DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
28 July 2026-23:59-GMT+07:00 Indochina Time (Vientiane)
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ABOUT WFP
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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).
The VAM Officer will provide technical and analytical support to WFP Lao PDR’s Research, Assessment and Monitoring Unit, with a focus on strengthening emergency preparedness, rapid response, climate risk analysis, vulnerability assessment, and evidence-based programme decision-making. The role will support the design and implementation of food security and vulnerability assessments, including Emergency Food Security Assessments, and produce timely analysis, maps, dashboards, reports, and briefing materials to inform targeting, geographic prioritization, response planning, and programme adaptation.
The position will also contribute to integrating climate, disaster risk, and food security data to identify high-risk areas and vulnerable population groups, support early warning systems, and strengthen links between analysis and operational action. Working closely with internal programme teams, government counterparts, clusters, and partners, the VAM Officer will help ensure that WFP’s preparedness and response activities are guided by reliable, timely, and actionable evidence.
The VAM Officer will provide technical and analytical support to strengthen WFP Lao PDR’s emergency preparedness and response through:
Emergency Preparedness and Rapid Response Analysis
- Support the planning and implementation of rapid assessments, including pre- and post-shock assessments within emergency timelines in collaboration with the relevant partners, the cluster and IASC.
- Contribute to Emergency Food Security Assessments (EFSAs) and other rapid data systems.
- Provide real-time analysis to inform response scale-up, geographic prioritization, and transfer modality decisions.
- Develop early warning triggers that link risk data to programme activation and preparedness actions.
- Contribute to early warning capacity building, including technical assistance in disaster data management, standardized assessment tools and integration of early warning systems.
- Support the design, data collection, analysis, and reporting of Emergency food security Assessment EFSAs.
- Produce analytical reports, dashboards, maps, and briefing products for operational and strategic decision-making.
Climate Risk and Vulnerability Analysis
- Conduct or contribute to climate and disaster risk and vulnerability analysis, including hazard exposure and seasonal shock analysis.
- Provide technical inputs into DRFI discussions with SEADRIF
- Support the integration of climate data with food security and vulnerability outcomes.
- Identify high-risk geographic areas and population groups based on climate-vulnerability interactions.
- Contribute to analytical tools such as Integrated Context Analysis (ICA), CLEAR, or similar frameworks.
Targeting and Programme Support
- Provide analytical inputs to targeting criteria, beneficiary prioritization, geographic targeting, and vulnerability mapping.
- Support alignment with targeting standard operating procedures and relevant corporate guidance.
- Contribute to evidence-based programme design, adaptation, and scale-up during shocks.
Data Systems and Innovation
- Promote the use of innovative tools.
- Perform other related duties as required.
EXPECTED RESULTS:
- Timely, evidence-based food security, vulnerability, and shock analysis to inform operational and strategic decision-making;
- Rapid assessment reports, including emergency food security assessments (EFSA), produced within agreed emergency timelines;
- Climate risk, hazard, and vulnerability analysis are integrated into programme planning, preparedness, and response decisions;
- Updated vulnerability maps, targeting layers, dashboards, and briefing products developed with support from the RAM Unit;
- Strengthened linkage between VAM analysis and Food Security Cluster coordination through timely evidence sharing;
- Improved targeting, programme design, adaptation, and response scale-up during shocks and seasonal stress periods;
- High-quality analytical documents prepared independently and aligned with country, regional, and corporate priorities;
- Practical solutions and timely outputs delivered through strong collaboration with internal teams and external partners;
- Enhanced institutional capacity to translate climate, economic, seasonal, and food security analysis into operational action.
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS:
- Ability to compile, maintain and analyze data, prepare reports and good writing skills and draw initial conclusions and recommendations;
- Ability to work in a team, and maintain effective work relationships with counterparts;
- Effective and timely interaction with colleagues and concerned parties internally and externally; flexibility in accepting work assignments outside normal desk description;
- Ability to deal patiently and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability to establish priorities and to plan, coordinate and monitor own work plan and those under supervision;
- Good analytical skills;
- Resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgement, tact, negotiating skills.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
- University degree in one or more of the following disciplines: economy, statistics, information technology, environment, social sciences, development studies, climate change, international relations
Experience:
- At least five years of relevant work experience.
- Work experience in database management and household data analysis. Experience in EFSA, climate and vulnerability analysis and experience in food security, vulnerability and livelihood analysis and needs assessments is an asset.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Experience in advanced quantitative and/or qualitative analytical skills including propensity score matching, t-tests, chi-square tests, regressions, etc.
- Experience in managing complex monitoring and/or evaluation activities spanning a range of policies and programme initiatives in international development or humanitarian contexts. In-depth knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methods, metrics, statistical applications and reporting systems.
- In-depth knowledge of results-based management principles and practices. Knowledge of UN/WFP corporate accountability frameworks are important.
- Practical knowledge on how data is collected, compiled, analyzed and presented for management decisions and donor reporting in large organization.
- Proven ability to develop quality reports and analyses with minimal direction.
- Proven ability to network effectively with multiple work units.
- Willingness to build capacity of others through formal and informal training processes; ability to facilitate and train different audiences.
- Proficient Knowledge/usage of statistical packages and database management and data visualization tools (SPSS, Stata, Python, R, SAS, Excel, MODA and Tableau).
- Demonstrated ability to present information and ideas and to communicate effectively.
- Track record of producing reports and other communication materials
- Proficiency in Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
- All applications must be submitted exclusively through our online recruiting system. We do not consider CVs or applications sent by email, LinkedIn, or any other channel.
- We strongly recommend that your Workday profile is accurate and complete, and that all sections are filled in, including your employment history, academic qualifications, language skills, and UN grade (if applicable). Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
- If you experience technical issues while submitting your application, you may contact us at global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org. Please note that this email is only for technical issues with an application - unsolicited applications or documents sent to this inbox will not receive a reply.
- At the application stage, the only required documents are your CV and Cover Letter. Additional documents (passport, certificates, recommendation letters, etc.) may be requested later in the process.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the recruitment process.
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.
