Associate Research Manager
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.
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.
- 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 monitoringfrontline assessmentsapplied researchanalytical reportingcontextual analysisGIS
Soft Skills
team managementcommunicationstrategic thinkingpartnership managementadaptabilityproblem-solvingleadershipdecision-makingtime managementinterpersonal skills
Certifications
master’s degreeequivalent in relevant discipline