Statistician
Pubblicato il 06-10-2026 - Fao in Roma
Organizational context: The Statistics Division (ESS) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, develops and advocates for methodologies and standards in food and agriculture statistics. It plays a key role in compiling, processing, and disseminating internationally comparable data, while also providing capacity building for member countries. The Division publishes reports and yearbooks covering agriculture and food security statistics. As FAO's Chief Statistician, the ESS Director ensures strong data governance, statistical excellence, and FAO's global presence in data discussions.
Job purpose: The Statistician will provide expertise to improve and develop methods for generating food security and nutrition statistics. This includes compiling, processing, validating, analyzing, storing, and disseminating data, with a focus on experience-based food security scales. The role involves ensuring correct application of methods for estimating food insecurity prevalence (FIES, PoU, PUA), producing high-quality statistical documents and tools,
and collaborating with national and international partners on data collection, analysis, and reporting using FAO-endorsed methods.
Responsibilities: Maintain and refine methodologies and statistical tools for computing food insecurity prevalence using FIES and other indicators. Develop analytic models and scoring strategies for FIES to ensure cross-country comparability. Analyze results to identify inconsistencies in indicators and propose solutions. Extend analytic codes and statistical methods for FIES data analysis using Item Response Theory. Review sampling frames and adjust weights for survey quality. Provide methodological guidance for other food security and nutrition indicators, including PoU and PUA. Refine methodologies for data disaggregation and variance computation. Conduct analyses of national datasets to inform global assessments. Contribute to publications on FIES methodology and empirical applications. Conduct research on