Senior Programme Associate Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping (VAM) G7 Cairo

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ABOUT WFP

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.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

In Egypt, WFP is committed to supporting the Government’s priorities towards the achievement of the SDGs. WFP’s current five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) is designed in a way to fully support Egypt’s vision 2030 and ensure food and nutrition security for all Egyptians, as enshrined in both the Constitution and the country’s commitment to the Global Sustainable Development Agenda.

The CSP focuses on five interrelated thematic areas:

• Support and complement the Government’s social protection programs;

• Support the refugees and migrants through food assistance and resilience building;

• Improve the nutritional status of Egyptians with a focus on Pregnant and Lactating Women and infants under two years of age;

• Support resilience of vulnerable smallholder farmers and Bedouin communities in Upper Egypt and frontier Governorates; and

• Provide capacity strengthening to the Government and support South-South cooperation between Egypt and neighbouring countries.

JOB PURPOSE

• Apply statistical theory and methods to interpret and summarize data to provide usable information to support food security and vulnerability analysis for Egypt Country Office using statistical packages like SPSS, STATA or R, the incumbent will be required to:
• Support the planning and organization of field assessment missions, meeting and briefing sessions, and participate in rapid and comprehensive food security and market assessments as needed.
• Apply sampling techniques or utilize complete enumeration bases to determine and define groups to be served.
• Perform substantial data analysis and prepare a wide range of reports as needed ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
• Lead and ensure accurate, timely recording of data to ensure consistency of information presented within WFP and stakeholders.
• Liaise with internal and external counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing VAM activities.
• Provide guidance, on the job training and assistance to support staff.
• Adapt statistical methods in order to calculate food security and vulnerability indicators using both quantitative and qualitative tools.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Evaluate source of information, prepare data for processing and check for any inaccuracies.
• Evaluate the statistical methods and procedures used to obtain data in order to ensure validity, applicability, efficiency and accuracy.
• Identify relationships and trends in data an provide different statistical analysis.
• Contribute to standardizing market and price monitoring and market assessments with statistical/economic analysis.
• Review the Country Office current practice and of market and price monitoring in terms of coverage (temporary and spatial) commodities /items, and timeliness,
• Draft the Country Office food security and market monitoring information products
• Recommend changes/modifications to achieve an effective price monitoring system at the CO. level.
• Liaise with different strategic objectives managers for establishing a beneficiary data base management system, using corporate tools or other data base software.
• Act as assigned emergency response as required, to meet emergency food assistance need.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Completion of a university degree in (Bachelor's or equivalent) degree in Economic//econometrics, statistics, finance or any training or education in the related functional area.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in the English and Arabic languages.

Experience: Seven or more years of progressive work experience in the field of statistical analysis, economics, econometrics, or any other related fields

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
•  Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
•  Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
•  Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

Has participated in analytical works and development research.

• Experience in collecting socioeconomic food security data,

• Has provided input to policy discussions.

• Advanced knowledge of STATA, SPSS or R, in addition to MS excel.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Has participated in implementing technical programs (i.e. nutrition, etc.).
• Has implemented programmes with increased level of responsibility.
• Has provided input to policy discussions.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Fixed-term Appointment:  an appointment for a continuous period of one year and shall have a specified expiration date and be subject to a probationary period of one year, which may be extended to 18 months.

Annual Net Pay Salary:  as per the established salary scale with then the country 

Staff Assessment A staff assessment, comparable to national income tax, shall be applied to the gross salaries and such other payments as are computed on the basis of salary, The assessment shall be calculated at rates set forth in the FAO Administrative Manual.

Dependency allowances: applicable to children up to 18 years of age, or up to 21 years in full-time school attendance

United Nations Joint pension fund a deduction  of 7.9% from the pensionable remuneration will be made from the net salary, the WFP will contribute of 15.8%

Medical Insurance: mandatory for the staff member and can be extended to dependents  in a cost-sharing

Annual leave: 2.5 days a month and Sick leave: 2 days per month

Official Holiday: 10 days as officially established for each duty station

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.