UN Programme Policy Officer (Systems and Data Analyst) Jobs – WFP
Job Title: Programme Policy Officer (Systems and Data Analyst)
Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Grade: SC8
Reports to: Head of Digital Social Protection
About US:
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It is the largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. Currently WFP focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition & Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets. WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.
Job Summary: The Programme Policy Officer (Systems and Data Analyst) will provide technical and operational support in identifying and strategizing performance enhancement through quality and performance analysis of data processes and information to support strategic design, transformation and progressive alignment of the BIAM implementation deliverables to the overall institutional and government priorities.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support and coordinate the strategic portfolios and process designs using data analysis, projections and advisory of the implementation of the digital identify platform for social protection
- Provide guidance and support to the implementation of the standard operating procedures of the BIAM roll out and functionality
- Develop and design the operational road maps for the BIAM and registration processes roll out to the refugee districts
- Identify strategic correlation and interpretation of data sets and processes with defined recommendation for the improvement of the digital identify implementation across the country.
- Assist process and output design of various activities and project roll out and give appropriate recommendations to the assistance delivery strategies based on data analysis using corporate tools such as Tableau.
- Support and coordinate the various programmatic assessments and lessons learnt to inform parodic strategic designs and implementations of activities
- Coordinate with other relevant units like IT and AMEL to ensure that there is synchronization with the various data collection tools and data sets for a comprehensive risk analysis and mitigation strategies
- Actively participate in the preparation and conceptualization of the standard operating procedures for all digital platforms for both data capture and utilization
- Prepare and put forward technical control strategies to ensure data quality is upheld before, during and after registration and data utilization across various platforms. The data quality will inform the utilization effectiveness and efficiency
- Actively participate in experience sharing and consultative meeting with various stakeholders to support benchmarking of the registration roll out process to other parts of the country.
- Support the systems utilization for effective service delivery using the various platforms and data sets such as SCOPE CODA, MCHN, AMS roll out across the country
- Support the help desk team in process design, information analysis and ensure there are linkages with the digital platforms
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Policy Officer (Systems and Data Analyst) job placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Data sets management, Business Administration, Development studies or any related field.
- At least five years’ experience in an international organization working in areas of strategic Learning agenda, Data management, Monitoring and evaluation platforms, data management, social registries, beneficiary assistance delivery
- Exposure to digital identity management, use of registration platform, data quality processes and analysis in vulnerable communities
- Clear understanding of any registration processes for social protection and knowledge of principles and practices that support its operations
- Good analytical skills and experience in managing and using various and huge data sets
- Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.
Competencies:
- Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.
- Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.
- Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.
- Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
- Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government: Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.
NB: Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply
How to Apply:
All candidates who desire to join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit their applications online at the link below.
Deadline: 27th January 2019
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