Experience :
HAACT is recruiting a profile with a minimum of 2 years of experience in the humanitarian sector in the positions of Program Manager, Grant Manager, or MEAL Manager. Prior experience in the countries where HAACT is operational is an asset.
Required skills:
- Advanced writing skills
- Analytical and synthesis skills
- Technical knowledge of one or more emergency aid sectors an asset
- Autonomy and initiative
- Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills
LANGUAGES :
- Fluent spoken and written French
- Fluent spoken and written English
- Knowledge/proficiency in Arabic an asset
Humanitarian actors intervene in increasingly complex crises with multifactorial causes (conflicts, climatic events, epidemics, failed states) whose dynamics and fluidity constitute a challenge to the effectiveness of the response. Added to this challenge is that of often degraded security conditions associated with high protection risks for humanitarian personnel and particularly severe access constraints.
In hard-to-reach areas , conventional needs assessment approaches that require teams to have physical access to the field are failing. Due to a lack of reliable information and usable humanitarian analysis on these hard-to-reach locations, the humanitarian response remains insufficient. However, the remobilization of assistance in these areas is a major challenge in terms of humanitarian imperative, impartiality and protection of affected populations.
HAACT is an initiative that has developed innovative, effective and efficient methodologies capable of producing reliable and usable information on hard-to-reach areas . Complementary to existing mechanisms (REACH, ACAPS, etc.), HAACT notably optimizes new technologies (satellite imagery) and new modes of communication (social networks) to produce analyses with unique usability in the most difficult contexts.
HAACT is a service recognized and requested by both operational actors, humanitarian coordination (OCHA, Cluster), and decision-makers. Its analyses alert on forgotten/invisible humanitarian crises; inform the go/no-go decision towards the most difficult to access areas; and help to prioritize areas and needs. Since 2022, HAACT has benefited from institutional support from ECHO, BHA and Swiss Cooperation.
In 2023, HAACT has been at the service of emergency response mechanisms (RRMs) and frontline actors to enable humanitarian interventions in very difficult to access areas. Through rigorous and in-depth analysis work and close collaboration with frontline NGOs, HAACT has enabled humanitarian responses that would not otherwise have taken place. In 2023, HAACT has demonstrated a direct contribution to humanitarian operations that will be further amplified in 2024.
The year 2024 will mark the geographical expansion of HAACT beyond the Central Sahel (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger). A global initiative, HAACT will be deployed during 2024, notably in Sudan, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Yemen. In this phase of geographical expansion, HAACT is recruiting new employees, including a humanitarian analysis manager.
The mission
For 2024, HAACT is restructuring around an expanded team made up of a Program Director, a Consultant, a Deputy Director, Humanitarian Analysis Managers, and a Program Manager.
Under the management and with the technical support of the HAACT Director, the Humanitarian Analysis Manager will be in charge of producing humanitarian analyses in hard-to-reach areas.
He/she will be responsible for collecting and processing secondary and primary information (interviews and piloting photos/videos with local sources) up to the writing of reports, according to the methodologies and processes defined by HAACT.
He/she will also contribute – on delegation – to the external representation of HAACT, upstream of the analyses (presentation of HAACT and coordination with partners for the identification of priority areas), and at the end of the analyses (restitution and monitoring of recommendations).
He/she will finally contribute to the structuring and formalization of HAACT methodologies in support of the scaling up of the mechanism. Based on his/her skills and appetite, he/she may be associated with the identification or development of new methodological axes.
Roles and responsibilities
1. Coordination with humanitarian actors [contributes]
– On delegation of the HAACT Director, presentation of the HAACT mechanism to humanitarian partners (NGOs, Cluster, Rapid Response Mechanisms, etc.)
– On delegation of the HAACT Director, coordination with humanitarian NGOs, Clusters, rapid response mechanisms for the identification of priority areas for analysis
2. Production of humanitarian analyses on hard-to-reach areas [responsible]
– Review, consolidation and analysis of secondary humanitarian information and data in support of the production of analyses on hard-to-reach areas
– Identification and reliability of local sources according to HAACT methodologies. Animation and continuous expansion of the HAACT local source network in the country.
– Interviews with local sources for the collection and reliability of humanitarian information and photos/videos according to the methodologies and processes defined by HAACT
– Structuring and reliability of information collected from secondary and primary sources according to the methodologies and processes defined by HAACT
– Drafting of analysis reports according to the format and standards defined by HAACT, with the technical support of the Director or Deputy Director
3. Restitution and monitoring of analyses with the humanitarian community [contributes]
– According to the humanitarian issues identified and on delegation of the HAACT Director, restitution of analyses at the Cluster/NGO level and monitoring of recommendations with partners
4. Formalization/structuring and methodological development [contributes]
– Contribution to the structuring/formalization of HAACT methodologies and to the continuous improvement of methodologies or to the identification of new areas of work
Place of assignment
West Africa/Sahel –
TBD The Humanitarian Analysis Manager will be based in West Africa/Sahel with travel
within the sub-region (15% of the time) for workshops with HAACT teams. The location of assignment is to be determined.
Status: Fixed-term contract, executive status
Salary/allowances: €2,100 to €4,100 gross/month, depending on experience and seniority SI. Paid leave paid monthly at 10% of gross salary.
Monthly per diem: depending on place of assignment
Medical coverage: 100% coverage of medical expenses, repatriation insurance.
Leave: 7 working days every 3 months of mission, with payment of an allowance of 850 USD. Granting of one additional day of rest per month worked.
Accommodation: Accommodation in collective GH
Transport: Travel costs covered between the contractual place of residence and the place of assignment.
