Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Global Support and Development is seeking to hire a remote Information Analyst within their Information and Awareness Team. The role involves collecting, processing, and analyzing data to provide high-quality insights to support operational areas and reporting needs, while collaborating with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on GSD areas of operation (Caribbean, Latin America, and South Pacific) and context, keeping a pulse on natural hazards, changing dynamics, and humanitarian needs
- Tracking emerging trends and hazards to inform organizational priorities and strategic decisions
- Collaborate with other departments to design, refine, and implement rapid damage, operational, and needs assessments for use during emergency response operations
- Support training of GSD staff on use of rapid assessments
- Synthesize and analyze assessment findings to support decision making by GSD leadership during responses
- Communicate data findings effectively, using both written and visual formats, to influence decision-making and support disaster preparedness and response initiatives
- Develop key documentation, reports, and other information products, both routine and as requested by internal and external stakeholders
- Support assessment activities, provide advice on assessment design to ensure data quality, and manage data collection and analysis platforms and tools such as ArcGIS Survey123 and FieldMaps
- Support ad hoc data requests within GSD’s existing standard operating procedures and best practices
- Collaborate with external stakeholders as needed
- Provide information for daily briefings during deployments and engagements
- Provide informational support within GSD’s Operations Room during a disaster response, as needed
- Prompt and action GSD’s core values of accountability, humility, and integrity in all work
- Promote good stewardship of financial and other resources to achieve maximum benefit to those impacted by disaster or at risk of impact; and
- Perform other duties as assigned
Skills
- Five (5) or more years of relevant work experience with a specific focus on either Caribbean, Latin America or Pacific and context
- Proven experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and in producing high-quality analytical writing, such as reports, analysis documents, and briefings
- Bachelor's degree in data science, international development, or related field; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and training
- Strong analytical writing skills, with demonstrated experience in drafting clear, insightful, and structured reports and documents
- Strong prior experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
- Ability to adapt to rapidly changing priorities
- Effective communication skills to present and advocate for data, analysis, visualization concepts, and data quality practices to GSD staff and partners
- Experience working in emergency humanitarian responses preferred
- Experience in training or capacity building related to data collection, analysis, or reporting strongly desired
- Understanding of disaster management and humanitarian response concepts and approaches (preferred)
- Written and verbal proficiency in Spanish and/or French is highly desirable
Benefits
- Up to 25 days of accrued vacation
- Up to 80 hours of annual sick leave
- Up to 80 hours of Military Pay and 30 Days Differential
- Medical, Dental and Vision (GSD covers monthly premium)
- Group Life and AD&D Coverage (GSD covers monthly premium)
- Retirement (Pre and Post Tax Options) and a Company Match
- Matches on Qualified 529 Plans
- Up to 14 Paid Holidays
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