Job Responsibilities
In this position your main responsibilities will be:
Provide expert advice and support WFP and its partners on food security and nutrition strategies, policies, and programmes.
Facilitate the timely and productive use of information in line with WFP processes and standards.
Contribute to the design and implementation of systems and tools for monitoring and assess needs based on standard and creative methodologies.
Lead and conduct complex analysis to provide timely reports on food assessment needs aligned with WFP standards and processes.
Enable effective decision-making by guiding the development of the country strategy, programmes and policies.
Keep up to date and advise on food assistance developments that may potentially impact upon the WFP activity to enable timely and appropriate programme evolution and intervention.
Provide technical guidance, interpretations and recommendations to develop programme activities and to facilitate the effective reach of food assistance needs.
Lead operational partnerships, including inter-agency collaboration, to ensure a solid support in both emergency and non-emergency settings.
Lead and provide coaching and guidance to your team to ensure their development and enable them to perform at their best.
Build capacity of WFP staff, external organizations and national governments to conduct analysis on any related topic to food security and nutrition to effectively inform policies and programmes.
Support the monitoring and evaluation of WFP activities by providing technical knowledge to support the assessment of activity impact.
Represent WFP with partners to contribute to technical discussions, exchange of knowledge and experience, and seek for appropriate interventions based on evidence and areas of potential collaboration.
Provide leadership and support partners to enable sharing of experiences, lessons learned and standard methodologies.
Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
Incorporate a gender perspective in areas of your work, to ensure equal participation of women and men.
Contribute to (or lead when requested) the development of Monitoring plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results (as set out in the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and other global and regional plans), while being compliant with WFP monitoring requirements.
Other as required.
Standard Minimum Requirements

Education:
Advanced University degree in Economics, Food Security, Statistics, Data Science, Public Health, Nutrition, Geography or other related discipline, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
The University needs to be recognized by UNESCO. You can check at: https://www.whed.net/home.php

Experience:
Minimum of eight (8) years of postgraduate of relevant and progressive professional experience in data analysis, statistics, and assessments within food security, agriculture, nutrition or a closely related area, such as health, research, economics or information management systems.
Experience in food security analysis.
Experience in conducting surveys and multiple-sectorial assessments, including the design, data collection and analysis is fundamental.
Experience in managing, supervising and coaching staff in emergency assessments.
Language:

Fluency (level C) in both spoken and written English.
Intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (WFP’s working language).

Desired Experiences
Experience in early warning and remote sensing and familiarity with the speciality software applications associated with them.
Experience in evaluating and monitoring with a background and interest in the analysis of socio-economic issues and related policy matters.
Experience in statistical analysis and mapping software like SPSS, STATA, R, Arc GIS or Q GIS.
Experience in collecting geospatial and socio-economic food security data.
Experience in quantitative and qualitative survey techniques and analyses to report findings to senior leaders.
Experience in the design and implementation of food assistance programmes.

Terms and Conditions
If you are selected, you will be placed in the Future International Talent Pool for a period up to 2 years. You may be contacted as the needs arise for fixed-term international positions in any of the countries in which WFP operates, including hardship duty stations. You can learn more about this initiative at: http://www1.wfp.org/fit-pool.
Mobility is the essence of WFP and continues to be a core contractual requirement. These positions are rotational which means that you shall be subject to the regular reassignment process to any other location on a period of 2 to 4 years, unless the position is reclassified as non-rotational.
WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package, including basic salary, post adjustment, relocation entitlement, travel and shipment allowances, 30 days’ annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, pension plan and medical insurance.

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