Coordinator - Security Operations & Resilience

You will provide support for the firm’s activities in the Middle East focusing on incident management, travel safety, event security, study and workplace resilience programs.

Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible?

Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges?

You’ve come to the right place.

You will be responsible for actively monitoring, assessing, and enforcing baseline security standards across the region.

This includes conducting regular reviews of threats and hazards that may impact the firm and taking direct action to verify that appropriate safeguards are implemented and functioning across offices, client sites, transportation, and accommodations.

You will execute routine control checks, track compliance with firm security standards, and follow up on identified gaps to ensure timely remediation.

You will maintain visibility over risk levels and safeguard status using the firm’s security technology platforms, ensuring data is accurate and up to date.

You will drive incident readiness by validating preparedness measures (e.g., plans, contacts, drills) and support real-time response to local incidents, escalating where needed.

During global events, you will contribute to coordinated monitoring and response efforts, including handling safety-related outreach from firm members.

As part of the global firm Security team, you will: monitor global incidents and respond to safety-related inquiries from firm members in a timely manner; maintain and update risk and safeguard data in the global security platform, ensuring completeness and accuracy; and contribute to continuous improvement by documenting incidents, creating playbooks, and sharing lessons learned.

Your responsibilities may require availability outside standard working hours to support incident response and time-sensitive monitoring.

You will work closely with consulting teams, functional partners (HR, Technology, Legal, Office Services), and stakeholders across the firm Security team and broader geography, as well as external security peers.

You will provide practical, actionable security guidance and translate firm Security policies into operational actions, ensuring effective implementation on the ground.

You will be based in Riyadh and will be part of the MEO office cluster and be attached to the global firm Security Team.

Your team’s mission is to empower exceptional people to deliver distinctive impact safely by harnessing our global network to bring independent perspectives that inform decisions, foster readiness, and enable response.

Bachelor’s degree preferred (security, risk, international relations, political science, or a related field)

2+ years’ experience in security, project management, or analytical role in a corporate context preferred

Experience living in the Middle East with prior employment in an international corporation or NGO is highly preferred

Strong technical capabilities, with demonstrated curiosity and hands-on engagement with AI tools (including experimenting with and building custom solutions) are highly preferred

You must be able to independently conduct inquiries into risks, threats, and hazards, and perform structured risk assessments with clear, actionable outputs

You must be comfortable working in dynamic, ambiguous situations, sometimes under considerable time pressure

You should be digitally and data literate, with strong technical capabilities and a proactive approach to leveraging technology in your work.

You will bring a strong values-driven approach, with integrity and accountability in all aspects of your work

Highly collaborative, inclusive and open to giving and receiving feedback with strong problem solving skills and the ability to lead problem solving

You are expected to demonstrate ownership from identification through resolution of issues, and to continuously learn and develop; performance will be measured across both delivery and growth

Business level language skills in English and mandatory fluent level language skills in Arabic

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