Programme Policy Officer (Data Assurance) CST 1, Addis Ababa

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CONTRACTUAL INFORMATION

JOB TITLE: Programme Policy Officer (Data Assurance) TYPE OF CONTRACT: Consultant Level 1 UNIT/DIVISION: Programme, Cash-based Transfers (CBT) DUTY STATION: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia DURATION: 11 Months

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.

BACKGROUND & PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

WFP Ethiopia, one of the largest and most complex operations for WFP globally, is implementing its five-year Country Strategic Plan (2020-2025). While the bulk of operations will continue to address the immediate short-term needs of refugees, internally displaced persons and other food-insecure and undernourished people, there will be a gradual expansion and intensification of resilience and livelihood diversification initiatives at the humanitarian–development–peace nexus. WFP will focus on the prevention of malnutrition, the building of resilience and the integration of nutrition concerns and gender equality throughout the portfolio.

WFP Ethiopia has integrated Cash-Based Transfers (CBT) programming in its humanitarian response and resilience building to offer more dignity and choice to targeted beneficiaries in the way they meet their essential needs on local markets, and to allow more flexibility in reaching food security and nutrition outcomes. CBT is implemented across four activities (relief food assistance, malnutrition prevention, refugee support and resilience building). In 2022, WFP Ethiopia transferred more than 26 million USD to 1.2 million beneficiaries. The purpose of this consultancy is to improve Beneficiary Information Management and its utilization in the ongoing as well as upcoming digital registration projects and assistance delivery implementation areas throughout the programmers’ life cycle. Specifically, registration data review, assisting in managing, verification and data quality enhancement using corporate-approved tools and systems.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Education: First Degree/ Advanced University degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Data Management, Data Analytics, Information Management, or a related discipline.

Experience:

⦁ At least three (3) years of postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience in the private or public sector demonstrating high performance; ⦁ Solid understanding of the CBT project management cycle, including experience with at least one phase: Data Analytics , analysis & assessments, design, implementation, and/or M&E.

Language: Fluency (level C) in English language.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Lead data assurance activities within the Country Office (CO) including ensuring analysis on reconciliation, and de-duplication, namely analysis and verification.
2. Conduct in-depth analysis and identifying and flagging trends in data starting from the registration phase, through distributions, and reconciliation.
3. Assist stakeholders and product owners in analyzing and validating business needs and establishing development priorities which includes reviewing all the CBT and other transfers using SCOPE or other digital systems, providing routine data updates on CBT, in-kind and CBT programming as well as the digitization efforts.
4. Coordinate with functional units within the country office such as RAM and AAP, as well as the CBT and TEC Teams in HQ and the Regional Bureaux, to ensure that CBT operations run smoothly in the field and at the CO level, analysis needs are covered, and technical inputs are provided.
5. Reporting inputs are accurate and verified using auditable digital trails, and information is available to relevant units and focal points.
6. Proactively identify challenges regarding data collection and processing to suggest solutions and establish mechanisms to improve data quality and integrity for analysis and identify cost efficiency improvements available through such analysis.
7. Coordinate the organization, cleaning, management and storage of all CBT-related program beneficiary and FSP data at WFP Ethiopia since January 2022.
8. Organize the Notes for the Record and files related to data reconciliation starting from January 2022 in the WFP Ethiopia CBT team’s file archive
9. Undertake field missions and duty travel as required.
10. Support in the identification of appropriate tools and methodologies and assist in designing SOPs to carry out operational analysis, re-engineering and change management.
11. Build up national capacities in data analysis at the CO, ensuring a sustainable set of capacities remains with the CO

12. Review data analysis and storage processes against data protection principles, to ensure that privacy principles are followed 13. Coordinate the management of digitally registered beneficiary data with the WFP Ethiopia CBT team:

• Assist in conducting in-depth analyses and identifying and flagging trends in registration, and in-kind food distribution data.
• Assist in the data cleaning of beneficiary registration and provide feedback to the Area Offices on the status of the operations.
• Supervise and/or undertake the data analysis for all relevant CBT programmes.
• Work closely with teams to ensure that software solutions meet the growing analysis needs within the WFP Ethiopia Country Office.
• Coordination with Area Offices and Sub-Offices on the registration status and the data quality.
• Sharing clean data with the SCOPE team to ensure its utilisation for the creation of a beneficiary payment list.
• Assist in extracting and developing final lists for the printing of beneficiary assistance cards.
• Support in printing, stocking, tracking, and documenting the delivery of beneficiary identity cards through the use of the payment instrument tracker (PIT) tool.
• Support the development of automated analysis pipelines with the PIT tool for household data and analysis packages created.
• Maintaining up-to-date info on beneficiary registration, issues recorded and plan progress.
• Coordinate with the Area offices, Relief and RAM teams to create a final distribution list for in-kind food distributions.
• Assist in ensuring the payment instrument tool (PIT) is functional and being applied at all food distribution points.
• Liaise with WFP area/sub-offices, and other partners as required to coordinate and resolve all issues related to beneficiary data, including data sharing, data consistency and data privacy protection guidelines etc.

14. Undertake other tasks as required.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

July 30, 2023

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