Job Type : Full Time
Industry : Field Operations/Project Management
Education Level : Junior Level
WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and
professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.
Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we
are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.
Requisition ID: 153947
About WFP
The United Nations
World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger
worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero
Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to
ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most
vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food
they need.
Standard Minimum Qualifications
Education: Advanced
University degree in Economics, Food Security, Statistics, Data Science, Public
Health/Nutrition, Geography or other related field, or First University degree
with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English and Swahili languages.
Organizational Context
This role is at
Dar es Salaam Country Offices (COs), and the VAM Officer will report to
the Head of VAM/M&E. The VAM Officer is expected to operate with high degree
of independence and be involved in more straight forward VAM activities and
programmes.
Job Purpose
To generate and/or
contribute to the VAM evidence base that supports food security and nutrition
policies and programmes (e.g. needs assessment and situation analyses,
programme design, targeting, cost effectiveness, and operational
efficiency).
Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)
1. Provide technical
advice and support WFP and its partners on matters pertaining to food security
and nutrition strategies, policies, programmes, and facilitate the timely and
productive use of related outputs in a manner that complies with WFP standards
and processes.
2. Contribute to the development of systems and tools for the monitoring and
assessment of food assistance needs in line with innovative methodologies and
best practice.
3. Manage and/or conduct food security, nutrition, markets and resilience
analysis and prepare timely reports on food assessment needs in line with wider
VAM policies, processes and guidance to enable effective decision-making on the
development of country strategy, policies and programmes.
4. Keep up to date with and advise on food assistance developments and issues
and the potential impact upon WFP activity to enable timely and appropriate
programme evolution and intervention.
5. Contribute to the development of programme activities, providing technical
analysis, interpretation and recommendations to facilitate food assistance
needs to be met effectively.
6. Provide coaching and guidance to VAM staff as required to ensure appropriate
development and enable high performance.
7. Support the monitoring and evaluation of WFP activities, providing technical
analysis, interpretation and information as required to support the assessment
of activity impact.
8. Represent WFP during meetings with partners to contribute to technical
discussions, exchange of knowledge and experience, and seek for appropriate
interventions (based on an evidence base), and areas for potential
collaboration.
9. Build capacity of WFP staff, partners and national government to conduct
analysis on food security, nutrition, markets, resilience, and related topics
to effectively inform policies and programmes.
10. Provide support to relevant partners that are focusing on food security and
nutrition to enable sharing of experience, lessons learned and best practice.
11. Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet
emergency food assistance needs.
12. Other as required.
4Ps Core Organisational Capabilities
Purpose
People
Performance
Partnership
Functional Capabilities
Capability Name |
Description of the behaviour expected for the
proficiency level |
Food Security Analysis |
Applies advanced analytical knowledge to
lead the management, design and implementation of food security and
vulnerability analysis activities. Ensures that analysis remains the backbone
of programmatic interventions through its lifecycle, ultimately contributing
towards making communities food secure and resilient. |
Food Security Monitoring |
Leads management,
design and implementation of food security monitoring systems. Ensures that
such analysis is timely and responsive to programmatic needs and adjustments. |
Technical Specialized Knowledge (e.g., Economics,
Statistics, Public Health, Remote Sensing, GIS, etc.) |
Provides
managerial and technical guidance for designing and conducting analyses,
including computation, interpretation, and presentation of results for food
security surveys and key indicators (comprehensive food security and
vulnerability surveys, food security monitoring, implementing mobile surveys,
market analysis, food consumption scores, coping strategies indices. data
disaggregation, etc.). |
Food Security Assessment |
Leads all aspects
of surveys including design, implementation, analysis, findings and
reporting. Ensures that assessment findings are easily translated into
operational programmatic response. |
Strategic Operational Understanding |
Demonstrates
strong understanding of country operations to participate in response
analysis exercises to improve the cohesion between analytical findings and
programmatic response. Constructs evidence base underlying technical and
policy advice given to stakeholders. |
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Desired Experiences for Entry into the Role
• Gained valuable
experience in collecting geospatial and socioeconomic food security data,
conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and reporting findings to
senior leaders.
• Has led surveys, multiple assessments in countries, including the design,
data collection and analysis.
• Has participated in design and implementation of WFP programmes focusing in
food security.
Terms and Conditions
This position is for
Tanzanian nationals only.
All Applications
should be submitted through the e-recruitment portal.
Deadline for Applications.
The deadline for receiving applications is 07 December 2021.\
Female applicants, individuals with disability and
qualified applicants are especially encouraged to apply
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's
largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world
achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.
Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed
hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and
children, can access the nutritious food they need.
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