Joelle Assaf Assaf, Expert in Humanitarian Needs Assessments and Conflict Analysis

Joelle Assaf Assaf

Expert in Humanitarian Needs Assessments and Conflict Analysis

Welthungerhilfe

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Master's degree, Masters of Arts, Global Diplomacy (Online Learning)
Experience
6 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 10 Months

Expert in Humanitarian Needs Assessments and Conflict Analysis at Welthungerhilfe
  • Germany
  • September 2022 to January 2024

• Building the capacity of country offices in needs assessments, conflict analysis and monitoring and evaluation.
• Supporting development of country strategies and operational programs, ensuring alignment with context.
• Undertaking disaster risk-analysis processes and exercises in coordination with the Humanitarian Directorate and Country Offices to identify and mitigate potential risks, and ensure preparedness for emergencies.
• Developing innovative tools for context analysis, including social media monitoring and analysis.
• Support and advise country offices in developing and drafting project proposals for different donors.

Consultant, Conflict Analyst for Social Media at UNDP
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2022 to September 2023

§ Implementing an automated social media monitoring tool to track and identify public sentiment in real-time.
§ Analyzing tensions on social media and translating insights into recommendations for key stakeholders.
§ Conducting analysis to better understand target demographics and tailor communication strategies accordingly.
§ Reinforcing UNDP and their partner’s social media monitoring capacity, fostering a data-driven approach.

Consultant, Analytic Review of the Tension Monitoring System Project at UNDP
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2022 to January 2023

§ Providing analytical support to the TMS, ensuring the accuracy and quality of tension data and analysis.
§ Assisting in the management of the TMS team by reviewing and developing job descriptions terms of
references, and ensuring business continuity.
§ Producing time-sensitive, data-driven analytical products offering insights to programmatic operations.
§ Taking the lead on social media monitoring and real-time event analysis, utilizing innovative tools to
understand public sentiments and trends.

Analysis Officer at UNDP
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • November 2021 to August 2022

§ Monitoring and analyzing social media to recognize offline and online trends related to tensions, analyzing
topic engagement and sentiment to generate evidence-based programmatic solutions.
§ Supporting project coordination and management, administration, procurement, and logistics related matters.
§ Advising sectors of the response on conflict-sensitive measures and needs based on tension analysis.
§ Representing UNDP at key social cohesion/stability forums, Access Task Forces, and workshops.

Coordination Officer - Livelihoods and Social Stability at UNDP
  • Lebanon - Bekaa
  • August 2020 to October 2021

§ Leveraging trends and lessons learned from the field to develop guidelines, SOPs, and sector strategies.
§ Ensuring complementarity of sectors interventions through collaboration and chairing regular sector working.
§ Coordinating the implementation of programs by international and national organizations. Ensuring
harmonized and effective humanitarian and development responses.
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§ Mainstreaming conflict sensitivity and do-no-harm principles across the crisis response at the field level.

Advocacy and Liaison Officer at Action Against Hunger
  • Lebanon - Bekaa
  • September 2019 to August 2020

Developing and implementing field-level advocacy strategies and products to raise awareness about key
issues and influence policy change at local, national, and international levels.
• Conducting research and analysis on relevant issues and trends, providing evidence-based
recommendations.
• Supporting the senior management in formulating and implementing strategic adaptations to the
organization's response and programmatic approach in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trainer in Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship at The Nawaya Network
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • April 2017 to August 2019

§ Conceptualizing and designing training curriculums for life-skills, design thinking, and entrepreneurship.
§ Conducting trainings for underprivileged Lebanese and refugee youth from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Education

Master's degree, Masters of Arts, Global Diplomacy (Online Learning)
  • at SOAS-UniversityofLondon
  • July 2023
Bachelor's degree, Communications Studies
  • at Concordia University
  • December 2016

Specialties & Skills

Training and Development
Sustainability
Project Management
Conflict Analysis
livelihoods
Teamwork
Communication
Project Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker
French
Expert