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Humanitarian Needs Assessment Specialist

Plan International

full time Nairobi Posted 1 week ago

About You**

You are an experienced humanitarian professional who thrives in complex and fast-moving environments. You bring both technical expertise and a collaborative, capacity-building mindset.

Essential experience and skills:****

  • Extensive experience leading or supporting humanitarian needs assessments across diverse emergency contexts, including rapid-onset crises.

  • Strong expertise in gender analysis and integrating protection and inclusion into assessments.

  • Experience developing and delivering training.

  • Familiarity with donor expectations and humanitarian standards (Sphere, CHS, CPMS, INEE).

  • Experience using digital tools for data collection and analysis.

  • Strong analytical, coordination and report-writing skills.

  • Ability and willingness to deploy at short notice and work in challenging environments.

Desirable:**

  • Experience contributing to funding proposals or donor submissions.

  • Experience developing advocacy or influencing messaging from assessment findings.

  • Experience working with partner organisations.

  • Fluency in English; French, Spanish or Arabic is an asset.

  • Develop and maintain user-friendly tools, guidance and methodologies for rapid and multi-sectoral needs assessments.

  • Ensure gender, child protection, disability inclusion and age considerations are central to all assessments, in line with Sphere and Core Humanitarian Standard requirements.

  • Support Country Offices to deliver high-quality assessment reports suitable for donors, clusters and peer agencies.

  • Design and deliver needs assessment training to build organisational capacity.

  • Work closely with MERL and Digital teams to promote the use of digital data collection tools and alignment with monitoring and evaluation systems.

  • Deploy to Country Offices (up to 4 months at a time) to directly support assessment design and implementation.

  • Represent Plan International in inter-agency coordination forums, including IASC-related networks.

  • Support fundraising, advocacy and influencing teams by translating assessment data into compelling insights and products.

  • Strengthen alignment with donor requirements, including ECHO submissions during HIP cycles.

  • Produce an annual global overview of assessments and emerging humanitarian trends.

  • Ensure safeguarding, child protection, and gender equality policies are fully embedded in all areas of work.