Programme Policy Officer
Organizational Context
WFP Haiti operates in a complex environment marked by political instability, widespread violence, and economic hardship, exacerbated by recurrent natural disasters. The Country Strategic Plan (CSP 2024-2028) focuses on emergency food assistance, nutrition-sensitive social safety nets, and strengthening smallholder farmers' resilience. The digitalization of interventions, including cash-based transfers (CBT) and in-kind distributions, is a key priority.
Job Purpose
The Programme Policy Officer (IDM) will be instrumental in advancing WFP Haiti's digitalization strategy by ensuring the integrity and quality of beneficiary and transfer data. This role is crucial for generating real-time performance indicators and analyses that will directly inform operational decision-making. The incumbent will manage identity management initiatives, provide technical support for best practices in beneficiary data management, and ensure data assurance for cash and in-kind transfers, focusing on reconciliation, deduplication, and fraud detection. Developing and maintaining identity management dashboards, conducting in-depth data analysis to identify trends, and proposing solutions to enhance data quality and integrity are key responsibilities. The role also involves ensuring data protection compliance, collaborating with regional and headquarters teams, and building national capacity in data analysis and management to foster sustainable technical skills within the country office.
Responsibilities
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building peace through food assistance. WFP operates in complex environments, such as Haiti, which faces political instability, widespread violence, and economic hardship, compounded by natural disasters. In Haiti, WFP's Country Strategic Plan (2024-2028) focuses on emergency food aid, nutrition-focused social safety nets, strengthening smallholder farmers' capacities and resilience, and enhancing national and local capacities to combat hunger. This includes supporting smallholder farmers' integration into local supply chains through initiatives like the Smallholder Farmer Support Program (PASP). The role of an Identity Management and Data Assurance Officer is crucial to support the digitalization of WFP's interventions, including cash-based transfers (CBT) and in-kind distributions. This position will be based in Port-au-Prince and will be responsible for reviewing beneficiary and transfer data, generating key performance indicators (KPIs), and providing real-time analysis to guide operational decisions. The officer will ensure data quality, detect anomalies and fraud, develop identity management dashboards, and analyze data trends. They will also work to protect data privacy, collaborate with regional and headquarters teams, and build national capacity in data analysis. Key deliverables include implementing and improving digitalization plans, developing an IDM strategy, automating data extraction processes, operationalizing the PIT system, and strengthening national staff capacity in relevant systems like SCOPE and COMET.
Work Experience
The role requires at least five years of progressive experience in database management, mobile data collection tools, and technological analysis. A strong understanding of privacy risks and data security for biometric or digital data is essential. Experience in the humanitarian sector or with NGOs is advantageous, as is experience with the SCOPE and COMET platforms.
Skills
Data Management, Database Management, Data Analysis, Identity Management, Digitalization, Project Management, Capacity Building, Risk Management, Privacy Protection, Data Security, Humanitarian Aid, Emergency Response, Cash-Based Transfers (CBT), SCOPE Platform, COMET Platform, French, Creole, English