure employees and contractors are compliant with all HSSE Training in preparation for travel to high-risk and hostile environments.
• Collaborate with overseas security teams and project managers to assess the risks associated with projects and assets.
• Retain excellent connections with overseas security and transport providers to assist project delivery and implementation.
• Be aware of potential hazards and threats which may disrupt business activity, particularly in projects and assets overseas.

Aptitude and skills: 

• Attention to detail and methodical record-keeping.
• Calmness under pressure and rapid prioritisation during incidents.
• Service orientation / duty-of-care mindset.
• Analytical curiosity able to turn disparate open-source inputs into concise risk conclusions.
• Cultural sensitivity and diplomacy when liaising with local teams and vendors.
• Written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (security studies, international relations, risk management, emergency management, or similar) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Experience in a security-support, duty-of-care, operations, or risk-assessment role (can include internships or short-term deployments).
• Basic travel risk assessment ability (able to produce a short travel brief).
• Strong written communication: able to draft clear incident summaries, briefings and email updates.
• Good stakeholder/customer-service skills, comfortable as a point of contact for employee queries.
• Basic OSINT research ability (able to gather and summarise open-source information from advisories, news and local sources).
• Familiarity with HSSE concepts and willingness to manage training records.
• IT literacy: Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint), comfortable learning / input into incident-management platforms.

Closing date for applications: 8 January 2026

“Applicants must already have the legal right to work in the UK; we are not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.”

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: 

In accordance with the Equality Act 2010, Tetra Tech prides itself in a workplace culture that complies with and ensures the workplace is free from discrimination, harassment, bullying, racism, and hate speech of any form regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage, and civil partnerships. We encourage all applicants from different backgrounds to apply for this role.

Disability Confident Employer:

Disability Confident is a UK government scheme that supports employers in creating and fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces. We have self-identified as registered disability confident participants.

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Safeguarding:  

Tetra Tech International Development has robust policies and guidelines which exemplify our commitment to safeguarding and technical excellence in gender equality. Our team of dedicated GEDSI advisers work closely with our staff and partners to ensure a context-specific and consistent approach is applied to all of our programmes to improve the livelihoods of the world’s most marginalised groups.

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