The role of this position will seat in the Head Office in Kampala, and the incumbent will report to the Head of RAM. The job holder will operate independently and be involved in operational activities and related analytical work.

JOB PURPOSE

To support this work, WFP Uganda is recruiting for a climate analyst. The analyst is a cornerstone in the cross-functional nature of climate change, anticipatory action, resilience, early warning, and Geospatial, enhancing RAM analytics and systems capacities while driving the development and deployment of innovative tools and approaches to needs assessments, targeting, programming, and monitoring, including the urban space.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Develop protocols and procedures to ensure Two-way Accountability (from implementers to beneficiaries) and Transparency of Food Security and Nutrition Assessments and Analysis

Lead the development of a framework of assessment for climate change, anticipatory action, early warning, and geospatial analysis to provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results (as set out in the Country Strategic Plan (CSP), the government of Uganda, and other global and regional plans), while being compliant with WFP corporate requirements.
Budget for VAM-Climate-related costs and advocate for appropriate financial and human resourcing.
Provide inputs to formulate regional climate change, anticipatory action, resilience, early warning, and geospatial strategies and support their operationalization.
Develop Standard Operating Procedures, protocols, and guidelines for assessments, targeting, programme implementation on climate change, anticipatory action, early warning, and geospatial analysis.
Provide coaching and guidance to colleagues to ensure their development and enable them to perform at their best.
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2. Ensure that the high standards of quality, reliability, and validity of the data and analysis align with WFP's privacy and protection guidelines.

Contribute to designing and implementing systems, tools, protocols, and data visualisation products (static and dynamic) for assessments and monitoring strategies, including solutions to better align with national plans, strategies and investments.
Support the daily data management activities to facilitate the creation of GIS products, including a working library of spatial data and metadata in the WFP Spatial Data Library.
In coordination with the Area, Field, and Country Offices, identify, develop, and nurture operational partnerships to identify opportunities for collaborative approaches/initiatives that improve assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
Contribute to products, including forecast-based Financing, Disaster Risk Financing, Anticipatory Action, Humanitarian Assistance, Cash as an Early Action, Early Actions and Funding mechanisms, Disaster Risk Reduction, and resilience-related analysis.
Incorporate accountability to the affected population, protection, disabilities, and a gender perspective in areas of work to ensure equal participation of women and men.
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3. Support Data-driven evidence-based decision-making process on time according to programmatic and strategic needs. (data preparedness)

Contribute to developing and implementing national government and Inter-Agency climate and resilience frameworks, mainly focused on geospatial analysis.
Facilitate the timely and productive use of information in accordance with WFP processes and standards and prepare updates on risks, assumptions, and any factors that can influence the implementation of climate, anticipatory actions, resilience, early warning, and geo-spatial analysis.
Produce regular assessment and monitoring reports, including running data analysis, with the status of results and implementation progress.
Support the development of training and seminars to enhance the capacity of WFP staff in Climate change, resilience, early warning, anticipatory action, and geospatial analysis. eKCx9k3 veHbp
Contribute and support evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, notably through making assessments and monitoring findings accessible and developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP's Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP's mission.
Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP's overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
People

Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.
Performance