International Consultant, (CST II) – Deputy Team Leader and Food Systems and Climate Change Lead at World Food Programme (WFP) – Dec 2024 Full Time

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support the team leader in managing the OM team. Contribute, by bringing expertise food systems and climate change in drafting and revising (as required) and finalizing the technical note  that contains among others:

•  Detailed OM design, sampling methodology, and sample size calculations.
•  Quality Assurance Plan.
• Detailed work plan, including, timeline and activities.
• Bibliography of documents/secondary data sources utilized.
• Final data collection tools.
• Data analysis plan.

Contribute, by bringing expertise food systems and climate change developing a Power-point presentation on methodology, overall survey plan, timeline and activities and support presentation of this to WFP for discussion and inputs before field work begins. Support in   planning for OM field work, ensuring data collection tools are tested and digitalized and enumerators are adequately trained. Conduct field work as per the OM work plan. Undertake qualitative data collection for the food systems and climate change thematic area and Support in ensuring adequate supervision of quantitative data collection at field level. Do and Support data cleaning and data analysis as per the data analysis plan. Contribute to the final OM report by providing the chapter on resilience to climate change and benefit from an inclusive food system ‘including a first draft, revise as required and a final report ensuring all required annexes to the final report are included in the report. The report should be accompanied by the following.

• Summary from key informant interviews, focus group discussions, etc.
• Table of all standard and custom indicator baseline and OM values.
• List of sampled sites.

Contribute to the Preparation of a Power-point presentation of main findings and conclusions for de-briefing and dissemination purposes. Attend a debriefing session with stakeholders and support in presentation of the OM findings.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Technical note with a clear methodology and timelines to execute the TOR.
• Final OM report.
• Summary of key informant interviews, focus group discussions including quotes from KII’s and FGDs, etc.
• Table of all standard and custom indicators with final values.
• List of sampled sites.
• All data including final analysis.

Education:

• At least a master’s social sciences or education, statistics, measurements, nutrition.

Experience:

• Senior researcher with at least 15 years’ experience in evaluations. Demonstrated expertise in managing multidisciplinary and mixed quantitative and qualitative method studies, complemented with good understanding humanitarian and development programming, food systems and climate change, agricultural economics, markets,  capacity strengthening, nutrition, transition etc.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Expertise in designing OM methodology and data collection tools and demonstrated experience in similar work.  Leadership and communication skills, including a track record of excellent writing and presentation skills.

Languages:

• English