Food Systems Analyst at Food and Agriculture Organization

Responsibilities for the Food Systems Analyst Job

• Liaise with Local Governments and establish a local supporting team to the eventual collection of data.
• Support finalization of an initial draft of RUFSAT, and lead adaptation to local needs
• Secondary data analysis (static and time-series) including estimation of products flows and their sources, food insecurity levels, institutional markets, intra-city production and processing, formal and informal channels, health status, retail and food services, demography, urban poverty, slums, urban sprawl and general city-region overview.
• Collaborate with the Project Coordinator to undertake a rapid qualitative analysis of the community food environment and gap analysis and secondary data analysis on food system (from production to consumption)
• Identify priority areas (food distribution, food waste etc.…), their root causes and potential upgrading solutions.
• Apply food value chain or market systems analysis for some prioritized products or markets.
• Combine the undertaken analysis with the rapid qualitative analysis on the community food environment (developed by the MFSPP Coordinator)
• Collaboration for the organization of meetings for the field mission of the representatives from the Rome Coordination and
• Technical Unit and presentation of the first results.
• Conducting the data collection (geo-referenced) and analysis (including the spatial analysis) for consumers and other food related actors within selected areas.
• Disseminate the RUFSAT tool to MFSPP and seed feedback for finalization of the tool.
• Supporting the Multi-stakeholders Food Systems Planning Platform (MFSPP) on developing the preliminary food system action plan (vision, mission, strategy, focus areas etc….)
• Work closely with the Project/MFPP Coordinator and the Rome Coordination and Technical Unit in drafting the methodology for the Rapid Urban Food System Appraisal Tool – RUFSAT
• Provide reports as requested.
• Support the Project/MFSPP Coordinator in the organization of regional seminar for presenting the project results.

Food Systems Analyst Job Requirements

• Degree in economics, agribusiness, or pertinent discipline with expertise in data collection and spatial analysis with considerable knowledge of food environment issues. Postgraduate degree preferred.
• Technical Competencies and Experience Requirements
• At least 5 years of working experience on data collection and spatial analysis at urban level with International Organizations, preferably UN.
• Previous experience in food value chain analysis
• Understanding the local context and familiarity in working with local governmental institutions.
• Demonstrated capacity to speak and write fluent English and the Kiswahili language
• Experience in collecting and analyzing gender and nutrition issues in food value chains will be an added advantage