Head of Research

Job Description

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES (not all inclusive):Within the assigned unit and delegated authority and under the direct supervision of the Head of the Research, Assessment and Monitoring Unit, the Head of Research will be responsible for the following duties:

1. Lead WFP Lebanon Research Team and guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance;
2. Contribute to the development of VAM projects and activities, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider WFP policies and guidance;
3. Lead on and conduct food security, nutrition, markets and resilience analysis and prepare timely reports on food security and vulnerability assessment in line with wider VAM policies, processes and guidance to enable effective decision-making on the development of country strategy, policies and programmes.
4. Keep up to date with and advise on food assistance developments and issues and the potential impact upon WFP activity to enable timely and appropriate programme evolution and intervention.
5. Contribute to the development of programme activities, providing technical analysis, interpretation, and recommendations to facilitate food assistance needs to be met effectively.
6. Represent WFP during meetings with partners to contribute to technical discussions, exchange of knowledge and experience, and seek for appropriate interventions (based on an evidence base), and areas for potential collaboration.
7. Support the development of systems and tools for the monitoring and assessment of food assistance needs in line with innovative methodologies and best practice.
8. Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to conduct vulnerability analysis to effectively inform preparedness and response activities.
9. Provide support to relevant partners that are focusing on food security and nutrition issues to enable sharing of experience, lessons learned and best practice.
10. Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men.
11. Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergencyÿfood assistance needs.
12. Support the standardization of market and price monitoring tools to facilitate price monitoring and reporting in a standardized and comparable manner.
13. Conduct socio-economic studies and market assessments to assess the impact of fluctuations in the economy (e.g. currency depreciation, inflation) on food security status of housheolds, especially the vulnerable, and assess/monitor the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of its food-, cash- and voucher operations.
14. Support interagency and cash working group with evidence base and ad hoc analyses, including food and minimum expenditure basket calculation, supply chain and intersectorial assessments, etc.
15. Anticipate economic shocks that pose a threat to food security and nutrition, and identify appropriate early actions.
16. Conduct gap analysis and revise the composition of minimum and survival expenditure baskets to advise on appropriate and effective transfer values.
17. Other as required.

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