Overview
The VAM Officer will lead and manage the generation of evidence for food security and nutrition analysis and programmes, and lead complex food security, nutrition, markets, and resilience analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and/or manage the generation of the VAM evidence base that supports food security and nutrition analysis and programmes.
- Lead/conduct complex food security, nutrition, markets, and resilience analysis and prepare timely reports.
- Lead the implementation of data driven targeting in all humanitarian life-saving food assistance programmes.
- Provide technical GIS mapping support for event-based food security surveillance and monitoring.
- Lead digitization, maintain and update CO Geo-database and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).
- Coordinate with partners for food security data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
- Advise on food assistance developments and issues and their potential impact upon WFP activities.
- Provide expert advice and support to WFP Area Office and its partners on food security and nutrition strategies, policies, programmes.
- Work with Identity Management, AAP, Protection, Gender and Monitoring and Evaluation functions.
- Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners, and national and local government.
- Provide support to relevant partners focusing on food security and nutrition issues.
- Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required.
- Coordinate with the monitoring and evaluation activities in the Area office.
- Manage market price database at the area office level.
- Collaborate with the CO VAM team and provide inputs to closely monitor the cost of essential needs and the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB).
- Participate and contribute to the field level food security cluster, referral management systems, area based coordination and cash working group, food security working group and Operational Information Management (OIM).
- Supervise the VAM associates, data collection staff and the field monitoring assistants.
Required Experience
At least one (1) year of relevant experience with advanced degree Or First degree with a minimum of three (3) or more years of experience in development, project management, food or non-food assistance management. Professional experience in monitoring, evaluation, capacity –building and reporting of development/humanitarian projects would be and added advantage.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in economics, nutrition/ health, Social Sciences, statistics, agricultural economics, business administration or international development, OR First university degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/ courses.
