Information Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on GSD operational areas (Caribbean, Latin America, and South Pacific), maintaining awareness of natural hazards, evolving dynamics, and humanitarian needs; monitoring emerging trends and hazards to guide organizational priorities and strategic decisions.

• Work collaboratively with other departments to design, refine, and execute rapid damage, operational, and needs assessments for application during emergency response operations.

• Assist in training GSD personnel on the utilization of rapid assessments.

• Synthesize and analyze assessment results to aid decision making by GSD leadership during responses.

• Effectively communicate data findings, leveraging both written and visual formats, to influence decision-making and support disaster preparedness and response efforts.

• Create essential documentation, reports, and other informational products, both routinely and as requested by internal and external stakeholders.

• Support assessment initiatives, provide guidance on assessment design to ensure data quality, and manage data collection and analysis platforms and tools such as ArcGIS Survey123 and FieldMaps.

• Assist with ad hoc data requests within GSD’s established standard operating procedures and best practices.

• Collaborate with external stakeholders as necessary.

• Supply information for daily briefings during deployments and engagements.

• Offer informational support within GSD’s Operations Room during a disaster response, as needed.

• Uphold and promote GSD’s core values of accountability, humility, and integrity in all tasks.

• Encourage responsible stewardship of financial and other resources to maximize benefits for those affected by disaster or at risk.

• Carry out additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience with a particular focus on the Caribbean, Latin America, or Pacific contexts.

• Demonstrated experience in both quantitative and qualitative data analysis, along with the ability to produce high-quality analytical writing, such as reports, analysis documents, and briefings.

• Prior experience in emergency humanitarian responses is preferred.

• A Bachelor’s degree in data science, international development, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and training.

• Strong analytical writing capabilities, with proven experience in drafting clear, insightful, and structured reports and documents.

• Extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.

• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing priorities.

• Effective communication skills for presenting and advocating for data, analysis, visualization concepts, and data quality practices to GSD staff and partners.

• Experience in training or capacity building related to data collection, analysis, or reporting is highly desired.

• Familiarity with disaster management and humanitarian response concepts and approaches is preferred.

• Proficiency in written and verbal Spanish and/or French is highly desirable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Up to 25 days of accrued vacation.

• Up to 80 hours of annual sick leave.

• Up to 80 hours of Military Pay and 30 Days Differential.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage (GSD covers monthly premium).

• Group Life and AD&D Coverage (GSD covers monthly premium).

• Retirement options (Pre and Post Tax) with a Company Match.

• Matches on Qualified 529 Plans.

• Up to 14 Paid Holidays.