Humanitarian Strategic Analyst – Africa
SUMMARY
31 Jul 2025
14 Aug 2025 – 23:59 UTC
Kenya
Programme Operations
Permanent
Full-timeApply
Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Humanitarian Strategic Analyst – Africa to join our global team.
Team and Job Purpose
The Emergency Response Operations Team own and manage key procedures that support our organizational approach to preparedness and response, ensuring seamless coordination of functional support to country offices in anticipation of and in response to crises. To facilitate rapid deployment of high-quality surge capacity and flexible funding tailored to the specific needs and capacities of our responses, thereby maximizing impact. To build the capacity of humanitarian responders, empowering them with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively address humanitarian challenges.
Role purpose
The role is to provide context-specific strategic analysis to support humanitarian decision-makers at all levels of the organization (country, regional, and global), in particular at times of significant contextual change.
To do so, the Humanitarian Strategic Analyst monitors geopolitical events, identifies strategic issues critical to the organization’s operations and position, and engages with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to gather, curate and convey strategic insights.
The role holder is involved in key processes where building a shared understanding of the complexity of Save the Children’s operating environment is critical, from risk assessments to informing preparedness and business continuity plans, humanitarian advocacy strategies, and humanitarian policy-making.
Finally, the role delivers conflict-sensitive insights on major crises, with a view to notably anticipate potential escalation, to ensure effective and principled responses in humanitarian contexts.
Job Title: Humanitarian Strategic Analyst – Africa
Team: Emergency Response
Reports To: Head of Context Analysis and Foresight
Contract Length: Permanent
Grade: P4
Location: Any approved SCI office location in the Africa regions (WCA/ESA). For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers
Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Africa region time zones (UTC−01:00 to UTC+04:00)
Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.
Language Requirements: English & French
International Travel Requirements: Yes, up to 40%
Budget Responsibility: None
People Management Responsibility: None
Principal Accountabilities
Country-facing (in the absence of a dedicated CO Analyst, upon request, and pending availability):
- Conduct and deliver context and foresight analysis (e.g., situational analysis, conflict analysis, trend analysis, scenario analysis, stakeholder analysis) to support humanitarian decision-makers.
- Develop scenarios and support scenario-based planning to inform response decision-making.
- 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 the development or update of a CO’s Emergency Preparedness Plans).
- Contribute to the integration of conflict-sensitive approaches, tools, and methods in proposal writing, programme implementation and reporting.
Movement-facing (aligned with global humanitarian priorities and SCI’s global strategy):
- Collaborate across Programme Delivery Team and beyond to identify and address key contextual information gaps, ensuring integration of comprehensive contextual data and intelligence into strategic planning and operational responses.
- Contribute specialised regional and national content to global reports, highlighting key trends and context-specific characteristics.
- Support humanitarian advocacy initiatives and strategies by offering up-to-date insights and thorough contextual analysis on ongoing and emerging crises.
- Support the external representation of senior executives (e.g., Regional Directors)
- Prepare and facilitate internal context-focused discussions (CAFU Café).
External-facing:
- Contribute to the IASC Early Warning and Risk Analysis Group.
- Engage with CAFU’s external partners on specific contexts or themes.
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Proficiency in both qualitative and quantitative data analysis to extract actionable insights.
- Strong ability to question, synthesize, and present complex information clearly and concisely.
- Sound understanding of geopolitical dynamics (at international, national, and sub-national levels) and their interplay with humanitarian needs and practices.
- Expertise in supporting risk assessments and providing foresight analysis for strategic decision-making, particularly in areas of conflict.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey strategic insights to diverse audiences (internal teams and external stakeholders), with fluency in English and French,
- Ability to craft strategic recommendations covering a range of operational scenarios to support preparedness efforts and anticipatory strategies within a humanitarian framework.
- Excellent skills in collaboration, networking, and relationship-building with diverse stakeholders (including I/LNGOS, UN agencies, academia).
- Experience in delivering analytical products with short turn around and supporting the development of strategies with timely contextual insights on major or emerging crises.
- Significant professional experience of working in humanitarian sector with a focus on crisis contexts and conflict-sensitive programming.
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with adherence to organizational values and humanitarian principles.
Desirable
- Additional language of Arabic or Spanish preferred
Key Relationships
Internal (excluding direct team and manager)
– Wider Emergency Response Team
– Wider Programme Delivery Team
– Strategy, Planning, and Movement Development (CSO/DCEO)
External
– IASC Early Warning and Risk Analysis group
– ACAPS, ACLED, CHL, IARAN
Education and Qualifications
Essential
A degree in Political Science, International Relations, Conflict Studies, or a related field.
Working at Save the Children International
Save the Children is the world’s leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.
We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children’s voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.
Application Information
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found here via the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.
Our recruitment process:
- Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
- Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
- Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
- If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks
We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
