Integrated Context Analysis Coordinator, Rome, Italy

WFP CONTEXT

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, we reach more than 80 million people with food assistance in over 80 countries.

The advertised role focuses on the Three-Pronged Approach (3PA) which is an innovative programming approach developed by WFP in consultation with governments and partners to strengthen the planning and design of programmes (amongst others) in resilience building, productive safety nets, disaster risk reduction, and preparedness. The 3PA brings people, governments and partners together to identify the context-specific actions required, using converging analyses, consultations, and participatory approaches. It comprises of three consultative and technical processes at three different levels:

1. Integrated Context Analysis (ICA) at the national level: a collaborative and consultative programming tool that helps orient geographic prioritisation for intervention based on where different levels of recurrence of food insecurity and natural shocks have historically overlapped. It informs broad programme architecture on where to position safety nets, physical disaster risk reduction, early warning, and preparedness actions.

2. Seasonal Livelihood Programming (SLP) at the sub-national level: Consultative process that brings together communities, government, and partners to develop a shared understanding of the context and to highlight which ongoing programmes should be implemented when, for whom, and by which partners, during typical and crisis years and identify programme gaps. This dialogue aims to strengthen operational plans across multiple sectors and institutions, to inform resilience-building, productive safety nets and other relevant agendas, and to enhance partnerships and coordination.

3. Community-Based Participatory Planning (CBPP) at the local level: A community level participatory exercise to empower vulnerable communities and women, build a shared understanding of livelihoods, landscapes, shocks and stresses, vulnerabilities and priority needs, and develop a multi-sectorial action plans tailored to the local context.

JOB PURPOSE

The ICA Coordinator’s internal role is to coordinate ICA production by actors in Country Offices, Regional Bureaux and Headquarters, strengthen the ICA’s links to the SLP and community based planning, and improve guidance for the core ICA as well as additional ICA+ modules addressing various domains. Externally, s/he will focus on positioning the ICA with donors and through partnerships with other Agencies (e.g. Rome based Agencies), demonstrating how it complements other bodies of work.

The ICA Coordinator reports to the Deputy Director of the Policy and Programme Division, and provides quarterly updates to the ICA Steering Committee, which comprises units from Emergency Preparedness and Support Response, the Policy and Programme Division and other relevant WFP divisions. The ICA Coordinator receives support from a food security analyst, shock risk and GIS/remote sensing analysts, and programming interpretation. S/he also works in close collaboration with other WFP divisions/units/offices (e.g. Nutrition, Gender, Regional Bureaux and Country Offices) and external partners (e.g. donors, sister UN agencies).

Start date: 1 April 2018

Estimated Duration: 6 months

Duty station: Policy & Programme Division, WFP Rome HQ

Supervisor: Deputy Director Policy and Programme

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. ICA Production and Dissemination

• Assist COs and RBs to develop and track ICA/ICA+ work plans
• Provide COs and RBs with technical and strategic advice on ICA/ICA+ process and content
• Coordinate technical support (e.g. food security and natural shock analysis) from HQ to CO/RB as needed
• Support COs (in coordination with RBs) in holding stakeholder technical and programme consultations
• Develop a quality assurance mechanism for ICA completion
• With the Vulnerability Analysis Unit (food security analysis), develop a standing collection of multi-year food security data to facilitate ICA updates
• With the Emergency Preparedness Branch, develop a public, online ICA repository via GeoNode for ICA reports, data, guidance, templates
• Maintain a record of ICA global status

2. ICA Guidance and Skills Development

• Finalise the ICA Guidance Manual via consultations with stakeholders in HQ and RB
• Finalise ICA support materials, templates, PowerPoints etc. outlined as available in the ICA guidance manual
• In collaboration with relevant WFP units and external partners, develop guidance for ICA+ modules, i.e. sets of indicators on specific topics that overlay the core ICA to expand programmatic decision-making support. Development areas may include conflict, P4P, gender, climate change, resilience, etc.
• Develop and implement a refresher training strategy to transfer ICA capacity to RBs
• Develop and implement a knowledge transfer strategy for the WFP-NEPAD/PeriperiU collaboration
• Collaborate with the Asset Creation and Livelihoods Unit to develop guidance on A) how to present and use ICA findings in the SLP/CBP process, and B) how use the SLP process to fill the ICA-identified programme themes with activities
• Develop means to include analysis of vulnerability to climate related shocks in the ICA

3. ICA Advocacy and Fundraising

• Update existing ICA brochure to reflect current practice, once ICA Guidance Manual is finalised
• Develop template(s) to be used by CO’s to publish the ICA findings for information and advocacy
• Contribute to advocacy and fundraising efforts in support of ICA work

4. Other responsibilities

• Any other tasks assigned by the Deputy Director

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Skills and Knowledge

• Qualitative and quantitative analytical skills
• Strong understanding of concepts and practices in food security and climate-related shock risk analysis
• Understanding of GIS and remote-sensing technologies and their practical application
• Knowledge of WFP’s corporate structure and programming modalities
• Ability to design guidance, deliver trainings, and transfer technical capacities
• Facility to coordinate staff and achieve objectives without direct reporting lines
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills; a second UN language is an asset

2. Education and Experience

• Advanced university degree in economics, social sciences, environment sciences, international affairs, statistics, or other relevant field.
• At least 6-10 years of progressively responsible postgraduate professional experience, including:
  • Programme implementation, management and design, related to food security, disaster risk reduction, and/or emergency preparedness
  • Facilitating inter-agency consultations and workshops
  • Field and Headquarters-level experience with WFP or a similar organisation

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

23rd of March 2018