Needs & Market Assessments Manager

Needs & Market Assessments Manager

 

Summary

The Humanitarian Impact Institute (HII) is dedicated to increasing the impact of humanitarian and emergency responses, as well as development programs globally.

 

HII is seeking an experienced manager of Needs Assessments and Market Assessments to lead our work in this area in conflict zones globally. This is a hands on role that delivers all aspects of Needs Assessments, Market Monitoring, Value Chain Analysis and Market Impact Assessments. In this role you will lead the assessments sometimes as a Team Leader, other times supporting Team Leaders. This role is at the heart of HII's impact in the world. 

 

In this role, people skills are just as important as technical research skills. The successful candidate will also possess the best possible English writing skills and have a successful track record in one or more similar roles. 

 

To be successful in this role you will have 5+ years experience conducting similar studies and should be comfortable leading these assessments from start to finish.

 

This is a role for someone able to work effectively remotely and under pressure. The geographical   focus is in East Africa, MENA, south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. 

 

The role involves:

• INCEPTION - Designing assessment frameworks; creating and coding qual and quant toolkits; and conducting high quality desk reviews.
• TRAINING - Training data collection teams.
• DATA COLLECTION - Management of data collection teams; ensuring data quality standards are maintained; and ensure effective knowledge management.
• ANALYSIS - Coordinating mixed methods triangulated data analysis that focuses on high value findings and adheres to HII's comprehensive Quality Assurance process. 
• FINDINGS DISSEMINATION - Collaboratively draft and present reports, summaries and presentations.
• PEOPLE MANAGEMENT - Coordinating your team including senior Team Leaders, QA Leads, Project Officer, Analysts and any external technical experts.
• LEARNING - Engaging as a leader in HII's internal learning processes including post-project and quarterly lessons sessions and the implementation of changes from those lessons.
• CULTURAL - Ensuring high levels of ethics and technical competency across projects.
• TRUSTED & ETHICAL ADVISER - Ensuring your team is building lasting client relationships through professionalism, quality and ethical evaluative approaches.
• INCLUSION - Ensuring all M&E projects are intersectional, conflict, disability and gender sensitive.

The ideal candidate will have:

The Humanitarian Impact Institute celebrates diversity, disability, social mobility and the benefits this brings to our organisation and the communities we serve.

 

We want people from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds to apply to work with us regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or identity, religion, political views, disability, nationality, background or age. In fact, many of our people are from these backgrounds.

 

In this context what we value most is your passion for, and skills directed to, increasing impact in humanitarian and emergency responses and development programs.

 

Our application screening process is anonymised to ensure we select candidates for interview based on merit.

We have a social mission to increase impact in humanitarian and emergency responses and development programs globally.

This is a full time role in HII's core team, working remotely.

This role will have a competitive base salary along with:

 

To apply you must:

 

Please ensure you complete the full application form, otherwise your CV cannot be considered as HII conducts blind shortlisting.