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.
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.
IMPACT, through REACH, has been implementing programming in South Sudan since 2012 supporting humanitarian decision-making with assessments and information management activities focusing on the needs of displaced, returnees, and conflict-affected populations. Today, data collected and disseminated by REACH aims to provide a baseline for ongoing response planning efforts across South Sudan as well as highlight areas of highest need and concern as crises emerge. Broadly, REACH South Sudan implements assessments across three core pillars:
The Public Health unit informs prioritisation in the response by conducting research focusing primarily on nutrition, food security and livelihoods, and risk of excess mortality, as well as by providing direct technical support to humanitarian clusters. The unit carries out monitoring of sectoral and multisectoral needs across the country, as well as frequent ad hoc/rapid assessments, and engages externally with both technical and research agencies, and key analysis and working group forums to identify information gaps and inform evidence-based decision-making by humanitarian stakeholders across the response.
In close coordination with the IMPACT Deputy County Coordinator, Country Coordinator and IMPACT HQ in Geneva, the Research Manager (RM) will be responsible for the management of food security data collection and analysis at the national level and in hot spots identified by the “at-risk tracker” and external analysis frameworks and coordination bodies. The RM also contributes to real-time monitoring workstreams, such as the Needs Analysis Working Group.
The RM will work closely with the Operations Support Manager, to provide comprehensive support to the field teams and crucial understanding of the base locations and operating environment.
The unit regularly engages with both internal and external assessment teams, technical agencies, and key analysis forums to identify information gaps, conduct ad hoc thematic assessments, and provide technical support as needed. To ensure data is directly informing humanitarian response planning, data is shared through formal coordination structures, such as United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG), relevant clusters (FSL, Health, Nutrition and WASH), and the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), with feedback from partners used to triangulate and validate research findings and to inform research design and geographical targeting.
We are currently looking for a REACH Research Manager to lead our Public Health unit in South Sudan.
Supervisor: REACH Deputy Country Coordinator
Title: REACH Research Manager
Location: Juba, South Sudan
Contract duration: 12 months
Start date: May 2024
IMPACT is seeking an experienced candidate, who has previously managed various teams and implemented projects in a complex humanitarian setting. The candidate should be comfortable representing IMPACT with donors and be able to coordinate and liaise with a range of senior external partners. The Research Manager will be responsible for overseeing the development and strategy of the unit, under the supervision of the IMPACT Deputy Country Coordinator, and IMPACT HQ in Geneva. The position is based in Juba, Central Equatoria, South Sudan, with potential travel to other areas of the country.
The overall goal of the RM will be to ensure the smooth running of activities, and he/she will be responsible for the implementation and completion of the various workstreams within the unit. This will include management of activities, including line-management of (Senior) Assessment Officers, oversight of project implementation, operational understanding to support the Operations Support Manager in terms of logistics, administration, HR, partner coordination, reporting, grants management, and providing input to the strategic development of REACH in South Sudan.
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