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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
30 August 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).
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
WFP country offices 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 banks micro-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 (CBT) or in-kind through digital means and register beneficiaries digitally 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 the analysis of digital data emanating from operations.
Several challenges exist in streamlining digital analysis globally including the tasks of receiving and maintaining massive amounts of varied and unstructured operational data processing and generating meaningful analysis of data while ensuring that data privacy and security standards are upheld. The Data Assurance Team within the Delivery Assurance Services unit (Supply Chain and Delivery division) has established a cloud-based data management system to meet data assurance needs in performing reconciliation and analysis on operational data.
To achieve the objectives outlined above WFP is recruiting a Data Analyst to be part of theDelivery Assurance team established in the Supply Chain and Delivery division to provide support to WFPs CBT operations globally.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Become familiar with WFPs assurance framework and in general with WFPs SCDDS businessprocesses and strategy with particular focus on data aspects in order to make assuranceassessments provide contextual business-focused analysis and offer expert advice to field officesto address assurance maturity gaps.
Working with the central CBT teams and field-level stakeholders analyse business requirementsand develop automated data transformations reports and dashboards to implement controls oncash transfers with particular focus on beneficiary transfers reconciliation and anomaly detection.
Provide technical specifications to externally contracted engineers to implement regular datatransformation pipelines for data cleaning reconciliation and anomaly checks.
Apply data-science techniques to detect operational anomalies and data quality issues writingbusiness-friendly professional reports with comments and recommendations.
Develop algorithms to perform beneficiary data deduplication unique identifier generation andsensitive data anonymization.
Present analytical results to business stakeholders WFP senior management and externalaudiences.
Work with Country Offices to train local data analysts to perform data-assurance analysis andimplement secure and auditable data transformations.
Document business logic data mapping rules and draft service agreements with country offices .
Perform any other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
A bachelors/masters in Data Science Statistics Computer Science or Economics.
Skills & Knowledge
Experience (at least 3 years) working with large data sets and summarizingdata for business.
Familiarity with data warehousing and business intelligence concepts.
Data storing and retrieving skills on cloud platforms.
Experience using visualization tools (preferably Tableau) and setting updashboards.
Ability to capture requirements and translate into insights.
Familiarity with various ETL tools is desirable.
Advanced SQL skills.
Knowledge of Python and/or R.
Statistical modeling/Machine learning.
Strong ability to craft analysis independently.
Experience with data assurance applications.
Ability to communicate with senior management and stakeholders.
Mature judgement. Experience in working in a multicultural environment.
Languages:
English (fluent). Any other UN languages a plus.
WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.
Click here to access WFP Leadership Framework
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
Please contact us at in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
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:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
