VAM Officer – RUT Coordinator_SC9_Antananarivo

A roster of qualified candidates may be established as a result of this recruitment process to fill counterpart positions at the same or lower grade throughout WFP offices in Madagascar.

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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

These roles are found in Country Office (CO), and report to the Head of RAM. Job holders operate independently and are involved in operational activities and related analytical work.

JOB PURPOSE

Under the direct supervision of the Head of RAM unite, the RUP coordinator will coordinate the  the revitalisation and institutionalization of the National Early Warning System (NEWS) based in BNGRC as part of the broad capacity strenghthening strategy provided by WFP to BNGRC

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Contribute to the development of VAM projects and activities, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider WFP policies and guidance.
2. Support the development of systems and tools for the monitoring and assessment of food assistance needs in line with innovative methodologies and best practice.
3. Support the development of food security and vulnerability analysis and the preparation of timely reports on food assessment needs in line with wider VAM policies, processes and guidance to enable effective decision-making on the development of country strategy, policies and programmes.
4. Provide assistance on the coordination of data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
5. Liaise with implementing partners (internal and external) to monitor ongoing projects, ensuring effective collaboration, timeliness and efficiency and highlight potential risks to project delivery.
6. Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to conduct vulnerability analysis to effectively inform preparedness and response activities.
7. Provide support to relevant partners that are focusing on food security and nutrition issues to enable sharing of experience, lessons learned and best practice.
8. Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
9. Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
10. Other as required.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Coordinate in the documentation and analysis of urban systems and contexts through a multi-stakeholder approach leveraging on Govt, RVAC/NVACs, UN agencies, NGOs,CSO etc.;
• Coordinate the in implementing urban Vulnerability and Essential Needs Assessments (Result 2);
• Ensure the development of programme design options to inform key stakeholders for urban crises responses ;
• Support the BNGRC revitalizing and institutionalizing the National Early Warning System  Accountabilities and ResponsibilitiesUnder the supervision of the CO Focal Point, the Consultant will fulfil the following duties and responsibilities  – Urban systems and contexts are documented and analysed through a multistakeholder approach
• Coordinate the mapping legal and political frameworks through interviews and desk-based reviews;
• Support the CO in conducting response capacity analysis through interviews with key stakeholders;
• Ensure the conducting analysis of Urban Diversity and Access;
• Support the CO in mapping urban Communication channels and Financial Services;
• Develop multi-stakeholder standardized tools, guidelines and approaches for the Essential Needs Assessment (ENA) of urban populations;• Facilitate national coordination and collaboration for standardized tools and approaches for ENA of urban populations that will feed into national NVAC exercises;  – Increased understanding of key stakeholders on Urban vulnerability and Essential Needs
• Support Country Offices in reviewing and mapping the existing assessments, sampling methods, and indicators used for urban Vulnerability Assessment;
• Undertake secondary data analysis to identify individual and household level predictors of vulnerability for the urban context;
• Undertake data analysis to create vulnerability profiles for different types of hazards (including cyclones, floods, , conflicts);
• Review existing literature and implement secondary data analysis to standardize and define a set of minimum indicators to be included in an urban Vulnerability Assessment;
• Support with the desk-review of new methods for sampling and for conducting assessment in urban contexts (e.g., phone surveys);

• Ensure the analysis of secondary data to estimate Urban Essential Needs through the adoption of a multidimensional/multisectoral approach;
• Support the estimation of the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) through the analysis of available data on consumption and prices to estimate;
• Support the analysis of secondary data, including market assessments, to elaborate a matrix for Supply Assessment which will survey Context Supply and Household Demands and presents market availability and household’s ability to meet needs;
• Support the conduction of focus groups with stakeholders and key community representatives to verify indicators and targeting criteria;
• Development of Programme design options to inform stakeholders for urban crises response
• Support with the definition of Standard Operating Procedures (transfer values, time, transfer modality) for different intervention options. These include the benefits and risks of blanket distribution and Linkages to National Programmes, etc.);
• Desk review of methodologies for geographic targeting in Urban Areas and methods to estimate transfer values;
• Desk review of urban targeting approaches and challenges: support with reviewing gaps and weaknesses of current social registries and census-type data;
• Desk review of new methods for urban targeting and needs to improve other methods: e.g. creation of disaggregated urban registries, leveraging social protection systems registries, leveraging Municipalities capacities, propose digital registries;
• Support with the development of response options with action stakeholders;
• To support the BNGRC revitalizing and institutionalizing the National Early Warning System (NEWS)
• Support the development of a referral system framework for Early Warning System nationwide, with decentralized implementation plans.
• Support and guide the BNGRC data collection, processing, compilation and analysis within the NEWS• Support the BNGRC in NEWS report’s productionCoordonner avec les institutions spécialisée (DGM, BNRGC, INSTAT..)  chargés des autres études thématiques en vue d’alimenter la base de données spatiale, et publication des bulletins ;.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of several statistical tools and methods for food security analysis.
• Developed practical expertise in food security analysis and mapping by participating in multiple assessments in countries, including the design, data collection and analysis.
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and understanding of WFP vulnerability mapping systems and emergency assessment standards.

EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

• A map of key informant at the country level;
• A questionnaire to be administered at National, Provincial and Local Level;
• Letters of engagement with Government partners and other stakeholders at regional and local level;
• Workshops for engagement and discussion;
• A map of current EPR decision tree and gaps in coordination and data gathering;
• Identified priority areas, interested entities and possible strategies to improve response capacities, access and communication channels;
• A report providing the country context analysis and cities profiles.
• Inventory of assessments, sampling practices, and indicators for urban assessments;
• Inventory of vulnerability maps and identification of poverty/informality pockets through qualitative analysis, focus group for discussions and satellites images;
• Definition of eligibility criteria cheat sheet through literature review, data-driven, expert-based suggestions;
• Vulnerability profiles (extreme vulnerable, vulnerable, better-off) for at least 2 hazards, e.g. natural, man-induced, disease-outbreak;
• Sampling approach and creation of a questionnaire cheat sheet;
• A set of vulnerability criteria and example of questionnaires;
• Inventory/repository of urban questionnaires and sampling;
• A set of standardized indicators (e.g., housing, access to public services, prices shocks, etc.) and questionnaires for urban Vulnerability Assessments;
• Definition of SOPs for urban Vulnerability Assessments;
• A Matrix for Supply Assessment based on Checklist pulled from secondary data gathering to survey Context Supply and Household Demands;
• A  comprehensive, userfriendly Assessment Report presenting the urban Vulnerability and Essential Needs Assessments in the locations of interest.
• Inventory of targeting methods for urban contexts, based on literature on old and new methods; Definition of a targeting method cheat sheet: Implications, pros and cons;
• A SOP for developing an urban targeting system ;An estimation methodology for values cheat sheet (programs / purposes) ;
• Hotspot maps indicating urban areas that should be prioritised;
• NEWS framework and decentralized implementation plans
• Feedback on NEWS structure;
• Feedback on NEWS

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Advanced University degree in Economics, Food Security, Statistics, Data Science, Public Health/Nutrition, Geography or other related field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.

Experience:

• At least 3 years of proven experience in GIS, data management and analysis, skills in SQL, statistical analysis software (SPSS, R, Python, etc.), Illustrator, MS Publisher, and report writing skills.
• Experience in quantitative analysis and data management is an added advantage.

Knowledge & skills: Strong knowledge and experience in using database and statistical software (TABLEAU POWER BI, DOT, SPSS, STATA, R script) and data visualization platforms.

Language: Fluency (level C) in English and French.

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QUALIFIED FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY 

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