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Programme Associate will support the analytical work of the RAM Team. Tasks will cut across different topics with a main focus on collecting, processing, cleaning, managing, analysing and presenting economic and market data. Topics will mainly be related to economic analysis and analysis of data from price surveys and market surveys, as well as food security impacts of economic events. Specific tasks include:

Develop market assessment and price data collection materials in accordance with corporate standards and support market and price data collection and analysis.
Programme and test market and price survey tools, support their deployment in the field and carry out price cleaning.
Analyse price data, inflation and exchange rate trends. Upload of food prices on to WFP’s price database.
Participate in market assessments to assess market functionality across different areas of Ukraine and write assessment reports based on findings.
Contribute to the analysis for and drafting of briefs about food prices, economic outlook, agricultural production and market development and other relevant topics.
Support the training of data collectors including preparation of materials.
Support RAM colleagues across functional areas with various field data collection exercises and analysis as requested.
Any other assigned task.

Skills

To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have:

Education: Completion of secondary school education. Coursework/trainings in statistics, econometrics, database management, data visualisation, household economics or other relevant topics is an advantage.

Experience: Minimum six (6) years of progressively responsible relevant work experience. At least one year of experience in a data analysis function. Post-secondary education can compensate for some years of experience. For example, you will be considered eligible if you have:

Three (3) years of total work experience with a Master’s degree or,
Four (4) years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree.

Specific experience in one or several of the below topics is required:

Data cleaning and management;
Survey building;
Food security analysis;
Economic and market analysis;
Dashboard building and/other types of data visualization;
Market price and time-series analysis;
Macro-economic analysis;
Field data collection and enumerator training;
Quantitative evaluation techniques.

Knowledge & Skills:

Excellent data management and analytical skills;
Excellent command of Excel and either one of STATA, SPSS or R, with a preference for R;
Experience with programming XLS-forms an advantage;
Visualization skills (such as Tableau) is an advantage;
Attention to detail;
Problem-solving attitude and creativity;
Ability to work both with minimal supervision and as part of a team;
Ability to establish effective working relations with persons of different national and cultural backgrounds;
Willingness to participate in field mission;

Languages:

Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Ukrainian languages;
Working knowledge (level B) of another UN language is an advantage.

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