The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to end global hunger. 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 shattered lives. Present in nearly 80 countries, the organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to nutritious food and contribute to the lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas. We manage an operating budget of approximately $5.9 billion each year, distributing 12.6 billion rations to those most in need. We reach an average of 80 million people with food assistance in around 80 countries each year.

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Programme Associate is an integral part of the VAM & M&E team. The primary mandate of VAM is to identify food insecure populations and their needs, provide early warning and generate information/knowledge to guide in formulating durable and better targeted food security and livelihood solutions at the country level. The Associate will be responsible for collating and organizing datasets; producing high quality maps and infographics used for country food and nutrition analysis and understanding the socio-economic context and design of activities to accelerate Zero Hunger programmes for Madagascar.

DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES

Conduct in-depth analysis of data derived from remotely sensed images and mobile-based food and nutrition security monitoring systems and prepare relevant visualization.
Assemble and maintain appropriate country food and nutrition security indicators used internationally from different country and global data services.
Provide assistance in ensuring that rigorous quality data standards are maintained by the CO to facilitate data integration and sharing of various programme datasets.
Maintain and manage the Geographic Information System (GIS) datasets for the Madagascar VAM Spatial Data Infrastructure.
Produce high quality mapping products and infographics to support the CO functions and decision-making including donor briefings and regular reporting requirements.
Manage and maintain the plotting equipment and produce information products to facilitate planning at the Country Office and field offices.
Act as the VAM focal point for the roll out of drone mapping in the country.
Provide technical support, including capacity building to Field Offices as required.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education

Experience Knowledge & Skills

Relevant qualification in GIS, Statistics, Data Science, Geography, Economics and Food security related social sciences. Completion of specialised training in quantitative analysis and data management is an added advantage.
- 3- 5 years’ proven experience in data analysis management, skills in SQL, GIS Mapping software (ArcGIS, QGIS), Statistical analysis package (SPSS, R, Python etc), desktop publishing software such as Illustrator, Ms Publisher and report writing skills.
Languages:

Fluency (level C) in English language.

HOW TO APPLY : To access details of the position and APPLY , please follow the below links:

For Internal candidates : http://newgo.wfp.org/services/e-recruitment

For External candidates : http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings

FEMALE CANDIDATE ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY ...

Deadline : 6 june 2021

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Added 2 years ago - Updated 2 years ago - Source: wfp.org