DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

11 September 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 West Africa Standard Time (Kinshasa)

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ABOUT WFP

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WHY JOIN WFP?

WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

Background and Purpose:

Humanitarian access is critical to effectively responding to food security and nutrition crises in complex and conflict-affected environments. Due to its mandate, operational presence, and size, WFP is more regularly operating in complex contexts where humanitarian access poses a challenge to operating efficiently. Thus, the demand on WFP to strengthen its corporate and field-level capacities to negotiate, maintain, and improve access is increasing.

The humanitarian access situation in DRC remains complex as significant access constraints persist, mainly due to ongoing armed conflicts, violence, and attacks on humanitarian personnel, assets, and infrastructure in Eastern DRC. Bureaucratic and administrative challenges, including lengthy and complex procedures, movement restrictions, and other barriers, continue to hinder the ability of affected populations to access critical humanitarian aid and services.

The Humanitarian Access Officer will provide support to WFP operations in Eastern DRC with internal and external coordination and integrate a multidimensional approach to implement access strategies and work plans. This position aims to ensure a coordinated, coherent, and predictable humanitarian approach to access that enables the implementation of WFP programs, aiming to maximize access to humanitarian assistance for the most vulnerable populations in the respective COs.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the direct supervision of the Head of Security, the incumbent will undertake the following activities:

• Knowledge management – Humanitarian and Access Context analysis: Support the CO in undertaking contextual analysis and assessing access-related risks to alert and anticipate their implications on humanitarian operations. Propose mitigation measures and opportunities to adjust and design WFP’s programs.
• Develop and maintain an overview of the state of conflicts and insecurity, including WFP’s efforts to engage with communities and other actors to support operational decision-making. This includes implementing an Operational Access Map to understand where and why WFP may be unable to reach beneficiaries.
• In collaboration with Security and other functional units, develop and maintain an updated actor mapping across the Country. Document good practices and lessons learned from the operation and ensure that they are systematically disseminated to feed the corporate development of guidance and tools.
• Ensure that the CO is aware in a timely manner of any new opportunities to enhance engagement on access and engagement issues.

Technical Support:

• Work with functional Units in the CO to develop long-term institutional arrangements necessary to implement access strategies.
• Support and advise technical units in the CO on components, good practices, key actors, and concerns to be considered in formulating strategies to reach beneficiaries and facilitate their access to essential goods and services.
• Provide guidance and assistance on considerations pertaining to engaging humanitarian and non-humanitarian actors, civil and public entities, and other stakeholders in the development of implementation plans to improve WFP’s access.
• Support identifying programmatic and operational access-related risks and proposing mitigation measures, as well as opportunities to adjust and design WFP’s interventions to efficiently deliver WFP programmes in a timely manner.
• Support strengthening and establishing sustainable multi-functional operational access coordination in the CO.
• Initiate and support efforts to build the capacity of WFP staff to undertake operational access and engagement work.

Coordination:

• Ensure that WFP actively participates in relevant inter-agency discussions concerning access. This includes forging partnerships with traditional and non-traditional partners and other experts to improve performance in this area.
• Support the CO’s efforts to advocate for establishing and maintaining principled and sustained humanitarian access.
• Support CO to strengthen and maintain sustainable coordination and partnerships with stakeholders in the country.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education: Academic degree in international relations, International Law, development studies, conflict studies, or another relevant discipline is required

Experience:

• Good understanding of the political, social, and security context in the Eastern DRC (Essential)
• (5) years of professional experience in conflict and fragile contexts.
• Demonstrated experience in humanitarian access negotiations.
• Demonstrated conflict and security analytical competency.

Desirable:

• Experience in researching, analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing information.
• Experience with the UN or comparable international organization.
• Experience in the design and completion of conflict analysis.
• Experience in capacity building (training, accompaniment)

Languages: Proficiency in French (level C); English (level B)

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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

All applications must be submitted exclusively through our online recruiting system. We do not consider CVs or applications sent by email, LinkedIn, or any other channel.

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At the application stage, the only required documents are your CV and Cover Letter. Additional documents (passport, certificates, recommendation letters, etc.) may be requested later in the process.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the recruitment process.

All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.