Careers
Hamer village huts, Ethiopia.
Credit: Luisa Puccini
Careers @ Humanitarian Impact Institute
Working with HII can be a truly rewarding experience. We are looking for people excited to work on some of the most challenging issues of our time. If that sounds like you, then read on to find more about working with HII.
Internship Program
Our Values
We show leadership amongst our peers by adhering to our values in all of our work, partnerships and decision making. Our values are:
Our primary clients are always the affected communities.
To help those communities we need to be ethical, adaptable and learners.
We are humble collaborators and innovative problem solvers.
Our expertise means we are trusted by clients, partners & stakeholders.
And we always deliver.
Working with HII
Working at HII means working with teams of people who care about the world and helping the people and communities affected by conflict, famine, climate change, natural disasters and crisis. Our contribution is helping humanitarian and development actors to increase their impact. To do that, we need to be professional, expert at what we do and committed to humanitarian principles.
Compensation at HII is benchmarked at humanitarian rates and is determined by the role being delivered and the experience and assessed capability of the individual, within graded bands. Each vacancy announcement will state the monthly fee. Fees are usually paid in EUR.
HII’s people are both humble and learning focused. We seek and receive opportunities and support to grow professionally and technically in our capabilities. Once competent in our core roles, we agree an appropriately tailored professional development plan that would usually include a combination of external learning, internal learning and experiential opportunities.
Engagement
HII is an Irish organisation. Most roles at HII are remote working positions based close to field locations, with a support team in our HQ in Dublin. Some roles are country or region specific and/or office-based and this will be stipulated in the vacancy announcement.
HII engages personnel as consultants for specific projects and assignments.
Some HII roles require more travel than others. Travel can be domestic or international and travel costs are always covered by HII. The nature and seniority of the role have the biggest impacts on the amount of travel expected. Each vacancy announcement will provide an estimate of the travel the role is likely to need.
Diversity & Equal Opportunity
The Humanitarian Impact Institute celebrates diversity, disability, social mobility and the benefits this brings to our organisation and the communities we serve.
We want people from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds to apply to work with us regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or identity, religion, political views, disability, nationality, background or age. In fact, many of our people are from these backgrounds.
In this context what we value most is your passion for, and skills directed to, increasing impact in humanitarian and emergency responses and development programs.
Our application screening process is anonymised to ensure we select candidates for interview based on merit.
Recruitment Process
HII’s recruitment process includes assessments of values fit, skills and role suitability. This will usually involve:
- Shortlisting of applicants
- Invitation to initial skills testing and assessment
- First interview
- Second interview
- Reference checks
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 3 weeks of the closing date, then you should assume your application was unsuccessful on this occasion and we encourage you to consider reapplying for future opportunities.
All interviews will be conducted remotely with friendly HII personnel over video conference software.
Blind Shortlisting
HII conducts blind shortlisting. This means your name is not visible during the initial interview shortlisting process. Instead, the recruitment panel only sees the answers to your assessment questions (which are displayed after you have submitted your CV and contact details).
Your answers to these questions are therefore very important. If any of these questions are not answered correctly, your application will be automatically rejected.
We sometimes also ask for your expected salary at this stage. We ask this to assess if your experience is commensurate with your salary expectations (is there a mismatch?). We recommend you include a salary in-line with your current salary, skills and capability (remembering you are being measured against a large number of other applicants for this role). Inflated or unrealistic amounts entered here will likely result in your application not being progressed.
Career Enhancing Courses
If you are applying for a MEAL or Research role at HII, we will test your skills extensively during the selection process.
Enrolling in, and completing, our Evaluator courses will build the skillset necessary to do well at HII, and therefore increase your chances of selection for current and future roles both at HII and other evaluation organisations.
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