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**BACKGROUND ON IMPACT INITIATIVES (IMPACT)**:
IMPACT Initiatives (IMPACT) is an NGO based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization manages several initiatives, including the REACH Initiative (REACH), which aims to improve the impact of humanitarian, recovery, and development action through quality information, coordination, and capacity building of partners in the sector. IMPACT has been present in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) since 2019. To implement REACH activities, IMPACT works with 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 in its fields of intervention.
**We are currently looking for a Research Manager to lead the analysis cell**
**We are currently looking for a Research Manager to lead the analysis cell**:
**Department**:REACH
**Position**: Research Manager
**Contract duration**: 12 months (with possibility of extension)
**Location**: Caracas, Venezuela
**Starting Date**: 01 August 2024
**FUNCTIONS**:
The overall goal of the RM will be to ensure the smooth running of the newly formed Humanitarian Analysis Cell, he/she will be responsible for the implementation of evidence-based and contextualized analysis of humanitarian needs to support key humanitarian coordination structures and decision making in Venezuela. This will include operational and programmatic oversight and management of activities, including line-management and organisation of the Data and GIS Specialists who will lead various analysis workstreams, as well as a high level of external engagement required to ensure the effectiveness of the analysis cell for the response. In addition, the RM is responsible for the oversight of project implementation, Human Resources, reporting, and providing input to the strategic development of REACH in Venezuela.
**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
1. STAFF MANAGEMENT
- Direct management of international and national team members, including recruitment, appraisals, and career management;
- Day-to-day management of the analysis cell, including the development of work plans and performance indicators, and development and implementation of capacity training plans to improve efficiency and performance;
- Conduct regular check-ins with staff within the unit, and promote team building, productivity and staff welfare as the main pastoral focal point for staff in the cell;
- Be available to provide regular support and technical backstopping;
- Take on additional work streams and management responsibilities as well as advise in strategic mission decision-making as a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT)
**2. MANAGEMENT OF ANALYSIS CELL PRIORITIES**:
2.1 Research Design and Analysis
- Ensure that all analysis and/or assessments are planned in-line with relevant project and programme objectives and with REACH research cycle and other relevant guidelines;
- Ensure that all Cell staff are comprehensively briefed on objectives and expected outputs of research cycles and/or analysis conducted, and that the overall implementation strategy of any given activity is clearly understood;
- Ensure that required secondary data analysis has been conducted in preparation of and to contribute to any analysis;
- For each new activity or analysis, review ToRs before they are sent to Geneva for validation and ensure that TORs are validated by HQ before commencement.
- Monitor data analysis exercises, keeping track of progress and delays, ensuring correct implementation in line with agreed TORs and/or partnerships with key external partners;
- Compose and construct, in close coordination with analysis cell staff, a comprehensive analysis framework and a timeline of key milestones to be informed
- Ensure relevant stakeholders and partners, in particular OCHA, key UN Agencies and NGO fora are engaged in prioritization, planning, research design and analysis.
- Ensure that all analysis conducted contributes to overall improvement in humanitarian response prioritization through close coordination with key stakeholders in the response.
- Ensure regular situation updates on data analysis have been produced and circulated to relevant external counterparts, particularly, but not limited to the Information Management Working Group, The Needs Analysis Working Group, the INGO forum and other coordination fora, clusters or working groups as necessary:
- Potential to be tasked with additional leadership or co-chairing roles in information management coordination fora within the response;
2.2 Product drafting, dissemination and evaluation
- Ensure the drafting of timely and accurate analysis output, particularly to be timed to support key humanitarian planning milestones (i.e. analysis framework, presentations, reports, factsheets, etc.) which comply with IMPACT’s guidelines and quality standards;
- Review all relevant analysis p
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