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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