Humanitarian Data Analyst

Project Overview and Role: The Humanitarian and Stabilisation Operations Team (HSOT) provides the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with humanitarian services and the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit with stabilisation support. HSOT works with FCDO to lead the UK Government’s response to humanitarian disasters in co-operation with the United Nations, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, non-governmental organisations and governments of disaster-affected countries.
The role forms a part of the Early Warning, Analysis and Reporting team which is at the forefront of humanitarian information and analysis, working with stakeholders across FCDO, in other government departments and with humanitarian information and analysis partners to leverage capabilities contributing to quality of humanitarian analysis which help inform humanitarian decision-making. The team monitors global events to provide early warning, alerts, and shape humanitarian responses by delivering insights through clear and targeted analytic products. The role will be reporting into the Senior Analyst -EWAR and working closely with other HAO’s within the team.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Data Management

• Manage, structure and store core dataset of essential humanitarian data for use in EWAR and beyond.
• Create operational data management systems to enable effective analysis and monitoring including data quality control protocols and standards for validation and sharing of data.
• Establish data pipelines between humanitarian data providers and EWAR databases by leveraging APIs and developing scripts for data handling.
• Set up and maintain a database for humanitarian information, and develop tools and best practices to enable quick information access by FCDO .
• Establish and maintain EWAR’s data management approach. Ensuring data management and governance processes are in place and adhered to for the products and services EWAR delivers.

Humanitarian Early Warning and Needs Analysis

• Support EWAR to adopt a wide range of analysis and synthesis techniques in support of humanitarian early warning and foresight products.
• Provide quantitative analytical layer to a range of analysis products and advice on using a range of quantitative data sources.
• Maintain a high level of knowledge and understanding of global humanitarian datasets, including IPC, INFORM and ACLED.
• Support EWAR to make best use of these models, as part of a mixed-methods approach.
• Develop approaches to prioritisation tools and composite indicators required to support decision-making
• Lead on humanitarian financial analysis including tracking and analysis of humanitarian requests and flow to feed into, humanitarian updates.

Support Humanitarian Response

• Identify and obtain the needed data and information elements required to produce analysis and information products;
• Provide information management support to humanitarian needs assessments, FCDO disaster impact assessments or capacity assessments of partners as required;
• Develop response-specific IM strategy at the outset of rapid onset responses and maintain readiness to deploy in support of FCDO’’s work in a humanitarian emergency. Related responsibilities include:
• Deliver the information function in response, sourcing and presenting information (including briefing packets, response briefs, timelines and infographics).
• Establish relevant information management systems and tools to support better informed response decisions.
• Support with comprehensive analysis of HRPs, funding proposals and other evidence to inform HSOT recommendations and CHASE response decisions
• Contribute input to communications products, regular reporting highlighting response and support review/learning processes.
• Contribute actively to Humanitarian Information Management and Analysis (HIMA) Community of Practice and the development of the HIMA toolbox.

Coordination and Collaboration

• Maintain strong working relationships with key HMG and external stakeholders, including scientific or economic experts to inform early warning analysis.
• Work closely with EWAR’s HAOs and Senior Analysts to deliver high quality mixed methods products.
• Support FCDO humanitarian crisis structures in response.
• On an ad hoc basis provide advice across HSOT to define strategies to enable continual improvement of data management practices and compliance with data governance policies.
• Fulfil role of on rotation Duty Officer, providing out of hours monitoring and surveillance function on behalf of FCDO.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree level or equivalent qualification / experience in a related subject.
• Research and field operational experience with INGO, UN or similar organisation.
• Practical knowledge of humanitarian response information tools and operations.
• Experience in reporting, delivering briefings, public speaking, and facilitating meetings;
• Advanced information management skills including proficiency in Excel, Power Bi. Knowledge of statistical and/or mapping/GIS software is an advantage.
• Experience with R / python / JavaScript and willingness to further develop these skills
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of humanitarian theory, practice and architecture, humanitarian risk assessment and planning and managing humanitarian responses.
• Native fluency in English is required.
• Proven research and analytical skills and proven experience of providing humanitarian information management and reporting during rapid onset humanitarian crises.
• Exceptional organisational and prioritisation, and ability to deal with a varied, demanding, often conflicting and rapidly changing workload, while conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results.
• Willingness to deploy in support of FCDO’s work in a humanitarian emergency.
• Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and UK footprint for the last 2 years to meet compliance requirement criteria.

The closing date for the advert is 27th February.

Company Overview:

About Palladium – Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people’s lives.

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