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• Lead and/or participate in food security
  and vulnerability analysis as well as other joint assessments;
• Strengthen the operational capacity of WFP
  staff to conduct food security and nutrition assessments and analyses at
  the Country, Area and Sub-Office levels;
• Collect, analyse and interpret primary
  food security data to support emergency preparedness i.e. risk analysis,
  early warning and  contingency
  planning, including in preparedness activities, organize and  conduct emergency needs assessments and
  support operational planning;
• Generate useful information products which
  describe food insecurity and vulnerability in Uganda and which will inform
  decision making by WFP’s programme units, as well as other country
  stakeholders including civil society organizations, bilateral donors and
  UN agencies;
• Promote partnerships with government and
  civil society that build upon and strengthen existing capacities for
  vulnerability analysis;
• Supervise team members and ensure all are
  adequately trained to achieve high working standards.

• Provide advice, guidance and technical
  support to the Country Office and to Sub-Offices with respect to
  Monitoring and Evaluation;
• Provide oversight of the M&E
  activities conducted by WFP staff and Cooperating
• Partners, ensuring respect for corporate
  rules and best practices;
• Design and lead specific interventions to
  strengthen outcome measurement in  line with the business rules described in
  the 2014-2017 Strategic Results Framework and the WFP’s 2014-2017 Outcome
  Measurement Strategy;
• Lead M&E capacity building efforts;
• Provide quality assurance for monitoring
  and performance reporting;
• Help plan and support implementation of
  decentralized and field-level evaluations;
• Ensure monitoring and evaluation findings
  inform senior management decisions, and are systematically fed back into
  project design;
• Perform any other duties as required.

• The applicant should possess a Post
  graduate/Master’s degree in Sociology, Economics/Agricultural Economics,
  Statistics, Geography, Nutrition, Rural Development or other related
  fields.
• A 
  minimum of  eight years (of
  which 3 international) of 
  postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience in
  food security, vulnerability analysis or a closely related area, such as
  food security information management systems;
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation
  with a background and interest in the analysis of socioeconomic issues and
  related policy matters;
• Experience in early warning and remote
  sensing and familiarity with the specialty software applications
  associated with them;
• Experience in the design and
  implementation of food aid programmes;
• Some experience in remote sensing
  interpretation and analysis, NDVI, CCD are desirable
• Strong knowledge and understanding  of food security analysis and the  data collection, treatment, and
  manipulation techniques typically associated with it;
• Working knowledge of basic statistics;
• Proficiency in statistical analysis and
  mapping software (i.e. SPSS, STATA, ArcGIS);
• Knowledge of research methods and
  monitoring and evaluation standards;
• Familiarity with quantitative and
  qualitative survey techniques;
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel,
  Access, Outlook) and GIS applications;
• General knowledge of UN system policies,
  rules, regulations and procedures governing administration is highly
  desirable.

• Excellent written and oral communications
  and presentation skills, with ability to draft clear and concise reports
  or rationale for decisions on key issues;
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills;
• Resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of
  judgement and tact;
• Ability to establish priorities and to
  plan, coordinate and monitor own work plan and those under supervision;
• Ability to analyze technical data and draw
  final conclusions, make recommendations and proposals;
• Ability to formulate new strategies and
  technical approaches;
• Demonstrated effectiveness in developing
  policies, procedures and new programmes;
• Technical leadership demonstrated through
  the ability to lead an office and/or a project team towards fulfillment of
  WFP objectives;
• Willingness to travel for extended periods
  of time;
• Ability to provide training and expert
  advice on complex issues; and make proposals;
• Demonstrated ability to develop and
  maintain effective work relationships with counterparts and staff within
  the office, host population, NGOs and other UN agencies; Ability to work
  in a team, and establish effective working relations with persons of
  different national and cultural backgrounds.

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