Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children's lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.9 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises. Following a major transition, our international programmes are now delivered through a merged operation with 15,000 staff, managed through seven regional hubs and reporting to a relatively small, central office.

ROLE PURPOSE

The role holder uses best-to-date data and previous learning and provides contextualized analysis to actively support the response leadership in designing and delivering quality humanitarian response. The Analyst acts as a curator of evidence, selecting information with high strategic value, and fosters the use of available data by translating it in a way that easily informs decision-making (synthesising, interpreting, and putting it in perspective). By providing informed and targeted analysis focused on delivering the best possible impact of our action for children, the role holder supports colleagues to influence key internal and external stakeholders.

In performing her/his duties, the Humanitarian Analyst will make sure that relevant evidence, in particular related to children, marginalised, and deprived groups, from past analyses, analyses from our partners, external analyses, and any other source of reliable information is routinely used to develop a stronger response, identify critical data gaps and guide new strategic, programmatic and advocacy decisions.

While harvesting evidence of the past and present, the Humanitarian Analyst role is forward-looking, directly contributing to risk monitoring, scenario planning, projecting evolutions of humanitarian needs, and anticipating critical changes in the aid system in country.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Humanitarian Data Management:

• Liaise with field offices to ensure that appropriate humanitarian context data is collected at a local level and shared regularly to support risk monitoring and analysis.
• Liaise with other humanitarian agencies and with relevant government actors, and regularly check resource repositories (e.g. reliefweb.int, data.humdata.org etc) to access humanitarian datasets and other resources to support humanitarian analysis.
• Compile existing disaggregated (age/gender) data on the needs of children, marginalised and deprived groups and the state of the humanitarian response / aid system in country to inform programmatic decisions.
• Identify data gaps (quality of datasets, geographic disparities, sensitivities, etc.) to assist Save the Children and partners in intentional primary data collection and in advocating for better humanitarian data.
• Maintain up-to-date data, information and resources and ensure data and evidence is easily available and accessible at Country Office level for the response team, and for global purposes (e.g., on global Knowledge Management platforms).

Humanitarian Analysis, Presentation & Learning:

• Monitor contextual developments (social, political, economic) and map key crisis drivers (deteriorating factors, structural inequalities, response trends, access issues etc.) at local, national, and sub-regional level to contextualize humanitarian needs assessments and plans.
• Work closely with response / humanitarian leadership by providing evidence and analysis to inform upcoming key decisions.

• Share regular analyses of the most relevant information (humanitarian context) in a concise and engaging way, focusing on contextual dynamics of relevance to children (as being impacted by as well as agents in crisis), including through production of maps and infographics.
• Support internal processes aiming at anticipatory action (risk monitoring for early warning and early action, forecasting exercises, scenario planning, etc.).
• Prepare and submit Humanitarian Alerts following rapid onset incidents or threshold deterioration in chronic emergencies.
• Support internal processes requiring robust contextual analysis (response strategy design/planning, humanitarian response plan, needs assessments, emergency preparedness planning, proposal development, access-related issues, etc.).
• Drawing on learning from previous responses, ensure lessons learned identified in Real Time Reviews are applied, and encourage a learning culture within the response (Core Humanitarian Standard 7).

Conflict Sensitivity:

• Deliver situational, risk, conflict, and actor analyses upon request from humanitarian leadership.
• Promote a conflict-sensitive response, build capacity of humanitarian team on conflict sensitivity principles, and support the implementation of the Centrality of Protection Policy and Procedure.

Interagency Humanitarian Analysis & Reporting:

• Actively participate in interagency information management networks to foster information exchange and joint context analyses and reporting.
• Prepare analysis for response team to feed into the JIAF (Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework), HNO (Humanitarian Needs Overview), HRP (Humanitarian Response Plan) process.
• Support quarterly reporting on Save the Children’s delivery against the HRP (Humanitarian Response Plan).  Coordinate with MEAL team to ensure Save the Children regularly collects data appropriate for the HRP.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

·         Previous experience of at least one year in an analytical capacity for an aid organisation.

·         Experience of working within an emergency response context with an aid organisation.

·         Theoretical and practical knowledge of analytical methodologies and tools, particularly qualitative analysis.

Excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Excel

• Record of excellent writing and communication skills, demonstrating the ability to summarize key information in data-scarce environments and to make complex concepts and findings understandable to a large audience.
• Critical thinker, capable of presenting the ‘bigger picture’ even in the rush of an acute crisis.
• Demonstrated capacity to work autonomously under pressure and with tight deadlines.
• Diplomatic mind-set, respectful of the diversity of experiences and points of view in intercultural teams.
• Appetite for learning and making a difference in complex and challenging environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (e.g. political science, social sciences, economics, international humanitarian law).
• Commitment to work longer hours/weekends or on remote field visits when needed.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Power Bi, GIS, and/or other data visualisation tools.
• Knowledge and experience of setting up and managing databases.
• Established networks among the humanitarian analyst community.