Country Capacity Strengthening Data Analysis and Visualization Consultant

Programme & Policy

Overview

Develop data analysis plans and visualise CCS-related findings

You have:

• Advanced University degree in social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or related fields
• 6 or more years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated data-literacy and analytical skills
• Strong writing, presentation and data visualisation skills
• Excellent organisational skills ideally demonstrated in a WFP or other international context
• Direct experience of different programme approaches and institutional capacity strengthening
• Fluency (level C) in English language

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status, physical or mental disability.

Job Title: Country Capacity Strengthening Data Analysis and Visualisation Consultant

Type of Contract: REG CST (CST-II)

Division: Technical Assistance and Country Capacity Strengthening Service- PROT

Duty Station (City, Country): Rome (remote working possible)

Duration: 6 months with a possibly for extension upon successful performance and funding availability

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

WFP is already deeply engaged in strengthening country capacities, providing extensive support to national stakeholders to enhance local capacities and systems. Over the 2019-2021 period, external capacity strengthening by WFP reached USD 912 million in expenditures, amounting to approximately 4 percent of total WFP transfer values. Though these numbers bear additional unpacking, they reflect strong WFP-wide engagement in capacity strengthening. Notably, capacity strengthening represents more than 50 percent of WFP transfer expenditures in 12 country-level operations, and between 25 to 50 percent in an additional 12. As of 2021, 86 percent of Country Strategic Plans (CSPs) referred to outcome-level country capacity strengthening (CCS) in their logframes.

WFP’s product offer has evolved in response to changing country needs, with WFP providing support in new areas (social protection, home-grown school feeding and food systems). As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, demand from partners and governments has increased for WFP to both provide direct support to crisis response and also strengthen governments’ longer-term ability to respond. For instance, WFP has supported governments in at least 65 countries in introducing new measures or scaling up/adapting their existing social protection schemes to mitigate the pandemic’s impact.

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 on ending hunger (SDG 2) requires WFP to extend its reach beyond 115 million direct beneficiaries to the 800 million people globally who are food and nutrition insecure. WFP’s enhanced focus on systems strengthening is based on the recognition that national systems are the primary vehicle for achieving SDG 2. Working through and with governments and stakeholders across the whole of society presents WFP with tremendous opportunities for scale, impact and sustainability of results. It is for these reasons that the new corporate Strategic Plan is focusing attention on WFP’s enabling role.

Corporate and decentralized evaluations of CCS have identified areas for improvement in measuring results and generating evidence of WFP contributions to national capacity strengthening. Enhanced evidence-generation for WFP’s enabling role is an ongoing, gradual process across headquarters, regional bureaux and the field to continue optimizing resources, responsibilities and abilities for CCS monitoring and evaluation.

Recognizing the need to be able to both learn internally from successful CCS work while also demonstrate externally the organization’s achievements, WFP will invest in evidence-generation to inform the design and implementation of its CCS activities. Building on the conceptual foundation of a recently approved CCS policy update and a new corporate results framework, WFP will consolidate its monitoring and evaluation approach for CCS which will be informed by industry best practices. WFP will also further leverage existing datasets and generate additional evidence through studies and research.

To deliver in line with the above, the HQ CCS unit is seeking a Country Capacity Strengthening Data Analysis and Visualisation Consultant, reporting to the Lead of the Monitoring and Evidence-Generation Pillar within the unit, to develop data analysis plans, carry out quantitative and qualitative analyses, visualise and present CCS-related analyses and findings and advise on CCS data needs.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage and conduct CCS data analyses and prepare timely reports on CCS activities, expenditures and results in line with WFP’s CCS policies, processes and guidance for corporate advocacy and strategic positioning and to enable effective decision-making on prioritisation of HQ CCS unit engagements.
• Clean and combine corporate datasets related to CCS and develop dedicated databases as needed to enable more in-depth and robust analyses.
• Lead the visualisation of CCS data for effective communication of analysis results to different audiences.
• Contribute to the development of systems and tools for the monitoring and assessment of CCS activities in line with innovative methodologies and best practice.
• Carry out additional data analysis projects
• Contribute to the identification and articulation of improvements needed in WFP’s corporate management information systems to better integrate CCS-related activities and results
• Any other duties as required.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Analysis plans for the 2022 and 2023 Annual Performance Reports
• Data analysis of CCS-related results for the 2022 Annual Performance Reports and effective visualisation of corporate CCS results for 2022
• Analysis of institutional CS-related expenditures in specific thematic areas, combining expenditure and results data to contribute to an understanding of resources to results
• Various ad hoc analyses contributing to CCS evidence-generation projects
• Contribution to definition of WFP information system requirements for CCS-related activities and results

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Advanced University degree in one of the following fields: 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:

6 or more years of relevant experience. The candidate should be able to demonstrate strong competence in the following areas:

• Demonstrated data-literacy and analytical skills, and ability to link analysis to programme design.
• Strong writing, presentation and data visualisation skills.
• Excellent organisational skills ideally demonstrated in a WFP or other international context.
• Direct experience of different programme approaches and institutional capacity strengthening helpful

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Data collection, data management and analytical writing skills, including ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information to understand national capacities across a wide range of policy and programme areas and identify gap and needs, as well as WFP’s entry points.
• Solid knowledge of WFP’s mandate, Country Strategic Planning process, intervention modalities, programme and project lifecycle tools, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation desirable.
• Strong interpersonal skills demonstrated by the ability to gain the assistance and cooperation of others in a team endeavour through demonstrated technical leadership.
• Strong communication and conceptual skills.
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality written outputs and ability to present in English.
• Proficient computer literacy; ability to use qualitative and quantitative data analysis and visualisation software and to develop and manage databases.

LANGUAGE:

Fluency (level C) in English language

Terms and Conditions

WFP offers a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the contract type and selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Please visit the following websites for detailed information on working with WFP.

http://www.wfp.org Click on: “Our work” and “Countries” to learn more about WFP’s operations.

Deadline for applications: 11.11.2022

Ref.: VA No. 177781

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