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Impact Initiatives is Recruiting Associate Researchers – 2025

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Impact teams work in more than 25 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, supported by IMPACT’s headquarters in Geneva.

Impact Do you want to apply your coordination and research skills to the humanitarian field? Are you as committed as we are to delivering aid more efficiently? At IMPACT, knowing is solving. Whether you are a specialist in coordination, field research, GIS, data, communications or administration, join our team of passionate and talented experts and be part of the solution.

Impact foster a one workforce approach, where all staff, whether internationally or locally recruited, are part of a single, unified team. For locally-recruited roles, we manage these in partnership with other organizations, and their vacancy announcements and contract management are advertised and handled at the country level. Hence the below open roles refer to internationally-recruited and HQ-based vacancies.

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Impact helps with clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in Khartoum on 15 April 2023 and spread quickly across the country. Civilians have fled areas affected by fighting in large numbers, including to Chad, Egypt and South Sudan. Prices of food, fuel and other basic goods have skyrocketed skyrocketing, making critical goods unaffordable for many people.

Half of Sudan’s population are in need of humanitarian assistance, and the country is on the verge of a catastrophic hunger crisis. Humanitarian organizations are racing to respond to the most pressing needs wherever and whenever feasible, with access issues complicating the ability of actors to respond. In this fast-evolving context, IMPACT Initiatives is working to inform the emergency response to enable effective prioritization with scarce resources.

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POSITION PROFILE

The ARM of the new Analysis Unit will be responsible to create new analyses and research based on existing IMPACT Research Cycles and secondary data. Under the supervision of the Deputy Country Coordinator, the ARM will lead on the following:

Design mixed-methods research, identifying cross-cutting areas of interest across units to generate innovate policy and advocacy relevant outputs

Oversee the mission’s senior data and GiS team and worj with Unit managers to co-design and synthesize information products

Synthesize information from diverse datasets and contributions from partners into clear and compelling evidence products

Promote data quality and comparability across units to ensure interoperability and common analytical standards

Closely engage with HQ to develop and validate new research and analysis pieces

This position requires a profile of someone who is analytical, able to engage in technical discussions, innovative and highly independent. Candidates should have strong research, analytical, writing and presentation skills and be able to clearly think through and articulate implications of research findings. The position will require strong external engagement with partners, as well as the management of research cycles end-to-end, looking at data, pulling out relevant findings, writing engaging briefs and factsheets and presenting findings to external audiences with varying amounts of data literacy.

RESEARCH CYCLE MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Understanding existing sources of data and on that basis developing new, innovative analyses
  • Working with teams across other units to conceptualize new research cycles including research design, tool development, and analysis.
  • Produce new short term and long-term outputs that can meaningfully inform the humanitarian response in a fast moving conflict (e.g., situation reports, trend analyses)

STAFF MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING

  • Manage the senior technical team in the mission (including senior data and GIS staff)
  • Promoting capacity building across the IMPACT Sudan mission related to deepening analytical capacities using existing research (capacity building portfolio will depend on level of experience).

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