VAM Officer NOB
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.
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.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
This
role is at Dar es Salaam Country Offices (COs), and the VAM Officer
will report to the Head of VAM/M&E. The VAM Officer is expected to
operate with high degree of independence and be involved in more
straight forward VAM activities and programmes.
JOB PURPOSE
To
generate and/or 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).
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
1.
Provide technical advice and support WFP and its partners on matters
pertaining to food security and nutrition strategies, policies,
programmes, and facilitate the timely and productive use of related
outputs in a manner that complies with WFP standards and processes.
2.
Contribute to the development of systems and tools for the monitoring
and assessment of food assistance needs in line with innovative
methodologies and best practice.
3. Manage and/or conduct food
security, nutrition, markets and resilience analysis and prepare 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. Keep
up to date with and advise on food assistance developments and issues
and the potential impact upon WFP activity to enable timely and
appropriate programme evolution and intervention.
5. Contribute to
the development of programme activities, providing technical analysis,
interpretation and recommendations to facilitate food assistance needs
to be met effectively.
6. Provide coaching and guidance to VAM staff as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.
7.
Support the monitoring and evaluation of WFP activities, providing
technical analysis, interpretation and information as required to
support the assessment of activity impact.
8. Represent WFP during
meetings with partners to contribute to technical discussions, exchange
of knowledge and experience, and seek for appropriate interventions
(based on an evidence base), and areas for potential collaboration.
9.
Build capacity of WFP staff, partners and national government to
conduct analysis on food security, nutrition, markets, resilience, and
related topics to effectively inform policies and programmes.
10.
Provide support to relevant partners that are focusing on food security
and nutrition to enable sharing of experience, lessons learned and best
practice.
11. Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
12. Other as required.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
Understand
and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Utilizes understanding of
WFP’s Strategic Objectives to communicate linkages to team objectives
and work.
Be a force for positive change: Proactively identifies
and develops new methods or improvements for self and immediate team to
address work challenges within own work area.
Make the mission
inspiring to our team: Identifies opportunities to further align
individual contributions with WFP’s mission of making an impact on local
communities.
Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Helps
colleagues to see the link between their individual tasks and the
contributions of their unit’s goals to the broader context of WFP’s
mission.
People
Look for ways to strengthen people’s
skills: Is able to identify, support and encourage focused on-the-job
learning opportunities to address gaps between current skillsets and
needed future skillsets for WFP.
Create an inclusive culture:
Recognizes the contributions of teammates, and encourages contributions
from culturally different team mates to recognise the value of diversity
above and beyond just including it in programming for beneficiaries.
Be
a coach & provide constructive feedback: Provides and solicits
ongoing constructive feedback on strengths and development opportunities
to help develop individual skills, whilst also helping others identify
areas for improvement.
Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Sets
clear targets for self and others to focus team efforts in ambiguous
situations (e.g., unprecedented issues and/or scenarios).
Performance
Encourage
innovation & creative solutions: Thinks beyond team’s conventional
approaches to formulate creative methods for delivering food aid and
assistance to beneficiaries.
Focus on getting results: Maintains
focus on achieving individual results in the face of obstacles such as
volatile or fragile environments and/or organizational roadblocks.
Make
commitments and make good on commitments: Takes personal accountability
for upholding and delivering upon team’s commitments and provides
assurance to stakeholders.
Be Decisive: Demonstrates ability to
adjust to team’s plans and priorities to optimize outcomes in light of
evolving directives, while also responding quickly in high-pressure
environments, such as in emergency settings.
Partnership
Connect
and share across WFP units: Demonstrates an understanding of when and
how to tactfully engage other units in conversations on impact, timing,
or planning.
Build strong external partnerships: Networks
regularly with key external partners using formal and informal
opportunities to understand each partner’s unique value proposition, and
to build and strengthen relationships.
Be politically agile
& adaptable: Demonstrates ability to adapt engagement approach in
the context of evolving partner circumstances and expectations.
Be
clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Demonstrates ability
to articulate to internal and external audiences the value that
individual contributions and immediate teams bring to partnerships.
FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES
Capability Name Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Food Security Analysis
Applies advanced analytical knowledge to lead the management, design
and implementation of food security and vulnerability analysis
activities. Ensures that analysis remains the backbone of programmatic
interventions through its lifecycle, ultimately contributing towards
making communities food secure and resilient.
Food Security Monitoring Leads
management, design and implementation of food security monitoring
systems. Ensures that such analysis is timely and responsive to
programmatic needs and adjustments.
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.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
- Gained
valuable experience in collecting geospatial and socioeconomic food
security data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and
reporting findings to senior leaders. - Has led surveys, multiple assessments in countries, including the design, data collection and analysis.
- Has participated in design and implementation of WFP programmes focusing in food security.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This position is for Tanzanian nationals only.
All Applications should be submitted through the e-recruitment portal.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
The deadline for receiving applications is 07 December 2021.
Female applicants, individuals with disability and qualified applicants 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.
