Needs Assessment Consultant (Health) – Lebanon

About the role

Relief International is looking for a consultant to lead the analysis and synthesis of primary and secondary assessment findings in Lebanon, identifying priority unmet health needs, barriers to access, service utilization patterns, referral bottlenecks and areas of highest vulnerability. The consultancy provides actionable recommendations to shape the design and focus of RI's project proposal, without presupposing a secondary healthcare intervention or fixed target groups. The assignment runs from late November until December 18.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct a desk review of secondary data (Ministry of Public Health reports, WHO, UN agencies, RI assessments, ECHO documentation).
• Oversee primary data collection carried out by RI enumerators, check data quality and completeness, and flag data gaps.
• Clean and validate quantitative datasets, run descriptive and comparative analysis, and analyse qualitative data with thematic analysis.
• Triadulate primary and secondary findings and identify key needs, trends, vulnerabilities and geographic disparities.
• Produce a draft and final assessment report with evidence-based recommendations on intervention focus, service packages, population and geographic targeting and referral pathways.
• Present findings to the RI program team and facilitate a validation workshop.

Required profile

• Advanced university degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Systems, Humanitarian Assistance, Social Sciences or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience conducting humanitarian needs assessments.
• Demonstrated experience in health assessments and health systems analysis.
• Familiarity with the Lebanon humanitarian context; Arabic is an asset.

Required skills

• Strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Experience designing or supporting ECHO-funded interventions is highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical, report-writing and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in English.

The consultant receives a fixed lump-sum fee paid on completion of all deliverables. Relief International provides assessment tools, conducts primary data collection and shares datasets. Applications must include an updated CV, a work plan, methodology, key activities and timeline, submitted by November 17, 2026.