Senior Analyst for Ukraine, based in Kyiv (Link For External Applicants) - #51183

BACKGROUND ON IMPACT AND REACH

IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation manages several initiatives, including the REACH Initiative, AGORA, and PANDA. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection, management and analysis, and GIS. 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 organisations have a strong complementarity relationship formalised in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from ACTED’s operational support in its fields of intervention.

REACH was born in 2010 as a joint initiative of two International NGOs (IMPACT and ACTED) and the United Nations 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. REACH facilitates information management for aid actors through three complementary services: (a) needs and situation assessments facilitated by REACH teams; (b) situation analysis using satellite imagery; (c) provision of related database and (web)-mapping facilities and expertise.

We are currently looking for a Senior Analyst to support the IMPACT Ukraine mission.

Position: Senior Analyst

Contract duration: 6 months

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

Starting Date: ASAP

COUNTRY PROFILE

IMPACT has been active in Ukraine since 2015, working primarily in government controlled and non-government controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk. Following the full-scale invasion in February 2022, IMPACT significantly scaled-up its activities, operating across the whole country to support evidence-based planning and prioritisation. IMPACT Ukraine’s research portfolios are structured across four strategic objectives:

1. Providing timely and relevant data and analysis to inform decision-making in response to new and evolving information needs.

2. Ensuring systematic and independent tracking of humanitarian needs and vulnerabilities to inform effective prioritization, accountability to affected populations, and coordination.

3. Making information and analysis available to support sustainable and community-focused planning, policy, and programming in response to longer-term challenges associated with the conflict.

4. Strengthening the capacity of civil society and authorities to use data to collaborate and respond sustainably to current and future needs.

IMPACT provides operational data and analysis to support the delivery of life-saving humanitarian aid in areas close to the frontline and informs countrywide humanitarian prioritisation. In addition, we work closely with partners and coordinating bodies to support stabilisation, early recovery, and community-planning initiatives that offer longer-term solutions to mitigate the effects of the war on individuals and communities.

FUNCTIONS

IMPACT is looking for a Senior Analyst to lead on analysis of acute humanitarian needs and community priorities in Ukraine, as well as providing cross-cutting analytical support to IMPACT’s consortium partners.

The position will focus on producing the Ukraine Acute Needs Analysis (ANA), one of IMPACT’s flagship analytical products that facilitates objective comparisons of needs both within and across different crises. They will also work on rolling out and piloting a Community Priorities Analysis (CPA) capturing and analyzing what affected people identify as their most urgent priorities and preferences. The CPA seeks to complement deprivation-based analysis of the ANA by providing insight into self-reported needs, concerns, and preferences of affected communities. Both products seek to contribute to informing national and global humanitarian prioritization decisions. As the focal point for producing both outputs at country level, the Senior Analyst will be responsible for reviewing and synthesizing data, conducting structured analysis using and adapting IMPACT’s global analytical guidance, and producing short, high-impact external briefs. The analyst will work closely with GIS, data, and design colleagues to incorporate visual elements into the final output.

In parallel, the role will work with IMPACT’s consortium partners to strengthen the strategic use of evidence generated across consortium activities, ensuring that data, assessments, operational insights, and learning are synthesised and translated into actionable analysis to support integrated programming, coordination engagement, and advocacy. The position will involve cross-consortium analysis, liaison with partners, the production and/or quality assurance of analytical outputs, and strategic positioning of evidence within the broader humanitarian architecture. It will also work on complementing day-to-day monitoring and evaluation by consortium partners with more targeted synthesis of lessons learned and small-scale research on aspects of consortium work.

The position will be based in Kyiv, with regular engagement with partners and coordination fora anticipated.