Overview
The role provides context-specific strategic analysis to support humanitarian decision-makers at all levels of the organization, monitoring geopolitical events and identifying strategic issues critical to operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct and deliver context and foresight analysis (e.g., situational analysis, conflict analysis, trend analysis, scenario analysis, stakeholder analysis).
- Develop scenarios and support scenario-based planning.
- Provide capacity building to CO and partners on risk identification, risk monitoring methodology, and scenario building.
- Support key internal processes with bespoke analysis (e.g., risk analysis to inform Emergency Preparedness Plans).
- Contribute to the integration of conflict-sensitive approaches, tools, and methods.
- Collaborate to identify and address key contextual information gaps.
- Contribute specialised regional and national content to global reports.
- Support humanitarian advocacy initiatives and strategies.
- Support the external representation of senior executives.
- Prepare and facilitate internal context-focused discussions.
- Contribute to the IASC Early Warning and Risk Analysis Group.
- Engage with CAFU’s external partners on specific contexts or themes.
Required Experience
- Significant professional experience of working in humanitarian sector with a focus on crisis contexts and conflict-sensitive programming.
- Expertise in supporting risk assessments and providing foresight analysis for strategic decision-making, particularly in areas of conflict.
- Experience in delivering analytical products with short turn around and supporting the development of strategies with timely contextual insights on major or emerging crises.
Qualifications
• A degree in Political Science, International Relations, Conflict Studies, or a related field.
