Food Security and Humanitarian Assistance Analyst

Summary

Join a team of dedicated professionals working towards ending hunger worldwide as a Food Security and Humanitarian Assistance Analyst. This role involves conducting integrated acute food insecurity analysis, analyzing humanitarian food assistance, and collaborating with the Washington, D.C.-based technical team, regional technical experts, and other technical staff in the field.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, integrate, and synthesize conflict, markets and trade, nutrition, livelihoods, and other information affecting food security for the development of regular, high-quality, integrated acute food insecurity early warning information products
• Co-lead on the analysis of acute food insecurity in a subset of FEWS NET’s presence (over 40) countries and/or Expanded Global Early Warning (around 125) countries
• Contribute to the development of the estimates of the population in need of humanitarian food assistance for the monthly and annual Food Assistance Outlook Brief and other decision support products for USAID
• Develop and present technical briefings on acute food insecurity to USG staff and other partners, as requested
• Lead or otherwise support the development of special technical reports on acute food insecurity
• Conduct field visits to support food security assessments and technical analysis
• Technically and editorially contribute to, review, and revise field-authored regular and ad hoc reporting on acute food insecurity in support of effective decision-making by donor governments
• Respond to ad hoc requests for food security and response planning analysis and other support for response and contingency planning processes
• Play a lead role in developing analytical and decision-support strategies to effectively develop and communicate pertinent information to decision-makers when potential or ongoing food security crises are identified
• Support the S-FSDSA and D-FSDSA in meeting USAID’s expectations on timely delivery of decision support products, which includes, but is not limited to: delivery of any assigned monthly reporting for all presence countries no later than 7 days after the last day of the month; responding to urgent questions on acute food insecurity within one day; providing briefings within one week of request; and assessing acute food insecurity in EGEW countries within one week of request
• The FSA will be expected to demonstrate the ability to respond quickly to sudden increases and decreases in food insecurity globally by actively working with the D-FSDSA to re-orient work plans and initiate new lines of monitoring and reporting outside of traditional areas of coverage
• Provide technical assistance on complex subject matter to strengthen data collection, analysis, and information dissemination capacities
• Provide relevant technical and geographic guidance in their areas of expertise (e.g., agricultural economics, livelihoods, nutrition, pastoralism/ livestock)
• Contribute to the development and implementation of guidance materials in the areas of early warning, decision support, and reporting
• Support activities to enhance project representatives’ and partners’ understanding of food security early warning and decision support processes, including but not limited to in the Integrated Phase Classification/Cadre Harmonisé workshop fora
• Collecting, collating, organizing, and analyzing data and information related to global humanitarian food assistance operations
• Assisting as needed with deep dives of HFA analysis in targeted geographies and/or analyses
• Delivering humanitarian food assistance data to the Humanitarian Assistance Specialist (HAS) in the format and on the frequency advised by the quality assurance and methods (QAM) sector for ingestion into the HADST
• Collaborating with members of the FEWS NET DS team, including the Data Management Advisor, Data Management Specialists, Quality Assurance and Methods Advisor, and Humanitarian Assistance Specialist and Analysts (HAS/HAA) to ensure coordination on delivery of data and data analysis products in fulfilment of USG and USAID regulations
• Coordinating, as appropriate, with the HAS in design and implementation of the HADST, including on its technical content and functionality
• Contributing input on key technical matters to inform DS leadership decision-making with regard to HADST priorities and functionality
• Collaborating with members of the DS team, particularly the HAS and HAAs, to exchange knowledge of, and information from, existing and potential sources of humanitarian food assistance