IMPACT Initiatives
BACKGROUND ON IMPACT AND REACH
IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation manages several initiatives, including the REACH Initiative. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection, management and analysis, GIS and remote-sensing. IMPACT was launched at the initiative of ACTED, an international NGO whose headquarter is based in Paris and is present in thirty countries. The two organizations have a strong complementarity formalized in a global partnership, which allows particularly IMPACT to benefit from ACTED’s operational support on its fields of intervention.
REACH was born in 2010 as a joint initiative of two International NGOs (IMPACT Initiatives and ACTED) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT). REACH’s purpose is to promote and facilitate the development of information products that enhance the humanitarian community’s decision making and planning capacity for emergency, reconstruction and development contexts, supporting and working within the framework of the humanitarian reform process. REACH facilitates information management for aid actors through three complementary services: (a) need and situation assessments facilitated by REACH teams; (b) situation analysis using satellite imagery; (c) provision of related database and (web)-mapping facilities and expertise.
ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local, and adapted to each context. Their 3,300 staff is committed in to responding to emergencies worldwide, to supporting recovery and rehabilitation, towards sustainable development.
We are currently looking for a global Nutrition and Health Senior Assessment Specialist
Department:IMPACT
Position: Nutrition and Health Senior Assessment Specialist
Contract duration: Open-ended
Starting Date: 1 November 2022
Location: Geneva, Switzerland, with frequent field missions
POSITION PROFILE
Under the supervision of the REACH Senior Research Manager, the Nutrition and Health Senior Assessment Specialist (SAS) is responsible for improving the technical capacity of the organisation in nutrition and health assessments and analysis. Through in-person deployments and remote support, the SAS will help in improving quality of programmes related to nutrition and health – across REACH country missions, work with country missions’ counterparts to identified issues, and design and implement guidelines and tools that address these same issues. The SAS will also be responsible for capacity building in nutrition and health both at country and global level, through training and mentoring, as well as to strengthen engagement with technical external stakeholders operating in this space.
The ideal candidate would have i) at least 5 years of experience in humanitarian settings; ii) especially in nutrition AND health data collection and analysis (i.e. not program implementation); iii) gold-standard certificates in nutrition data collection and analysis, such as SMART Survey Manager Certification and IPC AMN Certification, iv) good commend of statistical software, such as R and SPSS; v) willingness to travel frequently to remote duty stations.
FUNCTIONS
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Improve scope and quality of REACH nutrition and health data collection and analysis
- Provide technical advice and surge to country missions for data collection and analysis in health and nutrition and ensure activities in the field comply with global standards and feed into key analytical processes, such as the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC)
- Create guidance documents and tools based on best practices and global standards to facilitate nutrition and health data collection and analysis
- Develop and test new approaches for collecting and analysing nutrition and health data from hard-to-reach locations – both qualitatively and quantitatively to ensure regular monitoring of at-risk countries
- Build the capacity of REACH staff in nutrition and health data collection and analysis, through training design and delivery, including the enrolment of REACH staff into external trainings, such as IPC, SMART, etc.
- Facilitate the work of REACH nutrition and health Community of Practice
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Increase REACH engagement with external stakeholders
- Participation at IPCs in countries of concern – including capacity building, data processing, and facilitation of join analysis, and increase global engagement with IPC Global Support Unit
- Participation with the Global Health Cluster IM Technical meetings and engagement with other external health technical focal points as needed on a project-by-project basis.
- As necessary, stay abreast of fundraising opportunity and support the designing and drafting of concept notes and proposals related to nutrition and health data collection and analysis
REQUIREMENTS
- Masters in public health with a focus on humanitarian assistance
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in nutrition and health data collection and analysis
- Minimum of 5 years of field experience in humanitarian crises
- SMART Survey Manager Certification
- IPC AMN Level 1 Certification
- Experience of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) programming
- Demonstrated experience with nutrition programming (CMAM, IYCF, etc.)
- Ability to operate R and SPSS statistical software
- High level of autonomy and willingness to spend time in deep field locations
- Fluency in English required