Consultant(e) National pour la Mise à jour des profils de marché en Mauritanie
Category | Grade:Professional | CONDeadline:20 Aug 2026Job ID:JR125611Posted on:5 Aug 2026
Overview
Update market profiles across five Mauritanian regions through field research, institutional consultation and capacity building. The consultant analyses prices, trade flows, food access, nutrition and climate risks, maps supply chains, produces clean datasets and policy recommendations, and trains national and local actors.
Languages
Required: English
Desired: French, Arabic, Hassaniya Arabic, Pulaar or Soninké
Minimum Experience
5 years
Estimated Salary
Not available
Responsibilities
- Design the study methodology, sampling plan, collection tools and quality controls
- Map priority markets, supply chains, corridors and market actors
- Collect and analyse field data on prices, seasonality, availability and market capacity
- Assess food access, nutrition, gender, protection and climate-resilience factors
- Prepare cleaned datasets, maps, flow diagrams and regional analyses
- Develop operational recommendations for market monitoring and cash programming
- Produce inception, interim and final reports and a decision-policy note
- Deliver dissemination workshops and build partner data-use capacity
Requirements
- Master degree in agricultural economics, food security and nutrition, statistics or an equivalent field
- At least five years of relevant market-study and food-security experience
- Experience in Sahelian or comparable contexts
- Excellent English report-writing ability
- Operational capacity to work in Mauritania and the targeted regions
Skills
Market and food-security analysisQuantitative and qualitative researchPrice and seasonality analysisDatabase management and data visualisationSupply-chain and market mappingClimate and livelihoods assessmentWorkshop facilitation and capacity building
Tools
Survey questionnairesPrice-monitoring toolsMapping tools
Additional info
- National consultancy
- Fieldwork in Hodh Chargui, Hodh Gharbi, Gorgol, Brakna and Guidimakha