Consultant VAM

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

19 December 2025-23:59-GMT02:00 Eastern European Standard Time (Cairo)

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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the worlds largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict disasters and the impact of climate change.

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WHY JOIN WFP

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

• WFP offers a highly inclusive diverse and multicultural working environment.

• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training accreditation coaching mentorship and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country regional and global offices around the world and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

Assisting over 100 million people in around 83 countries each year the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. To be effective in its mandate WFP must ensure that it reaches the right people at the right time with the right assistance. A recent internal audit emphasized the need to establish targeting as one of the core activities of WFPs operations and noted that the organizational capacity in terms of targeting and prioritization requires strengthening. Numerous emerging trends in WFPs operating environments have increased the demand for guidance and support on targeting and prioritization including in urban conflict-affected and difficult-to-access spaces where WFP is increasingly operating.
The meet the urgent and increased demand from Country Offices and strengthen the overall capacity on targeting within the organization the Research Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) aims to strengthen targeting and prioritization capacities at all levels including collaboration with humanitarian and transitions programme units. Targeting or when there is a resource shortfall prioritization is a continuous and cross functional exercise that requires strong collaboration between programme and VAM colleagues. This bridging position will play a pivotal role in building systems and procedures that emphasize this.
Reporting to the Regional Senior Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping Officer the Regional Targeting Officer will play an instrumental role in providing advanced support to priority operations the generation of an evidence-base for optimization of targeting methods and processes as well as the development and delivery of capacity strengthening activities. The selected candidates will provide technical and analytical support to Country Offices to inform targeting and prioritization decisions and facilitate internal and external collaboration with all relevant stakeholders and follow-up and monitor the implementation of key recommendations established by WFP efforts to improve quality of beneficiary targeting throughout its operations.

• Provide technical and analytical support to Country Offices (COs) to inform targeting and prioritization decisions including establishing the number of people in need and targeted formulating targeting criteria and evaluating the pros and cons of different targeting options in line with corporate guidance in collaboration with all relevant internal and external stakeholders;
• Provide guidance and support to COs in a way that recognizes and nurtures the collaborative engagement between programme and VAM colleagues at regional and country-level;
• Support Country Offices to design integrated targeting strategies covering the entire Country Strategic Plans Portfolios including general food assistance livelihood resilience-building nutrition and school-feeding programmes based on the existing best practices;
• In close collaboration with the Regional Monitoring Officers support Country Offices with setting-up structures and systems to monitor targeting processes and outcomes including whether selected beneficiaries align with eligibility criteria (verification) vulnerable groups were excluded from selection proportion of people in need covered by assistance transfer values provided and the outcomes on assisted and non-assisted populations;
• Support Country Offices with the development of appropriate beneficiary registration selection and identity management procedures in collaboration with programme activity leads and teams responsible for NGO partnerships;
• Engage with relevant gender and protection focal points to ensure that targeting processes are inclusive fair and communicated in a transparent way to affected populations;
• Participate in cross-functional country support and oversight missions to review and validate targeting strategies and approaches and support Country Offices to improve documentation;
• Identify targeting training needs document lessons learned/best practices and actively contribute to new and refined existing guidance tools and learning materials based on country-level and regional experiences;
• Document targeting needs of COs across the region and establish and implement a regional work plan to provide support and enhanced targeting and prioritization capacity in coordination with internal and external stakeholders;
• Support regional efforts to address targeting-related risks in countries participating in the Global Assurance Project (GAP) including contributing to development of global targeting assurance frameworks following up on their implementation in COs reporting and updating on progress to senior regional and global management and coordinating with regional technical colleagues on other GAP focus areas and cross-cutting standards;
• Support regional efforts on the GAP in support of Regional Head of Knowledge Management Unit and senior regional management;
• Participate in development of innovative analytic and operational tools for targeting and prioritization including use of leading-edge technologies such as satellite and mobile phone data;
• Participate in development of regional strategy for targeting programmes to promote transition from humanitarian programmes including resilience livelihoods and social protection programmes in coordination with stakeholders within RBC external agencies including UNHCR and with country offices working on transitional programming;
• Participate in/contribute to WFP centralized and decentralized evaluations of targeting and prioritization in the RBC region;
• Any other related tasks as agreed with the supervisor and project team.

• DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Targeting and prioritization exercises supported throughout the region;
• CO and Regional Bureau capacity on targeting and prioritization strengthened with at least two RBC RAM colleagues and two CO RAM colleagues;
• Regional Bureau has targeting strategy or other forms of documentation on regional targeting-related priorities;
• Documentation of analytical and operational work on targeting-related innovation projects;

• Country Offices across the region have targeting strategies or other forms of documentation on their targeting and prioritization strategies;.

• RBC inputs to Global Assurance Project (GAP) standards and implementation tracking frameworks on targeting plus overall progress reporting and regular management briefs;

• Global corporate directives guidance and learning materials are utilized across the region best practices and lessons shared and translated into improved tools;

• Multi-functional coordination on targeting improved involved both internal and external stakeholders.

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