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ABOUT WFP
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the worldโs 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. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the worldโs most remote and fragile areas.
Brief description of WFP in Uganda
WFP delivers food assistance in emergencies and work with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. WFP provides life-saving food assistance and livelihood opportunities to refugees in Uganda. In addition, WFP assists the most vulnerable people in Karamoja with food and nutrition assistance. Finally, WFP works with smallholder farmers and links them to markets.
As Uganda strives to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and become a middle-income country by 2040, WFP is also assessing its relevance and repositioning its role in Uganda.
ARE YOU UP TO THE CHALLENGE?
We are seeking a qualified individual for the position of Vulnerability Analysis & Mapping Officer (Climate change Anticipatory Action, Resilience, Early Warning, RAM Ecosystem, Geo-spatial Analysis) to be based in Kampala. The selected candidate will be employed on a Consultancy contract
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The role of this position will seat in the Head Office in Kampala, and the incumbent will report to the Head of RAM. The job holder will operate independently and be involved in operational activities and related analytical work.
JOB PURPOSE
To support this work, WFP Uganda is recruiting for a climate analyst. The analyst is a cornerstone in the cross-functional nature of climate change, anticipatory action, resilience, early warning, and Geospatial, enhancing RAM analytics and systems capacities while driving the development and deployment of innovative tools and approaches to needs assessments, targeting, programming, and monitoring, including the urban space.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
1. Develop protocols and procedures to ensure Two-way Accountability (from implementers to beneficiaries) and Transparency of Food Security and Nutrition Assessments and Analysis
โข Lead the development of a framework of assessment for climate change, anticipatory action, early warning, and geospatial analysis to provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results (as set out in the Country Strategic Plan (CSP), the government of Uganda, and other global and regional plans), while being compliant with WFP corporate requirements.
โข Budget for VAM-Climate-related costs and advocate for appropriate financial and human resourcing.
โข Provide inputs to formulate regional climate change, anticipatory action, resilience, early warning, and geospatial strategies and support their operationalization.
โข Develop Standard Operating Procedures, protocols, and guidelines for assessments, targeting, programme implementation on climate change, anticipatory action, early warning, and geospatial analysis.
โข Provide coaching and guidance to colleagues to ensure their development and enable them to perform at their best.
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2. Ensure that the high standards of quality, reliability, and validity of the data and analysis align with WFP's privacy and protection guidelines.
โข Contribute to designing and implementing systems, tools, protocols, and data visualisation products (static and dynamic) for assessments and monitoring strategies, including solutions to better align with national plans, strategies and investments.
โข Support the daily data management activities to facilitate the creation of GIS products, including a working library of spatial data and metadata in the WFP Spatial Data Library.
โข In coordination with the Area, Field, and Country Offices, identify, develop, and nurture operational partnerships to identify opportunities for collaborative approaches/initiatives that improve assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
โข Contribute to products, including forecast-based Financing, Disaster Risk Financing, Anticipatory Action, Humanitarian Assistance, Cash as an Early Action, Early Actions and Funding mechanisms, Disaster Risk Reduction, and resilience-related analysis.
โข Incorporate accountability to the affected population, protection, disabilities, and a gender perspective in areas of work to ensure equal participation of women and men.
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3. Support Data-driven evidence-based decision-making process on time according to programmatic and strategic needs. (data preparedness)
โข Contribute to developing and implementing national government and Inter-Agency climate and resilience frameworks, mainly focused on geospatial analysis.
โข Facilitate the timely and productive use of information in accordance with WFP processes and standards and prepare updates on risks, assumptions, and any factors that can influence the implementation of climate, anticipatory actions, resilience, early warning, and geo-spatial analysis.
โข Produce regular assessment and monitoring reports, including running data analysis, with the status of results and implementation progress.
โข Support the development of training and seminars to enhance the capacity of WFP staff in Climate change, resilience, early warning, anticipatory action, and geospatial analysis.
โข Contribute and support evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, notably through making assessments and monitoring findings accessible and developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFPโs Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives. Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners). Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFPโs mission. Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFPโs overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.People
Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs. Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment. Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills. Create an โI willโ/โWe willโ spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.Performance
Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work. Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors. Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities. Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.Partnership
Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teamsโ priorities and preferred working styles. Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners. Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders. Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFPโs unique value as a partner.FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES Capability Name Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level Food Security Analysis Demonstrates ability to conduct structured food security analysisโIdentify underlying macro and micro factors impacting food security of communities and countries. Provides findings and recommendations for the programmatic response. Food Security Monitoring Manages the implementation of food security monitoring systems. Investigates any observed anomalies in the datasets and informs program management for operational response. Technical Specialized Knowledge (e.g., Economics, Statistics, Public Health, Remote Sensing, GIS, etc.) Provides managerial and technical guidance for designing and conducting analyses, including computation, interpretation, and presentation of results for food security surveys and key indicators (comprehensive food security and vulnerability surveys, food security monitoring, implementing mobile surveys, market analysis, food consumption scores, coping strategies indices. data disaggregation, etc.) Food Security Assessment Leads all aspects of surveys including design, implementation, analysis, findings and reporting. Ensures that assessment findings are easily translated into operational programmatic response. Strategic Operational Understanding Demonstrates strong understanding of country operations to participate in response analysis exercises to improve the cohesion between analytical findings and programmatic response. Constructs evidence base underlying technical and policy advice given to stakeholders.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Advanced University degree in one of the following fields: agriculture, geo-spatial analysis, social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or other related fields, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.
Experience:
- Minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience including in international development or humanitarian work.
- Minimum of three years of experience in assessment and monitoring of climate change, anticipatory action, resilience, early warning, including strong experience using a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools and methods
- Minimum Three years of experience with ESRI platform or products, or any tool to develop geo-spatial analysis.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
Knowledge & Skills:
- Demonstrated proficiency in the use of geo-spatial analysis, statistical tools and methods for quantitative and/or qualitative food security analysis, and the use of data management software, and information management tools.
- Experience on forecasts, climate financing and early warning systems
- Experience in Government systems strengthening.
- Coordination and implementation of assessments (climate and resilience)
- Proficient reporting writing skills.
- Advanced working knowledge and experience in ESRI (GIS), MS Office, Stata, SPSS, phyton
- knowledge of R and software for qualitative analysis is desirable.
Languages:
- Fluency in oral and written English, including strong writing skills
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Monday 29th April 2024
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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.