Senior Programme Associate (Climate Analytics)

The Senior Programme Associate (Climate Analytics) supports WFP Cambodia in strengthening national systems for disaster risk management, shock-responsive social protection, and disaster risk financing. The role involves climate and disaster risk analytics, assessments, capacity strengthening, and supporting evidence-based decision-making to enhance emergency preparedness and response.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the analysis of climate and disaster risks, vulnerability, food security, and nutrition to support evidence-based decision-making.
• Support the integration and interpretation of climate, disaster risk, and vulnerability analyses for preparedness planning, anticipatory action, shock-responsive social protection, and emergency response decision-making.
• Assist in the development, review, and monitoring of thresholds, triggers, and decision-support indicators for early warning systems, preparedness actions, and programme activation mechanisms.
• Support the development and enhancement of analytical methods, tools, and frameworks for climate risk monitoring and assessment, post-disaster impact assessments, food security and nutrition assessments, vulnerability analyses, rapid assessments, and household surveys.
• Support quantitative and qualitative methods, including geospatial and statistical analyses, to ensure analytical rigor, methodological consistency, and quality assurance across analytical products related to food security, nutrition, vulnerability, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk management.
• During emergencies, provide analytical support to response operations, including rapid impact analysis, situation reporting, and support to relief planning and coordination in line with national priorities and WFP response objectives.
• Assist in strengthening government capacities to implement and utilize post-disaster impact data collection, analysis, verification, and reporting systems, including digital platforms and geospatial tools such as PRISM.
• Provide technical support to government counterparts and partners to strengthen institutional capacities for translating climatic disaster risk, impact, and vulnerability information into operational plans, preparedness measures, and response actions.
• Assist in the preparation of analytical reports, dashboards, maps, situation updates, presentations, briefing notes, and other information products to support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Contribute to the documentation of programme activities, lessons learned, analytical outputs, and results for donor reporting, corporate reporting, accountability requirements, knowledge management, and public communication.
• Promote the use of innovative approaches, technologies, and digital tools for data collection, monitoring, forecasting, analytics, visualization, and decision support.
• Perform any other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Completion of secondary school education.
• A post-secondary certificate in Climate Science, Meteorology, Hydrology, Disaster Risk Management, Geography, GIS, Economics, Statistics, Development Studies, Food Security, Nutrition, Data Science, or a related field.
• Fluency in both spoken and written English and Khmer is required.
• Has a minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible professional experience in climate risk analysis, disaster risk management, early warning systems, food security and nutrition analysis, vulnerability assessment, or related fields.
• Demonstrates strong skills in assessment/survey design, data analysis, and reporting.
• Has experience using statistical analysis, and data collection/visualization tools such as SPSS, Stata, R, Python, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, KoBoToolbox, ODK, or similar platforms.
• Demonstrates proficiency in GIS and Remote Sensing applications (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, GEE) for spatial analysis, and production of maps.
• Has experience working with government institutions, development partners, or humanitarian organizations in disaster management, climate adaptation, food security, nutrition, or resilience-building initiatives.
• Has experience in facilitating technical training, coaching, and capacity strengthening for government counterparts and partners.

Skills

• Climate Risk Analysis
• Disaster Risk Management
• Early Warning Systems
• Food Security Analysis
• Nutrition Analysis
• Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
• Assessment Design
• Survey Design
• Data Analysis
• Statistical Analysis
• SPSS
• STATA
• Python
• Excel
• Power BI
• Tableau
• KoboToolbox
• ODK
• GIS Software
• Remote Sensing
• ArcGIS
• QGIS
• Google Earth Engine
• Spatial Analysis
• Map Production
• Technical Training Delivery
• Capacity Strengthening
• Stakeholder Engagement

Languages

English, Khmer