Country Programme Analyst at International Fund for Agricultural Development

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The conference was organized in response to the food crises of the early 1970s that primarily affected the Sahelian countries of Africa. It resolved that “an International Fund for Agricultural Development should be established immediately to finance agricultural development projects primarily for food production in the developing countries.” One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production but structural problems relating to poverty, and to the fact that the majority of the developing world’s poor populations were concentrated in rural areas. IFAD is dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries. Seventy-five per cent of the world’s poorest people – 1.4 billion women, children and men – live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods.

Job Profile Requirements

Organizational Competencies:

Level 1:

• Building relationships and partnerships – Builds and maintains effective working relationships


• Communicating and negotiating – Communicates effectively; creates understanding between self and others


• Demonstrating leadership – Personal leadership and attitude to change


• Focusing on clients – Focuses on clients


• Learning, sharing knowledge and innovating – Continuously seeks to learn, shares knowledge & innovates


• Managing performance and developing staff –


• Managing time, resources and information – Manages own time, information and resources effectively


• Problem-solving and decision-making – Demonstrates sound problem-solving and decision-making ability


• Strategic thinking and organizational development – Personal influence


• Team working – Contributes effectively to the team

Education:

• Level – Advanced university degree


• Areas – rural development, agriculture, economics, rural finance, development policy or other job related fields. Degree must be an accredited institution listed on https://www.whed.net/home.php.

Experience:

• At least two (2) years’ progressively responsible professional experience in development institutions and/or government service.
  
  Must be a national of, or hold a valid working permit for, the country of assignment.
  
  Qualifying work experience in country programme analysis or loan/grant administration with International financial institutions, development cooperation agencies, etc., would be an asset.

Languages:

• English (4 – Excellent)


• Desirable: French, Spanish, or Arabic

Skills:

• Budgeting, resource management: Know-how in budget administration and accounting, resource allocation and planning at divisional level


• Advocacy: Ability to leverage IFAD knowledge and/or communication materials to maintain and promote constructive dialogue around IFAD`s vision and strategic priorities to external actors


• Data management: Data collection, cleaning, transformation and consolidation; data-base architecture & development; data presentation


• Risk management (e.g. reputational): Identification and assessment of potential liabilities and risks in IFAD’s activities, particularly vis-à-vis third parties; ability to handle risks via contingency and mitigation strategies


• Stakeholder management: Strong alignment capabilities and consultation skills, building on effective interactions and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g. for the co-creation of communication material with member states) and ability to build and maintain a strong network (e.g. with journalists, media outlets, etc.)


• Ethics & Compliance: Expertise in managing and overseeing the ethics and compliance functions, advising management and staff on ethical issues, reviewing allegations of violation of the Code of conduct, managing the mandatory ethics training programme on harassment including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, the whistleblowing protection procedures and the financial disclosure programme


• Adaptability: Adaptability and flexibility when facing new or unexpected situations, and to specific constraints and circumstances and managing complex processes


• Basic ICT & digital fluency: High level of digital literacy and ability to quickly get familiar with new digital tools (e.g. ability to carry out EPR data entry and extraction when budgeting; monitoring security systems, uploading content to inter/intra-net websites, etc.)


• Political acumen: Ability to conduct sound political analysis and understand complex environments, providing options and advice


• Problem solving: Strong systemic and structured thinking, ability to identify and dissect problems into components and formulate a comprehensive set of creative viable and sustainable solutions and strategies


• Written communication: Clear, succinct and convincing written communication in the language needed for specific role; highly professional, balanced and diplomatic language (e.g. for drafting of position papers, briefings, etc.)


• Loans & grants: Know-how in designing loan and grant operations and managing loan and grant preparation process


• Programme/Project development, management: Know-how in Programme/Project development, implementation, management.

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