Job: Economist, FAO, Rome, Italy

The FAO Investment Centre (CFI) provides investment and finance solutions that lead to more efficient, sustainable, inclusive, and resilient agrifood systems. Working in over 120 countries, the Centre offers a full suite of investment and finance support to FAO Members. It partners with governments, international and national financing institutions, the private sector, farmers, research institutions, and academia to improve the quality and quantity of agrifood investment. The Centre's four main areas of work include support for strategic investment planning and policy, public investment, private investment, and innovative finance. These are complemented by knowledge for investment and capacity development programmes that share knowledge, learn, and build capacities at the country level.

The post is located in the Asia and the Pacific Service (CFIB) of the FAO Investment Centre (CFI) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

About the Opportunity

Provide analytical and technical support on economic and financial aspects for the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of investment policies, strategies, programmes, and projects in food and agriculture, rural development, natural resource management, and agro-processing.

Key results include delivering investment and finance support solutions through the provision of technical expertise/assistance and capacity development, in collaboration with country stakeholders and cooperating partners, to achieve impact at scale in the transformation of agrifood systems in the scope of the FAO Strategic Framework.

Key Functions Include:

1. Participates in multidisciplinary teams for the identification and preparation of investment operations in the fields of food security, agriculture, rural development, natural resource management, and agro-processing, and in pre-appraisal and appraisal missions.
2. Participates in multidisciplinary teams for the implementation support and the preparation of final evaluation of investment operations.
3. Drafts components of food security, agriculture, rural development, natural resource management, and agro-processing studies and strategies, in the formulation of national sector and/or sub-sector investment plans and programmes.
4. Participates in capacity development programme activities in the areas of food security, agriculture, rural development, natural resource management, and agro-processing investment support to government staff, non-state actors, and private sector organizations.
5. Establishes, promotes, and maintains relationships with the relevant Programme Priority Areas, FAO technical units, and Decentralized Offices to ensure best synergies between investment, policy, and innovation work in support of Members.
6. Prepares reports in accordance with governments' and financing partners' requirements.

All FAO employees will be able to participate in one of FAO’s sponsored medical insurance plans. The monthly premiums are co-shared by the employee and the Organization. Staff with appointments of six months or more become participants in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSP). A compulsory contribution will be deducted from your monthly salary.

Fixed term: two years with possibility of extension.