Communication Officer

Job Posting: 10/Feb/2025

Closure Date: 03/Mar/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: ESA

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Professional Project

Grade Level: P-4

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed-term: one year with possibility of extension

Post Number: 2010584

CCOG Code: 1A08

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- **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 the 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**:
FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations.

The Agrifood Economics and Policy Division (ESA) conducts economic research and policy analysis to support the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems. 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 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a global, multi-partner innovative initiative to facilitate decision-making with improved food security analysis, through a set of tools and protocols for classifying the severity and nature of food insecurity and implications for response. IPC incorporates a meta-analysis approach drawing on evidence-based analysis of food security, nutrition and livelihood information through a consensus approach that includes a broad range of stakeholders.

This global initiative is governed and strategically guided by an IPC Global Steering Committee (GSC), consisting of 15 major UN agencies, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and regional intergovernmental body agencies, including: Action Against Hunger, Care International, Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Union, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), FAO, Global Food Security Cluster, Global Nutrition Cluster, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), Southern African Development Community (SADC), Save the Children, Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA), the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

The IPC works: 1) at the global level, through the IPC Global Steering Committee, which is responsible for the strategic vision and oversight of IPC global standards worldwide; the IPC Technical Advisory Group (TAG), which is responsible for IPC technical normative developments; and the IPC Global Support Unit (GSU) hosted within ESA, which is responsible for the coordination of IPC normative developments, IPC global standards on quality and compliance, and the global coordination of capacity building support to IPC activities worldwide); 2) at the regional level, through GSU Certified Training Units and through Regional IPC Steering/Technical Working Groups that are integrated within existing regional platforms; 3) at the country level, where the introduction and implementation of IPC is supported by Country IPC Technical Working Groups, which are linked and institutionalized within existing government and partner food security and nutrition platforms.

The position is located in ESA at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

**Reporting Lines**

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