Humanitarian Access and Security Manager - Sudan

• Closing date for applications: 20th August 2026

• Place:
  Tawila - Sudan
• Starting date: 01st September 2026
• Duration of contract: 6 months
• Closing date for applications: 20th August 2026

Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an independent and impartial aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organization works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Since its creation in 1982, HI has run development & humanitarian projects in more than 55 countries and responded to numerous emergencies. Today, we have a budget of approximately 200 million euros, with 4,000 employees worldwide

At HI, we truly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organization. This is why we are engaged to a disability policy to encourage the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities.

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Since January 2024, HI has been responding to Sudan’s crisis. HI’s joint multisectoral response in Gedaref State, implemented with a Sudanese partner Non-governmental organization (NGO), is already providing physical and functional rehabilitation services in healthcare centers and at community level, as well as Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) services, including individual and group counselling. HI is further engaged at the humanitarian coordination level to mainstream disability inclusion throughout the humanitarian response.

HI is scaling up its response from both geographic and modalities/sectorial perspectives. In particular, HI has deployed emergency response teams in Darfur, to setup its operations and initiate its response in the western parts of Sudan. HI team is present in Darfur since December 2024, implementing inclusive humanitarian action, and basic needs activities (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Food security).

HI team is also active in other sectors such as Functional and Physical rehabilitation, and mutualized logistics. The advertised vacancy is to be part of that team.

The main office is currently in Tawila, North Darfur, but HI is also operational in Geneina, West Darfur, and exploring having an operational presence in Nyala, South Darfur.

Under the management of the Area Manager, the Humanitarian Access and Security Manager (HASM) will cover the entire Darfur region and support HI operations and movements of goods and people in between the different states of the Darfur. He or she will be based in Tawila, North Darfur with regular stays in South Darfur (could be for several weeks) and West Darfur.

The recruited HASM will need, among other regular tasks, to support Atlas Logistique activities and especially mutualized transportation. This entails regular field trips in sensitive areas to assess the area and greenlight movements in the assessed zones and localities.

• Contributes to the country strategies in line with the global strategies

Steers security strategy and functioning through the active promotion of HI’s institutional policy and the optimization of resources

• STRATOP: contributes towards the drafting, revision and implementation of operational strategy (stratop) in the specific area;
• RISKS: produces and updates the risk map covering the specific area; proposes and implements risk mitigation measures;
• INCIDENTS: contributes to incident reporting within her or his scope of responsibility;
• INDICATORS: produces, compiles and analyses dashboard data;
• REPRESENTATION: represents HI externally on security matters concerning her or his specific area (e.g. forums, operational and strategic alliances); ensures the development of local partnerships necessary to the development of her or his specific area of activity.
• Standards and Accountability
• STANDARDS: ensures respect and application of HI standards and of the mission for the whole of her or his professional sector, with regard to policy, processes and tools;
• LOCAL ADAPTATION: adapts and contextualizes these standards according to specific local characteristics;
• INTERNAL CONTROL: oversees internal control for her or his whole area of responsibility;
• ACCOUNTABILITY: guarantees compliance with and application of institutional donor rules on her or his activity sector on all the projects implemented in her or his specific area.
• Operational security management

Gains a thorough understanding on security issues in the specific area and develop an effective and efficient security related information collection.

• Supports the Area Manager in the security watch;
• Follows the evolution of local and regional context as well as national and international context when its necessary;
• Supports the diversification of information sources and capitalize information about key…