Regional Technical Senior Specialist

Há 4 dias


Colombo, Brasil Chemonics International Inc. - USAID (FEWS NET) Tempo inteiro

**Posted date**
- 11th December, 2024

**Last date to apply**
- 20th December, 2024

**Country**
- Srilanka

**Locations**
- Colombo

**Category**
- Development Sector

**Type**
- Full Time

**Position**
- 1
- Asia region: Afghanistan, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

FEWS NET is an integrated set of activities funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and is intended to provide timely, accurate, evidence-based, and transparent food security early warning information and analysis. The eighth phase of FEWS NET includes the Decision Support (DS) project which is charged with providing integrated monitoring and analyses of current and forecast acute food insecurity in countries worldwide to support the USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) policy and programmatic decisions. Based on an in-depth understanding of local livelihoods, the FEWS NET DS Team members monitor information and data on factors that affect food security, such as conflict, weather conditions and climate, crops, pasture, markets and trade, and nutrition. The work of the FEWS NET DS Team relies on close collaboration with international, regional, and national partners on food security data and information gathering and analysis. Major activities include joint monitoring and assessments, data sharing and exchanges, collaborative analysis and reporting, and technical capacity strengthening.

Responsibilities include:

- Contribute to the identification of priority M&T activities in line with the strategic orientation of FEWS NET’s work. Provide regional leadership for the identification, review, and compilation of appropriate market data, including but not limited to, staple food prices, exchange rates, consumer price indices, trade flows (formal and informal), crop production, and commodity balance sheet estimates in both presence and expanded global early warning (EGEW) countries monitored by FEWS NET within the region.
- Under the direction of the M&T advisor, help establish and/or maintain systematic, timely, high-quality, and efficient M&T data collection and management processes among country, regional, and home office staff. Support the collection, organization, and storage of primary and secondary data and information for submission to the FEWS NET Hub and USAID. This includes, but is not limited to:

- Liaise with FEWS NET DS project staff and partners to facilitate timely data flows.
- Work closely with the regional data manager to ensure that M&T data and information collected in the region is obtained, cleaned, organized and uploaded in accordance with guidance provided by the M&T advisor and Data Management Advisor
- Contribute to the regular collection, organization, and storage of data as set out by the FEWS NET Senior Management Team in collaboration with the FEWS NET Data, Knowledge, and Learning Hub (Hub).
- Provides support to field teams, the FEWS NET DS Data sector, the broader M&T team, and Mobile Data Transmission System subcontractors to oversee, maintain, and continually improve M&T data quality and integrity.
- Liaise with other technical sectors of FEWS NET, including the Quality Assurance and Methods sector and Data sector, as well as the Hub, to enhance the functionality of various M&T data domains in the FDW, including but not limited to online and offline M&T analytical tools in the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE).
- Monitor and analyze market and policy developments concerning staple food commodities, livestock, cash crops, and other commodities relevant to livelihoods and food security analysis within the region. Identify emerging regional market issues and provide input into the analysis of regional and local food security conditions.
- Collaborate with regional technical specialists to ensure alignment between conflict, livelihoods, agroclimatology and M&T assumptions
- Prepare regional market reports, which may include but are not limited to: Regional Supply and Market Outlook report, monthly _Price Watch _report, and monthly cross-border trade bulletins.
- Support the M&T advisor in meeting USAID’s expectations on timely delivery of decision support products, which include, but are not limited to: responding to urgent questions within one day; providing briefings within one week of request; and contributing M&T analysis to requests for acute food insecurity analysis in EGEW countries that fall within region of coverage that will be delivered within one week of USAID request.
- Design and execute activities within the region to build and maintain an up-to-date evidence base and market monitoring plan for markets and trade related information relevant to acute food insecurity analysis, including but not limited to: food and cash crop commodities, labor, and livestock markets in the region. Evidence base components may include commodity balance sheets, p



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