IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation manages several initiatives, including the REACH Initiative. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection, management and analysis, GIS and remote sensing. IMPACT was launched at the initiative of ACTED, an international NGO with headquarters based in Paris and presence in thirty countries. The two organizations have a strong complementarity formalized in a global partnership, which allows IMPACT to benefit from ACTED’s operational support in its fields of intervention.

ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach that is both global and local and adapted to each context.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Assessment Officer is responsible for planning and implementing IMPACT’s PANDA research cycles in Ethiopia, particularly the qualitative Deep Dives involving focus group discussions and/or key informant interviews, in close coordination with other team members and with relevant external partners. More specifically the Assessment Officer is responsible for the following:

RESEARCH PLANNING:

• Anticipate knowledge gaps prior to the execution of a Research Cycle;

• Ensure that required secondary data review and/or analysis has been conducted in preparation of an assessment; 

• Ensure that all research cycles are planned in line with the country strategy, relevant research and project objectives and with IMPACT’s research cycle and other relevant guidelines;

• Design research approaches and methodologies according to IMPACT’s requirements and principles as well as partners’ information needs; 

• Compose and construct, in close coordination with GIS and data teams, qualitative data collection tools; 

• For each research cycle, prepare ToRs and ensure their validation by HQ before any data collection begins;

• Ensure relevant stakeholders and partners are engaged in research design and planning.

RESEARCH IMPLEMENTATION 

• In close liaison with field officer(s), ensure that required enumerators are identified and trained for primary data collection;

• In close liaison with field officer (s), Monitor data collection, ensuring its correct implementation in line with agreed TORs;

• In close liaison with field officer (s), Manage assessment logistics, including with partner organizations, identifying assessment areas, facilitating design workshops, managing joint data collection processes, and facilitating joint analysis workshops;

• In close liaison with field officer (s), Ensure regular situation updates on data collection are produced and circulated to line manager, relevant colleagues and external counterparts. Provide support and follow up on identified challenges during the data collection process;

• Ensure that the line manager and IMPACT HQ research department are alerted to any issues that prevents full implementation of the methodology agreed in the approved TORs. Ensure that all changes to the methodology are documented throughout implementation, and that any change is formally validated by IMPACT HQ;

• Keep track of progress and delays of all assigned assessments throughout the research cycle. Ensure that delays or identified challenges for specific assessments are reported in writing and orally in a timely manner;

• In close liaison with field officer (s), Ensure logistics, financial, administration, security and HR processes directly related to ongoing and upcoming assessments are appropriately planned, implemented and coordinated with the relevant ACTED departments;

• Ensure that all collected data is stored in line with IMPACT’s Data Management Guidelines and with the ToRs;

• In close liaison with field officer (s), Ensure that data is revised and cleaned, and that all revisions are recorded;

• In close liaison with data colleagues Provide data analysis on primary and/or secondary data as per ToRs, ensuring that meaningful techniques are used to analyze the data collected;

• Ensure that data and its analysis are validated by IMPACT HQ before product drafting stage;

• Ensure that data and its analysis do not contain personal information and are validated by IMPACT HQ before sharing to external parties.

DRAFTING OF RESEARCH PRODUCTS 

• Ensure the drafting of timely and accurate outputs that consolidate the analyses from each research cycle into relevant products such as factsheets, reports, briefs, presentations, etc which comply with IMPACT’s guidelines and quality standards; 

• Ensure that products accurately reflect the information collected and that information is conveyed in a way that maximizes their impact in line with their intended use;

• Follow the designated timeline of reports to be submitted to project partners and donors. Ensure that delays or identified challenges for specific assessments are reported in writing and orally in a timely manner;

• Maintain regular communication with country Management and IMPACT HQ on progress and deadlines for written products; 

• Ensure that all written products are validated by IMPACT HQ before external release.

EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT

• Ensure that relevant partners are consulted and involved at all stages of research cycle: assessment preparation; data collection; data analysis; review of research products; product dissemination; and lessons learnt; 

• After validation by the line manager, represent IMPACT in relevant meetings/ working groups; 

• Follow up on issues identified by partners or during meetings / working groups; 

• Promote an active use of datasets and research findings by partners and the broader humanitarian community for their decision making; 

• After validation by line manager, present research findings to relevant third parties in order to enhance their use and impact; 

• Ensure that all partner engagement and all external relations are clearly documented and communicated with the line manager and relevant colleagues;

• More generally, contribute to the creation of a positive image and overall credibility of the organization, notably through the application of IMPACT’s mandate, ethics, values and stand-point with regard to other actors.

KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND LEARNING PROCESSE

• In coordination with country management, support the conduct of monitoring and evaluation for each Research Cycle, as specified in the research ToRs and in line with IMPACT Guidelines;

• Generate and document robust lessons learned at the end of each Research Cycle;

• Ensure knowledge and learning processes are shared with other Units and teams within mission, and with HQ;

• When required, provide feedback to appropriate global organizational knowledge learning tools.

INTERNAL COORDINATION 

• Actively participate in regular team meetings;

• Ensure regular coordination and exchange with relevant colleagues;

• Engage in the development and implementation of IMPACT’s strategy in (country).

The Assessment Officer will maintain the strictest confidentiality on all data collected 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 his/her assignment with IMPACT.

Job Requirement

Required 

• Years of work experience 3 years of relevant working experience in a humanitarian setting, such as monitoring and evaluation, assessments, research design and analysis, etc.;

• Research skills Excellent qualitative research design and data analysis experience required; quantitative experience an asset;

• Familiarity with aid system Good understanding of the aid system and the research community.

• Thematic experience Prior experience with third party monitoring is an asset;

• 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. Experience with qualitative analysis software (e.g. MAXQDA) is desirable. Familiarity with Adobe InDesign is an asset

• Security environment Ability to operate in a complex and challenging security environment.

• Language skills Fluency in English required, competency in Amharic is an asset. 

• Multi-tasking skills Ability to multitask with tight deadlines, on numerous research cycles;

• Level of independence Proven ability to work independently;

How To Apply

Qualified national applicants with the required skills are invited to submit their applications. The application should include a detailed curriculum vitae and a cover letter, combined into a single document. Please ensure that the cover letter appears on the first page, followed by the CV starting on the second page, and includes details of three work-related referees.
Applications should be submitted via THIS LINK and must be received on or before 5:00 PM on December 21, 2025. Please use the subject line: “PANDA Assessment Officer" - Ethiopia when submitting your application.

Please do not attach any other documents while sending your applications, if required they will be requested at a later stage.

Please note that only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitments.

ACTED is committed to protecting beneficiaries within our programmed from exploitation and abuse and any kind of misconduct. ACTED has specific policies, including PSEA and Child Protection, which outlines the expected behavior and the responsibility of all staff, beneficiaries, consultants and other stakeholders and has zero tolerance towards misconducts. Any candidate offered a job with ACTED will be expected to sign ACTED’s organizational Policies and Code of Conduct as an annex to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.