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28 September 2025-23:59-GMT+08:00 Philippine Standard Time (Manila)

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• 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).

In the Philippines, WFP’s efforts are guided by its work outlined in the Philippines Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2024-2028. WFP focuses on strengthening government systems at the national, local government unit and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) levels to further build the resilience of vulnerable individuals and communities. The CSP is aligned with national strategies and policies as well as the United Nations Sustainable Development Framework and is guided by three interrelated outcomes:

• By 2028, communities exposed to shocks and stressors in the Philippines are better able to meet food, nutrition and other essential needs with inclusive and equitable emergency preparedness and response capacity at the national and local levels.
• By 2028, communities vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity in the Philippines are more resilient and can better manage risks affecting human capital gains and food systems, inclusively and equitably.
• The Government and partners in the Philippines access WFP services that augment their interventions, upon request.

These strategic objectives are framed within the context of the Philippines being on the verge of becoming and upper-middle income country, while at the same time being one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Disasters remain a leading cause of hunger, affecting all aspects of food security: economic and physical access to food, availability and stability of supplies, and nutrition.

 

While WFP Philippines maintains a strong capacity to respond directly when significant shocks occur, the overall emphasis of the Country Office lies on systems strengthening (disaster risk management, social protection and food systems) at national, LGU and BARMM levels. WFP utilizes its field operations expertise to support the Government in delivering on key food programmes linked to its mandate and the CSP, including supporting the conceptualization and roll out of national priority programmes such as Walang Gutom 2027 and LAWA (Local Adaptation to Water Access) at BINHI (Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished) and modelling globally proven programmes such as home-grown school feeding – linking local smallholder farmers production to the institutional demand of school meals programmes. WFP engages at the national level on policy dialogue, supporting legislative advances in areas such as school meals, anticipatory action and rice fortification.

 

JOB TITLE: Vulnerability Analysis & Mapping Officer (Head of Research Assessment and Monitoring)
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Fixed-term Appointment
JOB GRADE: NO-B
UNIT/DIVISION: Research Assessment and Monitoring
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Manila, Philippines
DURATION: 12 months with possible extension

This position is open to Filipino nationals only

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:

Working under the direct supervision of the Deputy Country Director, the VAM Officer will oversee the Research, Assessment & Monitoring (RAM) team, which includes functions such as VAM, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM), and corporate reporting systems (COMET, SCOPE). The role requires strong technical expertise in food security, nutrition, resilience, climate change, and emergency response, utilizing both traditional and innovative approaches.

This position is critical to strengthening WFP’s capacity to generate high-quality evidence, inform strategic decision-making, support operational planning, and contribute to national and global SDG targets—particularly SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnerships).

JOB PURPOSE:

The Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) Officer will play a key role in supporting WFP Philippines’ evidence-based programming under its evolving Country Strategic Plan (CSP 2024–2028).

In alignment with national development priorities and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework, the VAM Officer will lead and coordinate research, assessments, and monitoring and evaluation activities to track progress and measure the impact of WFP’s interventions.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):

Within the assigned unit and delegated authority, the VAM Officer (Head of RAM) will be accountable and responsible for the following duties:

Food Security and Nutrition Research

• Provide economic intelligence to the management and for various programmes and projects.
• Provide leadership to WFP’s research, assessment and monitoring direction in the Pacific, including setting strategic and technical requirements in further developing  a food security monitoring system in support of data-driven decision-making with a focus on country capacity strengthening.
• Lead a team of national staff to develop, update, and oversee analysis and operational plans to ensure knowledge products meet requirements with a focus on localization of key technical capacities and institutions.
• Work together with existing and new regional and global partners to integrate hazard and/or climate analysis into vulnerability analysis and mapping, ensuring plans focus on risk-informed approaches to inform the national and local governments’ decision- making and WFP Country Office advocacy, policy and programmes.
• Provide technical advice and support to WFP and its partners on matters pertaining to food security and nutrition strategies, policies, programmes, and facilitate the timely and productive use of related outputs in a manner that complies with WFP standards and processes and considers gender and inclusion.
• Lead/manage the development of a research agenda for the Country Office in collaboration with proramme units.
• Contribute to the development of systems and tools for the monitoring and assessment of food assistance needs in line with innovative methodologies and best practice.
• Manage and/or conduct food security, nutrition, markets and resilience analysis and prepare timely reports on food assessment needs in line with wider WFP policies, processes and guidance to enable effective decision-making on the development of country strategy, policies and programmes.
• Keep up to date with and advise on food assistance developments and issues and the potential impact upon WFP activities to enable timely and appropriate programme evolution and intervention.
• Contribute to the development of programme activities, providing technical analysis, interpretation and recommendations to facilitate the capacity strengthening of national governments, systems and institutions to meet food security needs in a way that is inclusive and promotes gender equality.
• Provide support to relevant partners that are focusing on food security and nutrition to enable sharing of experience, lessons learned and best practice.
• Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.

Monitoring and evaluation of Programme activities

• Lead the development and manage implementation of M&E and Community Feedback Mechanism Strategies for the Country Office in line with corporate requirements and relevant to the country context;
• Ensure that the Country Office has updated M&E documents in response to changes/needs in the programme, including project log frames, M&E budgets, relevant SOPs, M&E plan matrices and reporting flow charts.
• Advise and support Head of Programme (HoP) and Activity/Thematic focal points on evidence-baseddecision-makingforprogrammedesignandimplementation, notably through linking monitoring, review and evaluations findings to the TOC and make them accessible, developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products;
• Lead/manage the development and implementation of data collection arrangement including adequate human resources in field offices and potential outsourcing of third-party monitoring partner;
• Ensure that process and post distribution monitoring reports for Typhoon Odette response and CO activities are regularly shared with HoP and activity managers.
• In coordination with HoP, RBB and HQ focal points, support in building M&E processes for measuring capacity strengthening of government in the areas of social cohesion, nutrition, climate change, emergency preparedness and response, social protection, and resilience building and establish a tracking system to follow the progress and document on capacity building for the government;
• Support relevant staff in streamlining gender and protection related indicators and gender analysis within each of the activity’s M&E framework, processes and tools.
• Support supply chain and programme teams during emergency preparedness, emergency needs assessments and operational planning

Reviews, evaluations and planning

• In coordination with HoP, manage the CO’s evaluation portfolio, providing oversight and ensuring high profession standards in line with WFP Evaluation Policy and Decentralized Evaluation Quality Assurance System (DEQAS);
• Support WFP Management in addressing recommendations from monitoring, reviews and evaluations to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required;
• Contribute to and support centralized evaluations, joint UNDSCF evaluations and donor-led evaluations in country;

• Lead the process of conducting any external or internal evaluation from inception to completion. This includes identifying an entity for an independent evaluation, facilitating secondary data review and primary data collection based on the scope of evaluation and methodologies agreed, disseminating the findings and facilitating their use in in future CO decision-making.
• Contribute to/support the preparation of the Annual Country Reports in coordination with programme and IM teams.
• Contribute to donor and adhoc reporting and proposals through data analysis and visualization of findings
• In coordination with CD and DCD, lead the technical process for designing the new CSP.

External Cooperation and coordination

• Represent WFP and ensure WFP input into UNSDCF processes;
• Represent WFP at national/inter-agency meetings, including the SEPF M&E technical working group (i.e., UNM&E Group),to contribute to technical discussions, exchange knowledge and best practices, identify opportunities for potential collaboration and for strengthening national M&E capacity and develop strategic partnerships.

Capacity building

• Regularly assess internal and Government partner VAM-related and M&E capacities and ensure adequate training is provided to build capacity by designing client- oriented training programs for different audiences.
• Build capacity of CO, partners and national government to conduct analysis on food security, nutrition, markets, resilience, gender, and related topics to effectively inform policies and programmes.

Team/staff management

• Provide strategic leadership, supervision, coaching and guidance to VAM & M&E focal points and individual team members;
• Develop annual workplan and budget for VAM and M&E, and follow through the implementation
• Manage the recruitment and supervise external evaluation consultants hired for the implementation of surveys, assessments and reviews
• Manage staff performance providing regular feedback and through the PACE process

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Education: Advanced University degree in Economics, Statistics, International Affairs, Sociology, Development Studies or any other relevant field.

Experience: A minimum of three (3) years of relevant professional experience with a Master’s degree, or five (5) years with a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in the field of international development or humanitarian work. They must have demonstrated experience in leading and managing monitoring and evaluation activities, either within a project setting or in a country office context. Additionally, familiarity with IT solutions and digital tools for data collection, analysis, and reporting is essential.

Knowledge and Skills:

• ​Trained in evaluation management; specific training in Corporate EvalPro will be considered an advantage;
• Working knowledge of the evidence value chain approach and application across diverse portfolio
• Practical knowledge on how monitoring data is collected, compiled, analyzed and presented for management decisions, programme adjustment and donor reporting;
• Has led surveys, assessments and monitoring surveys in countries, including the design, data collection and analysis;
• Experience in managing remote surveys, including preparation of data collection tools, managing third party monitoring partner, and data quality control;
• Knowledge of diverse humanitarian assistance and developmentpractices;
• Analysis of bothqualitative and quantitative data and effective visual presentation of results;
• Knowledge of facilitation techniques, preparation of training materials, delivery of trainingand capacity development of partners and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience on GIS and remote sensing preferred but not essential

Language: Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English is required. Fluency in the local language of the region.

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• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified

All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements