IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation manages several initiatives, including the PANDA Initiative. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection, management and analysis and GIS. IMPACT operates through three Initiatives: REACH, PANDA, and AGORA. This recruitment opportunity pertains to the PANDA Initiative.
PANDA is IMPACT’s lever on humanitarian aid responses which focusing on improving outcomes for beneficiaries through direct engagement with partners and their activities. Where REACH works through soft power and partnerships to affect systemic change, PANDA is direct action that allows us to ensure that system and its participants are trustworthy and delivering the most effective, efficient and equitable response possible. PANDA is praxis – it is how IMPACT manifests our vision of acting as a catalyst of change within the aid community to work through focused or multidimensional analysis of projects, programmes and policies to identify their results, strengths and weaknesses, and how they can be improved, then proposes or implements a concrete plan for improvement.
Position: Research Manager
Contract duration: 9 months
Location: Kampala, Uganda with up to 50% travel
Starting Date: ASAP
Clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out on 15 April 2023. Fighting has been concentrated in densely populated urban centres, starting in Khartoum but quickly spreading across the country. These clashes have triggered waves of forced displacement, both internally as well as to neighbouring countries, including Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, and South Sudan. The operating environment for humanitarian actors has also been constrained due to insecurity.
This latest crisis comes amidst a complex and protracted humanitarian context in Sudan, with 15.8 million people estimated to be in need – the highest in a decade – prior to these events. The country faces persistent environmental risks, including recurrent flooding events, droughts, and locust invasions, in addition to widespread food insecurity and economic challenges. Prolonged internal displacement, high refugee caseloads, and continual pockets of inter-communal conflict further exacerbate needs and vulnerabilities.
Through its REACH initiative, IMPACT has been present in Sudan since 2020, providing humanitarian actors with up-to-date data and analysis on existing needs through a first country-wide Multi-sectoral Needs Assessment. Following the recent outbreak in violence between the SAF and RSF, IMPACT is mobilising an emergency response in Sudan and neighbouring countries, to provide decision makers with rapid analysis of conditions on the ground.
The position is recruited for the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Project covering GAC’s funding to the Sudan crisis emergency response. For this programme, IMPACT will trial innovative methods for monitoring and evaluation in emergency responses by working with partners to provide technical guidance and expertise on addressing gaps in existing systems. The work will cover programmes on the Sudan response in Sudan, South Sudan and Chad and will require coordination and engagement with a wide range of actors.
FUNCTIONS
Under the management of the Country Coordinator, the Research Manager oversees the research activities and staff within the purview of the GAC-funded MEAL Project. The Research Manager shall oversee and execute all research activities within the above-mentioned Project, meeting quarterly deliverables in a timely fashion while ensuring that the quality of research remains high. S/he will moreover liaise extensively with counterparts from in GAC’s Implementing Partners.
The Research Manager responsibilities include the following:
RESEARCH IMPLEMENTATION
TEAM MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
INTERNAL COORDINATION AND COMMUNICATION
INFLUENCING – EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT
REQUIREMENTS
CONDITIONS
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