Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Multi Location
Organizational Setting
FAO Afghanistan is investing, across all 34 provinces, in resilience reinforcing actions that focus on protecting agriculture livelihoods and local ecosystems, boosting local production of nutritious foods and cash incomes, and safeguarding critical agriculture sectoral development gains achieved over the past couple of decades through revitalizing rural markets and economy. In 2022-2023, FAO will, under the life-saving assistance Outcome (1) of the UN Transitional Engagement Framework (TEF), focus on the following four priority actions: (i) Safeguarding Wheat Seed Security, (ii) Enhancing Local Production of Nutritious Food, (iii) Livestock Protection and Dairy Sector Support, and (iv) Restoring Irrigation Structures to Boost Cash Incomes. Additionally, FAO will contribute toward resilience-building activities under Outcome 2 of the TEF.
Technical Focus
The position will support the FAO Afghanistan MEAL team to ensure the availability of reliable, high-quality data to monitor and report against FAO Afghanistan’s programme. In strong collaboration with the MEAL and Programming colleagues, the Database Management Specialist will play an important role in improving data quality and information management to strengthen analytical processes, and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning across the FAO programming.
Reporting Lines
The Database Management Specialist will work under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative, the direct supervision of the Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer, and the technical supervision of the Head of the MEAL Team.
Tasks and responsibilities
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING
Minimum Requirements
FAO Core Competencies
Technical/Functional Skills
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
FAO seeks gender, geographical and linguistic diversity in its staff and international consultants in order to best serve FAO Members in all regions.
HOW TO APPLY
• To apply, visit the recruitment website at Jobs at FAO and complete your online profile. We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, and language skills
• Candidates are requested to attach a letter of motivation to the online profile
• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application
• Candidates may be requested to provide performance assessments and authorization to conduct verification checks of past and present work, character, education, military and police records to ascertain any and all information which may be pertinent to the employment qualifications
• Incomplete applications will not be considered
• Personal information provided on your application may be shared within FAO and with other companies acting on FAO’s behalf to provide employment support services such as pre-screening of applications, assessment tests, background checks and other related services. You will be asked to provide your consent before submitting your application. You may withdraw consent at any time, by withdrawing your application, in such case FAO will no longer be able to consider your application
• Only applications received through the FAO recruitment portal will be considered
• Your application will be screened based on the information provided in your online profile
• We encourage applicants to submit the application well before the deadline date.
If you need help, or have queries, please contact: Careers@fao.org
Qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Attachments
Database Management Specialist.pdf
Quick Guide_ Applying for AVacancy At FAO.pdf
Post Date
May 09, 2022
Closing Date
May 23, 2022
Reference
2201248
Number of Vacancies
1
Salary Range
As per company salary scale
Years of Experience
5 - 7 years
Probation Period
3 month
Contract Type
Service Contract
Contract Duration
6 month
Contract Extensible
Yes
Minimum Education
Master's Degree
Gender
Any
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