Background
Under the current demographic trends, the mandate of FAO is facing challenges of paramount importance: how to supply nutritious and healthy food to city dwellers/users equally across all sectors. In the past decades the attention of development partners, including FAO has mainly focused on the supply side in the rural areas. While this remains a vital element of an overall strategy for enhancing the food and nutrition security, it is however not sufficient to address the particular intrinsic factors associated with food security in cities. This is a real concern, recognized at international level, given the urbanization rate encountered today, with estimates indicating that two thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.
The New Urban Agenda (NUA), that is the new global political commitment to the sustainable development of towns, cities and other human settlements for the next two decades, adopted during the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito in October 2016, clearly recognizes the centrality of food and nutrition security and food system planning. The current food system urgently needs changes, warranting alternatives in a way that produce sustainable, inclusive and environmentally friendly solutions to the emerging food needs in cities.
Within this framework, FAO is going to implement the NADHALI Project “Developing Sustainable Food Systems for urban areas: Pilot Works in Nairobi (Kenya), Dhaka (Bangladesh), and Lima (Perù)” that has the goal of supporting the responsible authorities in urban areas on developing food system planning as key pillar for “making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” [SDG Goal11] and “Ending hunger and achieving food security and nutrition [SDG-Goal 2].
General Objectives of the Assignment
The general objective of the assignment is coordinate the Multi-Stakeholders Food Systems Planning Platform meetings, to ensure invitations to the meeting are done in a timely manner and to serve both as Secretariat to the MFSP Platform and maintain a database of members and periodically updating it, keeping schedule of meetings and documenting the meeting proceedings.

Reporting line and specific tasks
• Under the general supervision of Programmes Coordinator and in direct supervision of the Project Coordinator, the Information management and Data Analysis support officer will perform the following duties:
• Coordinate the Multi-Stakeholders Food Systems Planning Platform (MFSPP) meetings ensuring invitations to the meeting are send out in a timely manner.
• Serve as Secretary to the MFSPP meetings and documenting the meeting proceedings.
• Research on possible members, maintain good relationship with the MFSPP members and periodically update the membership of MFSPP.
• Work closely with the Urban Food System Analyst to analyse researched information and generate useful information for sharing with MFSPP meetings
• Collaborate with the Communications team to facilitate establishment of a webpage for the Nadhali project in Kenya and facilitate populating of the webpage with updated information, meetings and upcoming events.
• In collaboration with Project coordinator and Urban Food Systems Analyst support in organizing for meeting, events and workshops for the Nadhali project.
• Consolidate relevant brief information from stakeholders for sharing in the FAOKE webpage and Nadhali HQ coordinators.
• Any other relevant assignment.

Minimum Requirements
• Master’s degree in development studies, economics, social sciences, and other related fields with understanding and experience in urban work environment.
• Experience in working and managing networks and coalitions, maintaining membership database and communication to members.
• At least 4 years of working experience on participatory planning approach at urban level with International Organizations, preferably UN.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability in facilitating meeting, networking and communication between different stakeholders
• Understanding the local context and familiarity in working with local governmental institutions, private partners and CSOs.
• Previous experience on food system related planning would be an asset.
• Experience in integrating gender and nutrition issues in agriculture and urban food systems.
• Demonstrated capacity to speak and write fluent English and communicate effectively in Swahili language

HOW TO APPLY:
Candidates are requested to submit their application by email to vacancy-kenya@fao.org quoting the position title and vacancy announcement number.
A duly completed Personal Profile Form (PPF) generated from FAO’s iRecruitment portal as a PDF-file is to be submitted by email together with a cover letter. Please note that attached resumes or CV’s in place of the PPF will not be accepted.
In order to prepare a Personal Profile Form, you must first register on the FAO iRecruitment site by clicking on the following link to register: http://www.fao.org/employment/irecruitment-access/en/ In order for your application to be properly evaluated, please ensure that all sections of the on-line profile are completed.
Applications received after the closing date will not be given consideration. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
This vacancy is open to both male and female candidates. Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply. Persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.