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Starting Date: 25 May 2026
Status: Stand-by Partner
Duration: 03 months
Duty Station: Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa or Goma)
Background:
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially declared an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak on 15
May 2026 following laboratory confirmation of the Bundibugyo strain in Ituri Province. As of 15 May, 246 suspected cases and 80 confirmed deaths were reported. The most affected health zones are Mongwalu, Rwampara, and Bunia, all located in an already fragile humanitarian context. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) due to the risk of international spread and the uncertainties regarding the scale of transmission.
The outbreak presents a significant risk of further transmission both within the DRC and across neighboring countries, particularly Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan. Confirmed cases have already been reported in Uganda and in Goma, near the Rwanda–DRC border. Population movements and regional connectivity may further facilitate the spread of the disease to other major urban centres, including Butembo and Kisangani. At present, no vaccine is available for the Bundibugyo strain.
This is the seventeenth Ebola outbreak recorded in the DRC. In response, the Minister of Health has called for the mobilisation of technical and financial partners to support the national response plan.
Objective:
The Logistics Cluster in DRC aims to support the efforts of the Government of DRC, together with the humanitarian community, in responding to the Eboa outbreak. This support involves:
• Immediately scale up inter-agency coordination and information management activities, which
are critical to ensuring a timely, efficient, and coordinated humanitarian response. Enhanced coordination and information sharing will support humanitarian partners and bilateral government response agencies in navigating logistics and physical access constraints and formulating effective response plans, including leveraging each other’s capabilities and optimizing resources, serving as a central coordination point for partner logistics needs and bottlenecks.
• Access to common logistics services, as needed: facilitate access to common storage and transport services from Bunia to affected areas, as well as in the neighbouring provinces, aligning with the Government’s request and prioritization.
Reporting Line:
The Information Management Officer (IMO) reports to the Logistics Coordinator and the Head of Supply
Chain.
Responsibilities:
• Liaise with national counterparts, UN agencies, NGOs and other partners to collect information for the production of sitreps and bulletins, ensuring that challenges and concerns relating to the logistics operation are represented.
• Collect, verify and map logistics information in LogIE.
• Promote LogIE among relevant partners and stakeholders, provide training and guidance to the
Key skills: excellent written and verbal communications skills; high attention to detail and proofreading ability; good research and analytical skills; ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure as part of a team; good communication skills; ability to work independently while asking questions and seeking support in a fast-paced work environment. Experience in using Social Media in a professional context an advantage.
Technical skills: Proficient in MS Office package, particularly in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Demonstrated ability in data acquisition and knowledge of Access or other database tools is a great advantage. Experience with HTML is also a plus. Demonstrated ability in acquiring, wrangling, structuring, manipulating and visualizing unstructured and structured data with BI platforms like Power BI or Tableau is a distinct advantage.
Core Values: A genuine interest in the humanitarian sector and in WFP’s mission; full alignment with
humanitarian principles; service-minded; partnership and accountability strongly valued. Willingness to work in challenging environments / field locations
WFP-IMO-P3-Kinshasa, DRC
Kinshasa, DRCWFP-IMO-P3-Kinshasa, DRC
Starting Date: 25 May 2026
Status: Stand-by Partner
Duration: 03 months
Duty Station: Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa or Goma)
Background:
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially declared an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak on 15
May 2026 following laboratory confirmation of the Bundibugyo strain in Ituri Province. As of 15 May, 246 suspected cases and 80 confirmed deaths were reported. The most affected health zones are Mongwalu, Rwampara, and Bunia, all located in an already fragile humanitarian context. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) due to the risk of international spread and the uncertainties regarding the scale of transmission.
The outbreak presents a significant risk of further transmission both within the DRC and across neighboring countries, particularly Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan. Confirmed cases have already been reported in Uganda and in Goma, near the Rwanda–DRC border. Population movements and regional connectivity may further facilitate the spread of the disease to other major urban centres, including Butembo and Kisangani. At present, no vaccine is available for the Bundibugyo strain.
This is the seventeenth Ebola outbreak recorded in the DRC. In response, the Minister of Health has called for the mobilisation of technical and financial partners to support the national response plan.
Objective:
The Logistics Cluster in DRC aims to support the efforts of the Government of DRC, together with the humanitarian community, in responding to the Eboa outbreak. This support involves:
• Immediately scale up inter-agency coordination and information management activities, which
are critical to ensuring a timely, efficient, and coordinated humanitarian response. Enhanced coordination and information sharing will support humanitarian partners and bilateral government response agencies in navigating logistics and physical access constraints and formulating effective response plans, including leveraging each other’s capabilities and optimizing resources, serving as a central coordination point for partner logistics needs and bottlenecks.
• Access to common logistics services, as needed: facilitate access to common storage and transport services from Bunia to affected areas, as well as in the neighbouring provinces, aligning with the Government’s request and prioritization.
Reporting Line:
The Information Management Officer (IMO) reports to the Logistics Coordinator and the Head of Supply
Chain.
Responsibilities:
• Liaise with national counterparts, UN agencies, NGOs and other partners to collect information for the production of sitreps and bulletins, ensuring that challenges and concerns relating to the logistics operation are represented.
• Collect, verify and map logistics information in LogIE.
• Promote LogIE among relevant partners and stakeholders, provide training and guidance to the
users to boost live information sharing.
• Identify the most appropriate methodology to source and map information that can be used for advocacy in addressing issues in the supply chain.
• Produce Logistics coordination products/reports in specific formats as required within the operation. Key products include: situation updates, infographics, operational overviews, bulletins, snapshots, briefings.
• Manage content of the Logistics Cluster dedicated webpage – in close coordination with the
Global Logistics Cluster support team in Rome.
• Gather information on the overall logistics situation, including comprehensive data on logistics procedures and bottlenecks from the various Logistics Cluster partners and national authorities and support emergency response operations with the drafting of lessons learned mission reports, as required.
• Draft donor proposals and reports, collating key operational information.
• Draft, consolidate, and share key logistics information and procedures, such as Concept of Operations, Gaps and Needs Analysis (GNA) and SOPs ensuring they are regularly revised/updated if required.
• Lead communication activities in close collaboration with communications teams to amplify the visibility of Logistics Cluster activities in social media and other platforms.
• Oversee and manage the Cluster communication systems/platform with partners across the different locations, including mailing lists and messenger apps as well as maintain the internal communication channels within the Cluster team and implement best filing practices in SharePoint to streamline knowledge management and accessibility.
• Prepare operational overview, infographics, briefings and snapshots on the logistics operation for management, donors, stakeholders, Humanitarian Country Team, Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator and other stakeholders.
• Work closely with OCHA to ensure updated logistics information is disseminated to all focal points as necessary and provide the necessary inputs on behalf of the Logistics Cluster for the various information products of OCHA (Flash updates, Situational Reports, etc). Attend coordination meetings on access constraints and provide updates on logistics bottlenecks to OCHA working groups on a regular basis.
• Contribute to the Flash Appeals, Humanitarian Needs Assessment, Humanitarian Response Plan and other interagency key documents, ensuring the proper definition of indicators and implementation of monitoring mechanisms.
• Provide WFP colleagues with inputs on Logistics Cluster activities; liaise regularly with reports officers in other agencies and NGOs.
• Establish and maintain internal information sharing mechanisms, documentation formats, assessment formats, central file storage, according to Global Logistics Cluster support team guidelines, templates and standardization.
• The IM Officer operates in full adherence to the IASC-endorsed operational principles for best practices in humanitarian information management and exchange: accessibility, inclusiveness, inter-operability, accountability, verifiability, relevance, objectivity, neutrality, humanity, timeliness, sustainability, and confidentiality.
Perform other duties as required.
Recruitment Qualifications:
Education: University degree in international relations, data analysis, GIS, communications, journalism or related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
Work Experience: Four to six years of professional experience in an international context including: responsibility in information management, communications and/or reporting roles; experience with GIS and reporting/tracking systems; working in an emergency response. Previous experience in emergencies is important.
Languages: Fluency in both English and French is required.
• Identify the most appropriate methodology to source and map information that can be used for advocacy in addressing issues in the supply chain.
• Produce Logistics coordination products/reports in specific formats as required within the operation. Key products include: situation updates, infographics, operational overviews, bulletins, snapshots, briefings.
• Manage content of the Logistics Cluster dedicated webpage – in close coordination with the
Global Logistics Cluster support team in Rome.
• Gather information on the overall logistics situation, including comprehensive data on logistics procedures and bottlenecks from the various Logistics Cluster partners and national authorities and support emergency response operations with the drafting of lessons learned mission reports, as required.
• Draft donor proposals and reports, collating key operational information.
• Draft, consolidate, and share key logistics information and procedures, such as Concept of Operations, Gaps and Needs Analysis (GNA) and SOPs ensuring they are regularly revised/updated if required.
• Lead communication activities in close collaboration with communications teams to amplify the visibility of Logistics Cluster activities in social media and other platforms.
• Oversee and manage the Cluster communication systems/platform with partners across the different locations, including mailing lists and messenger apps as well as maintain the internal communication channels within the Cluster team and implement best filing practices in SharePoint to streamline knowledge management and accessibility.
• Prepare operational overview, infographics, briefings and snapshots on the logistics operation for management, donors, stakeholders, Humanitarian Country Team, Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator and other stakeholders.
• Work closely with OCHA to ensure updated logistics information is disseminated to all focal points as necessary and provide the necessary inputs on behalf of the Logistics Cluster for the various information products of OCHA (Flash updates, Situational Reports, etc). Attend coordination meetings on access constraints and provide updates on logistics bottlenecks to OCHA working groups on a regular basis.
• Contribute to the Flash Appeals, Humanitarian Needs Assessment, Humanitarian Response Plan and other interagency key documents, ensuring the proper definition of indicators and implementation of monitoring mechanisms.
• Provide WFP colleagues with inputs on Logistics Cluster activities; liaise regularly with reports officers in other agencies and NGOs.
• Establish and maintain internal information sharing mechanisms, documentation formats, assessment formats, central file storage, according to Global Logistics Cluster support team guidelines, templates and standardization.
• The IM Officer operates in full adherence to the IASC-endorsed operational principles for best practices in humanitarian information management and exchange: accessibility, inclusiveness, inter-operability, accountability, verifiability, relevance, objectivity, neutrality, humanity, timeliness, sustainability, and confidentiality.
Perform other duties as required.
Recruitment Qualifications:
Education: University degree in international relations, data analysis, GIS, communications, journalism or related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
Work Experience: Four to six years of professional experience in an international context including: responsibility in information management, communications and/or reporting roles; experience with GIS and reporting/tracking systems; working in an emergency response. Previous experience in emergencies is important.
Languages: Fluency in both English and French is required.
Technical skills: Proficient in MS Office package, particularly in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Demonstrated ability in data acquisition and knowledge of Access or other database tools is a great advantage. Experience with HTML is also a plus. Demonstrated ability in acquiring, wrangling, structuring, manipulating and visualizing unstructured and structured data with BI platforms like Power BI or Tableau is a distinct advantage.
Core Values: A genuine interest in the humanitarian sector and in WFP’s mission; full alignment with
humanitarian principles; service-minded; partnership and accountability strongly valued. Willingness to work in challenging environments / field locations