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, in order 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 REACH Research Manager to lead our Emergency Prioritization Unit in South Sudan.
Department:REACH South Sudan
Position:Â REACH Research Manager
Contract duration:12 months
Starting Date: July 15th 2022
Location: Juba, South Sudan but with 25% of the time in field and deep field settings
IMPACT, through REACH, has been implementing programming in South Sudan since 2012. Responding to the Sudan Border Crisis, REACH initially engaged through coordinated information management support – in the form of refugee camp mapping and service provision analyses, thematic assessments, and multi-sectorial needs assessments – in Maban County, Upper Nile State and Pariang County, Unity State. IMPACT was engaged by DFID to provide a series of impact evaluations of their BRACE programming across Greater Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile States in 2013; a programme with run for two years, included 5 total assessments, and touched a total of more than 20,000 households. Immediately following the conflict of December 2013, REACH expanded its programming to include the IDP response, participating in Initial Rapid Needs Assessments of conflict affected areas, providing mapping and monthly service provision analyses for major IDP sites around the country, and running large-scale IDP return intentions assessments.
The year 2018 saw the expansions of both IMPACT and REACH programming to 10 of 10 states, spanning the refugee, IDP and development responses, and covering diverse activities such as cross-border port monitoring, assessments of hard to reach areas, flood mapping and vulnerability analysis, market monitoring and supply chain analysis, analysis of tensions and conflicts over access to natural resources, and third party monitoring of humanitarian and development programming. In 2019, REACH expanded its role within the technical space, increasing involvement in Integrated Phase Classification (IPC), Needs Analysis Working Group, UN technical agencies, and academics. In response, REACH has also expanded into multiple new research cycle streams outside of its traditional Area of Knowledge approach – including sector specific, population movement, and AAP research.
As of 2022, REACH South Sudan broadly implements assessments across three core pillars:
The Emergency Prioritization (EP) Unit Research Manager leads the second of these work streams, focusing on improving data availability and analysis in four core sectors (FSL, WASH, Health, and Nutrition), as well as monitoring the impact of climatic shocks and increasing humanitarian needs in general. The EP Research Manager leads the critical connection from the life-saving sectors workstreams to the Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism and Areas of Concern (AoC) tracking to analyze and identity locations that are facing -or likely to face – severe needs that may lead to catastrophic outcomes (such as drought or famine). The Emergency Prioritization Unit regularly engages with both internal and external assessment teams, technical agencies, and key analysis forums to identify information gaps and provide technical support as needed.
The Research Manager will be responsible for overseeing the development of the Emergency Prioritization Unit, under the supervision of the IMPACT Country Coordinator and IMPACT HQ in Geneva, with a technical support management line to the IMPACT Deputy Country Coordinator for Programs.
They will be responsible for the implementation and completion of the various work streams within the Emergency Prioritization unit, and linking outcomes to other REACH workstreams such as the Needs Analysis Working Group (NAWG), and Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA). They will work with the Assessment Specialists, Senior Assessment Officers (SAOs) and Assessment Officers (AOs) in the unit to develop new research cycles, reviewing data collection tools, methodologies, and any related outputs. They will engage with cluster partners, as well as with technical forums and workshops, including the Needs Analysis Working Group, IPC Technical Working Group and the Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism Consortium. Additionally, their role will include supporting the Operations Support Manager in terms of logistics, administration, HR, partner coordination, reporting, grants management, and finance and providing input to the strategic development of REACH in the country and region.
The REACH Research Manager (RM) shall be responsible for:
2. 1 Assessment preparation and planning
3. STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
4. EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT
5. ACCOUNTABILITY TO COMMUNITIES AND BENEFICIARIES
The RM is responsible for ensuring that all interactions with South Sudanese communities are conducted in a respectful and consultative manner. Due attention must be paid to ensuring that communities are adequately consulted and informed about IMPACT programme objectives, activities, beneficiary selection criteria, and methodologies. This is the responsibility of every IMPACT staff member.
6. CONFIDENTIALITY AND DATA PROTECTION
The Research Manager will maintain the strictest confidentiality on all data collected and related processes. He/she will actively take measures to prevent the unauthorized sharing of any information and data belonging to IMPACT and its partners, or collected during his/her assignment with IMPACT.
Tagged as: Impact Initiatives, South Sudan
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