Senior Analyst - Analysis Unit for HQ, based Link For Internal Applicants

BACKGROUND ON IMPACT AND REACH

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Geneva, IMPACT Initiatives is a leading applied research organization and the largest independent provider of data in crisis-affected contexts. Through our initiatives—REACH, AGORA, and PANDA—we enable humanitarian and other aid actors to make better, evidence-based decisions by delivering timely, relevant, and methodologically rigorous data and analysis. Our extensive presence across crisis-contexts allows us to collect data directly from crisis-affected people wherever needed, including among the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach.

All of IMPACT’s programs are implemented in support of humanitarian coordination structures. IMPACT’s team comprises specialists in data collection, management, and analysis, as well as experts in humanitarian response, GIS, and remote sensing.

We are currently looking for a Senior Analyst to support our team in Geneva.

Position: Senior Analyst - HQ

Contract duration: 6 months

Starting Date: ASAP.

Location: Geneva.

In response to the shifting humanitarian financing landscape, IMPACT is placing greater emphasis on producing comparable, decision-oriented analysis products, which summarize available data and inform key decisions. This position will be working on key analytical work streams that seek to inform three pillars: needs-based assistance, people-centred assistance, and effective assistance.

Under the supervision of the Analysis Unit Manager, the Senior Analyst – HQ will be responsible for quantitative analysis that informs these three pillars. This includes testing and refining methodologies for flagship products such as the Acute Needs Analysis (ANA), and conducting further R&D to strengthen underlying conceptual frameworks and shape the direction of the analysis unit strategy. The analyst will also support the roll‑out of different analytical products such as the ANA in‑country.

They will work closely with the specialists leading the work streams for each of the three pillars.

The final analytical products will play a key role in informing humanitarian prioritization decisions, including—but not limited to—the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC), HNRPs, and donor resource allocation.

• Development and refinement of analysis products
• Working closely with the Needs Based Specialist, use standard statistical softwares such as R, Stata or Python to test and refine existing methodologies for quantitative analysis of acute needs, including flagging areas with potential risk of large-scale loss of life, and estimating the magnitude of life-threatening needs. It is anticipated that this workstream will be the main focus of the analyst’s work in the coming months.
• Support the Community Priorities Specialist as needed in the refinement of quantitative methods in the community priorities analysis
• Support the Effective Assistance Specialist in the development of pilot outputs for effective assistance. This workstream is still being developed, but work could include guidance on synthesising results from different assessments, or supporting country teams in the design of contribution evaluation studies

• Provide remote or possibly in‑person technical support to country teams during the roll‑out and implementation of analytical frameworks, particularly the Acute Needs Analysis (ANA) in 2026‑27, including troubleshooting coding in existing applications and developing and maintaining excel tools.
• Support country analysts in interpreting and applying global guidance to their context, including providing input on data sources selection, definition of units of analysis, indicator selection and interpretation. The analyst will be the focal point to support a portfolio of country teams for the ANA roll‑out.

• Combined with product review and quality assurance, this workstream is expected to be a substantial proportion (up to 60%) of the analyst’s workplan during Q4 of 2026 and Q1 of 2027.
• Product Review and Quality Assurance
• Be responsible for the internal review of country‑level outputs for…