Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) 7 

Global Early Warning Coordinator
Tetra Tech International Development Services (https://careers.tetratechintdev.com), headquartered in Arlington, VA is a holder of the Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS NET) 7 IDIQ contract.  Tetra Tech is now accepting expressions of interest from qualified candidates to join the Washington DC-based FEWS NET Pillar One – Emergency Food Security Analysis Team, to facilitate rapid start-up should USAID award this Task Order to Tetra Tech.  

FEWS NET is a leading provider of food insecurity monitoring and early warning services that enable the US Government and its partners, including governments and national, regional, and international government and non-governmental organizations, to prepare for and respond to food security crises anywhere in the world. FEWS NET is headquartered in Washington DC and has 26 country and regional offices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The objectives of activities implemented under Pillar One are to: (1) build the evidence base for food security analysis; (2) carry out emergency food security analysis and decision-support; and (3) strengthen networks and local systems to improve their capacity to contribute to and utilize FEWS NET analyses and reporting. 

The Global Early Warning Coordinator is a Washington-DC based position that sits within FEWS NET’s Decision Support Team to ensure that the project team and its partners can remotely capture and effectively utilize food security data and information from countries where the project doesn’t have a physical presence.

Responsibilities:          
* Serves as the home office focal point for remote monitoring and reporting on non-presence countries;
* Under direction of project leadership and with input from FEWS NET’s Director of Evidence, Data, and Innovation, Network Development Specialist, and Regional Technical Managers, designs the project’s remote monitoring plan for collecting, archiving, sharing, analyzing, and reporting on food security-related data and information from remotely monitored countries and establish procedures and guidelines for data collection, management, quality control, and quality assurance;
* Supports regional offices in developing and updating regional Remote Monitoring Plans;
* Oversees ongoing remote monitoring activities (i.e. review of collected data and information) of all home and field office staff and contracted partners;
* Consolidates key messages and other reporting outputs into monthly global remote monitoring reports;
* Evaluates information needs and recommend resources (e.g. number and location of enumerators) and frequency of data collection;
* Assesses overall performance of remote monitoring activities and provides project leadership with recommendations on expanding or filling gaps in monitoring activities or improving monitoring systems;
* Supports the development and maintenance of local food security networks in non-presence countries;
* Contributes to network development activities to enhance project access to reliable data streams.

Essential Qualifications and Competencies:

* Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (journalism, statistics, data or computer sciences, mathematics, economics, development or humanitarian studies, political science, international relations, natural resource management, social anthropology, etc.); Masters preferred;
* English required; Arabic, French, Portuguese, and/or Spanish preferred;
* At least five years of experience in conducting and/or managing remote collection of data and information related to markets, trade, agricultural production, humanitarian response, health, nutrition, and other food security indicators;

* At least two years of experience setting up and/or using digital applications and mobile devices for data capture;

* Experience triangulating multiple datasets and information sources for analysis, reporting, and decision-support;

* Experience in network development and network strengthening and capacity building;
* Experience training enumerators in the use of digital applications and mobile devices;
* Experience working in FEWS NET-monitored countries (see www.fews.net for list) preferred;

* Ability to work effectively with a diverse team of colleagues working from multiple offices;

* Demonstrated diplomatic acumen and relationship management skills;

* Demonstrated coordination, communications, and task management skills;

* Availability to travel up to 25 percent of the year;

* U.S. citizenship or a valid U.S. work permit is an absolute requirement.