Description
- Location: Kinshasa – DRC (travel to Goma may be required)
- Desired start date: December 29, 2025
- Contract duration: 3 months
- Application deadline: November 30, 2025
Handicap International / Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an independent and impartial international solidarity organization that intervenes in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict, and disaster. Working alongside people with disabilities and those made vulnerable, it takes action and advocates to meet their essential needs and improve their living conditions. It is committed to promoting respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.
Since its creation in 1982, HI has implemented development programs in more than 55 countries and intervenes in numerous emergency situations. Today, we have a budget of approximately 200 million euros and 4,000 employees worldwide.
At Handicap International, we firmly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organization. That is why we are committed to a disability policy to promote the welcoming and integration of people with disabilities.
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CONTEXT :
The DRC has suffered from chronic instability since the late 1990s, linked to internal governance problems and its proximity to countries that have experienced major crises. Due to the fragility of its institutions, access to quality social services remains a major challenge for the entire Congolese population, estimated at between 100 and 120 million inhabitants.
The DRC faces a major challenge in resource governance, which has a significant impact on disaster risk management. As a result, when a disaster occurs, the government’s response often fails to meet all the needs, and this remains a major challenge for the population.
Eastern DRC has been the scene of a chronic crisis for over 20 years. Instability is constant, and armed groups are numerous. Humanitarian actors have been working in the area for many years, combining emergency, transition/resilience approaches and attempting to ensure some degree of development/stabilization.
Since October 2022, the security situation has deteriorated significantly with the resumption of fighting between M23 elements and those of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) with the capture of Goma by the M23 in January 2025.
Humanitarian access to these populations in emergency situations is a permanent challenge, both because of chronic insecurity and because of logistical access constraints (very degraded tracks and roads, regular landslides, flooded areas).
In response to needs and within the framework of its technical expertise, HI has been working in the DRC since 1995 across numerous sectors and is a recognized player in humanitarian assistance and logistics. The year 2026 will be dedicated to developing the new 2026-2028 strategic cycle, validating sectoral action plans, and focusing on operational capacities for emergency response, protection, economic recovery, and improving access to healthcare and rehabilitation services in the DRC, including the issue of strategic partnerships.
YOUR MISSION:
Under the hierarchical responsibility of the Technical Head of Program (THoP) and in functional link with the technical referent “Basic needs and economic inclusion” at Headquarters, the Project Officer will provide technical support to the Program and will develop a sectoral strategy with an attached action plan.
In general:
Structuring the Economic Inclusion sector of the HI Programme in the DRC through direct technical support to ongoing interventions, strategic analysis and needs assessment, and the development of a sectoral roadmap including intervention proposals (including taking into account synergies with other sectors of Handicap International), an analysis of funding opportunities (donors) and HI’s positioning vis-Ã -vis national and international actors.
More specifically:
- Supporting the recruitment of specialized technical profiles for new projects by identifying the key skills for each project.
- Provide technical support to ongoing projects: technical guidance, review of tools, training and support for field teams in economic inclusion for a consistent deployment of HI approaches and standards.
- Conduct an analysis of the socio-economic needs of beneficiaries and the organizational needs of teams and partners in the different intervention areas of HI in the DRC.
- Contribute to context analyses, including mapping economic actors and services, as well as identifying potential collaborations with national and international actors.
- Develop a sectoral roadmap integrating clear programmatic orientations (including HI DRC intersectoral synergies), an analysis of funding opportunities, HI’s strategic positioning vis-Ã -vis other local actors, partners and donors.
- Contribute to the drafting of new project proposals (concept notes) based on opportunities.
- Strengthen HI’s technical and partnership positioning in economic inclusion and identify new funding opportunities and strategic partnerships.
Profile
Education – Experience
- You hold a Master’s degree in economics, development, entrepreneurship, public policy, social inclusion, or any other relevant field,
- You have a minimum of 5 years of experience in economic inclusion, food security and livelihoods or local economic development in an international NGO (experience with HI is a definite asset),
- You have proven experience in designing sector strategies, capitalization, and contextual analyses.
- You have experience in providing technical support to teams and in multidisciplinary coordination.
SKILLS
- Mastery of approaches to the economic inclusion of people with disabilities,
- Ability to design and facilitate training programs,
- Skills in analyzing disability, gender, and age.
- Excellent strategic writing skills,
- Strong autonomy and a sense of initiative,
- Ability to interact interculturally and work in a multicultural team,
- Organization, rigor, time management.
Benefits
At HI, the departure conditions are commensurate with your commitment and tailored to the context of your mission. Particular attention is paid to health issues and your personal situation:
- International contract of 3 months, ideally starting on December 29, 2025 (possibility of starting remotely)
The international contract allows for social security coverage tailored to individual needs:
- Unemployment insurance is only levied for EU nationals;
- Retirement insurance;
- Health coverage, repatriation, and insurance are provided by HI and the employee;
- Salary: from €2757 gross/month;
- Per diem: €975 net/month paid in local currency on the ground;
- Hardship: €250 net/month
- Paid leave: 25 days per year;
- R&R: depending on the mission location and level
- Position: Unaccompanied
- Group housing provided by HI
How to apply
Are you available to start immediately and do you meet the required profile? We would be happy to receive your CV and cover letter via this link: https://apply.workable.com/j/4F03601374