Data Management and Analysis Assistant
Organizational Context
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives and building a pathway to peace and prosperity. WFP uses food assistance to help people recover from conflict, disasters, and extreme weather. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and investing in our employees' personal and professional development.
Job Purpose
The Data Management and Analysis Assistant will be responsible for leading data collection, cleaning, processing, and analysis activities to ensure the timely production of market price analyses, reports, and data products. This role is crucial for maintaining high data quality, developing visualization tools, and supporting the team with routine and ad-hoc statistical tasks. The incumbent will support food security monitoring systems, assist with programme targeting, and verify data accuracy and consistency. Key responsibilities include processing and analyzing quantitative datasets, creating charts and visualizations for reports, and collaborating with regional offices and team members to meet data requirements. The role also involves providing strategic and technical guidance for monitoring outputs and interpreting data to generate actionable insights for programme management and decision-making.
Responsibilities
The Data Management and Analysis Assistant plays a crucial role in supporting the World Food Programme's (WFP) operations by ensuring the quality and timely delivery of data-driven insights. This position is responsible for the entire data lifecycle, from collection and cleaning to processing and analysis. Key duties include setting up assessment systems for food security monitoring, supporting program targeting at both geographic and household levels, and compiling quantitative datasets from various sources. The assistant must verify data accuracy, completeness, and consistency, maintaining updated datasets and managing routine data processes. They will categorize and process data using standard statistical methods, conduct analyses, and oversee outputs using predefined models. Furthermore, the role involves creating visualizations such as charts and tables to support analytical reporting, developing and maintaining dashboards, and preparing data inputs for reports and knowledge products. Collaboration is essential, requiring close liaison with team members, the VAM regional office, and counterparts from sister agencies to ensure data requirements are met and to share technical inputs for workflow efficiency. The assistant also supports the Monitoring Unit by providing strategic and technical guidance, developing monitoring frameworks, and guiding the analysis of monitoring data to generate actionable insights. Ad-hoc statistical and data-related tasks as assigned by the supervisor are also part of the responsibilities.
Work Experience
Requires a minimum of five years of progressive experience in data management, statistics, or analytical support. Candidates must have demonstrated experience working with large quantitative datasets and practical experience supporting statistical analysis or estimation techniques.
Skills
Data Collection, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Reporting, Monitoring, Coordination, Collaboration, Market Analysis, Food Security Monitoring