Emergency Specialist (Access)

The Emergency Specialist (Access) coordinates data collection, reporting, and response activities related to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The role involves planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating emergency interventions to ensure effective and timely response coordination in a complex humanitarian context.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate overall country office data collection, reporting, and response activities related to Ebola.
• Develop, plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate emergency interventions ensuring timely, evidence-based decision-making and effective response coordination.
• Lead humanitarian access and negotiation efforts.
• Support community engagement and acceptance.
• Monitor access and manage information.
• Provide coordination and operational support.
• Strengthen capacity and manage knowledge.

Requirements

• Advanced University degree in social sciences, public administration, law, public health, nutrition, international relations, business administration or related disciplines, preferably combining management, administration, and relevant technical fields.
• Five years of progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels in programme/project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and administration.
• Fluency in French and intermediate English are required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is desirable.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
• Substantial experience in acute emergency or L3-type settings, including conflict-driven displacement, access constraints, and volatile security environments.
• Ability to make time-critical decisions with incomplete information and high operational stakes.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage access negotiations in sensitive contexts.
• Strong understanding of duty of care, reputational risk, donor compliance, and humanitarian red lines.
• Ability to represent the organization credibly with internal and external stakeholders under politically sensitive conditions.
• Clear understanding of when not to engage, escalate, or deploy, as much as when to act.

Skills

• Program Development
• Project Planning
• Project Implementation
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Emergency Response
• Access Negotiations
• Conflict-driven Displacement
• Security Risk Management
• Donor Compliance
• Humanitarian Coordination
• Data Collection
• Reporting
• Operational Decision-Making
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Duty of Care
• Humanitarian Contexts
• Fluency in French
• Intermediate English

Languages

French, English