Country Technical Lead

Chemonics (Lebanon)

• Efficient, focused acute food insecurity monitoring, data collection, assessment, and early warning analysis
• Effective communication of early warning analysis to the USG, partners and decision-makers through high-quality reports and participation in briefings and formal and informal meetings
• Close collaboration with key partners, such as host government ministries, UN agencies, and international and local NGOs, among others
• Supporting and helping to build strategic partner networks by addressing identified gaps in effective early warning systems and through supporting network capacity building efforts spearheaded by FEWS NET
• Project administration and management at the national level
• Monthly meetings with USG staff
• Regular participation in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) or Cadre Harmonis (CH) analyses
• Regular collection of data and field information, as required, and uploaded to the FEWS NET Data Warehouse (FDW)
• Coordination and effective collaboration with other FEWS NET mechanisms

The CTL is responsible for supporting, supervising, and providing quality control for national and sub-national level project deliverables and ensuring that activities and products for the country are delivered in a high-quality and timely manner.

Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the Lebanon CTL include, but are not limited to:

• Overseeing the fulfilment of monthly reporting requirements, including providing writing and providing critical inputs to part or all the Food Security Outlooks (FSOs), FSO Updates (FSOUs), Price Watch, and key messages (KMs); contributing to Food Assistance Outlook Brief (FAOB) reports; and providing regular briefings to USG and other partners.
• Delivering food security briefings and/or updates to relevant USG staff. Overseeing the capture and transfer of meeting notes from these engagements within two days of the event.
• The CTL will ensure the integrated food security analyses (FSOs, FSOUs, FAOB input) classify and communicate the severity of acute food insecurity in line with the globally recognized Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) scale. Where IPC compatibility is not possible, the CTL will ensure analyses remain globally comparable.
• Support the DST in meeting the USG s expectations on timely delivery of decision support products, which include, but are not limited to: delivery of monthly reporting for all presence countries no later than 7 days after the last day of the reporting month; responding to urgent questions on acute food insecurity within one day; providing briefings within one week of request; and supporting ad hoc requests for countries within the region at the request of the RTL within one week of request.
• Maintaining a knowledge base comprised of, at a minimum, livelihood zone profiles, commodity trade flow maps, sub-national seasonal monitoring calendars, commodity price data, nutrition data, security monitoring, conflict data, migration, remittances, labor, humanitarian food assistance, and other technical data covering rainfall, agricultural production, population, etc., in collaboration with other FEWS NET 8 implementing mechanisms, as applicable
• Maintaining and transferring relevant national technical databases built from primary and secondary data sources, from national and sub-national partners, and through inputs entered into the FEWS NET Data Warehouse
• Developing and updating national seasonal monitoring plans and participating in national acute food insecurity monitoring, as applicable
• Providing proactive, high quality, and effective early warning of acute threats to food security in the country and supporting efforts to mitigate acute food insecurity and prevent food crises through effective communication of actionable food security analysis
• Providing strategic leadership in the planning and execution of technical activities in the country, including working closely with the Regional Technical Lead and the relevant home office Food Security Analyst(s), to develop annual workplans that ensure that the in-country team is capacitated to carry out high-quality early warning analysis that produces IPC-compatible analyses
• As part of ensuring high quality decision support, the CTL will support collaboration with Regional Technical Senior Specialists (RTSSs) to improve the integration of thematic technical areas (e.g., conflict, markets and trade, livelihoods, nutrition and agroclimatology) into regular and ad hoc decision support (including briefings) and facilitate interaction among regional and country office technical staff to further integrate sub-national and national technical and thematic analyses into decision support
• Engage with other technical staff in the country, to identify sectoral support needs and collaborate with the RTL and RTSSs to coordinate support, based on identified priorities
• Collaborating with national and national partners in food security monitoring and analysis in the country, including through implementation of the IPC or CH protocols
• Developing and maintaining strong collaborative national relations, both formal and informal, with USG representatives, US Embassy technical contacts, UN agency representatives, government ministry staff, and key international, regional, and national NGO counterparts to facilitate technical exchanges, promote consensus-building, work to resolve technical disagreements, and facilitate joint, coordinated actions to mitigate food insecurity
• Supporting the FEWS NET CTM (where present) and/or CTSSs to collect, archive, analyze, and share food security data and information and to undertake network development activities
• Participating in field assessments, as requested, to support rapid monitoring of emerging crises as guided by the Washington D.C.- based technical team, in coordination with the RTL
• Participating in all required meetings
• Ensuring the organization of project documentation and files for the country
• Conducting regular independent and joint field assessments of food security conditions in areas of most concern in the country
• Contributing to the development of other FEWS NET DST information products required by the regional office or the Washington D.C.-based technical team
• Ensuring information on the relevant country page of the FEWS NET website is current and accurate
• Supporting network capacity development efforts in coordination with the Regional Network Development and Communications Senior Specialists and the Network Development Advisor