Senior Emergency Logistics Lead

The World Food Programme is hiring a Senior Emergency Logistics Lead in Dubai, UAE. The role involves managing logistics for humanitarian relief operations, particularly in a volatile regional environment. WFP emphasizes diversity and inclusion, offering professional development and a supportive work culture. The position requires responding to urgent logistical challenges due to disruptions in transport and shipping routes, ensuring timely delivery of essential supplies.
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30 March 2026-23:59-GMT04:00 Gulf Standard Time (Dubai)WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race colour national origin ethnic or social background genetic information gender gender identity and/or expression sexual orientation religion or belief HIV status or disability.

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WHY JOIN WFP
• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive diverse and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training accreditation coaching mentorship and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country regional and global offices around the world and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Dubai plays a critical role in global emergency preparedness and response serving as a strategic pre positioning and dispatch hub for life saving humanitarian relief items in support of WFP and the wider humanitarian community.

Since late February 2026 UNHRD Dubai has been operating in an exceptionally volatile regional environment characterized by:

Severe disruptions to key maritime corridors including the Strait of Hormuz

Intermittent port and airspace closures across the Gulf region

Rapid and unpredictable changes in routing availability carrier acceptance and transit times

Sharp volatility in freight rates with emergency and war risk surcharges applied at very short notice

Intensified competition for limited transport capacity from both humanitarian and commercial actors operating out of the UAE.

These conditions are directly impacting the ability of UNHRD Dubai to move pre positioned stocks in a timely and cost effective manner and to replenish strategic inventories critical to ongoing and emerging humanitarian operations in the Middle East and beyond.

In this context UNHRD Dubai requires immediate surge capacity to reinforce ongoing emergency operations stabilize and adapt shipping corridors in real time engage decisively with market actors and provide experienced leadership and coaching to the existing logistics team operating under unprecedented pressure.

The overall objective of this assignment is to strengthen UNHRD Dubais emergency logistics response capacity during a period of acute regional disruption by providing operational support market intelligence and expert advice while ensuring continuity of humanitarian supply chains.

Specifically the assignment aims to:

Ensure uninterrupted operational support to ongoing and emerging humanitarian movements from and to UNHRD Dubai

Rapidly identify secure and operationalize viable alternative shipping and multimodal corridors under emergency conditions

Reinforce UNHRD Dubais engagement with key logistics service providers and authorities to maintain priority access to constrained capacity

Support and coach the existing logistics team to navigate complex fast changing emergency logistics scenarios.

Under the overall supervision of the Head of Operations and in close collaboration with the Hub Manager the incumbent will perform the following functions:

1. Emergency Operational Logistics Support: a)Provide hands on day to day operational support to UNHRD Dubai logistics activities affected by regional disruptions including outbound dispatches and inbound replenishments in close coordination with WFP Supply Chain Division ensuring alignment with corporate avi