The Country Programming Framework for Angola is organized in three main areas of work: Food Security and Nutrition (FSN); Family farming and Innovation; resilience and climate change. The expert in Food Systems and Nutrition will be responsible for the overall coordination of the Food security and nutrition area.
Angola continues to face major challenges in accelerating the eradication of food and nutrition insecurity. Food insecurity and the low or even lack of formal social protection remain challenges and priorities for FAO. FAO will provide assistance to develop and review national policies and strategies to achieve Zero Hunger by improving capacity and sharing lessons learnt tools and approaches, with greater emphasis on the areas of social protection, improved nutrition and the territorial approach.
Strengthening food security statistics and tracking SGDs, especially the SDG 2, through the inclusion of FIES will be also on the focus of the FSN strengthening under this area of work.
The international specialist in Food Systems will work under the direct supervision of the FAO Representative (FAOR), under the overall technical guidance of the Assistance of the Representative for Programme (AFAOR-P). He or she will work closely to the national institutions in charge of Food security and other relevant government ministries/institutions, in particular the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment and UN agencies and project coordinators. He or she also provides liaison with donors and other key development partners as well as other government line ministries for sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security and social protection. Tasks and responsibilities:
Ensure a multidisciplinary approach to FSN programmes, projects and actions in the national portfolio and identify new priority areas of intervention.
Support national policy dialogue on food security issues, facilitate the emergence of regional partnerships, and support capacity development and resource mobilization.
Provide overall technical guidance for the implementation of food security programmes, projects and activities in the country portfolio, specially, FRESAN and SAMAP projests TCP POLITICAS (FSN Strategy, activation of FSN Council, School Food and Nutrition Regulations, Family Farming policy development).
Support the research and evaluation of food security interventions with the vision to increase the impact of policies and program.
Support the Ministry of Agriculture in implementing an evidence-based and consultative process for developing an Action Plan to guide the implementation of nutrition-sensitive interventions
Formulate, based on a consultative process, a proposal for strengthening the capacities of institutional mechanisms
Contribute to the preparation of missions, including setting-up coordination meetings, preparing the mission agenda and relevant background materials.
Develop a proposal for updating the monitoring and evaluation frameworks of the Food Security and Nutrition impact indicators so that these are better able to capture the contribution of nutrition-sensitive agriculture to improving nutrition.
Ensure that proper monitoring and evaluation is carried out at outcome level and will provide input to extracting and capturing lessons learned.
Support the National Statistics Institute in the implementation of FIES and other SDG tracking indicators and tools.
Prepare country specific reports and food security and nutrition-sensitive policy recommendations
Assess capacities of national institutions to design, implement and monitor nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions and develop a training programme to address capacity gaps.
Performs other duties as required.
Candidates Will Be Assessed Against The Following: Minimum Requirements:
University degree in agriculture, foods systems, food security or nutrition, food safety management systems, agroindustry science, development studies, social sciences or other relevant discipline
At least 5 years of relevant experience in international cooperation, rural development projects, with local communities and/or in the agricultural sector
Working knowledge (Level C) of English, French or Spanish and limited knowledge (Level B) of one of the other two or Arabic, Chinese, Russian. For PSA it can be required only one language (Level C).
Technical/Functional Skills:
Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions
Extent and relevance of experience in technical cooperation related activities, policy advice and analysis relating to food and nutrition security, agriculture and rural development, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes
Extent and relevance of experience in inter-governmental bodies, UN agencies, NGO´s, Donors, civil society and multidisciplinary teams.
Familiarity with Farmer Field School (FFS) methodologic is desirable.
