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Dow Jones · 10 hours ago

Manager, Risk & Safety - Americas

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$130K/yr - $160K/yr

7+ years exp

Dow Jones is a worldwide news and information powerhouse, and they are seeking a Manager, Risk & Safety for their Global Risk & Security Team. The role involves participating in global risk mitigation, serving as a trusted risk advisor, and managing incidents while providing critical regional coverage for the Americas.

Digital MediaNewsPublishingSocial Media

Responsibilities

Participate in global risk mitigation: work within the team to ensure current and emerging risks are effectively identified, assessed, communicated, and mitigated

Serve as a trusted risk advisor: forge relationships with people across the company. Provide advice to staff, contractors, and decision makers on risk, security, and operational challenges

Undertake strategy, establish process, and customize tooling: contribute to team best practices including planning, process improvement, risk mitigation, and responding to new challenges

Work on the following functional areas: support functional leaders within the team on their global work portfolio: high-risk support, workplace safety & security, resilience, executive protection, event security, training, and global operations

Undertake incident management: play a key role supporting incident management through aggressive and active intervention, coordination, information provision and problem solving, while providing compassionate and reasoned support to those involved

Help the team maintain knowledge and a competitive advantage: engage in industry working groups to track trends, technologies, and best practices in risk and media security

Project management: effectively manage multi-tasking, covering research, coordination, operational planning, project planning, stakeholder management/communications, logistics, and administrative duties such as weekly/monthly reporting

Qualification

Operational Risk ExpertiseIncident ManagementStrategic InsightLogistics ManagementCommunication SkillsCompliance CertificationsPolitical Science BackgroundFluency in SpanishFluency in Portuguese

Required

7+ years of proven experience in a global safety and/or security management role at similarly complex organizations

Expert at developing and implementing procedures to resolve operational and security issues in austere, conflict, or less-developed environments

Experienced in the full lifecycle of incident and emergency response (identification, support, review, and analysis), effectively ensuring business resilience through stakeholder and leadership communication

A critical thinker with a strong interest in global events (i.e. you consume news and analysis to stay abreast of the world), and a keen understanding of how social/political/conflict dynamics affect risk

Experience in creating strategic milestones and roadmaps

Clear and concise verbal and written communicator able to brief, influence, and translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms, tailoring style to the audience

Must be willing to dive into ambiguous, challenging situations and projects, create order, and process

Identify problems and proactively design solutions. Bias to action, create a minimum viable way forward, and then iterate and improve

Willing and able to travel ~30% (domestic and international) and work on-site in our NYC office as required

Sometimes work an irregular schedule (early morning, evenings and occasionally weekends)

Preferred

An understanding of Americas regional geopolitical dynamics and risks

Experience applying global risk management, security, and training solutions within a global organization

An understanding of newsgathering, risk, and digital/physical safety nexus

Aptitude to learn and apply novel technology solutions e.g. AI, workflow tools, and provide inputs into technical design documents for third party tooling

Receptive to direct feedback and open to stretch learning opportunities

Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese

Previous media organization experience

Any compliance/control certifications

Demonstrated academic/professional background in political science and/or international affairs