Information Management Associate for Food Cluster

Open for local candidates

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ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Background- WFP Palestine Country Office

Over the past five years, socioeconomic conditions in the State of Palestine have deteriorated and a protracted protection and humanitarian crisis has undermined the food security of millions of Palestinians. 1.8 million people are food insecure across Palestine and the aid dependency ratio is increasing. Rising inflation, linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and now also spurred by the Global Food Crisis, has contributed to reductions in the purchasing power of Palestinians and increased food insecurity. For Palestinians engaged in agriculture and herding, climate-related obstacles, including droughts and rising temperatures, increasingly impede productivity.

Building on the strengths of its 2018-2022 country strategic plan, WFP Palestine’s new plan for 2023–2028 will address the needs of Palestinian communities through a humanitarian‑development–peace nexus approach, responding to immediate humanitarian needs and simultaneously addressing longstanding socioeconomic vulnerability.

While food assistance, through cash-based transfers and in-kind food to meet essential needs, remains WFP’s largest activity, this will be complemented by livelihood and resilience building interventions to address issues of poverty and poor labour-force participation, which have been identified as one of the key drivers of poor access to food, and to strengthen resistance to shocks. Nutrition integration will be integrated throughout the programme, to address immediate and underlying causes of micronutrient deficiencies.

WFP Palestine has demonstrated longstanding commitment and contribution to the strengthening of capacity at the national level, through strategic partnerships with various government line ministries, to enhance the consideration of food security, shock-responsiveness and nutrition-sensitivity in national systems, programmes, policies and plans. WFP is engaged in joint programming and implementation with other United Nations agencies. Under the new CSP, WFP is expanding its enabling services – in the form of a CBT platform, CFM, logs sector – to continue supporting the wider humanitarian community to achieve collective outcomes and continue supporting the people we serve.

JOB PURPOSE

The Information Management Associate (IMA) is one of the core staff in the Food Cluster (FC) Coordination team and plays a vital role in collecting, analysing, and sharing information that is important for the cluster stakeholders to make informed, evidence based and strategic decisions on:

1. Food security needs and geographic areas of affected populations
2. Location and activity of Food Security actors
3. Key gaps in activity/program coverage and response overlaps
4. Existing capacity (human, material, financial) to be utilised in support of the identified response needs
5. Monitoring of the response against the HRP and other set indicators

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Support the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) preparation: provide data on food security indicators (based on Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF)); together with Food C luster Coordinator, and along with Information management working group (IMWG) and UN
  Data Working Group , analyse the severity of needs and define people in need (PiN)
• Support the development, together with the Food Cluster Coordinator and in consultation with sector partners, of the coordination of food cluster response plans, strategy, and log frame (e.g., HRP).
• Support food cluster in creating and monitoring HPC online system for project submissions and reporting.
• Proactively gather information from partners and other organizations which may be of use in ensuring informed decision-making processes.
• Develop and maintain database about Food Cluster partners’ activities, analyse and process the data, and share final information and products (dashboards, maps, etc.) with partners. Ensure that data is collected and presented in a way consistent with the FSC objectives
• Ensure financial monitoring for cluster response activities (check OCHA FTS);

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• Conduct secondary data review, compile an inventory of available assessments, and provide food cluster partners with a list of available information/data with respective sources on a regular basis (e.g., common Cluster / Sector data sets, including population data disaggregated by age and sex, assessments, and other surveys.
• Create and maintain contact directories and mailing lists;
• Maintain updated gFSC country and the FSC Humanitarian Response webpages with all relevant material;
• Conduct capacity building for food cluster partners on IM (e.g., on monitoring / reporting formats, project submission, excel use).
• Contribute to the development of reports (Sitreps, Bulletins, newsletters) by providing the food cluster coordinator with data and information.
• Assist in organizing food cluster meetings and working groups (if applicable).
• Together with the Food Cluster Coordinator, support gFSC initiatives, e.g., CCPM (Cluster Coordination Performance Monitoring), global cluster annual overview, global dashboards, etc.
• Liaise with OCHA and IM Focal Points in other clusters, and attend IM Working Group meetings or other relevant WG meetings – share information as appropriate;

DELIVERABLES

The IMA has dual reporting lines to the WFP head of Communication and to the Food Cluster Coordinator (FCC) and responds to the FC Membership’s needs for information. The FSC IMA is responsible for the day-to-day management of the FSC IM Tool, under the technical guidance and support of the IM team at the Global Food Security Cluster.

The IMA will liaise and communicate with a wide range of stakeholders and acts as a ‘bridge’ between food security decision makers and technical information management (IM) staff.

Fundamental to the job is the ability to design (and/or adapt) the right tools to collect and analyse data as well as to present information in a way that is easily understood by the food cluster members, and external audience (i.e., graphic means such a mapping but also through tables, charts, and narrative writing).

Deliverables/outputs

• • Mandatory IM products on a regular basis: 4Ws database, Partners Presence Map, Gap Analysis (PiN vs reached), Funding Analysis, Activity Analysis.
  • Contact directory and mailing list.
  • Food security sector thematic papers
  • Assessment’s repository.
  • Food Cluster meeting presentations and minutes.
  • Food Cluster country webpage.
  • IM annual workplan.
  • Handover report with shared folder with documents at the end of the assignment;

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: University Degree-level qualification or equivalent – preferably in Statistics, Economics, Data Management, GIS and other related fields.

Experience: Minimum of 3 years of experience in data management and visualisation;

Languages: Fluency (level C) in English language (read and write) and Arabic (duty station’s language);

Others: Formal training in Cluster IMO or previous Cluster experience is desirable.

Knowledge & Skills

Core Competencies

• • Results Focus
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Building/maintaining Effective Relationships
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Cultural and Gender awareness and sensitivity;

Essential Technical Skills:

• • Strong knowledge of and experience in using advanced Excel
  • Knowledge of data visualization and mapping: ability to collect and organize data for map production, map production (using ArcGIS, QGIS, or any other mapping tools)
  • Ability to present information in understandable tables, charts and graphs.
  • Ability to maintain and manage website content for the cluster.
  • Data storage and file management expertise. Other Skills that are considered desirable:
  • Data analysis using statistical software
  • Assessment, Survey, and Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Information Technology
  • Control of working language in country of deployment

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Utilizes understanding of WFP’s Strategic Objectives to communicate linkages to team objectives and work.
• Be a force for positive change: Proactively identifies and develops new methods or improvements for self and immediate team to address work challenges within own work area.
• Make the mission inspiring to our team: Identifies opportunities to further align individual contributions with WFP’s mission of making an impact on local communities.
• Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Helps colleagues to see the link between their individual tasks and the contributions of their unit’s goals to the broader context of WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Is able to identify, support and encourage focused on-the-job learning opportunities to address gaps between current skillsets and needed future skillsets for WFP.
• Create an inclusive culture: Recognizes the contributions of teammates, and encourages contributions from culturally different team mates to recognise the value of diversity above and beyond just including it in programming for beneficiaries.
• Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Provides and solicits ongoing constructive feedback on strengths and development opportunities to help develop individual skills, whilst also helping others identify areas for improvement.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Sets clear targets for self and others to focus team efforts in ambiguous situations (e.g., unprecedented issues and/or scenarios).

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Thinks beyond team’s conventional approaches to formulate creative methods for delivering food aid and assistance to beneficiaries.
• Focus on getting results: Maintains focus on achieving individual results in the face of obstacles such as volatile or fragile environments and/or organizational roadblocks.
• Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes personal accountability for upholding and delivering upon team’s commitments and provides assurance to stakeholders.
• Be Decisive: Demonstrates ability to adjust to team’s plans and priorities to optimize outcomes in light of evolving directives, while also responding quickly in high-pressure environments, such as in emergency settings.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Demonstrates an understanding of when and how to tactfully engage other units in conversations on impact, timing, or planning.
• Build strong external partnerships: Networks regularly with key external partners using formal and informal opportunities to understand each partner’s unique value proposition, and to build and strengthen relationships.
• Be politically agile & adaptable: Demonstrates ability to adapt engagement approach in the context of evolving partner circumstances and expectations.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Demonstrates ability to articulate to internal and external audiences the value that individual contributions and immediate teams bring to partnerships.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

This vacancy is open for local candidates.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

By CoB of 22nd May 2023

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