Job Posting: 17/Apr/2025 Closure Date: 08/May/2025, 4:59:00 PM Organizational Unit: ESA Job Type: Staff position Type of Requisition: Professional Grade Level: P-3 Primary Location: Italy-Rome Duration: Fixed-term: two years with possibility of extension Post Number: 0095869 CCOG Code: 1L09 IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that Closure Date and Time displayed above are based on date and time settings of your personal device - __________________________________________________ - FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture: - Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply: - Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO's values: - FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination: - FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations._ The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a _better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind. Organizational Setting The Agrifood Economics and Policy Division (ESA) conducts economic research and policy analysis and provides evidence-based support to national, regional and global policy processes and initiatives related to monitoring and analysing food and agricultural policies, agribusiness and value chain development, rural transformation and poverty, food security and nutrition information and analysis, resilience, bioeconomy and climate-smart agriculture. The Division also leads the production of two FAO flagship publications: The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI). The position is based at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, within the ESA team that coordinates and produces The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report. The role will require close collaboration with FAO's other technical divisions as well as external partners. The SOFA team's primary focus lies in robust evidence generation on topics of general interest to agrifood system stakeholders with the objective of making agrifood systems more efficient, resilient and inclusive. This involves developing innovative economic analyses that may cover market structure in agricultural value chains, food security and nutrition, employment in agrifood systems, environmental sustainability and other issues of relevance for agrifood systems. The analyses are used to produce the State of Food and Agriculture report, which covers a different topic of general interest every year. Reporting Lines The Economist reports to the Senior Economist (SOFA), ESA, under the overall supervision of the Director of the Agrifood Economics and Policy Division (ESA). Technical Focus Key Results Research and analysis of information, data and statistics, and the maintenance and updating of related tools, methodologies, and/or databases to support the delivery of programme products, projects, publications, and services. Key Functions - Researches and analyses agricultural, economic, trade, market, social, environmental, nutrition/food composition and/or gender related] data, statistics and information to provide technical, statistical and/or policy related information and analysis to support the delivery of economic and social development programmes work, products, projects, publications and services. - Produces a variety of technical reports and input for technical documents, publications and/or web pages. - Provides technical, statistical, and/or analytical services on various studies, projects, and/or assessments and provides technical backstopping to field projects. - Participates in the development of improved/updated technical, statistical and/or analytical tools, methodologies, systems, databases, and/or key social/ economic/ environmental/ nutritional and/or early warning indicators, etc. - Participates in multidisciplinary teams, collaborates with other Divisions, Offices and Centres on work groups and committees and promotes best practices. - Collaborates in capacity development activities involving the planning and organizing of training workshops, seminars, and major meetings and the preparation of related information, materials, on-line tools and information kits. - Promotes knowledge sharing and best practices at international meetings and conferences a