Consultant(e) National Pour la Mise À Jour des Profils de Marché En Mauritanie

Organizational Context

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives and building a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity. WFP uses food assistance to support people recovering from conflict, disasters, and the impacts of climate change. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and the professional development of our employees, fostering a collaborative environment to achieve our mission.

Job Purpose

The Consultant National for Market Profile Update in Mauritania will be responsible for updating market profiles in targeted regions, integrating a systemic analysis of factors influencing market functionality, food access, and household food and nutrition security. This role involves documenting key markets, describing supply chains and trade flows, analyzing price trends and volatility, and assessing the role of markets in household access to food, with a focus on vulnerable groups. The consultant will identify risks and opportunities for market-based interventions sensitive to nutrition, gender, protection, social cohesion, and climate adaptation. Key deliverables include detailed reports, policy briefs, and capacity building workshops for national stakeholders to enhance market monitoring, early warning systems, and program implementation.

Responsibilities

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity through food assistance. WFP champions diversity and equal employment opportunities, encouraging applications from all qualified individuals regardless of background. The organization values integrity, collaboration, commitment, humanity, and inclusion, striving for a diverse, skilled, and high-performing workforce. WFP offers a multicultural and inclusive work environment, investing in personal and professional development through training, coaching, and mentorship. A career with WFP provides opportunities to work globally with passionate colleagues dedicated to delivering humanitarian aid to millions. The role involves updating market profiles in targeted regions of Mauritania, analyzing systemic factors affecting market function, food access, and household food and nutrition security. This includes documenting market types, supply chains, trade flows, and associated constraints. The analysis will cover price trends, seasonality, trade margins, and factors influencing price volatility for essential commodities. A key focus is evaluating the role of markets in household access to food, particularly for vulnerable groups. The position requires integrating a systemic approach to examine production, transformation, storage, distribution, consumption, nutrition, post-harvest losses, food security, sustainability, and climate adaptation. It also involves identifying risks and opportunities for market-based interventions sensitive to nutrition, gender, protection, social cohesion, and climate adaptation, and proposing recommendations for market monitoring, early warning systems, cash-based transfers, local procurement, and value chain support. Capacity building for national and local actors in market data collection and analysis is also a responsibility.

Work Experience

The role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in market analysis, food security, nutrition, livelihoods, quantitative and qualitative methods, price analysis, climate resilience, gender and inclusion, data visualization, and workshop facilitation. Experience in Sahelian or comparable contexts is essential. Proficiency in French, Arabic, or local languages is a plus.

Skills

Market analysis, Food security analysis, Nutrition analysis, Quantitative and qualitative research methods, Price analysis, Climate resilience, Gender and inclusion, Data visualization, Database management, Capacity building, Report writing, Logistics and supply chain analysis, Socio-economic analysis

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