About ACTED:

ACTED is committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED endeavors to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. The commitment of ACTED and that if our teams are guided by 4 core values: (1) Responsibility: we ensure the efficient and responsible delivery of humanitarian aid with the means and the resources that have been entrusted to us. (2) Impact: we are committed to having the most sustainable impact on the communities and the people with whom we engage. (3) Enterprising spirit: we are enterprising and engage in our work with a spirit that creates value and overcomes challenges. (4) Inspiration: we strive to inspire all those around us through our vision, values, approaches, choices, practice, actions, and advocacy.

ACTED’s Greening Strategy:

ACTED’s greening strategy aims to tackle environmental degradation and climate change while meeting the needs of the most vulnerable who are often those most affected by the deepening environmental crisis. Each ACTED employee will adhere to these principles through key green programming responsibilities:

• Contribute towards the adherence and development of the greening strategy plan.
• Explore innovative green programming opportunities and/or solutions within your realm of responsibilities and roles
• Encouraging and promoting environmental safeguarding processes and environmental programming standards in accordance with SOPs and technical guideline notes

ACTED PSEAH Policy:

The Acute Humanitarian Needs (ANA) Senior Assessment Officer (SAO) has the responsibility to adhere and commit to the PSEAH Policy (Protection against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment) always. Like all managers and coordinators, the have the responsibility for ensuring that measures to prevent SEAH are implemented and regularly monitored. They should ensure that staff under his/her supervision/management understand and comply with ACTED PSEAH policy and have completed the mandatory training courses according to the Code of Conduct and the PSEAH Policy. The SAO should promote an environment to help prevent sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse both at the office and in the field and report any misconducts or SEAH issues appropriately according to ACTED’s procedures.

• Acted has a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH) and strives to recruit those who share our values.
• All candidates will be subject to a pre-employment check that includes satisfactory references, screening, and criminal checks in line with legal requirements.
• All candidates who have been offered a position will sign and respect Acted’s Code of Conduct and related policies as part of their work contract. All staff are expected to abide by the standards of behavior outlined in those documents.
• Managers will have a special responsibility to foster a safe environment.
• Misconduct can lead to serious disciplinary sanctions.

- Location:  Amman, Jordan 

-Professional Experience: Previously worked with REACH Initiative.

Job Purpose:

REACH Yemen is seeking a SAO to work with our team in Yemen, based in Amman. This role will lead to a new flagship analytical output that provides a concise, actionable understanding of acute humanitarian needs across geographies and population groups within a crisis. At a time when the humanitarian sector is facing unprecedented challenges, this role will play a pivotal function in ensuring increasingly scarce aid is prioritized according to need.

The SAO role is a unique opportunity to produce work that will directly influence humanitarian prioritization decisions, including—but not limited to—the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC), HNRPs, and donor resource allocation. SAO will review and synthesized data, conduct structured analysis using IMPACT’s global analytical guidance, and produce a short, high-impact external brief, working closely with GIS and Data colleagues to incorporate visual elements where relevant. These roles would suit technical staff who enjoy working with large amounts of data, but who are able to situate the technical work they do in the bigger picture to achieve humanitarian impact. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

The main task of the SAO is to lead the implementation and delivery of the Acute Humanitarian Needs analytical product. To do this, you will need to:

• Provide overall project planning for your context: align the country-specific workplan with global objectives, liaising with country coordination and HQ to ensure coordination, and ensure timely delivery.
• Review and consolidate secondary datasets and provide proactive solutions for data gaps: synthesise data from relevant data sources in country (including, but not limited to, other REACH assessments, UN agencies and INGOs, and public data sources), evaluating data reliability, identifying critical gaps, and helping to decide where and how to launch targeted, light-touch, primary data collection. 
• Build contextual understanding and stakeholder networks: develop and maintain a network at county level to enhance understanding of the context and what useful outputs would look like, and support joint analysis with relevant stakeholders.
• Lead analysis and interpretation: apply defined frameworks (e.g. Risk of Mortality) and IMPACT’s global analytical guidance to produce structured, consistent, and context-relevant analysis of acute humanitarian needs.
• Draft outputs and support dissemination: draft the analysis brief, including working with GIS focals to produce visuals where relevant, and lead the presentation of findings to clusters, working groups and donors as needed.

Contribute to learning for 2026 and beyond: support lessons learned and propose improvements to the global analytical processes and guidance.

Skills

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills: experience interpreting complex data and the ability to evaluate the quality of different data sources. An understanding of basic GIS processes and outputs would be an asset.
• Understanding of humanitarian coordination system: understanding of the HPC and inter-agency needs analysis and assessments, and experience engaging with a variety of stakeholders (clusters, donors, UN agencies) across the humanitarian response.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills: a proven ability to identify trends, contextualize findings, and synthesise complex information into actionable insights for diverse humanitarian audiences.
• Strong writing skills: experience producing clear, concise outputs for humanitarian audiences which combine text and visuals for maximum impact.
• Delivering at pace: proven ability to manage workflows and deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.
• Resilience, sound judgment and emotional intelligence: comfortable with working autonomously and with limited direction. Patience when things don’t go your way, and the resilience to continue in difficult situations.
• Years of work experience At least 5 years of relevant working experience in a humanitarian setting, such as program management, evaluation and assessments;
• • Professional Experience: Previously worked with REACH Initiative.
• Familiarity with aid system Good understanding of the aid system and the research community. Prior experience with implementing organizations strongly preferred.
• Experience in coordination structures Experience operating in fragmented responses with multiple partners and actors to coordinate.
• Research skills Excellent quantitative and qualitative research design, data collection, and data analysis experience required;
• Management experience Demonstrated team management skills, including remote management;
• Communication skills Strong communication skills required.
• Communication/reporting skills Excellent communication and drafting skills for effective reporting and reviewing;
• Cross-cultural work environment Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility and work independently;
• Academic qualifications Excellent academic qualifications, including a master’s degree in a relevant discipline;
• Software skills Proven knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, to include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Experience in geographical region, experience in Yemen context is strongly preferred;
• Familiarity with software, R, SPSS and/or STATA or other statistical analysis software an asset;
• Experience working in an INGO consortia is an asset;
• Language skills Fluency in English required, competency in Arabic is strongly preferred;
• Previous knowledge working with Adobe InDesign is an asset!