Regional Humanitarian Programme and Accountability- Officer (Secondment)

Position: Regional Humanitarian Programme and Accountability Officer (Secondment)

Location:  Any ActionAid Office in East and Southern Africa

Contract duration:  Secondment until 31 December 2026

Closing date:  9 June 2026 at 5.00 PM Johannesburg Time

STRICTLY INTERNAL SECONDMENT

The Role:

The Humanitarian Programme and accountability Officer will support humanitarian programming processes across preparedness, emergency response, recovery, resilience building, and humanitarian systems influencing. This includes preparedness planning, coordination, documentation, and information management functions of IHART. The role will contribute to effective humanitarian programme delivery by strengthening programme tracking, data management systems, donor reporting, knowledge management, and organizational learning to strengthen programme quality, adaptive management, advocacy, and locally led humanitarian action.

The position will also support coordination with country programmes, partners, and humanitarian stakeholders to ensure timely communication, quality documentation, and evidence generation for humanitarian advocacy and programming.

Who we're looking for: 

You should have substantial experience in humanitarian programming and information management, with a strong ability to support high-quality programme documentation, reporting, and coordination. You will bring proven expertise in consolidating and analysing programme data, producing clear and compelling reports for internal and donor audiences, and strengthening information management systems to support effective humanitarian response. This includes working closely with programme teams to capture results, lessons learned, and impact, while ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of information.

A strong understanding of humanitarian principles, coordination mechanisms, and the rights of women and young people in emergencies is essential, alongside experience supporting emergency or resilience-focused programming. Experience working in complex and fast-paced humanitarian contexts, particularly within Africa, will be highly valuable.

You will need excellent organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines under pressure. Strong attention to detail, sound judgement, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within multicultural and multidisciplinary teams are critical.

You must be an excellent writer and editor, capable of producing high-quality reports, briefs, and documentation products that clearly communicate programme progress and impact. Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and familiarity with digital collaboration and information-sharing platforms are required.

You should demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships and support coordination across teams and stakeholders.

You should also have strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.

What we offer:

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done, encourage close collaboration and sharing power, and where safeguarding standards and feminist leadership are exemplified everywhere. At ActionAid, you can look forward to a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment, including

• A workplace that embraces intersectional feminist principles 
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay 

How to apply: 

Please click on the "apply” button to start the application process: 

Applications close on June 9th 5.00 pm Johannesburg Time. Please upload an up-to-date curriculum vitae and a covering letter, clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile. 

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only consider candidates if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description. We will only consider candidates who have the right to work in the specified locations.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us: 

ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. We want to see a just, fair and sustainable world, in which everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from poverty and oppression.  We work to achieve social justice and gender equality, and to eradicate poverty. 

All our work is underpinned by a set of feminist leadership principles:  Self-awareness, Self-care and caring for others, Dismantling bias, Inclusion, Sharing power, Responsible & transparent use of power, Accountable collaboration, Respectful feedback, Courage and Zero tolerance against discrimination and abuse of power.  

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity. 

Our commitment to Safeguarding

ActionAid is committed to recruiting candidates who promote ActionAid’s SHEA and Safeguarding policies and values.

ActionAid will only recruit candidates who are committed to SHEA and Safeguarding and ActionAid’s values, thereby helping to create safer working cultures. As a deterrence measure ActionAid is also committed to deterring candidates who are intending to cause harm from joining ActionAid.

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