Programme Policy Officer

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**TERMS AND CONDITIONS**:
**JOB TITLE**:
**Programme Policy Officer (Economist and Market Analyst)**

**TYPE & LEVEL OF CONTRACT**:
**NOA**

**UNIT/DIVISION**:
**Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM)**

**DUTY STATION (City, Country)**:
**Regional Bureau in Cairo (RBC), Cairo, Egypt**

**REPORT TO**:
**Head of VAM**

**DURATION OF CONTRACT**:
**1 Year**

**ABOUT WFP**:
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

WFP’s Regional Bureau for the Middle East and Northern Africa (RBC), based in Cairo, Egypt, provides strategic guidance, policy/technical support and direction to WFP operations and activities in 16 countries: Algeria, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, State of Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine and Yemen. These country offices aim to assist roughly one-third of all of WFP’s beneficiaries (approx. 30 million) in some of the most critical humanitarian emergencies of our time. RBC is also active in the ‘Changing Lives’ side of WFP’s mandate, helping national governments and local communities improve nutrition, livelihoods, school feeding, social protection, climate and disaster risk reduction and other programmes that build resilience and support development.

**WHY WORK at WFP**:
**SAVING & CHANGING LIVES **❤**:

- Make a difference, the world will notice._
We are driven by our mission to fight world hunger and feed people’s dreams of a brighter future.

**GLOBAL COMMUNITY**:

- Build bridges that unite people across the world._
Being part of a global, diverse and multicultural community like WFP, will continuously expose you to new ideas and perspectives.
How we deliver our mission in a deep respect for personal and cultural differences and close collaboration between every member of our global team, will certainly enrich your experience and knowledge on so many levels.

**UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES**:

- Unlock possibilities you never thought you'd find._
WFP goes anywhere it is needed and does whatever it takes to get the job done.

**LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE**:

- Reach beyond yourself and discover your true potential._
WFP offers the kind of life-changing experiences you’re unlikely to find in many other organizations.

**Join us to make a difference.**
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**JOB PURPOSE**:
The WFP Cairo Regional Bureau provides strategic guidance, policy/technical support and direction to WFP operations and activities in 16 countries: Algeria, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, State of Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine and Yemen. The purpose of the job is to generate and/or contribute to the VAM evidence base that supports food security and nutrition policies and programmes (e.g., needs assessment and situation analyses, programme design, targeting, cost effectiveness, and operational efficiency). VAM’s economic analysis and monitoring provides critical information on food availability and on the functioning of markets that households depend upon to acquire food. It also helps WFP identify the most appropriate forms of assistance (cash, food, or vouchers), evaluate the impact of food assistance on markets, and optimize the efficiency and value for money to those receiving food assistance.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)**:
**Ensure that COs are systematically monitoring economic trends and that WFP strategies and programmes are based on sound economic analysis.**
- Support COs in planning, designing and conducting market related assessments and surveys to inform programming and management decision.
- Strengthen COs market intelligence, through maintenance of relevant market and socio-economic data, regular monitoring and reporting on market and economic conditions, and their implications for market functioning and food security.
- Ensure that COs data is uploaded to corporate systems in a timely manner.
- Support WFP to systematically monitor the cost-effectiveness of its food-, cash
- and voucher operations in view of fluctuations in the economy (e.g. currency depreciation, inflation).
- Conduct regular secondary data review and write market bulletins and/or contribute to other regional information products by analyzing price data, economic data, preparing narratives and visualization.
- Conduct socio-economic studies in coordination with HQ and COs.
- Support Cash Working Group at CO level with ad hoc analyses, including survival and minimum expenditure basket calculation, transfer value calculation, etc
- In coordination with Supply Chain and CBT units, support COs in conducting Market Functionality surveys to ass