Ukraine Analysts At Center for Operational Analysis and Research

Position Title: Ukraine Analysts (PT or FT )
Assigned Unit/Team: Ukraine Team
Contract no.: R221208
Timeframe: Depending on funding, but some analysts are needed in January 2022
Coordinator: Project Team Lead
Based in: Remote (but within a European time zone)

Overview: This scope of work (SoW) outlines the Ukraine Analyst roles with COAR Global’s Ukraine team, known as Left Bank Analytics (LBA). The roles could be full or part time depending on the candidate. The Analysts will be expected to produce deliverables (as outlined below) through an understanding of both the Ukraine context and the donor-funded humanitarian, stabilization, and development response. The Analysts will be expected to support fast-paced, real-time collection of
qualitative data, and analytical writing. LBA is accepting applications for analysts for both current and anticipated projects over the next year. Successful candidates will be added to COAR/LBA’s Ukraine Analyst roster. Once candidates are added to our roster, they will be notified of specific openings which may be interested in, and become finalists for those positions. Analysts recruited under this scope of work will be considered for both Analyst and Lead Project Analyst roles.

About COAR and LBA: COAR Global is an independent social enterprise that directly supports practitioners, policy-makers, and donors by facilitating humanitarian and development interventions in complex, fragile, and high-risk environments such as Syria, Myanmar, Lebanon and Libya. The Ukraine team is known as LBA.

Objectives:
● To broaden and deepen humanitarian, stabilization, and development actors’ knowledge of Ukraine through both secondary and primary research.
● To provide high-quality, academic-level reporting and analysis that focuses on the following topics: combat-related, humanitarian, social, political, economic, security, and migration dynamics, humanitarian access, economic conditions in IDP host communities, social cohesion in front-line and host communities, policy approaches to the reintegration of occupied and
newly-liberated areas (encompassing transitional justice and reconstruction, for example).
● To provide well-researched, evidence-based insight and programmatically-relevant recommendations using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Activities and Deliverables
Reporting to the Project Team Lead, and with training/support from the Lead Country Programme Analyst and Lead Project Analysts, the Analyst’s duties may include:
● Take the lead on drafting sections of twice monthly critical areas situation reports, under the direction of the Lead Project Analyst and with the support the Project Field Research Manager;
● Help or lead on drafting atmospheric/perception analysis, actor maps, risk and other types of assessments, location profiles, responses to requests for information, and other deliverables as requested;
● Actively track trends with regards to military/security, political, economic, social, service provision, regional intervention, and humanitarian developments on the ground;
● Follow social media, traditional media, and other open-source outlets with reliability and granularity in mind;
● Analyze local, national, and regional conflict-relate developments in Ukraine in collaboration with the research manager and researchers;
● Collaborate with field research managers to ensure data collection questionnaires and approaches reflect the projects’ needs
● Lead or support on other deliverables depending on the project/need.

Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate for Analyst will have:
● A Master’s degree in Political Science, International Affairs/Relations, Area Studies, Public Policy, Anthropology, Sociology, Journalism, or a related field.
● At least three to five years of experience collecting and analyzing qualitative data for media outlets, think tanks, research organizations, or NGOs. Experience working on sensitive topics is desirable.
● Journalistic experience would be considered as an advantage.
● Demonstrated knowledge of the Ukrainian context in particular.
● Demonstrated understanding of donor-funded humanitarian, early recovery, stabilization, and/or development architecture.
● Demonstrated ability and/or willingness to work under tight deadlines, provide accurate, real-time data points and analysis under pressure, and, when necessary, outside of work hours.
● Commitment to discretion and confidentiality.
● Near Native written English.
● Fluency in Russian; Ukrainian language knowledge would be an asset.