Organizational Setting
FAO Timor-Leste provides support to the government of Timor-Leste for implementing a National Fish Consumption Survey in Timor-Leste under a Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) for Strengthening government capacities to monitor progress to the Sustainable Development Goal 2 – end hunger and improve dietary diversity through increased fish consumption.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Adapt/develop and finalize data collection instrument(s) for food consumption survey, including the excel questionnaire and metadata
- Support the government in pre-testing the feasibility of the questionnaire and revising/updating the excel version based on pre-test results
- Collaborate with the CAPI consultants and NSO technical team to enable their digitization of the data collection instrument in CSPro, for tablet-based data collection
- Deliver technical training(s) on food consumption survey
- Develop training materials and support training for enumerators
- Support the government in piloting the questionnaire and revising/updating the excel and CSPro versions based on pilot results
- Collaborate with other key stakeholders to conduct supply side analysis of fish and meat protein availability in Timor-Leste
- Collaborate with NSO, the sampling experts and CSPro/CAPI experts to finalize the sampling design and field data collection
- Analyze food consumption survey data, manage inputs from technical committee and draft food consumption report
- Support the national technical committee to present the results to the stakeholders, validate, finalize and disseminate the food consumption data
Minimum Requirements
- Advanced university degree in agricultural economics, development economics, rural sociology, food security, nutrition, sustainable agriculture (including livestock, forestry and fisheries), or related field
- Five years of relevant experience in technical cooperation's related activities, food consumption surveys, policy advice and analysis relating to food and nutrition security, agriculture and rural development, fishery, forestry, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs
- Working knowledge (proficient – level C) of English and limited knowledge (intermediate – level B) of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset
Apply at https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2402447
