Avis de recrutement : PAM recrute un(e) Économiste agricole (création de preuves et rapports), Nairobi, Kenya.

JOB PURPOSE

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) seeks to support the Government of Kenya (GoK) to build inclusive, climate-resilient and sustainable food systems and support rural and urban communities’ resilience capacities to adapt to climate and other shocks to meet their food and nutrition needs in line with the GoK’s Vision 2030 and development plans. Building on WFP’s extensive knowledge, footprint, and comparative advantage in reducing vulnerabilities and building the resilience of food insecure Kenyan communities, the “Climate Resilient Livelihoods and Food Systems Programme” covers a set of multiple interventions and partnerships that supports communities to anticipate and adapt to climate   and other shocks and stressors using a food systems approach. WFP works closely with among others the GoK, communities, research institutions, and private sector to promote local climate adaptation, strengthen local and regional market linkages, enhance access to credit through financial inclusion models and promote the consumption of safe and nutritious foods.

WFP supports county governments in the Arid- and Semi-arid Lands (ASAL) to build sustainable demand-led value chains linking smallholder producers (farmers and pastoralists) to other value chain actors to services such as suppliers of agricultural finance, inputs, and technical expertise. In western Kenya, WFP operates through the Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) which is a consortium of six organizations (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa/AGRA, Bayer, Rabobank, Syngenta, WFP, Yara) with a joint vision to empower farmers to increase their yields, incomes, and resilience and to improve global food security. This successful model is currently being scaled-up to the nine arid counties in northern and north-eastern Kenya. Throughout this programme portfolio WFP seeks to create transformative change to rural and urban populations with a focus on women and young people.

To support the scale of these successful interventions and business models, WFP seeks a dedicated professional to support the Food Systems and Resilience team in Nairobi to create the evidence for designing new business cases and proposals, manage research partnerships, guide monitoring processes, prepare donor reports, manage unit communication and visibility, documenting and sharing best practices, and support in maintaining and establishing efficient business processes.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Ensure cross-learning and close interactions across FtMA project areas and the arid counties, where the FSC model is being scaled-up (including the documentation of success stories and best practices).
2. Support the technical units on key programmatic areas including but not limited to gender transformation and youth empowerment.
3. Produce and review analyses, strategies, and papers for WFP’s climate resilience and food systems interventions.
4. Generate analysis that investigates cost-benefit of different intervention packages, return of investments and related research question
5. Create evidence generation and knowledge management strategy for the climate, food system and resilience portfolio
6. Coordinate monitoring and evaluation activities under Outcome 2 in close collaboration with the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer.
7. Coordinate and draft the development of funding proposals and concept notes as required and support on ad-hoc donor engagements.
8. Produce corporate reporting products and donor reports in close collaboration with technical units.
9. Develop and maintain relevant partnerships with private sector, research institutions and Government of Kenya.
10. Create content for communication for internal and external channels, working closely with WFP communications unit.
11. Support the development of tools and processes to manage FSC performance and ensure intended smallholder impact is achieved.