Programme Assistant (VAM) SC5

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.

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.

The job holders typically report to a Programme Policy Officer or the designate.
At this level, job holders are responsible for the completion of a range of specialized and/or standardized processes and activities requiring some interpretation of standard guidelines and practices. Job holders are able to recommend a course of action to staff at various levels and may allocate tasks to other support staff. They work under minimum supervision, perform basic analyses and compile reports to support information consistency and smooth implementation of programmes/projects.

To perform specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related processes and activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.  

1. Support the VAM unit in the development of food security, market and vulnerability analysis.
2. Assist in coordinating VAM data collection, cleaning and analysis activities ensuring data completeness, timeliness and quality.
3. Maintain, update, and improve existing databases and knowledge management platforms (Dataviz, Kobo, COMET, etc.)
4. Perform statistical tests using advanced statistical methods (descriptive and interferential statistics, regression analysis, multivariate data analysis, etc.) to support the analysis of household food security and vulnerability data.
5. Prepare periodic reports and analysis to inform units and Field Offices on data entry needs.
6. Support the production of newsletters and periodic reports on the food security and market price trends.
7. Programme questionnaires for all VAM data collections.
8. Maintain mobile data collection devices and train relevant partner and WFP field monitoring staff on its usage.
9. Provide capacity strengthening and targeted trainings on database management and good practices around data analysis to external partner staff and internally.
10. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.
11. Perform other related duties as required.

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.

Experience: A minimum of four years of progressively responsible experience.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in Arabic and English. 

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
•  Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
•  Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
•  Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
   

• • Strong background in data analysis and statistical methods
  • Proficiency with WFP corporate data collection, analysis and visualization tools (ODK, Kobo, ONA, SPSS, R, Stata, Tableau)
  • Proficiency in analyzing quantitative and qualitative data relating to food security, nutrition, market and vulnerability.

• • Good knowledge of WFP’s Normative Framework for M&E and food security and nutrition indicators is preferred. Sound knowledge of statistical theory and methods related to sampling, questionnaire design, data analysis and cleaning
  • Experience in coordination and capacity strengthening of government counterparts and/or other partners
  • Experience in drafting high-quality food security and nutrition reports based on analytical findings

Applications must be submitted online through WFP e-Recruitment System

• Internal WFP staff can access the VA through the internal WFP CAREER page via the link: http://newgo.wfp.org/services/e-recruitment

This position is only open to Jordan Country Office (JOCO) Fixed-term/ Service Contract holders.

Make sure that you answer all mandatory questions accurately and to attach your updated CV in English.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

 Interested candidates are invited to submit their application not later than Monday, 9 December 2019.

Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.