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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
12 July 2025-23:59-GMT01:00 Central European Time (Berlin)WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race colour national origin ethnic or social background genetic information gender gender identity and/or expression sexual orientation religion or belief HIV status or disability.
ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the worlds largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse committed skilled and high performing teams selected on merit operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment living WFPs values (Integrity Collaboration Commitment Humanity and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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WHY JOIN WFP
WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive diverse and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training accreditation coaching mentorship and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country regional and global offices around the world and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
JOB TITLE: Data Scientist
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Regular Consultant level I
UNIT/DIVISION: Delivery System Services/Supply Chain and Delivery Division
DUTY STATION (City Country): Remote work
DURATION: 3.5 months
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The United Nations World Food Programme is the worlds largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger. Every day WFP works to ensure that nobody goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable particularly women and children are able to meet their food and other essential needs.
The Delivery System Services (DAS) within Supply Chain and Delivery Division in HQ has been tasked with leading on WFPs corporate systems and services for WFPs in-kind and cash-based transfers programmes. DAS intends to support WFP Country Offices to deliver assistance to beneficiaries through a variety of digital platforms and service providers. WFP works in partnership with several commercial Financial Service Providers (FSPs) including banksmicro-finance institutions mobile money operators and money transfer agents in addition to using WFPs own delivery platform SCOPE. One of WFPs corporate objectives is to increasingly deliver assistance either cash-based transfer or in-kind through digital means and register beneficiariesdigitally in order to achieve greater efficiencies and provide greater accountability and traceability of assistance delivered.
Therefore WFP seeks to build its corporate capacity to centrally receive store process and analyse digital operational data for the purpose of promoting accountability controls and efficiencies as part of cash-based transfer. There is also the opportunity to better inform WFPs programme design through theanalysis of digital data emanating from operations.
The WFP Cash Assurance Framework introduces a set of standard controls including data analytics reconciliation and anomaly checks. To support WFP field offices in the achievement of the Cash Assurance Framework objectives a Data Assurance Service has been established within Supply Chain and Delivery division. Inorder to oversee the implementation of detective controls for cash operations adopting industry best practices and innovative approaches the Service is recruiting a Data Scientist to be based in its office in Munich. The job purpose will be to adopt data science techniques to support field offices with the analysis of data anomalies data quality and people list deduplication providing professional reports dashboards and creating automations for the regular execution of controls.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Become familiar with WFPs Cash Assurance Framework and Identity Management in order to make data assurance assessments and offer expert advice to field offices to address assurance gaps.
2. Analyse business requirements and implement data transformation pipelines to implement controls with particular focus on transfers reconciliation deduplication and anomaly detection.
3. Provide technical specifications to data engineers to automate the execution of scripts and reports with particular focus on implementing functionality in DARTS (self-service assurance application).
4. Support the adoption of data science approaches to address assurance objectives working with data scientists from academic and private partner institutions.
5. Apply data-science techniques to detect operational anomalies triggering further review and fraud investigations.
6. Develop algorithms to perform beneficiary data deduplication unique identifier generation and sensitive data anonymization.
7. Develop professional reports dashboards and presentations with detailed analytical observations supported by data evidence adopting clear and tactful language due to the sensitive content.
8. Present analytical results to business stakeholders WFP senior management and external audiences.
9. Work with Country Offices to train/recruit local data analysts to perform selected analysis and cash-based-transfers assurance tasks in-country.
10. Perform any other duties as required.
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DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education: A bachelors or masters degree in Data Science Statistics Computer Science or Economics.
Experience: At least 3 years experience with different approaches and techniques for data analytics and data science.
Knowledge & Skills:
Ability to effectively engage and coordinate across a variety of stakeholders. Knowledge and experience with Agile methodologies is desirable.
Good communicator (verbal and written) across different stakeholders within the organization. Previous experience in approaches for reconciliation and anomaly detection for cash- based transfers is considered a distinct advantage.
Ability to capture requirements and translate into insights. Solid SQL and Python/pandas skills.
Languages: Fluency (level C) in English with an intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic Chinese French Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFPs working languages) is desirable.
WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation please contact:
NO FEE DISCLAIMER
The United Nations does not charge any application processing training interviewing testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee please disregard it. Furthermore please note that emblems logos names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.
REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate complete and includes your employment records academic qualifications language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
Once your profile is completed please apply and submit your application.
Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
Additional documents such as passport recommendation letters academic certificates etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
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Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs job requirements merit and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse all forms of discrimination any kind of harassment sexual harassment and abuse of authority. Therefore all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) FAO Finance Committee WFP External Auditor WFP Audit Committee Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
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