Overview
The Humanitarian Access Officer plays a key role in operationalizing WFP’s Access and Conflict Sensitivity Strategy at field level, ensuring safe, timely, and sustainable access to affected populations.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain a system for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting access constraints.
- Produce monthly access analysis reports and weekly updates, including incident tracking and trend analysis.
- Maintain tools such as: Access dashboard, Incident tracker, Access engagement tracker.
- Disseminate critical access information within 48 hours after major incidents.
- Provide evidence-based recommendations to support operational planning.
- Support the implementation of the Access Strategy at area and sub-office level.
- Develop sub-area access plans aligned with local constraints and dynamics.
- Ensure integration of access considerations into at least 80% of operational plans.
- Contribute to quarterly reviews of access strategy performance.
- Strengthen community acceptance through structured engagement with leaders, civil society, and communities.
- Support communication efforts to counter misinformation and improve perception of WFP.
- Promote and integrate community feedback mechanisms (CFM) into access analysis.
- Facilitate regular community engagement activities in priority areas.
- Conduct and support structured dialogue with authorities, armed actors, and other stakeholders influencing access.
- Develop and implement access engagement plans.
- Contribute to humanitarian negotiation efforts in line with humanitarian principles.
- Ensure proper documentation of engagements and reporting within 48 hours.
- Ensure active participation in Internal Access Working Group and Inter-agency Access Working Groups (OCHA, INSO).
- Support harmonization of approaches and joint advocacy efforts.
- Strengthen coordination between Access, Security, Programme, Supply Chain, and Protection units.
- Provide access support to high-risk and hard-to-reach operations (IPC 4, remote areas).
- Contribute to risk analysis, contingency planning, and mission planning.
- Ensure rapid response to access constraints, targeting resolution within 48 hours.
- Ensure systematic application of Do No Harm principles and conflict sensitivity analysis.
- Support integration of protection risks into program design and implementation.
- Collaborate with Protection and Conflict Sensitivity teams.
- Support supply chain teams in ensuring secure and flexible delivery corridors and identifying alternative routes and modalities.
- Contribute to pre-positioning strategies in difficult-to-access areas.
- Develop and deliver training, coaching, and mentoring on humanitarian access for WFP staff, Partners and contractors.
- Produce tools (SOPs, guidelines, checklists).
- Conduct regular field coaching missions.
Required Experience
A minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in Access and related domains.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in international affairs, development studies, or equivalent.
