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Knowledge and Learning Senior Analyst - Global Emergency Response Team - US Remote

Washington, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Jun 2024

💰 $76,000/yr($64,000/yr – $76,000/yr)

About the role

Location: Portland, OR; Washington D.C.; or US Remote Position Status: Full-time, Exempt, Regular (Temporary: 1 year assignment) Salary Level:

US Starting Salary for this role will be USD $64,000 to $76,000 commensurate on experience.
Based on local benchmark for candidates outside of the United States.

Valid unrestricted work authorization in the country in which you will be based is required at the time of application for this position. About Mercy Corps Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have a long-term impact.

The Team

Mercy Corps works to achieve real and lasting impact in the world’s toughest humanitarian emergencies. We save lives and help people live with dignity in crises of all kinds. At the same time, we create the conditions to pivot to innovative and transformative recovery quickly and effectively. We work wherever local capacity is overwhelmed, connecting people to the opportunities they need to strengthen their community in recovery. Whether it is a sudden shock or a slowly emerging crisis, whether the threat is natural or man-made, no matter how complex the environment, Mercy Corps is committed to bold, rapid, needs-driven assistance. Mercy Corps supports a response that is market-driven and leverages the capacities of both traditional and non-traditional aid partners—and ultimately gives people the ability to make their own decisions and secure their own lives and livelihoods. The Global Emergency Response Team (ERT) provides the agency with timely and effective leadership to prepare for, respond to, and learn from humanitarian emergencies, develops sharp, well-timed and influential humanitarian analysis to inform program design and implementation, and supports agency leadership and regional and country teams with safety and security expertise.

The Position

The Knowledge and Learning Senior Analyst is a member of the Global Emergency Response team (GRT), and is responsible for the development and implementation of an emergency response learning and knowledge management system and approach for the ERT. The Senior Analyst will work cross-functionally to optimize systems and response processes and procedures to ensure continuous improvement and adaptation of lessons learned and best practices to enhance emergency response at Mercy Corps. In addition, the Senior Analyst will support with tracking of Organizational Priority Indicators, FY25 organization priority on the ERT tracking, as well as department performance data collection and analysis. The Senior Analyst will serve as a thought partner to the VP of Emergency Response, the ERT, and with internal stakeholders across the broader organization, helping to ensure accountability and alignment within the team and synergy across complementary agency efforts. He/she will work closely with the global program quality, evidence and learning, and technical teams as required.

Essential Responsibilities

STRATEGY & VISION

Contribute to the agency’s organizational design changes in relation to the response architecture to optimize performance, support testing of new ways of working, and drive greater impact.
Help ensure harmonized roll out of the Humanitarian Response Approach, appropriate sequencing of related initiatives, and allocation of resources to build necessary capacities to deliver on the strategy.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & LEARNING ACROSS EMERGENCY RESPONSES

Directly contribute to the development of a common standard/approach around higher-level emergency response learning across emergency responses, taking into consideration both operational, programmatic and organizational learning at a higher level, in collaboration with ERT leadership, the PaQ and Evidence and Learning Teams.
Lead, facilitate or contribute to regular learning and reflection activities like emergency response (taking into account both programmatic and operational considerations) after-action reviews, real-time evaluations and functional reviews and pause and reflect exercises.
Integrate and apply lessons learned into the design or revision of response processes and procedures, operational init