Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Officer SC 9

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

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

This position is within WFP Caribbean, established to implement a multi-country technical assistance and capacity-strengthening programme in the Caribbean region (covering 22 countries and territories), supporting emergency preparedness and response (EPR) functions. The jobholder will have a Vulnerability, Analysis and Mapping Officer profile with relevant experience in food security and/or livelihoods analysis, needs assessment, targeting, EPR, food security and livelihoods interventions (cash, in-kind), social protection and safety nets, and/or disaster risk management.

JOB PURPOSE

WFP Caribbean is supporting the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and national governments in minimising the impact of shocks on vulnerable populations by strengthening regional and national capacities for a more effective, cost-efficient and predictable response to emergencies.

WFP is applying its global mandate and expertise in food security, logistics and emergency telecommunications to a programme of cross-functional activities designed to address identified gaps in response capacity, improve regional and national preparedness and strengthen systems to deliver rapid and appropriate assistance to shock affected populations. These include technical assistance in disaster risk and vulnerability analysis, integrated supply chain management, shock-responsive social protection, climate change adaptation and risk financing. WFP Caribbean is also working with governments, bi-lateral organisations, UN agencies and other stakeholders to coordinate efforts and design responses to mitigate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on affected populations.

It is in this contect that the Vulnerabilty Anaysis and Mapping Officer will contribute to the VAM evidence base that supports food security and nutrition policies and programmes (e.g. needs assessment and situation analyses, programme design, targeting, cost effectiveness, and operational efficiency).

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: Minimum of 3 years postgraduate, progressively responsible, job-related experience in development assistance projects, public sector management.

Language: International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language, Portuguese.

National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.

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.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s 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 WFP’s mission.
• Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s 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 “I will”/”We will” 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 teams’ 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 WFP’s 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 analysis—Identify 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.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Experience in government partnership implementation and in technical assistance areas will be considered as a strong asset.
• General knowledge of UN system policies, rules, regulations and procedures governing administration.
• Experience in responding to emergencies is an added advantage as is prior experience working for WFP.
• Knowledge and experience in the Caribbean is also an added advantage.
• Ability to interpret and analyse a wide variety of needs, partners’ requirements etc.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective working relations with internal and external counterparts, partners and stakeholders with persons of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to participate and promote open dialogue with the team, valuing the diverse opinion of others to achieve common goals.
• Result oriented attitude.
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgment, excellent communication skills both orally and in writing;
• Self-starter and able to work with minimum supervision;
• Good analytical skills and experience in report writing;
• Sound negotiation skills and ability to accept responsibility;
• Experience in the use of computer software (particularly MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and GIS) and understanding of data collection and analysis methods;
• Supervisory skills required.

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.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• Please note that applications received after the deadline will not be considered and only short-listed qualified candidates will receive an acknowledgement.
• Only open to citizens of Barbados or CARICOM Member States: Antigua & Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Haiti, Montserrat, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent $ the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago.
• The selected candidate will be employed on a Service Contract (SC 9) that does not carry and expectancy of renewal.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

15 April 2021

Please note that we review applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your applications as soon as possible.

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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.