Operations Manager Atlas Logistique - Darfur Response - Sudan

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JOB CONTEXT:

Since April 2023, Sudan has been facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, fueled by the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Armed conflict, attacks on civilians, population displacements, malnutrition, epidemics and climate shocks have left 30.4 million people, or nearly two-thirds of Sudan's population (+23% compared to 2024), including 16 million children, in urgent need of humanitarian assistance (OCHA, HRP 2025). The conflict has displaced more than 12 million people, making it the largest displacement crisis in the world. The situation is particularly dire for people living in areas of active conflict, including Darfur, one of the most affected regions in Sudan, where nearly 80% of the population (meaning 30.4 million people1) is in need of humanitarian assistance (OCHA, HRP 2025).

Since January 2024, HI has been responding to Sudan’s crisis. HI’s joint multisectorial response in Gedaref State, implemented with a Sudanese partner NGO, is already providing physical and functional rehabilitation services in healthcare centers and at community level, as well as 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, since December 2024. Activities are implemented in Darfur since January 2025 in Basic needs (Wash and FSL), and assessment in other sectors are being conducted. The advertised vacancy is to be part of that team.

Atlas Logistique (AL) is an operational unit of HI, which has been supporting humanitarian actors since 1993. Atlas Logistique facilitates, optimizes and accelerates the delivery of aid in emergency situations and chronic crisis contexts. Our mission is to open up humanitarian space to the most hard-to-reach populations and to optimize humanitarian supply chains. AL’s operations focus around four key sectors: shared transport and storage platforms, medical logistics, logistics capacity building and light civil access engineering, both in the preparation and response phases of emergencies. These all contribute to HI-AL's position as a key player in humanitarian access.

After a phase of initial diagnosis to understand the logistical needs of the humanitarian community in Darfur, AL is launching operations in Darfur focusing on storage, transportation and capacity building activities.

YOUR MISSION:

Reporting to the Area Manager, with functional links with the Atlas Deployment unit manager (HQ), the Operations Manager leads the overall implementation of the Atlas Logistique components of HI’s intervention in the area, through ensuring sound analysis of the context, subsequent strategic developments and operational oversight, as well as fostering close coordination and partnerships with partners, other humanitarian stakeholders, donors and authorities.  

More precisely, he/she is in charge of:

• Developing and overseeing Atlas Logistique’s programming in Darfour, as well as contributing to HI’s strategic frameworks on all relevant aspects related to the Atlas Logistique component of HI’s intervention in Darfur.

• The operational design, management and monitoring of the Atlas Logistique projects, as well as pilot projects structuring Atlas Logistique's development, ensuring compliance with applicable standards and frameworks.

• The identification and analysis of the overall humanitarian community’s needs to ensure that the Atlas Logistique intervention meets these needs and fills observed gaps.

• Participating in various coordination mechanisms (clusters, other inter-agency meetings, bilateral coordination) and ensuring representation towards authorities.

• Contributing to the identification of funding opportunity and steering of fundraising efforts to ensure sustainability of Atlas Logistique operations in the country in compliance with HI’s strategic frameworks.

• Ensuring sound internal coordination with relevant departments (humanitarian access and security, logistics, HR, finance, etc.).

• Supervising the Atlas Logistique teams in Darfur and ensuring capacity-building as per needs.

• Overseeing the smooth and qualitative service provision to user organizations and ensuring accountability towards them and other relevant humanitarian stakeholders.

In this framework, the main missions are:

Mission 1: Management

• Manager as a role model: embody HI's values on a daily basis and be a role model.

• Manager as a coach for meaning: understand the strategy, make it explicit, translate it into operational objectives for his or her team, lead the necessary changes. Give meaning to each management action. Encourage inter and intra departmental exchanges of practice. Encourage innovation and risk-taking.

• Operational manager: organise the operational management of his or her team, structure the work around identified processes, steer performance and facilitate the resolution of problems.

• First HR & Coach: contribute to the development of his or her staff, creating the conditions for their commitment, professionalism and attachment to HI. Ensure compliance with the code of conduct and institutional policies, the mindset and expected individual and collective behaviour.

Mission 2: Strategy and steering

• Contribute to the development of the Atlas Logistique-related components of the programme operational strategy, and to its implementation and annual monitoring.

• Implements the Atlas Logistique component of the Programme’s Operational Strategy, including through sound context monitoring, appropriate planning and deployment of resources, development of partnerships, participation to key coordination mechanisms and steering of fundraising efforts.

• Contribute to organisational transformation, particularly through changes to managerial practices, continuous improvement, and contribute to the improvement of working processes.

Mission 3: Standards and expertise

• Ensure deployment and compliance with HI global frameworks, institutional policies and standards.

Mission 4: Operational implementation

• Ensure the sound management and monitoring Atlas Logistique field projects under his/her responsibility.

• Keeping both potential opportunities and risks in mind, contribute to the monitoring and analysis done by the line manager and other relevant departments, and propose mitigation measures where relevant.

• Develop HI’s external influence and positioning (forums, development of operational and strategic alliances, contribution to ethical positioning definition, etc) and the external representation of the organisation (external coordination mechanisms, events, media) in his/her area of responsibility.

• Coordinate the teams in his/her area and facilitate inter-department internal coordination.

Requirements

• You have minimum 3 years of experience in project management in humanitarian emergency response.
• You have experience in external representation and team management.

·       You have successful negotiation experience in a complex humanitarian environment

• You have experience in volatile contexts security-wise
• You have experience in partnership development and management.

·       You have successful experience in methodological support for project design and management

• You show patience and creativeness and are a good team player !

Benefits

At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission: Join the team

• 6 months International contract starting from 1st, April 2026 based in Tawila/Geneina
• 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 2869 € gross/month upon experience;
• Perdiem: 738 € net/month - paid in the field
• Hardship: 500 € net/month paid with your salary;
• Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
• R&R: 5 days every 8 weeks
• Position: Unaccompanied:
• Housing: Collective taken in charge by HI;
• If you are resident in the country: local package.