Regional Technical Top level Expert - Dispute at Chemonics International in Nigeria

Introduction 

• The Famine Advance notice Operational structures Network (FEWS NET) is an combined set of initiatives financed by the United States Government (USG) and is intended to deliver promptly, precise, evidence-based, and transparent food insecurity advance notice information and evaluation.
• Produced in 1985 in response to famines in East and West Africa, FEWS NET delivers worldwide coverage of acute food insecurity. FEWS NET’s work is executed across several mechanisms by a team of associates that comprises the National Aeronautics and Space Management (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Management (NOAA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Tertiary institution of California-Santa Barbara’s Climate Risks Center (UCSB-CHC), Tertiary institution of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences, American Institutes for Analysis (AIR), and Chemonics International (Chemonics).
• Chemonics executes FEWS NET’s Decision Help desk (DST), which is charged with offering combined supervising and evaluation of ongoing and projection acute food insecurity in countries global to assist the United States Government’s (USG) regulatory framework and programmatic decisions.
• The DST operates through a Washington-based technical workspace, regional FEWS NET workspaces, and national employees presence in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and eastern Europe.      
• FEWS NET’s goal is to generate prompt, evidence-based decision assist to enable the productive distribution of humanitarian support on the basis of need.    
• Based on an deep comprehension of local livelihoods, FEWS NET observes information and data on factors that affect food guard, which includes dispute, weather terms and agroclimatology, crops, pasture, markets and trade, and nutrition.
• The FEWS NET DST delivers consistent documentation, which includes Food Guard Outlooks and Outlook Status reports, crisis warnings, market and price status reports, and targeted evaluation. FEWS NET makes documentation accessible at www.fews.net and distributes them internationally to governments, relief agencies, and other entities engaged in humanitarian response and development programs.     
• The eighth stage of FEWS NET began in 2024. The work of the FEWS NET DST relies on close partnership with international, regional, and national associates on food guard-associated data and information collecting and evaluation.
• Key initiatives comprise of joint supervising and evaluations, data exchanging and exchanges, cooperative evaluation and status updates, and assist of local and regional food guard networks.   

Job specification 

The FEWS NET DST is in charge of offering decision assist to the USG in over 40 countries located in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Asia, the Middle East, and Europe (MEE). The project operates out of a home workspace, based in Washington, D.C. and five regional workspaces located in LAC (Guatemala), West Africa (Niger), East Africa (Kenya), Southern Africa (Zimbabwe), and Middle East and Europe (Jordan). One regional technical top level expert (RTSS) for dispute will be based in each of the regional workspaces.   The FEWS NET DST’s Dispute sector directs the project’s supervising, evaluation, and status updates on dispute, a key driver of acute food insecurity. The RTSS-Dispute will improve the team’s capacity for advance notice evaluation connected with dispute, making sure the application of sound management principles and resources are utilized in the processes of the Dispute sector.   The RTSS-Dispute works under the technical oversight of the Guard and Dispute (S/C) Consultant, with managerial management offered by the Regional Technical Head (RTL).