Senior Assessment Officer - Cash & Markets

IMPACT Initiatives

BACKGROUND ON IMPACT AND REACH 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. We are currently looking for a Senior Assessment Officer to support our team in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Position: Senior Assessment Officer Contract duration : 5 months Starting Date : June 2026 Location : Amman, Jordan.

COUNTRY PROFILE The humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) has reached dire levels, particularly in the Gaza Strip, where ongoing hostilities have resulted in mass displacement, the collapse of basic services, and a near-total breakdown of civilian infrastructure. With 2.1 million people affected, access to food, water, healthcare, and shelter remains critically limited. The scale of destruction and access constraints have created an environment where humanitarian needs far exceed available resources. Together, these dynamics have driven acute and widespread humanitarian needs. Against this backdrop, IMPACT Initiatives is planning a range of research activities to support an evidence- and needs-based humanitarian response. In 2026, IMPACT will conduct a number of cash and market assessments in order to better inform the response as it responds to the post ceasefire context.

POSITION PROFILE Under the line management of the Research Manager, the Senior Assessment Officer is jointly responsible for the implementation of REACH s Cash and Markets assessments, including the preparation, data collection, analysis, drafting, dissemination, and evaluation stages. S/he will also be responsible for collaboration with Acted and other relevant partners involved in the project. This position requires strong research skills, an analytical mind, creativity, independence, and an interest in the context. Candidates should have strong writing and presentation skills and be able to clearly think through and articulate implications of research findings.

RESPONSIBILITIES The Senior Assessment Officer s responsibilities include:

PROJECT/RESEARCH CYCLE MANAGEMENT

• Ensuring the assessment, analysis, and support material development are planned and implemented in a structured and coherent manner, in line with relevant project and strategic objectives, and with global IMPACT guidelines.
• Managing the relevant assessment cycle stages, including oversight of research design, data collection, or analysis.
• Collaborating with other members of the cash and markets team and ensuring alignment and efficiency between team activities and outputs.

CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING

• Guiding secondary data review and efforts to better understand the information landscape, and how the assessment contributes to strategic response objectives.
• Keeping up to date with the shifting oPt context.

RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Develop and implement specific market based assessments. The candidate should have a technical interest in research development on areas relating to liquidity analysis, supply chains and market functionality assessments.
• Comprehensive secondary data review for triangulating relevant assessment data, such as import and export data, liquidity reports, financial analysis and contextual security developments, in support ofcash and markets research.
• Conducting semi-structured interviews with key informants in order to enhance contextual understandings and compliment quantitative data.
• Development of additional support materials to ensure operational efficiencies and output effectiveness, including necessary guidance notes, KII facilitation guides and training materials.
• Analysis of the collected data and drafting of the relevant outputs (i.e., liquidity reports, market functionality profiles).

REQUIREMENTS

• Years of work experience 3 years of relevant working experience in a humanitarian setting, such as assessments, monitoring and evaluation, research design and analysis, etc.;
• Research skills Excellent quantitative and qualitative research data analysis experience required, including experience with key informant interviews and quantitative tool design (KoBo);
• Familiarity with aid system Good understanding of the aid system and the research community. Prior experience with humanitarian coordination forums preferred;
• Thematic experience Prior experience with cash and market research, or related professional experience, is required;
• Communication/reporting skills Excellent verbal and written communication and drafting skills for effective reporting required;
• Sound judgment and emotional intelligence in high-pressure or sensitive situations. Possesses strong interpersonal awareness and the ability to respond constructively to feedback and shifting priorities;
• 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. Familiarity with R, SPSS and/or STATA or other statistical analysis software an asset
• Security environment Ability to operate in a complex and challenging security environment.
• Experience in geographical region Past experience in the region is desirable;
• Language skills Fluency in English required.