Humanitarian Aid Coordinator — Pemba, Cabo Delgado — Ayuda en Acción

About the role

Ayuda en Acción is looking for a Humanitarian Aid Coordinator to lead, from Pemba, the organisation's humanitarian response and early recovery in Mozambique — focusing on the province of Cabo Delgado. The person in this role will coordinate how aid reaches crisis-affected families in the north of the country and take full accountability for it on the ground.

This is leadership in a complex context: security under constant watch, frequent travel within the province, and various stakeholders with whom you must speak the same language, literally and figuratively. If you have coordinated humanitarian responses in challenging environments before, you know exactly what this entails. If this is the job you are looking for, read to the end and apply without waiting until the deadline.

What you will do

The job advert organises the mission into four key pillars. Day to day, this translates into:

• Leading the organisation's humanitarian strategy in Mozambique, monitoring the context, risks, needs, and emerging trends;
• Keeping projects aligned with organisational and donor priorities, and supporting preparedness for new emergency responses;
• Coordinating the full project lifecycle — planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation — with a focus on results, indicators, budgets, and deadlines;
• Ensuring that humanitarian principles and international standards — Sphere and CHS — guide delivery;
• Supporting team recruitment and onboarding, offering coaching and technical guidance aimed at continuous improvement;
• Representing the organisation before local authorities, UN missions, international NGOs, and donors, while actively participating in humanitarian coordination mechanisms;
• Closely monitoring the budget and financial delivery, coordinating the narrative reports and documentation required by donors;
• Monitoring security risks and keeping security plans up to date;
• Coordinating the communication and visibility of the work, promoting knowledge sharing across teams.

This is not a desk-bound job: the advert calls for regular presence in the field across Cabo Delgado and travel throughout the country. Effective coordination is built alongside teams and partners on the ground.

Who we are looking for

Someone who leads a humanitarian response well in Cabo Delgado keeps a cool head when the context changes overnight, makes decisions with incomplete information, and never loses sight of the people behind the indicators. They coordinate teams closely — providing technical guidance, training, and timely corrections — and know how to negotiate with a donor on Monday and a local authority on Tuesday.

The multilingual requirement in the advert is not decorative: each language opens a different door. Those who have worked on internationally funded responses also know the weight of documentation: accountability reports, evidence, deadlines. If balancing field operations, people management, and paperwork is already part of your career, you will fit right in.

About Ayuda en Acción

Ayuda en Acción is an international organisation of Spanish origin that creates future opportunities for children and youth, supporting the most vulnerable people in accessing education and transitioning to employment. It works in 18 countries, and in the past year, around 211,000 people were assisted by its humanitarian crisis responses. It is active in Mozambique — where it has called for support for families affected by the crisis — and is a member of Alliance2015, the European alliance of development NGOs. Its workstream on human mobility, providing comprehensive support to displaced persons, is directly relevant to the context of Cabo Delgado.

What Ayuda en Acción offers

The advert does not publish a salary or benefits package — and Inademy does not publish figures that are not confirmed by the source. What is certain, straight from the advert itself:

• A senior coordination role, leading the emergency and early recovery operation in Mozambique;
• Joining an international humanitarian organisation present in 18 countries with active operations in Cabo Delgado;
• A post in Pemba, at the centre of the operation in the north of the country;
• Specific terms — remuneration, contract type, and duration — to be clarified directly with the organisation. Ask in your first email: asking early avoids surprises.

How to apply

Applications must be submitted by email, directly to Ayuda en Acción:

• Email: msanmartin@ayudaenaccion.org;
• Suggested subject line: "Application — Humanitarian Aid Coordination — Pemba";
• What to send: your updated CV, clearly highlighting humanitarian experience (contexts, years, roles), and references from your last three positions;
• Enquiries: if you require additional information about the role, contact the same email address by 5 September 2026;
• Deadline: applications must be received by email by the end of the day on 10 September 2026.

Before sending, it is worth taking two steps: review the guide on how to write a CV in Mozambique to organise your experience, and read how to write a cover letter — for a coordination role, a direct, concise cover letter carries more weight than it seems. And remember the golden rule: never pay for a job application. Legitimate recruitment never charges candidates — be wary of anyone asking for money to secure a position.

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