IMPACT Initiatives

Associate Research Manager, Ukraine

IMPACT Initiatives

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Location Type: Office

Location: Kyiv • Ukraine

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Salary

💰 CHF 3,180 - CHF 3,240 per month

About the role

  • Provide direct line management to a multidisciplinary team, including Senior Assessment Officers, Assessment Officers, and Data/GIS staff working across HSM and frontline assessment workstreams.
  • Lead the integration of humanitarian situation monitoring and frontline assessments into a coherent analytical portfolio, ensuring methodological consistency, complementarity, and strategic use.
  • Oversee multiple concurrent research cycles, from design to dissemination, in fast-changing and access-constrained environments.
  • Serve as a key interface between IMPACT analysis and operational and coordination stakeholders, ensuring findings inform decision-making.
  • Manage and strengthen partnerships with local organisations involved in data collection, contextual analysis and field implementation.
  • Contribute to the strategic development of IMPACT’s broader analytical approach in Ukraine.
  • Shape how humanitarian monitoring and rapid analysis are combined and operationalised in a complex humanitarian context.
  • Lead and mentor diverse teams working at the intersection of monitoring, analysis and operations.
  • Build and manage meaningful partnerships with local civil society organisations.
  • Engage directly with humanitarian coordination mechanisms and senior operational actors.
  • Ensure research activities align with priority information needs identified by coordination bodies and operational partners.
  • Guide the design of integrated research cycles combining regular monitoring outputs with rapid, issue-based or frontline assessments.
  • Review and validate assessment ToRs, methodologies and tools in coordination with HQ and technical specialists.
  • Oversee data collection modalities implemented through IMPACT staff and partner organisations, ensuring quality, ethical compliance and feasibility.
  • Monitor progress, risks and constraints during data collection and adapt approaches as required.
  • Ensure outputs clearly articulate implications for operations, coordination and prioritisation.
  • Lead dissemination of findings through briefings, presentations, coordination meetings and bilateral exchanges.
  • Ensure systematic documentation of lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of MRAT methodologies and workflows.
  • Engage operational partners to ensure MRAT analysis responds to decision-making needs related to access, targeting, contingency planning and response design.
  • Promote partner involvement across the research cycle, from design to dissemination, to ensure contextual grounding and ownership.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of relevant working experience in a humanitarian setting, such as assessments, monitoring and evaluation, research design and analysis, etc.
  • Excellent quantitative and qualitative research data analysis experience required.
  • Good understanding of the aid system and the research community.
  • Prior experience with humanitarian coordination forums preferred.
  • Proven experience in team management in complex operational environments.
  • Prior experience with humanitarian monitoring, rapid or frontline assessments, or applied research in conflict-affected settings is an asset.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with proven ability to draft concise analytical reports, briefs and presentations for diverse audiences.
  • 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.).
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint is required, with familiarity with Kobo and experience in qualitative analysis tools or GIS considered an asset.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, high risk and rapidly changing security environments under time pressure.
  • Previous professional experience in Ukraine or comparable high intensity conflict contexts is strongly desirable.
  • Fluency in English is required, with working knowledge of Ukrainian an asset.
Benefits
  • Accommodation and food provided in the guesthouse.
  • Enrolment in Swiss private pension fund (Swisslife – approx. 9.975% of staff gross salary)
  • Health insurance, life insurance and repatriation assistance.
  • Flight tickets every 6 months & visa fees covered (in-country travel costs and professional expenses are fully covered).
  • R&R after 3 months (flight ticket up to 500$ + 200$ of living allowance)
  • Contribution to the luggage transportation: between 20 and 100 kgs, depending on the length of the contract (+ luggage and personal property insurance)
  • Annual leave of 36 days per year.
  • Public holidays of the country of assignment.
  • Family/compassionate leave when applicable.
  • Predeparture induction - 3 days at IMPACT Initiatives’ HQ in Geneva + one week pre-departure training in ACTED HQ in Paris, including a 4-days in situ security training.
  • IMPACT prioritizes the psychological safety of its staff and the health insurance provided covers, among others, up to 1000 € per year of psychosocial counselling fees.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
quantitative researchqualitative researchdata analysisresearch designhumanitarian monitoringrapid assessmentsfrontline assessmentsapplied researchmethodological consistencyethical compliance
Soft Skills
team managementleadershipcommunicationmentoringpartnership buildingstrategic thinkingadaptabilityproblem-solvingcollaborationdocumentation
Certifications
master’s degreeequivalent in international studiesdevelopmenthumanitarian responsedata sciencepolitical science