Research, Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) Officer

The RAM Officer will lead evidence generation across key programme areas including food assistance, resilience, nutrition, school feeding, social protection, and capacity strengthening. The role involves ensuring operations are driven by high-quality data through assessments, surveys, and analysis to inform strategic decisions and enhance accountability.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of assessment, targeting and other thematic studies across WFP Iraq’s programme portfolio, ensuring effective data collection, validation, and use at all levels, including coordination with WFP field offices, government stakeholders and partners to ensure quality data collection and contextualized analysis.
• Compile, quality-assure, and disseminate assessment results in a timely manner to inform programme management, strategic decision-making, donor reporting, and advocacy efforts.
• Provide technical analytical support for Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM), baseline and follow-up surveys, and other evidence-generation activities, ensuring alignment with WFP standards and Iraq’s national priorities.
• Provide advanced methodological refinement and contribute to integrated climate and resilience analysis, encompassing vulnerability assessments, market systems evaluations, and risk analyses related.
• Utilize advanced statistical and geospatial tools to evaluate environmental degradation, livelihood vulnerabilities, and the socio-economic impacts of shocks, in order to inform adaptive programming and evidence-based targeting strategies.
• Lead geospatial mapping and data visualization efforts to georeferenced intervention sites, improve targeting accuracy, and support coordination and impact tracking.
• Support the development and refinement of targeting methodologies for social protection programmes, ensuring that interventions reach the most food-insecure and vulnerable populations, and are aligned with national systems and priorities.
• Strengthen national and subnational capacities by working closely with government counterparts to build sustainable and integrated monitoring frameworks and promote data ownership and utilization and enhance evidence-based decision-making.
• Support the development of an integrated national monitoring system that enables real-time data collection, predictive analytics, and shock-responsive programming, laying the foundation for adaptive social protection and enhanced community resilience.

Requirements

• Advanced University degree in Economics, Food Security, Statistics, Data Science, Geography or other related field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses
• Total relevant 5 years of experience including 1 year of Professional (Supervisory) experience.
• Relevant experience in designing assessments and surveys, statistical analysis, econometrics, or data management/visualization, preferably within a UN agency or an institution recognized for high-quality analytical work.
• Background or training in social services, food security, nutrition, and/or familiarity with WFP operations is considered an asset.
• Experience using a variety of quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and methods;
• Proficient in data collection, processing, analysis, and visualization tools including ODK, SPSS, Stata, ArcGIS/QGIS, and Tableau.
• Familiarity with R and related platforms (RStudio, RStudio Connect) is a strong asset.
• Advanced quantitative analysis skills, including sampling techniques, descriptive statistics, multivariable analysis, and regression modelling (using SPSS, SAS, or Stata).
• Strong communication abilities—both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, analytical capabilities, and problem-solving initiative.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams and contexts.
• Fluency in English (Level C) is required.
• Proficiency Arabic/ Kurdish is considered an asset.

Skills

• Assessment Design
• Survey Design
• Statistical Analysis
• Econometrics
• Data Management
• Data Visualization
• ODK
• SPSS
• STATA
• ArcGIS
• QGIS
• Tableau
• RStudio
• Sampling Techniques
• Descriptive Statistics
• Multivariable Analysis
• Regression Modelling
• Quantitative Analysis
• Qualitative Analysis

Languages

English