Senior Assessment Officer - Food Security & Livelihood for Sudan, Based in Nairobi at IMPACT Initiatives

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Assessment Officer will be responsible for:

RESEARCH CYCLE and TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Collaborate with the Assessment Specialist and Senior Data Officer to define objectives, methodology, and scope, ensuring alignment with IMPACT’s principles and global best practices.
• Assist in drafting the inception reports, workplans, and pilot report templates to facilitate the analytical activities efficiently.
• Assist the design and implement engagement plans, facilitating workshops that strengthen partner collaboration for actionable decision on data prioritization and appropriate indicators selection for the input for risk model.
• Analyze risk data, develop spatial frameworks, and identify data gaps to inform targeted interventions and strengthen evidence-based planning.
• Maintain and update databases, enforce data management SOPs, and ensure accessible, reliable information for reporting and decision-making.
• Capture stakeholder discussions, prepare meeting agendas and minutes, and ensure all outputs support accountability and transparency.

CONTEXUAL UNDERSTANDING

• Keeping up to date with the shifting context in Sudan both at national and sub-national levels.
• Maintaining an understanding of the contextual and humanitarian research landscape, particularly in relation to multi-dimensional public health data landscape of Sudan, with a focus on FSL, agriculture, health, WASH, nutrition, and other relevant contextual data.

COORDINATION (INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL)

• Coordinate and interact with national and international NGOs, promote the use of flexible, context-appropriate data collection methodologies.

COORDINATION & TECHNICAL SUPOPORT

• Work closely with CRS, government partners, and technical working groups to align methodologies and ensure data interoperability.
• Participate in technical consultations, validation exercises, and partner coordination meetings.
• Provide analytical and technical inputs to reporting products, briefs, and presentations.

ANY OTHER TASKS NEEDED TO ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF THE ACTED SUDAN TEAM

The Assessment Officer will maintain the strictest confidentiality on all the analytical process and related processes. They will actively take measures to prevent the unauthorized sharing of any information and data belonging to IMPACT and its partners or collected during their assignment with IMPACT.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Years of work experience: 3 years of relevant working experience in a humanitarian setting, such as assessments, monitoring and evaluation, research design and analysis, etc.
• Experience with food security. WASH, Health or nutrition assessments, and/or background in Public Health sectors is a strong asset.
• Strong skills in quantitative methods; experience with mixed methods desirable.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of statistical software (R, STATA, or SPSS) is an asset.
• Familiarity with aid system: An understanding of the aid system and the research community is an advantage. Prior experience with humanitarian coordination forums preferred.
• Communication/reporting skills Excellent verbal and written communication and drafting skills for effective reporting required.
• Academic qualifications Excellent academic qualifications, including a master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (e.g. international studies, development, humanitarian response, data science, political science, etc.).
• Software skills: Proven knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, to include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Familiarity with R, SPSS and/or STATA or other statistical analysis software is an asset.
• Security environment: Ability to operate in a complex and challenging security environment.
• Experience in geographical region: Experience in the region is desirable.
• Experience in IPC analysis, humanitarian response plan (HNRP) and other high label analysis will be an asset.
• Language skills Fluency in English.