IMPACT Initiatives Food Security and Livelihoods Specialist for Kenya/Somalia Jobs in Kenya

IMPACT Initiatives Food Security and Livelihoods Specialist for Kenya/Somalia Jobs in Kenya

Background on Impact and Reach

REACH was born in 2010 as a joint initiative of two International NGOs (IMPACT Initiatives and ACTED) and the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT).

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 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 organizations have a strong complementarity formalized in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from ACTED’s operational support on its fields of intervention.

We are currently looking for an Assessment Specialist to support our team in Kenya/Somalia.

Country Profile

Somalia has been experiencing a multi-layered, complex, and protracted crisis over the past three decades due to periodic disasters and climate-driven shocks, such as droughts and flooding. This has led to much internal displacement resulting in large IDP populations in urban areas.

IMPACT began working in Somalia in 2012 in order to fill information gaps and provide timely data on the humanitarian needs of displaced and vulnerable populations.

In 2016 REACH was deployed in Kenya and has since then been providing information on the needs and intentions of refugees residing in the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps. Beyond the multi-sectoral focused work, IMPACT has become the go-to partner of the Kenya and Somali Cash Consortia, covering the post-distribution monitoring in a variety of contexts and multi-purpose cash programs

Currently, the Horn of Africa is experiencing the third drought episode in a decade, following three consecutive failed rainy seasons. The drought is compounding existing food insecurity among both pastoral and farming populations, and needs are spiking across the region – between 12 and 14 million people are currently estimated to be facing high levels of food insecurity and water shortages.

Historically rare climate variability, climate change, vulnerability, and exposure are creating an exceptional and extremely concerning level of risk for food security and livelihoods, which could drive rising levels of acute malnutrition and mortality through mid-to-late 2022.

Responsibilities

Research Planning and Implementation

Support the Senior Management team in identifying and materializing opportunities, in line with strategic directions of the mission;

Ensure a streamlined, coordinated approach across all relevant research cycles to research design, methodology and tool development, data collection and analysis, and product drafting;

Support in accurately estimating research cycle timelines and resources needed for research cycle implementation;

Support Assessment teams in designing and implementing research cycle methodologies, tools, ToRs, data collection and analysis, product drafting;

Ensure that research design, data collection and analysis and product drafting for all relevant research cycles comply to IMPACT’s requirements, guidelines and strategic direction;

Team Functional and Line-management

Provide technical leadership throughout all IMPACT research cycles and represent IMPACT in relevant working groups in the country in line with organization core value and principles;

Provide functional oversight to relevant assessment staff, and produce joint skill development- and work plans with the relevant Research Manager(s) who are line-managing the staff in question;

Where relevant, directly line-manage assessment, data or GIS staff that provide cross-cutting support to the entire mission;

For staff under his/her functional responsibility, support to line managers by contributing to conduct of appraisals, provision of regular feedback, and participation in career management;

Internal Knowledge Sharing, Learning and Capacity Building

Identify capacity gaps, and resolve to bridge these through targeted capacity building, training, performance monitoring, and backstopping where needed;

Support to the line managers and specialists in the development and implementation of capacity training plans for assessment and field team members;

Conduct and support regular training to country/regional teams, including regular

updates on IMPACT guidelines, adapted (to context) training modules, learning on the job; Complement in house training material with external resources, if and as relevant;

Ensure impact of trainings and progression of staff is monitored;

Pro-actively provide regular technical support and backstopping to assessment teams;

Support to Assessment / unit teams to systematically review the efficiency and quality of research cycles and information products;

Support monitoring and evaluation for relevant Research Cycle, as specified in the research ToRs and in line with IMPACT Guidelines;

Contribute to generating and documenting robust lessons learned at the end of relevant Research Cycle;

Ensure knowledge and learning processes are shared across the mission/region and with HQ;

Strategy, Program and Project Development

Contribute to country, regional and unit strategies development with relevant technical and thematic contents;

Ensure that assessment strategies are implemented in a structured and coherent manner in line with project and strategic objectives;

Support the development/revision of assessment/programme strategies, reports, or new proposals.

External Engagement

Support the IMPACT Somalia team primarily but also the Kenya team as required in providing stakeholders within the humanitarian coordination system with reliable and accurate technical advice and support;

Delivers inter-agency, multi-stakeholders knowledge sharing / lessons learned exercise.

Support country management in representing IMPACT among external actors for technical/thematic discussions, including with stakeholders in the humanitarian coordination system, such as OCHA representatives, clusters, as well as technical working groups and various NGO fora and information management groups;

Participates, contributes to and delivers inter-agency, multi-stakeholders knowledge sharing / lessons learned exercise;

Contributes to the dissemination of IMPACT’s products to maximize their impact.

More generally, contribute to the creation of a positive image and overall credibility of the organisation, notably through the application of IMPACT’’s mandate, ethics, values and stand- point with regard to other actors and by contributing to creating a culture of rigorous use of evidence and learning among humanitarian responders.

Requirements

Academic Excellent academic qualifications, preferably including a Master degree in relevant discipline;

Research skills Excellent research and analytical skills required, including a sound understanding of sampling frameworks and their application, an ability to analyse large data sets, as well as conduct temporal or spatial trend analysis.

Software skills Proven knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, to include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Advanced skills in R, SPSS and/or STATA or other statistical analysis software are required. Experience with InDesign an asset.

Familiarity aid system Familiarity with the aid system and with the research community;

Years of work experience At least 4 years of relevant working experience

Experience in the FSL sector IPC experience specifically an asset;

Training skills Ability to conduct trainings and mentor IMPACT teams and partners on assessment skills;

Communication/reporting skills Excellent communication and drafting skills for effective reporting;

Multi-tasking skills Ability to multitask with tight deadlines, on numerous research cycles;

Level of independence Strong existing ability to work independently in support of colleagues and partners;

Cross-cultural work environment Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility;

Experience in geographical region Past experience in East Africa is desirable;

Language skills Fluency in English required, competency in Somali an asset;

Security environment Ability to operate in a complex and challenging security environment

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; IMPACT Initiatives Food Security and Livelihoods Specialist for Kenya/Somalia Jobs in Kenya

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