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Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Humanitarian Access and Security Specialist

Risk, Regulatory & Legal AdvisoryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLyon, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of field experience with humanitarian NGOs in security or humanitarian access manager positions in emergency, complex, and unstable contexts.
  • Experience in incident and crisis management, humanitarian access, and capacity strengthening.
  • Mastery of concepts, tools, and processes related to security management and humanitarian access.
  • Knowledge of pedagogy and training or skills-transfer techniques.
  • Strong prioritization, organizational, and autonomy capabilities.
  • Fluency in spoken and written French and English.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to developing humanitarian access and the organization's intervention capacity.
  • Act as a technical reference and support management at headquarters, regional, and country levels, as well as field AHS teams, in implementing AHS frameworks, operational security, incident and crisis management, and defining access strategies.
  • Help strengthen the organization's AHS culture.
  • Contribute to defining, deploying, and applying AHS standards and frameworks.
  • Adapt standards to contexts and implement quality-control tools, including Minimum Security Standards, security reviews, and dashboards.
  • Monitor changes in contexts, trends, and risks within the assigned scope.
  • Contribute to developing, implementing, and monitoring program humanitarian access strategies.
  • Support directors in developing operational strategies with an AHS component in accordance with organizational frameworks.
  • Support management and AHS teams with operational security management, including analyses, resourcing, problem-solving, and advice.
  • Provide alerts to management and act as a check and balance in security management within the assigned scope.
  • Ensure the crisis-management protocol is applied within the assigned scope.
  • Support programs in establishing and training Incident Management Teams.
  • Participate in crisis management within the assigned scope as a Crisis Management Team member, including analysis, technical support, recommendations, implementation, reporting, and lessons-learned exercises.
  • Improve AHS technical expertise by developing lessons-learned exercises and sharing experience within the assigned scope.
  • Participate in recruiting, setting objectives for, training, monitoring, and conducting annual reviews of country AHS managers within the assigned scope.
  • Contribute to emergency preparedness and, during an emergency, reprioritize work according to humanitarian needs to ensure a rapid and effective response.

About the Company

Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Handicap International, also known as Humanity & Inclusion, is an international non-profit organization focused on disability. It works with people with disabilities in diverse settings—from conflict zones to development contexts—to improve their access to essential services, rehabilitation, livelihoods, and inclusion. The organisation delivers aid and support through programmes in about 60 countries and responds to emergencies, helping people become self-reliant. It operates through a network of eight national associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA) that provide funding, resources, and project management. Unlike some aid groups, it is non-governmental, non-religious, non-political, and non-profit, centering the needs and rights of people with disabilities. Its goal is to enable people with disabilities to participate fully in society and to strengthen their independence and resilience in all contexts.

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