REACH was born in 2010 as a joint initiative of two International NGOs (IMPACT Initiatives and ACTED) and the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT). REACH's purpose is to promote and facilitate the development of information products that enhance the humanitarian community's decision making and planning capacity for emergency, reconstruction and development contexts. REACH facilitates information management for aid actors through three complementary services: (a) need and situation assessments facilitated by REACH teams; (b) situation analysis using satellite imagery; (c) provision of related database and (web)-mapping facilities and expertise.

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 and GIS. IMPACT was launched at the initiative of ACTED, an international NGO whose headquarter is based in Paris and is present in thirty countries. The two organizations have a strong complementarity formalized in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from ACTED's operational support on its fields of intervention.

Grand Bargain signatories required that humanitarian needs assessments be impartial, unbiased, comprehensive, context-sensitive, timely and up to date. This requirement was designed to inform more effective and equitable prioritization of need.

With the financial support from ECHO and USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), and co-funding from other country-based donors, REACH has supported the facilitation of independent, crisis-wide Multi-sectoral Needs Assessments (MSNAs) since 2016 to meet these criteria. MSNAs promote a shift in how humanitarian needs are measured and how response is planned, contributing to a change in the approach to planning, prioritization and decision making, by promoting needs-based, evidence-based and people-cantered decision making. The MSNA is a high visibility assessment, which is coordinated with humanitarian coordination structures and a range of stakeholders across responses to provide an evidence based for yearly humanitarian prioritization and planning.

We are currently looking for a Senior Assessment Officer to join the Global Humanitarian Planning and Prioritization Unit in HQ.

Under the supervision of the Global Humanitarian Planning and Prioritization unit (HPPU) manager and the Research & Development Research Manager, the SAO will lead and support on various initiatives within the Research & Development workstream of the HPPU related to inter-sectoral analysis as well as global and cross-crisis analysis using MSNA data collected at national level. The individual fulfilling this role will play a critical function in providing technical, programmatic, and strategic support to a high profile and impactful work stream on the global REACH team.

The REACH SAO will support the below core areas of work: