Job Description
Under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative in Pakistan, under direct supervision of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and technical supervision of Statistician-FAO, the Data Analyst will undertake the following duties:
Design assessments/surveys tools focusing on socio-economic, food security and agriculture, train enumerators, perform data analysis, present the results and draft the assessment/survey reports.
Tasks And Responsibilities
- Assist in designing the tools for assessment, developing/programming the tools using KOBO, sampling of the areas, preparation of presentations and assessment reports
- Assist in developing training materials and co-facilitate enumerators training sessions, field testing and monitoring of fieldwork
- Assist in coordinating the collection and analysis of household and community level food security and livelihood assessments data, data cleaning and management
- Assist in coordinating with Government, line departments at federal and provincial level and other stakeholders including NGOs
- Contribute to communicating the assessment findings and reports to other actors and stakeholders
- Assist in collecting the secondary data on vulnerability, general socio-economic profiles, food prices, agricultural inputs prices, international trade and other agriculture statistics
- Contribute to conducting the impact evaluation, analysis for MEAL, Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA), and carrying out other related technical studies
- Assist in conducting the IPC analysis workshops and preparation of IPC reports/briefs
- Prepare different documents (e.g. Reports, Correspondence, Agendas, Minutes, and Event Programs etc.) for activities of Information Management Unit
- Assist in scheduling different types of activities (e.g. Meetings, Training/Workshops/Seminars) of Information Management Unit
- Structure the data/information according to the FAO requirement
- Perform any other relevant tasks related to data analysis
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING
Minimum Requirements
- Advanced university degree in statistics, economics, econometrics or agricultural economics;
- Minimum of 5 years of proven knowledge and experience in data analysis of assessments and programme evaluation;
- Working knowledge of English and knowledge of other local languages is an asset;
- National of Pakistan.
FAO Core Competencies
- Results Focus
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Building Effective Relationships
- Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
Functional Skills
- Strong analytical skills and knowledge of agriculture, food security and livelihoods in the context of Pakistan
- Experience or familiarity with programme evaluation, food security and livelihoods assessments methodologies, including surveillance or monitoring systems, agricultural production assessment, market analysis etc.
- Experience in survey design, sampling, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation for assessment processes in agriculture and food security
- Expertise in remote data collection including phone or web-based surveys would be a plus
- Working knowledge of advanced statistics with ability to use statistical software packages (in particular SPSS and/or STATA)
- Experience in using and programming questionnaires in digital data collection tools (Kobo toolbox, ODK)
- Proven data visualization and reporting skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Coordination skills with strong individual planning capacity
- Ability to work under pressure and with minimum guidance
- Willing to undertake field visits as required.