Programme Policy Officer (Reconciliations), CST II

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• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

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JOB TITLE: Programme Policy Officer (Reconciliations), CST II

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Regular International Consultant (Level-2)

UNIT/DIVISION: Programme – CBT/IDM Unit

DUTY STATION (City, Country): Juba, South Sudan

DURATION: 11 Months (renewable subject to performance and funding availability)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

WFP’s Programme in South Sudan aims to reach more than 5 million people each year with both emergency and recovery assistance. The L3 emergency operation provides food and nutrition assistance for populations in crisis and delivers safety net programmes such as food assistance for assets, purchase for progress, and food for education to insecure people in more stable contexts. In all its programmes WFP seeks to employ the most efficient, effective, and appropriate transfer modalities, whether through in-kind food, Cash Based Transfers (CBT), or capacity development.

WFP is constantly looking for innovation solutions to address the root causes of food insecurity in South Sudan, and to respond to the challenges of delivering assistance efficiently and effectively in the country. WFP South Sudan has the aim of having a digital record of all the beneficiaries served, so that WFP can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations. WFP does this through the complete beneficiary registry of all the 7 million plus beneficiaries that WFP serves. Additionally, WFP aims to have digitally managed transfer to all these beneficiaries through a variety of transfer modalities and delivery mechanisms. We are seeking a Data Analyst to be based in the Country Office in Juba to help analyze beneficiary and transfer data with the aim of meaningfully improving the efficient of operations through improved data analysis.

The Data Analyst will be a person who can look at the landscape of data and provide KPIs and real time analysis that directly inputs into operational decisions. The understanding and utilization of the SCOPE system, cash-based transfer processes and how WFP carries out distributions is fundamental to this, as well as the ability to form partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead on data assurance for cash-based transfers and In-kind within the country office, including ensuring enhanced reconciliation, de-duplication, anomalies, and fraud detection.
• Assist stakeholders and product owners with analyzing and validating business needs and establishing development priorities, including reviewing CBT and all transfers using SCOPE or other digital systems and providing routine data updates.
• Support in the identification of appropriate tools and methodologies and assist in designing standard operating procedures to carry out operational analysis, re-engineering, and change management.
• Develop and maintain identity management dashboards for the country office to assess data quality and make effective decisions.
• Conduct in-depth analysis and identify flag trends in data from targeting, registration, and distributions for program quality.
• Prepare agreements and track the progress of SCOPE services for the UN and other partners for identity and transfer management.
• Support the implementation of the Enhanced in-kind module by developing dashboards for reconciliation, supporting the integration of data from (COMET, WINGS, SCOPE, and other data sources) and location resolution processes.
• Proactively identify challenges regarding data collection and processing to suggest solutions, establish mechanisms to improve data quality and integrity for analysis, and determine possible cost efficiency gains through such analysis.
• Review data analysis, sharing, and storage processes against data protection principles to ensure that privacy principles are followed.
• Work closely with teams in regional bureaus and headquarters to ensure that software solutions meet the growing data analysis needs within the South Sudan Country Office
• Proactively advocate and lead country and field office data literacy and awareness efforts, ensuring available data and analysis are understood and available by key stakeholders.
• Build up national capacities in data analysis at the country office, ensuring a sustainable set of capacity remains with the country office.
• Oversee and/or review the work of other support staff, providing practical advice and guidance to contribute to delivering objectives to agreed standards and deadlines.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF CONTRACT:

1. Up to date suite of analysis products useable and accessible to Country Office (CO) and Field offices (FO) staff that utilize the breadth of data available to provide meaning analysis on key assurance indicators including

a. Biographic de-duplication efforts across data sources

b. Anomaly analysis as beneficiary carries out transactions (both CBT & In-kind).

c. Reconciliation analysis.

2. Provide data availability following the correct data protection principles for WFP partners in South Sudan

3.Ensure up to aggregate data is accurate and available for all reporting units, partners, and FO in real time and useable within corporate reporting system.

4.Increased national capacity in data analysis and data literacy through skill development, documentation, and knowledge sharing activities.

5.Present regular proposals on improvements to systems and processed to ensure WFP South Sudan data analysis is utilizing the best/most up to data tools and processed.

6.Deliver projects based on programme requirements beyond SCOPE registry and CBT activities as requested by Unit head.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:

Advanced university degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Data science, or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses

Experience:

For holders of a master’s degree, a minimum of five years of relevant post graduate professional international experience is required. For holders of a bachelor’s degree, a minimum of seven years such experience is required. Relevant experience should include;

• Experience in analyzing, validating, and improving digital systems used for beneficiary and transfer management (e.g., SCOPE or similar platforms), preferably in international organization or development agencies and/or conducting financial risk analysis.
• Experience in supporting and implementing cash-based transfers programme in humanitarian or development contexts.
• Experience coordinating with multiple teams and supporting partner data needs with proven experience working with humanitarian programme data and ensuring data protection compliance.
• Experience working in emergency operations and/or hardship duty station is considered as an asset.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Data warehousing and analytics experience
• Good statistical analysis skills and experience
• Proven ability to develop innovative solutions to complex problems
• Experience in analyzing technical issues and projects and formulate recommendations and solutions.
• Good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.
• Good knowledge transfer and sharing skills.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook

 Language:  Fluency in English language required,

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