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Description
FAO Innovation and Behavioural Science Roster
- FAO is populating a vetted roster of experts for potential consultancies providing expertise, skills or knowledge for the performance of specific and short-term services, either in Rome, in countries or home-based. Eventual assignments may involve full-time or part-time functions.
- Expertise at all 3 FAO consultancy levels is sought, from Junior to Senior.
- Contracts may be offered as International Consultancies or under Personal Service Agreements (i.e. independent contractors)
Responsibilities
The Consultant/PSA will provide support to FAO’s vision at global, regional and country level, applying behavioural insights to different programmatic areas across FAO.
- Support (category C) / Coordinate (category B) / Lead (category A) the implementation of formative behavioural science research, literature reviews and scoping exercises;
- Support / Coordinate / Lead teams in the implementation of the application of behavioural science by a stepwise approach (e.g. Define, Diagnose, Design, Test, Scale or similar) to: i) promote human-centered thinking; and ii) generate where feasible behavioural insights together with teams.
- Support / Coordinate / Lead the piloting of behavioural science projects in the field; including co-design of behavioural science interventions / prototypes through a data-driven perspective, building on existing knowledge from the formative or explorative research phase in projects and aligning with technical teams to deliver quality behavioural science outputs that contribute to desired innovation outcomes
- Support / Coordinate / Lead the organization and implementation of co-innovation workshops (e.g. behaviour design sprints), making use of established diagnostic tools and frameworks (e.g. EAST, COM-B, BASIC, MINDSPACE) to design and implement workshops, as appropriate.
- Support / Coordinate / Lead the application of qualitative, quantitative and/or mixed methods research to capture evidence generated from behavioural science applications; provide guidance on instrument design, integrating of behavioural indicators; capture, analyse and translate pilot results for technical and non-technical audiences
- Support / Coordinate / Lead the iteration of interventions to identify scalable policy elements and / or adapt previous pilots to agrifood system contexts.
- Any other duties as required.
Requirements
- University degree in Behavioural Science, Behavioural Economics or any related studies.
- At least 1 year (category C), 5 years (category B) or 12 years (category A) of relevant work experience in the areas below:
- Applied behavioural science expertise in behavioural assessments, barrier and lever analysis, running experiments, lab-in-the-field or other forms of applied research.
- Application of qualitative, quantitative and/or mixed research methods
- Research instruments, protocols, recruitment screening procedures, enumerator trainings and pre-analysis plans (data analytics including skills in identifying and visualizing data-driven causes and correlations; running experiments and surveys; SQL and ability to query and manipulate datasets; use of statistical packages [e.g. Stata, R] would be preferred)
- Behavioural design in prototyping, user testing and other related participatory research designs
- Behavioural co-design workshop planning, event planning and/or management (e.g. hackathons, behavioural design sprints) including alignment on pre- and post-workshop preparations such as worksheet development and follow-up with teams.
- Design and/or delivery of introductory training on behavioural science concepts and processes for internal and external audiences
- Project management
- Relationship management
- Working knowledge (level C) of English and limited knowledge (level B) of another official language of the Organization (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish).
Personal Service Agreement (PSA)
- University degree, technical specialization or equivalent in Behavioural Science, Behavioural Economics or any related studies.
- At least 1 year (category C), 5 years (category B) or 15 years (category A) of relevant work experience the aforementioned areas.
- Working knowledge (Level C) of English is required.
Additional Information
- FAO does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, processing)
- Please note that FAO will only consider academic credentials or degrees obtained from an educational institution recognized in the IAU/UNESCO list
- Please note that FAO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/
- For more information, visit the FAO employment website
- Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, accreditation, any residency or visa requirements, and security clearances.