Ipc Communications Specialist

Job Posting: 08/Aug/2025

Closure Date: 29/Aug/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: ESA

Job Type: Non-staff opportunities

Type of Requisition: Consultant

Grade Level: N/A

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Up to 11 months

Post Number: N/A

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**Organizational Setting**
The Agrifood Economics and Policy Division (ESA) conducts economic research and policy analysis to support the transformation into more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems for better production, nutrition, environment and life, leaving no-one behind. ESA 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 Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) is responsible for ensuring FAO's efforts to support countries and partners in preparing for and effectively responding to food and agricultural threats and crises. It is responsible for coordinating the development and maintenance of corporate tools and standards to enable Decentralized Offices to assist Members to prepare for, and respond to emergencies. OER ensures humanitarian policy coordination and knowledge, liaison with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee as well as with humanitarian resource partners, co-leadership with the World Food Programme of the global Food Security Cluster, organizational preparedness, surge capacity and response to large-scale emergencies. OER supports food and nutrition security assessments and early warning activities related to emergency and humanitarian analysis and responses. OER plays a major role in the development and leadership of the Organization's programme to increase the resilience of livelihoods to food and agriculture threats and crises.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a global, multi-partner initiative to facilitate decision-making with improved food security and nutrition analysis. The IPC is a set of tools and protocols for classifying the severity and nature of food insecurity and malnutrition that integrates food security, nutrition, and livelihood information into a clear statement to inform decisions and response in food and nutrition crises contexts. IPC incorporates a meta-analytical approach drawing on evidence-based analysis that includes a broad range of data sets and stakeholders. This global initiative is governed and strategically guided by twenty-one major agencies: Action Against Hunger, CARE International, Comité Permanent Inter-États de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse au Sahel (CILSS), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), the Global Food Security Cluster, the Global Nutrition Cluster, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), IMPACT, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Save the Children, the Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The IPC Global Support Unit (GSU), hosted within FAO and co-managed by FAO’s Agri-food Economics and Policy Division (ESA) and the Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER), is the operational arm of the IPC Steering Committee and is responsible for the coordination of IPC normative development, IPC global standards on quality and compliance, IPC communication, as well as the global coordination of capacity buildi