Job Description

Position: Data Analyst – Ukraine Analysis Hub            

Reports to: Ukraine Analysis Hub Team Leader  

Supervision of: None                           

Budget responsibility: None               

Duty Station: Any NRC office in Ukraine (Dnipro, Lviv, Ternopil, Kyiv, or other) 
or remote

Travel: No                                                                    

Contract type: National contract, full time

Starting date: ASAP, initial contract 6 months                

About ACAPS

ACAPS  is dedicated to helping humanitarians make better decisions. We want to put evidence at the heart of decision-making. To achieve this, we collaborate with a variety of partners across the humanitarian sector and beyond. We strive to be an evolving platform providing:

• Independent analysis to support evidence-based decision making for humanitarian operations
• Deployment of experts to support assessments and analysis in crisis
• Innovative approaches to collect more reliable and timely data and conduct rigorous analysis
• Capacity development of humanitarian actors to carry out better needs assessments and analysis

Context

The ongoing conflict is resulting in significant humanitarian needs, particularly in the parts of the country which continue to suffer from regular airstrikes and shelling. The impact of the crisis is being felt on multiple levels, with the subsequent economic crisis further compounding existing needs and negatively impacting the living conditions of the population. There is a gap in understanding the severity of needs and scope of the humanitarian crisis at a more granular level.

Ukraine Analysis Hub

ACAPS’ Ukraine Analysis Hub provides impartial, independent, timely, and high-quality analytical products, which strengthen the evidence base for decision making and response programming among humanitarian stakeholders related to the crisis in Ukraine.

Overview of the role

The Data Analyst will strengthen the quantitative analysis capacities of the Ukraine Analysis Hub through conducting regular data analysis and ensuring the quantitative data is analysed, processed, and communicated in a structured and efficient manner. The successful candidate will turn data into information, information into insight and insight into decisions. The Data Analyst will work alongside the rest of the Ukraine Analysis Hub team in to improve current analytical processes, ensuring that analysis is methodologically appropriate and robust.

Tasks and responsibilities Data Analysis

• Identify, clean, and analyze humanitarian datasets within the Ukraine response. Explore data for trends and patterns, with a focus on producing useful and meaningful results. Work with research analysts to interpret the results in a humanitarian context.
• Visualize data, and present data and results in a clear and meaningful way (dashboards, datasets, visualisations).
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and bring in new data sources to support and strengthen analysis.
• Develop and maintain the Ukraine Hub data management systems, including maintaining databases, developing data pipelines to bring in new data, automating processes to improve data collection, and developing systems to maintain data quality and accessibility, and improve analysis across the organization.

Analytical products

• Support the design and production of Ukraine Analysis Hub’s analytical products with quantitative analysis component.
• Review current data collection and analysis activities and processes in the Ukraine crisis to understand the information landscape and current gaps on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure regular updates of relevant datasets.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the Ukraine Severity Index at subnational level.
• Provide support and capacity building to partners in quantitative analysis.

Methodology and tools

• Develop and document methodology and tools necessary to achieve relevant analytical results.
• Represent ACAPS in external technical groups.
• Support the development of technical partnerships with expert entities working on data collection and analysis.
• Contribute towards learning and innovation within the Ukraine Analysis Hub and response as a whole.

Any other tasks which are jointly agreed upon may be added to the job description, as per the project needs. 

Requirements and qualifications Qualifications and experience

• Education to postgraduate level in social sciences, information management, statistics, data science, or other relevant subject. Other degreeswith relevant experience may be considered.
• At least 3 years of relevant working experience in data analysis, information management, or similar.
• Experience working in NGO or humanitarian sector is an asset.

Professional competencies

• Expertise in data analysis, data manipulation, data management, and data visualisation.
• Training and proven understanding/application of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
• Sound knowledge of Python or R, or other similar software. Familiarity with database query languages such as SQL is an asset.
• Sound knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packagesfor analysing data.
• Sound knowledge and experience of data visualization  tools such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect,organize, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Adept at report writingand presenting findings in a clear and meaningful way.
• Understanding of or interest in the humanitarian sectorand emergency response context.
• Fluent written and oral communication skills in English. Working knowledge of Ukrainian and/or Russian is beneficial.
• Cartographic skills, including use of GIS software and graphic packages such as Adobe suite is an asset.

Generic competencies

• Proposes innovative ideas and new solutions to challenges.
• Demonstrated problemsolving skills and results orientedapproach. Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Proven ability to work strategically to set goals and flexibility and creativity in realizing them. Outstanding coordination, communication, and inter-personal skills, including capacity to persuade and influence others, convey information effectively, as well as adjust actions in relation to others’actions.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and written clarity, including ability to understand complex conceptsand problems and synthesize information.

Behavioural competencies

• Communicating with impact and respect
• Working with people
• Social Perceptiveness
• Active Listening
• Planning and delivering results
• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Adhering to Principles and Values