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IGAD was created in 1996 to supersede the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development(IGADD), which was founded in 1986. This followed the recurring and severe drought and other natural disasters between 1974 and 1984 that caused widespread famine, ecological degradation and economic hardship in the Eastern Africa region. Althoug...
GAD FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION AND RESILIENCE ANALYSIS HUBBackground**
The mission of IFRAH is to galvanize and build capacities for timely, harmonized generation, analysis and communication of integrated food security, nutrition and resilience information and knowledge. To facilitate uptake of timely and consensual decision making for humanitarian, resilience, development and peace building actions in line with member countries, IDDRSI and other relevant IGAD strategies.
The overall goal of IFRAH is to contribute to the efforts by IGAD and Member states to achieve strengthened analytical capacities and institutional mechanisms needed to support the decision-making processes on food security, nutrition and resilience in the IGAD region. The main objective is to contribute to the efforts by IGAD and Member states to achieve strengthened analytical capacities and institutional mechanisms needed to support the decision-making processes on food security, nutrition and resilience in the IGAD region.
One of the key components of IFRAH is Resilience Analysis Unit (RAU). Achieving resilience at a significant scale requires the capacity to measure the impact of development interventions for policy and programming purposes, as well as to promote greater accountability in the use of resources. RAU is a multi-stakeholder regional technical unit led by IGAD and supported by its development partners ensuring close coordination with the Drought Resilience Platform Coordination Unit (PCU).
The overall purpose of RAU is to build the capacity of the IGAD Secretariat and Member States and its development partners in the measurement and analysis of resilience among vulnerable households and communities.
IFRAH seeks to recruit a Regional Resilience Analyst to be responsible for technical and operational activities of the Resilience Analysis Unit. Details below:Duties and responsibilities
The overall role of the Regional Food Security Analyst is to coordinate and provide operational support, technical advice and guidance on resilience work-plan activities including training, workshops, resilience assessment and analysis processes in the IGAD Region (IGAD, specialized centers and member states). The analyst work under the overall supervision of the Director of ICPAC and under the direct supervision of the Coordinator of IFRAH in close collaboration with IGAD Member States, regional and international partners.
The Resilience Analyst will perform the following duties in specific:
Contribute to field activities on baselines, midlines, impact evaluation surveys in the Region;
Support in the planning and coordination of pre-survey processes in the IGAD Region as needed (workplan, budgets, concept notes)
social, economic and biophysical information to inform and guide IFRAH’s technical and related evidence-based policy work;
Required Qualifications, Experience and Skills
The applicant should possess the following:
Education requirements
Work experience:
Key Skills and Competencies:
Reporting
The selected candidate will report to the ICPAC Director through the supervision of the Coordinator of IFRAH. Technically the Coordinator through ICPAC Director may assign him/her to be supervised by appropriate senior RAU scientists for any number of specific thematic areas and RAU outcomes Remuneration
The Regional Resilience Analyst position shall be a Senior Technical staff member of IFRAH team. Remuneration is negotiable within the IGAD project salary Scale and policy
Contract Duration
One (1) year with possibility of renewal subject to performance and availability of funds. Work Station The Regional Resilience Analyst will be a key member of the IFRAH technical team based in Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travels to IGAD Member States
Please send your Cover Letter, Detailed Curriculum Vitae and Scanned Copies of Certificates before the 30th September 2019 to the following Address:
IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC)
Kenya Meteorological Department Compound
Ngong Road, Dagoretti Corner
Nairobi, Kenya
P.O. Box 10304 GPO 100 Nairobi, Tel (+254) 20-3514426,
Email : director@icpac.net
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