Deadline: 28 May, 2021
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking to fill the role of Programme Assistant.
WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the focal person for maintaining market and price monitoring data from markets across the region
- Support country offices in cleaning, updating and storing market price data
- Support in the drafting of quarterly regional market and food price updates
- Support in the implementation of various studies implemented by the research, assessment and monitoring unit including the economic impact studies
- Support mVAM activities, assist in conducting food security analysis and monitoring including baseline/midline/endline studies
- Support in updating, maintaining and visualising the food security situation in the region, including registering and maintaining historic IPC data, gathering information and writing drafts for quarterly food security bulletins, visualising through Tableau dashboards, etc
- Collaborate with the knowledge management unit, maintaining a more systematic share point under teams for organising RAM data and documents
- Support in organising meetings, training and workshops and preparing summaries
- Perform other duties of the research, assessment and monitoring unit
Requirements
- Degree in Economics, Statistics, GIS and Remote Sensing, Food Security, Data Science, Geography, or a related field
- Three years, minimum, of work experience in food security analysis and social research design
- Experience in SPSS, ArcGIS and Tableau
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Fluency in oral and written English and French
To apply and for more information, click here.
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