Job Detail

Project Background:

Combating land degradation and biodiversity loss by promoting sustainable rangeland management and biodiversity conservation project is a five year intervention of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) funded through the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This project aims to improve the sustainability of agriculture, forest, and land-use management through rehabilitating degraded rangelands, biodiversity conservation and enhancing and maintaining the livelihoods of Afghan rural communities in Khost, Laghman and Nuristan provinces in          Afghanistan by employing the community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approach. The project has three major components: (i) capacity-building at the national, sub-national, and district levels in community based natural resources management for sustainable rangeland and forest planning; (ii) Integrated management and restoration of degraded landscapes for biodiversity conservation and sustainable/regenerative rangeland management; (iii) Systematic creation and sharing of knowledge, project coordination, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and institutional capacity development. 

The Senior GIS specialist will be responsible for all the geospatial data creation and management which would facilitate the implementation of participatory assessment and mapping of natural resources of the target districts. In addition, they will be preparing land-use/land-cover, watershed and topographic maps for RMAs and FMAs and target areas. 

The Senior GIS specialist will closely work with appointed specialists and support the project task team in preparing maps of land-use/land-cover, rangeland hotspots, FMAs and RMAs, mission maps etc which would facilitate in devising strategies and plans for implementation of sustainable natural landscape planning. They will provide technical guidance for the implementation of forest restoration and management, agroforestry and small-scale greenhouses.

FAO is looking for qualified national staff fill the position of senior GIS specialist. This position will support the work of the GEF-funded” Combating land degradation and biodiversity loss by promoting sustainable rangeland management and biodiversity conservation” project in Afghanistan. 

Job Posting: 17/Oct/2022

Closure Date: 07/Nov/2022

Organizational Unit: FAAFG

Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)

Primary Location: Afghanistan-Kabul

Duration: 6 months (with extension subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability)

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This National Project Personnel position is SB4.

Reporting Lines

The Assessment Coordination Specialist will work under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative, the technical supervision of the Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer and Head of Risk Analysis, Agriculture and Food Security and direct supervision M&E Specialist (Data in Emergencies Country Analyst).

Technical Focus

The Assessment Coordination Specialist will be part of the Risk Analysis, Agriculture and Food Security Unit. The incumbent will contribute to designing, implementation, coordination and reporting of FAO Afghanistan‘s food security and livelihoods assessments including surveillance or monitoring systems, post-disaster needs assessments, damage and losses assessments, agricultural production assessment, risk and hazards profiling, market analysis, and/or value chain analysis.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Support development of country roadmaps, assessment concept notes and annual workplan, and regularly liaise with the country management team and the regional assessment advisors on the alignment with the strategic, technical, and operational requirements.
• Contribute to designing of survey instruments including questionnaires design, programming of digital tools, questionnaire testing and piloting and translations by adapting the standard tools to the country circumstances.
• Support development of sample design proposals using standard sampling approaches and develop sampling documents.
• Contribute to development of training material (lesson plans, presentations, pre-tests and post-tests) for enumerators and supervisors’ training/workshop for any assessment and conduct training to improve capacity of enumerators and supervisors to ensure high quality data are collection from the field.
• Coordinate data collection with partners and monitor data quality including continuous control of interim datasets, audio recordings, Geo Points, field spot checks) and contribute to development of data quality reports.
• Contribute to data cleaning, quality checks, data analysis and preparation of the analysis output (including weights, statistical analysis and qualitative analysis) and facilitate results validation by a panel of internal experts before publication and validate with secondary sources. 
• Contribute the exploration and interpretation of DIEM - Data in Emergencies dashboards on the staging hub, including the formulation of highlights and operational recommendations.
• Contribute to the production of various analytical products including reports, presentations, meta-analyses, and Story Maps, using standard templates.
• Contribute to the dissemination of results and promotion of the DIEM - Data in Emergencies Hub. It can include hub demos and presentations of the survey findings to FAO country teams, donors, or Food Security cluster partners.
• Ensure the availability of data for other processes such as IPC, Anticipatory Action scenario building, response analysis, programming exercises, Humanitarian Needs Overview, and CO learning agenda and meet urgent data request by CO management, donors, partners, and users.
• Coordinate with partners and conduct learning workshops and document lessons learnt and data uses;
• Provide technical inputs for development of agricultural livelihood risk profiles in Afghanistan and baselines of past events and their impacts on agricultural livelihoods.
• Develop impact assessment preparedness plan for the main hazards identified in the country.
• Contribute to presentation of the assessments design and results for FAO management and other stakeholders.
• Perform any other duties as required.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• FAO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing).
• Incomplete applications will not be considered. If you need help please contact: Careers@fao.org  
• Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
• Only language proficiency certificates from UN accredited external providers  and/or FAO language official examinations (LPE, ILE, LRT) will be accepted as proof of the level of knowledge of languages indicated in the online applications
• For additional employment opportunities visit the FAO employment website: http://www.fao.org/employment/home/en/ 

HOW TO APPLY

• To apply, visit the recruitment website at Jobs at FAO and complete your online profile. Only applications received through the recruitment portal will be considered.
• Candidates are requested to attach a letter of motivation to the online profile
• We encourage applicants to submit the application well before the deadline date.
• If you need help, or have queries, please contact: Careers@fao.org  

Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

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