Targeting Analyst Consultant Lazio

Targeting Analyst Consultant
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

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**Job Title**:Targeting Analyst Consultant

**Type of Contract**:Regular Consultant

**Division: RAM/RAMAN - **Needs Assessment and Targeting Unit

**Duty Station (City, Country)**: HQ Rome, Italy

**Duration**:6 months from Entry on Duty (with possibility of extension)

**BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT**:

Assisting over 100 million people in more than 80 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies, working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience, and partnering with governments to strengthen social protection systems.

To be effective in this mandate WFP must ensure that it reaches the right people and that it manages its relationship with those individuals and their communities in a responsible, accountable, and effective manner.

As a result of conflict, climate change and the impact of COVID-19, hunger has been on the rise globally over the past years.

While WFP thanks to increasing donor contributions has been able to significantly scale up its response, the gap between needs and resources available to address those needs is growing.

This stresses further the importance of robust targeting and prioritization processes, ensuring that the most destitute and vulnerable people are assisted timely.

With more pressure on country offices to conduct sophisticated targeting and prioritization exercises, there is rapidly growing demand for support from Regional Bureaux (RBx) and Headquarters (HQ) on targeting-related issues.

To better meet demand, a joint project between the Research Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) and Programme & Policy Development (PD) divisions in HQ and WFP's six RBx was initiated in 2020.

The Targeting Strengthening Initiative recognizes the continuous and cross-functional nature of targeting and is focused on enhancing capacities and strengthening the evidence-base to inform policy decisions, which in turn are reflected in better and more comprehensive guidance, tools and learning materials for colleagues in the field.

In addition to internal efforts to strengthen targeting, the Joint UNHCR and WFP Programme Excellence and Targeting Hub was established in 2020 and is co-managed by RAM and Programme on the WFP side.

'The Hub' aims to operationalize joint commitments building on the 2011 Memorandum of Understanding, including the Joint Principles on Targeting.

Thematic experts provide country-level support to priority operations across the programme cycle, including needs assessments and targeting, and is an important operational partner of WFP and the Targeting Strengthening Initiative.

WFP's Needs Assessment and Targeting Unit (RAMAN) is now recruiting a Targeting Analyst who will be responsible for translating research evidence, operational lessons learned and WFP's corporate strategic, policy and technical frameworks into proposed policies and guidance for targeting and prioritization.

Reporting to the Targeting Team Lead in RAMAN, under the overall guidance of the Head of Unit, and in close collaboration with RAM and Programme divisions and units at global-, regional

- and country office levels, the Analyst will lead consultations, drafting and reviewing processes, contributing to better and more coherent targeting decision-making across WFP operations globally.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

The Targeting Analyst will be responsible for the following activities:

- Lead/support drafting of key policy and technical documents, including but not limited to operational targeting guidance, policy briefs, and technical notes;

- Organise and lead/support consultations with key internal and external stakeholders;

- Continuously review and monitor new and existing corporate strategic and policy frameworks, with the view to ensure alignment with targeting policies and operational guidance;

- Through desk reviews, remote and on-site missions, support the generation and compilation of operational lessons learned and policy-level recommendations;

- Support the Senior Targeting Analyst in providing hands-on support to priority operations, including but not limited to quantitative data analysis using statistical software;

- Support the roll-out and continuous refinement of corporate targeting guidance, providing actionable technical advice on targeting covering the broad range of WFP programmatic areas, including specific aspects related to targeting for urban programming;

- Monitor the evolving global humanitarian and development targeting landscape, including academic research findings, policy papers and methodological advancements, in support of WFP's strive to develo