Job Description

Place: Gaza
Starting date: 1st February 2026
Duration of contract: 6 months - with the possibility of extension upon funding
Closing date for applications: 4th December 2025

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organisation 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 Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion, we truly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organisation. This is why we are engaged to a disability policy to encourage the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities. Please indicate if you require any special accommodation, even at the first interview. For more information about the organisation: www.hi.org

JOB CONTEXT:
Since October 2023, Gaza has been plunged into an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by mass destruction, displacement, and loss of life. By October 2025, 67,173 Palestinians were killed and 169,780 were injured while 90% of the population—2.1 million people—had been displaced multiple times. The health system is on the verge of collapse, humanitarian access remains extremely limited, and the entire population faces crisis or worse levels of food insecurity, with nearly half a million people at risk of famine. Attacks on hospitals, schools, and shelters continue, while widespread explosive ordnance contamination endangers civilians and obstructs humanitarian operations. Approximately 25% of the injured—around 22,500 people—require immediate and long-term rehabilitation, including thousands of children who have suffered life-changing injuries, with Gaza now home to the largest group of child amputees in modern history.

HI Palestine is currently operating as a stand-alone program under the authority of the Emergency Division, with a dedicated governance framework adapted to the scale and complexity of the crisis.

This arrangement, confirmed until the end of 2025, is intended to provide the structural flexibility and operational responsiveness required in the current context, while also anticipating and preparing for a transfer back to Mashreq. Programme. Palestine Coordination is split between Jerusalem and Amman, with a West Bank area office located in Ramallah and a Gaza area office in Zuwayda. In Gaza, HI operates three offices: one in the central area (Zuwayda), one in the north (Gaza City), and one in the south (Khan Younis).

The mission's operational strategy relies on 4 pillars: Health (Rehabilitation and P&O), Armed Violence Reduction, Atlas Logistics, and Education. Cross-cutting components include IHA, MHPSS, Protection Mainstreaming, and DGA. The total budget for 2025 is expected to range between 8 and 12 million EUR.

Between 2023 and 2025, HI Palestine underwent rapid and large-scale expansion. The mission grew from appr. 80 staff and volunteers in Oct. 2023 to 159 staffs and 230 community-based agents by early 2025. At the moment, there are 106 national staff in Gaza and a max of 7 expatriates can be on rotation in Gaza simultaneously, although expatriate presence in Gaza increased to 12 staff during the ceasefire period. The organization of these visits requires a strict and complex process, involving several HR, logistics, security, access, and coordination procedures.

YOUR MISSION:
The HASM Gaza will support security management and access negotiation in Gaza. She/he reports to the HASM Palestine. Works closely with the Area Manager - Gaza (for national staff security).

Management:

· Direct management: HAS Supervisor, 3 HAS Officers, and 1 Tracking Officer.

· Indirect management: 30 guards

Interacts with:

· Internally: Area Manager, Base Managers, Project Managers, Senior Log Officer, Country Manager, expat team leader, expat team members

· Externally: Israeli, Palestinian and UN contacts for access and security; field access and security advisers of other aid agencies.

Responsibility 1: MANAGEMENT

An exemplary manager: embodies HI’s values daily and is a role model.
A manager who conveys meaning: understands the strategy, clarifies it, translates it into operational objectives for his/her team, drives the changes required. Gives purpose to each managerial act. Fosters the inter- and intra-divisional exchange of practices. Encourages innovation and risk taking.
Manager/administrator: organises the operational management of his/her team, structures work around the processes identified, oversees performance, and facilitates problem solving.
No. 1 HR Manager: contributes to the development of his/her team members, creates the conditions for their commitment, professionalism and dedication to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct and institutional policies, the mindset, and the individual and group behaviour expected.

Responsibility 2: STANDARDS AND EXPERTISE

Responsible for the development, implementation and updating of HI’s security framework on the programme (procedures, documents and tools).
Ensures the implementation of HI’s security policy, operational guide and new security guidelines.
Develops a learning system based on the experiences gained and lessons learnt within the programme.
Represents HI externally with regard to security matters concerning his/her country (e.g. forums, operational and strategic alliances).

Responsibility 3: Context monitoring, strengthening acceptance and humanitarian access

Responsibility 3-1:

Continuously monitors and analyses developments in the local, national and regional humanitarian context and the actors involved, identifies obstacles to access and opportunities for improvement;
Develops the network of programme contacts by fostering the diversification of information sources and learning the most from the information provided by key contacts;
Suggests the necessary adjustments to HI’s operating procedures in order to boost the extent to which the organisation is accepted in the various intervention areas;
Provides a map of the areas concerned based on mapping and spatial-visualisation tools;
Supports the HAS Country with the development of the programme’s access strategy, and helps implement it, which includes:

making contact and holding humanitarian negotiations with authorities and key actors;
preparing fact-finding visits and opening new intervention areas.

Responsibility 3-2: Operational security management

Produces security analyses and recommendations;
With Project Managers, helps identify HI activities that are at risk and suggests any necessary risk-mitigation measures;
Helps plan operations and define the resulting security framework;
Provides advice and guidance on evolving security risks, necessary resources, security frameworks, documents and strategies, and shares best practices for the safe and secure management of HI activities in the country, including the necessary inputs to define future project proposals;
Conducts regular field visits for the purposes of security assessments, and to support provincial offices;
Ensures the proper internal coordination of all security-related matters, with particular regard to the safety aspects of operations and logistics;
Helps manage incidents/crises: analysis, technical support, recommendations, implementation, reporting, lessons learnt, framework adjusting etc;
Assumes an alert role for the DP with regard to monitoring and managing programme security.

Responsibility 3-3: Capacity building and training courses on security and humanitarian access

Assesses the training needs of HI staff on the programme and supports the implementation of an HAS training plan (including internal and external training: Hostile Environment Awareness Training, Security Management, Humanitarian Negotiations etc.);
Provides ongoing training and skills development for security staff;
Develops the safety culture within the programme;
Provides security briefings for new starters and helps with their induction;
Produces regular security updates for all staff;
Promotes internal coordination with all the services concerned (sharing information, joint meetings etc.).

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POSITION:
Gaza Strip: Although the whole population is less exposed to the risk of frequent air strikes and ground offensives with the ceasefire deal, the security situations remain tense in the strip. HI has established premises with the capacity to accommodate international staff and has put in place the necessary security systems to manage their presence. The context remains volatile and might improve or worsen in the coming weeks and months (depending on the ceasefire deal). The selected candidate will be thoroughly briefed about the context and the security systems before deployment to Gaza.

Due to the current difficulties in obtaining an authorization to enter Gaza, it is possible that the selected candidates will have to carry out part or all of their mission from Amman. This situation is beyond our control and beyond the responsibility of our organization.

Requirements

YOUR PROFILE:

You have at least 6 years of overall professional experience in access and security functions and at least 3 years of experience in conflict-affected countries;
Ability to manage stress;
Proactiveness and productivity ;
Negotiation skills;
Ability to make decisions and move forward;
Ability to simplify and prioritise;
English required, Arabic and Hebrew language skills are a strong asset.

Benefits

CONDITIONS:
At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission. https://hi.org/en/join-the-team

6 months International contract starting from 1st February 2026;
The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:

Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals;
Pension scheme;
Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution;
Repatriation insurance paid by HI;

Salary from 2813€ gross/month upon experience;
Perdiem:

642€ net/month – Jordan rate - paid in the field;
821€ net/month – Palestine rate - paid in the field;

Hardship: 500 € net/month while in Gaza. The staff will be entitled to a full hardship allowance only once deployed to Gaza.
Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
R&R: according to the time spent in Gaza:

Bellow 2 weeks: 1 day;
From 2 weeks: 2 days;
From 4 weeks: 4 days;
From 6 weeks: 5 days + possible transport/package support;