Deadline: 10 February, 2023
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking to fill the role of Programme Policy Officer.
WFP’s aim is to deliver food assistance in emergencies and work with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.
Responsibilities
- Supervise data management team
- Review minimum data quality and data consistency requirements by activity and standardise data collection and quality assurance approaches
- Review the monitoring data value chain with a view to making it more efficient, effective and available through targeted and innovative enhancements/automation
- Explore practical options to streamline partner reporting in line with corporately available tools and in consultation with field offices
- Review and update current partnerships data management SOPs
- Oversee the country office data
- Lead the quarterly/monthly beneficiary and transfer value number aggregation by proposing the methodology, data collection methods and presentation of the operational update snapshot
- Liaise with field staff in area offices and technical units to ensure consistency of information and compliance with established rules and procedures of data compilation and analysis/ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained
- Consolidate monthly and quarterly internal and external reports
- Produce reports on commodity tracking by donor grant number
Requirements
- University degree in Computer Science, Economics, Agriculture, Food Security, Management, or International Development
- Advanced university degree and/or certifications in various programming languages, and networking platforms (desirable)
- One year, minimum, of postgraduate professional experience in data modelling, data warehousing, data integration, data mining and data quality
- Experience with development work
- Programme management experience
- Experience in data management with WFP will be an added advantage
To apply and for more information, click here.
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