Economist (Policy Modelling) - Roma, Italia - FAO

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Job Posting: 05/Sep/2023

Closure Date: 26/Sep/2023, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit:

ESA

Job Type:
Staff position

Type of Requisition:
Professional Project

Grade Level:
P-4

Primary Location:
Italy-Rome

Duration:
Fixed-term: 1 year with possibility of extension

Post Number:
CCOG Code: 1L09

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for
_better production_,
_better nutrition_,
_a _
- better environment,_ and
_a better life_, leaving no one behind.

Organizational Setting

The Agrifood Economics Division (ESA) conducts economic research and policy analysis to support the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind.

ESA provides evidence-based support to national, regional and global policy processes and initiatives related to monitoring and analysing food and agricultural policies, agribusiness and value chain development, rural transformation and poverty, food security and nutrition information and analysis, resilience, bioeconomy, and climate-smart agriculture.

The division also leads the production of two FAO flagship publications:

The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI).

The post is located at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, in the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme within
ESA.

The MAFAP programme seeks to establish country owned and sustainable systems to monitor, analyse, and reform food and agricultural policies for more sustainable, effective, efficient and inclusive policy frameworks for agrifood systems.

MAFAP currently focus primarily on sub-Saharan Africa, with increasing policy support to countries in the Near East and South Asia.

MAFAP works with government institutions, research organizations and other partners to create sustainable policy monitoring systems and carry out a consistent set of policy and public expenditure analyses across a wide range of agricultural value chains.

MAFAP analyses are used to inform targeted food and agricultural policy reforms that will result in a more conducive environment for agricultural investment and productivity growth, especially for smallholder farmers.

As such, MAFAP supports most of FAO strategic objectives, and in particular those of enabling inclusive and efficient agrifood systems and helping eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.

Reporting Lines

The Economist (Policy Modelling) reports to the Senior Economist (Project Manager - MAFAP) of the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, under the overall supervision of the Director,
ESA.

Technical Focus

The Economist (Policy Modelling) engages in policy modelling activities and contributes to bring and institutionalize new modelling capacity in the MAFAP programme and
ESA more generally.

He/she contributes to the delivery of outputs and products as described in the MAFAP programme results framework.

He/she supports those MAFAP food and agricultural policy analysis and advice that need to rely on economic modelling, particularly using computable general equilibrium (CGE) models.

As such, he/she also helps develop new economy-wide models and improve/extend existing ones using strong coding skills in specialized software and with specialized solvers.

He/she is familiar with policy advice efforts that are informed by economic modelling in an international development setting, preferably on agricultural and/or food security policy issues.

He/she will work in close coordination with other modellers and econometricians of
ESA as deemed necessary.

Key Results
Comprehensive technical, statistical, analytical and/or policy analysis services and the development of specialized tools, methodologies, systems and/or databases to support th