Deadline: 25 February, 2021

Location: Monrovia, Liberia

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is seeking to fill the role of National Food Security and Agricultural Livelihoods Assessment Specialist.

FAO is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

Responsibilities

• Regularly liaise with the country management team and the regional assessment advisors on the progress of the monitoring exercise and the alignment with strategic, technical, and operational requirements
• Coordinate with national stakeholders (government, UN agencies, NGOs, food security cluster) involved in food security and livelihoods assessments or surveillance, and promote multi-actors’ initiatives
• Monitor the publication of studies and data produced by other stakeholders in the country
• Collect and analyse baseline and secondary data to enable comparisons and triangulation
• Define survey objectives and areas of interest based on information gaps and programmatic needs
• Assist in the choice of data collection modalities (including computer-assisted telephone interviews, and web surveys) and interfaces (international service provider, local partner, in-house call centre, etc.)
• Search for existing sampling frames and consolidate list of respondents with phone numbers
• Assist in the adaptation of generic questionnaire and monitoring tools to context-specific circumstances and objectives
• Contribute to the programming of tools
• Develop training material and participate in enumerator training sessions
• Communicate with relevant authorities on the implementation of surveys
• Conduct additional semi-structured interviews with key informants in order to dig for specific issues (as needed)
• Contribute to the analysis and interpretation of collected data and in the formulation of appropriate interventions and recommendations based on assessment findings
• Discuss and validate the results with the global assessment team, regional offices, and hubs, GIEWS and any other relevant FAO units
• Help draft and review monitoring reports and visual products, using standard templates
• Support data validation processes and communicate assessment findings and reports to other actors, including national stakeholders involved in the development of response plans in the country
• Contribute to Covid-19 response and programme design (as requested)
• Participate in IPC or Cadre Harmonise analyses
• Contribute to forward-planning and scenario-building exercises (as requested)
• Coordinate the realisation of the assessment outputs of the TCP-Emergency projects
• Contribute to FAO corporate learning processes and documentation about Covid-19 impact assessments
• Support data collection and needs assessment activities for other major crises or disasters occurring in supported countries

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in Agronomy, Rural Statistics, Agricultural Economics, a related field
• Five years, minimum, of proven knowledge and experience in assessments, surveillance systems, or monitoring and evaluation in the context of emergencies and food crises
• Experience in survey design, sampling, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation for assessment processes in agriculture and food security
• Expertise in remote data collection including phone or web-based surveys and/or remote-sensing will be a plus
• Experience in using and programming questionnaire in digital data collection tools
• Working knowledge of advanced statistics with ability to use statistical software packages (in particular SPSS, STATA and/or R)
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to an evolving and complex humanitarian context and within multidisciplinary and different cultural background teams
• Strong analytical skills and knowledge of agriculture, food security, livelihoods, food systems and value chains in the context of Liberia
• Experience or familiarity with food security and livelihoods assessments methodologies, including surveillance or monitoring systems, post-disaster needs assessments, damage and losses assessments, agricultural production assessment, market analysis, and/or value chain analysis
• Proven data visualisation and reporting skills
• Coordination skills with strong individual planning capacity
• Knowledge of humanitarian principles
• Ability to work in teams within a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment
• Working knowledge of English and Liberian language
• Nationality of Liberia
• Candidates should be nationals of Liberia

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