Aga Khan Academy
Aga Khan Academy
The Aga Khan Academy Maputo is hiring a Safety and Security Manager (SSM).
Job Title: Safety and Security Manager (SSM)
Department: –
Reporting Line: Head of Academy (HoA)
Position Location: Maputo, Mozambique
Status: Full-time
Date of Approval of JD: –
The Safety and Security Manager (SSM) reports directly to the Head of Academy (HoA) on all daily safety, security, and risk management matters for Aga Khan Academy, Maputo (AKAM). The SSM is responsible for developing and implementing risk based strategies, policies, standards, and procedures aligned with AKS/AKDN frameworks. A strategic perspective will be maintained through active engagement with local organizations and official departments, ensuring that AKAM leadership receives timely, informed input for operational decisions on safety and security.
The SSM is accountable for monitoring, mentoring, and guiding Safety and Security staff (SFPs) and guard force at AKAM. The role includes providing leadership in security analysis by continuously assessing the security environment in Mozambique.
The incumbent operates under the technical and functional guidance of the AKS Global Security Lead and works in close collaboration with the Department of International Security (DIS) of AKDN.
The Aga Khan Academies are an integrated network of residential schools in Africa, South and Central Asia and the Middle East, dedicated to expanding access to education of an international standard of excellence to exceptional young men and women. The Aga Khan Academies’ foundational values include pluralism, meritocracy and civil society. Housed in purpose-built, spacious and attractive campuses with outstanding facilities, the Academies offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Curriculum from Primary Years to the Diploma and provide a rich opportunity for both teachers and students to grow professionally and personally. The first Aga Khan Academy opened in Mombasa, Kenya in 2003, the second in Hyderabad, India in 2011, the third in Maputo, Mozambique in 2013, and the fourth Academy in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2024.
The 1998 agreement signed between the AKDN and the government of Mozambique aims “…to bring sustained benefits and improve the quality of life for the people of Mozambique.” According to the Mozambique Government and USAID (2023) “…less than half of the population finishes primary school, and of those who do finish, only 8 percent transition to secondary school… Among children who finish primary school, nearly two-thirds leave the system without basic reading, writing, and math skills”.[1]
[1] https://www.usaid.gov/mozambique/education
Our school is a non-denominational, co-educational day and residential IB World School for primary and secondary students. Located in Matola, Maputo Province, Mozambique, our Academy is dedicated towards its mission of providing educational excellence.
Our Mission is to “Identify and nurture exceptional young people from any background with the potential to become effective and ethical leaders. Admission is based on merit and not on a student’s socio-economic background nor a family’s ability to pay.”
The school is focused on the following five ‘strands’: (i) ethics, (ii) pluralism, (iii) cultures, (iv) governance and civil society, and (v) economics for development, which helps to distinguish us from other IB World Schools. AKA Maputo is currently authorized to offer the IB PYP, MYP and DP. We provide a bilingual education in Portuguese and English for students in our kindergarten and primary school, and students in the senior school are expected to develop two first languages, English plus Portuguese, Arabic, Farsi, or French, and thus aim for a bilingual diploma. Currently around 60% of our students receive some form of financial assistance.
To fulfil our mission and vision we also plan to offer the IBCP to help more local students to enter university or to follow a career path, and where their knowledge, experience and preference for learning and assessment would be catered for better than via the IBDP. We believe that this new program will move us closer to the spirit of the agreement we have with the government of Mozambique.
We also aim to develop and leverage partnerships with key external organization such as we have with ABB (Blackbulls Football Club) to help us to enrich our programmes, develop student leaders, increase enrolment and or to support student learning and wellbeing. Currently we are working on agreements with ISCTEM University, and Neurodiversity South Africa.
We intended to promote the school as a centre for academic and sports excellence to drive enrolment both in
Mozambique and the wider region. We will continue to develop our sports facilities to this end with the
support of additional partners.
This focus and our third-party agreements will help us to increase paid enrolments including via potential scholarships to be paid by local companies. The post holder will be expected to help to support the strong relationships with such organizations to increase the number of such enrolments.
Security Management and Planning
Incident Management
Coordination and Relationships
Training and Briefings
Private Security Management
Support
Previous risk management experience with a reputable national or international organization (e.g. UN, NGOs/INGOs) in East Africa, and/or a background in education sector security.
Join us as we work to provide quality education to over 96,000 students across 11 countries, with the vast majority of our schools located in rural and remote communities where access is limited.
Please submit a full application package to Recruitment.Maputo@agakhanacademies.org
The application package must include:
We are only able to contact shortlisted applicants. In the event that outstanding applicants are identified early in the search process, we reserve the right to close the process before the published deadline. For this reason, it is important that interested candidates apply as soon as possible.

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