Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations
Vacancy Announcement No:FAO/02/2015
Vacancy Announcement No:FAO/02/2015
Issued on: 25 January 2015
Position Title: Reporting Officer
Grade Level: SC8
Contract Type: National Personnel Project
Contract Type: National Personnel Project
Duty Station: Nairobi,
Kenya
Organizational Unit: FAO-Somalia
Duration: 3 months with likely extension
Organizational Unit: FAO-Somalia
Duration: 3 months with likely extension
Eligible Candidates: Kenyan
nationals only
Anticipated start date: Immediately
General Description of Tasks and
Objectives to be Achieved: Under the overall
supervision of the Officer-in-Charge, FAO Somalia, and the direct supervision
of the Programme Management Unit (PMU) Programme Coordinator, the Reporting
Officer will perform the following tasks.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
- In collaboration with FAO Somalia Sector teams
and other internal or external stakeholders as may be required, prepare
and edit concept notes, project or programme documents, appeals, reports,
briefs, talking points and correspondence, specifically:
- Keep track of FAO Somalia’s reporting
obligations and ensure that relevant stakeholders and colleagues are
informed on time of all requirements.
- Ensure conformity of outputs with FAO
Somalia’s strategy and relevant corporate standards, rules and
regulations.
- Identify and prioritize issues for inclusion
in the regular system-wide operational reporting.
- Ensure concision, coherence, clarity, as well
as grammatical and spelling accuracy of all programme-related
documentation.
- Deliver outputs for which he/she has
responsibility within prescribed time, cost and quality standards and
supports subordinates, provides oversight and takes responsibility for
delegated assignments.
- Flag any deviation or information gap and keep
all relevant FAO staff informed.
- Coordinate the process for obtaining required
clearances (e.g. technical, financial, legal).
- Liaise with FAO Somalia’s technical and
monitoring units to collect and collate data in FAO Somalia’s information
management system to support programmatic decision-making and reporting
- Participates in the development and monitoring
of the PMU work plan.
- Attend briefing and debriefing meetings for
missions as may be required.
- Support training activities of newly recruited
Somali staff as may be required for reporting and operational matters.
- Perform any other related duties as required.
Minimum Requirements
Education: Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science, Law, Communications / English or related degree in Development, Economics or Agriculture is required.
Work Experience:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science, Law, Communications / English or related degree in Development, Economics or Agriculture is required.
Work Experience:
- Minimum of three (3) years progressively
responsible work experience undertaking operational and analytical work in
the field of international humanitarian affairs and/or development or
journalism and professional experience in a similar position supporting a
reporting unit.
Technical Competencies
- Knowledge of UN procedures and protocols with
bias to the subject matter literacy (agriculture and food security) will
be an advantage.
- A proven track record of relevant work
experience in the computer hardware/software proficiency, word processing,
databases, preparation of electronic reports.
- Experience in writing and developing
correspondence.
- Excellent planning, organizational, analytical
and writing skills;
- Ability to work independently and deliver
quality work within tight deadlines.
- Strong inter-cultural communication skills and
ability to work under pressure.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
Languages:
- Working knowledge (level C) of the FAO official
language used for communication within the country (English, French or
Spanish) and working knowledge of the local language(s) is required.
IT Skills:
- Ability to effectively use standard office
software, such as MS Office (Windows, Word, Outlook, Excel, Exchange)
etc.
- Ability to use accounting software and other
information systems and databases to insert data, make enquiries,
retrieve/define ad hoc reports and analyses and edit results in
appropriate format.
Office Management Skills:
- Systematic, well-structured and efficient
approach to work assignments.
- Analytical ability, accuracy and
consistency.
- Exercise diligence and care in dealing with
records and expenditures.
Interpersonal Communications and
Teamwork Skills:
- The incumbent must possess a cooperative
spirit, flexibility and openness to work in an international
environment.
- Tact and courtesy.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective
working relationships with people of different national and cultural
background.
How to Apply:
Send your application to:
Candidates are requested to submit a covering letter quoting the Position Title and Vacancy Announcement No. FAO/02/2015 along with their current/detailed Curriculum Vitae and FAO Personal Profile Form (PPF) availablehttp://www.fao.org/employment/irecruitment-access/en/.
Send your application to:
Candidates are requested to submit a covering letter quoting the Position Title and Vacancy Announcement No. FAO/02/2015 along with their current/detailed Curriculum Vitae and FAO Personal Profile Form (PPF) availablehttp://www.fao.org/employment/irecruitment-access/en/.
E-mail is the preferred means of
receipt and your application should be sent to HR-Somalia@fao.org
Position Title: Database & Applications Developer
Grade Level: SC8
Contract Type: National Personnel Project
Contract Type: National Personnel Project
Duty Station: Mogadishu,
Somalia.
Organizational Unit: FAO-Somalia
Duration: 3 months with likely extension
Organizational Unit: FAO-Somalia
Duration: 3 months with likely extension
Eligible Candidates: Somali nationals only
Anticipated start date: Immediately
General Description
of Tasks and Objectives to be Achieved: Under the overall supervision of the FAO Somalia
Officer in Charge (O.I.C.), the FSNAU Chief Technical Adviser (CTA), and under
direct supervision of the Data Systems and Information Manager, the Database
and Application Developer will provide database application programming support
in the DST unit of the EC funded and FAO managed Food Security and Nutrition
Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSNAU).
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Database and Application programming
- Program application modules for the FSNAU
internal/external usage. These include server and client side programming.
- Develop various databases using open source
programming in a web-based environment, for integration in the FSNAU
database system.
- Attend and conduct necessary meetings to plan
and program any modules (database, intranet, web site etc.).
- Assist in the conceptual development of
database driven applications
- Maintain the FSNAU applications currently in
existence and modify/amend whenever necessary.
Training and Documentation
- Training users (admin and system) using the
various database and system applications
- Documenting programming code and system
technical descriptions.
- Perform other related duties as required.
All components will be programmed
using Open Source software and database systems (MySQL, PHP, XML, JSP, Java,
ODBC).
Minimum Requirements
Minimum Requirements
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Communication Technology (ICT), Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
Work Experience: A
minimum of three (3) years work experience in projects involving database
programming and/or application development, database administration, etc.
Technical Competencies
Technical Competencies
- At least three (3) years programming
experience in Open Source languages and Open Source Operating Systems
(MySQL, PHP, Java, HTML, XML, etc).
- Previous experience, ability and willingness
to travel throughout Somalia.
- Previous work experience in statistical
related projects will be an advantage.
- Previous experience working in Somalia will be
an added advantage.
Languages: Working
knowledge (level C) of the FAO official language used for communication within
the country (English, French or Spanish) and working knowledge of the local
language(s) is required.
IT Skills:
IT Skills:
- Ability to effectively use standard office
software, such as MS Office (Windows, Word, Outlook, Excel, Exchange)
etc.
- Ability to use accounting software and other
information systems and databases to insert data, make enquiries,
retrieve/define ad hoc reports and analyses and edit results in
appropriate format.
Office Management Skills:
- Systematic, well-structured and efficient
approach to work assignments.
- Analytical ability, accuracy and
consistency.
- Exercise diligence and care in dealing with
records and expenditures.
Interpersonal Communications and
Teamwork Skills:
- The incumbent must possess a cooperative
spirit, flexibility and openness to work in an international
environment.
- Tact and courtesy.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective
working relationships with people of different national and cultural
background.
How to Apply:
Send your application to:
Candidates are requested to submit a covering letter quoting the Position Title and Vacancy Announcement No. FAO/01/2015 along with their current/detailed Curriculum Vitae and FAO Personal Profile Form (PPF) availablehttp://www.fao.org/employment/irecruitment-access/en/.
Send your application to:
Candidates are requested to submit a covering letter quoting the Position Title and Vacancy Announcement No. FAO/01/2015 along with their current/detailed Curriculum Vitae and FAO Personal Profile Form (PPF) availablehttp://www.fao.org/employment/irecruitment-access/en/.
E-mail is the preferred means of
receipt and the application should be sent to HR-Somalia@fao.org
Applications must be received by the deadline.
Applications must be received by the deadline.
Late applications will not be
considered.
We regret that due to the high number of applications, only short listed candidates meeting all essential qualifications will be contacted.
We regret that due to the high number of applications, only short listed candidates meeting all essential qualifications will be contacted.