Job Title: Business Support Assistant (Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping ) Fresh Graduate UN Jobs
Organisation: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.
Job Summary: The Research Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) portfolio includes activities to address national and local-level capacities with the potential to support the management of disasters and climate change risks, through the automatization of processes, systems, promoting innovations and analysis of existing data, data collected using mobile technology, modelling, forecasting, and geo-spatial analysis. RAM is a core area for WFP and forms the basis for the design and support of all of our operations. Prior to any intervention, for Disaster Risk Management and Response, WFP in coordination with government and partners undertakes an analysis of the food security situation and answers some critical questions: who is food insecure or vulnerable and why?; how many are they and where do they live?; what should be done to save their lives and livelihoods?; how is the situation likely to evolve and, what are the risks threatening them? Related to changing lives activities, RAM provides geospatial and economic analysis, food security monitoring and assessments, and thematic analysis (related to climate change, resilience, markets and food systems). This contributes to effective targeting and define the most appropriate type and scale of intervention (such as food distributions, school feeding, cash based trasnfer programmes). Therefore, in this role you will generate the evidence base that supports nutrition, food security, social protection policies and programmes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Develop protocols and procedures to ensure Two-way Accountability (from implementers to beneficiaries) and Transparency of Food Security and Nutrition Assessments and Analysis
- Discuss with program unit their need in terms of documentation and knowledge management
- Liaise with IT, area office, field office staff, and program unit to understand what approach/tools and the system could best serve the program
- Present the proposed filling system to program and implement
- Develop a simple Knowledge management guide/protocol
Ensure high standards of quality, reliability and validity of the data and analysis in line with WFP’s privacy and protection guidelines.
- Support information management activities (build/update a repository of key documents)
- Assist in supporting the maintenance and development of electronic and manual tools used for records keeping
Support Data driven evidence-based decision-making process in a timely manner according to programmatic and strategic needs. (data preparedness)
- Liaise with other teams to compile lessons learned and recommendations to improve programme implementation.
- Assist in report writing (market monitor bulletins, Remote monitoring of Food Security bulletins, Tracking sheet for risks and mitigation measures)
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Business Support Assistant (Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping) job placement must be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent); Or have graduated with the relevant university degree within 6 months period at the time of taking up the internship, if selected.
- Applicants must have studied any of the following degree programmes; Bachelor of Data science, Statistics, Nutrition, or a closely related area, such as health, research, economics or information management system
- Proficient reporting writing skills.
- Working knowledge and experience in MS Office, Stata, SPSS
- Knowledge in SQL, R, Python is desirable.
- Languages: Fluency in oral and written English, including strong writing skills
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the online portal link below.
Deadline: 23rd September 2022
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