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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
13 September 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:
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the worlds largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food and cash assistance to change lives and empower people to meet their essential needs. WFP does this both through direct programming as well as by supporting governments on their national pathways toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in partnership with multiple stakeholders. WFP is the largest cash actor in the humanitarian community: WFP transferred over US$3.3 billion to 56 million people across 72 countries in 2022.
When WFP sends people money we give them the flexibility to choose what they need and when they need it. People spend most of the money WFP sends them on food but they also can use it to pay medical bills rent or school fees. Sending people money means that they dont need to make impossible trade-offs like deciding to eat less so that they can keep all their children in school.
The Delivery Assurance Service unit within the Supply Chain and Delivery division in HQ has been tasked with leading on WFPs corporate systems and services for WFPs in-kind and CBT 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 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.
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 Cash Data Service (CDS) has been established within the SCD order to oversee the implementation of detective controls for cash operations adopting industry best practices and innovative approaches the Cash Data Services is recruiting a Data Engineer.
Job purpose:
Reporting to the delivery manager of the CDS team this role is integrated in the CDS implementation and maintenance support team (made up of data analysts and engineers). The development team implements Data Assurance custom solutions for Country Offices around the world. The role is key to ensuring developed solutions answer users needs and also enforce security operability scalability and maintainability required by high standard systems. The role also makes the link between the need expressed by the end-user and the core infrastructure team provided by an external provider.
Considering the scope of the agency and the unit the ideal candidate has strong technical capacities able to work good in teams resilient mindset and strong communicator.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Requirement analysis and solution implementation:
2. The candidate will need to perform user requirements critical analysis to identify and prioritise the key business needs. The candidate will then along with the lead analyst assess the best technical solution design based on available technology and overall programme needs to ensure business needs are addressed in terms of scope timeliness reliability security operability maintainability and costs.
3. The candidate shall then implement or configure the infrastructure aspect of the solution and integrate analyst-developed processors into the infrastructure with the goal of ensuring WFP IT (TEC) guidelines and best practices are enforced and solutions operations can be monitored and controlled
4. The successful candidate will interact with the engineer core team for usage and implementation of core infrastructure functions to ensure proper requirement definition and ensure core functions can be used and operated by the development team:
5. Technical solution operational verification and documentation
6. The candidate shall ensure the overall solutions operability and maintainability through implementations verifications and document discrepancies and needs for improvements with the goal of tracking solutions technical status and control developments and ensure more efficient and timely maintenance
7. The engineer (along with analysts) shall write and verify solutions documentation (user manual maintenance documentation ) and support their improvements to support the solutions development and maintenance lifecycles
8. The engineer will perform solutions testing to control requirements (users guidelines operational) are met and solutions are fit for purposes
9. The candidate will participate to operations transfer-to-operations meetings to officially deliver the solution to the operations team with the goal of ensuring deliverable completeness.
10. Solution maintenance support:
11. Once in operations the candidate shall perform solutions issues assessment (2nd line support problem management) along with analysts to ensure solution fixing will address long term functions and users needs
12. The candidate responsibilities also includes designing implementing testing and documenting fixes to repristinate nominal functionalities and minimise downtime for users
13. Support Cash Data Service Support team in communicating with end-users on issue fix to improve end-users satisfaction and embed a continuous feedback loop
14. Support service activities:
15. The candidate will support monthly and quarterly reporting on the service performances to provide inputs to the service management to support the necessary controls of the overall operations
16. The engineer will support requirement definition and validation of core infrastructure to ensure the development team has the relevant tools to perform their activities
17. As the CDS has various counterparts (e.g. TEC technical auditors) the candidate will support stakeholder communication (through writing documentation participating to meetings drafting of reports gathering of technical evidence) to support the service formal interactions
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
A bachelors or masters degree in Data Science Statistics Computer Science or Economics.
ITIL certification would be an asset
Experience:
Experience (at least 3 years) working with large data sets engineering and operating data management solutions for businesses in international environment. Has experience with working in a multi-cultural environment and/or international organization.
Nice to have: IT quality assurance service operations
Knowledge & Skills:
Familiarity with data warehousing and business intelligence concepts.
Familiarity with cloud-infrastructures preferably AWS
Advanced SQL skills along with Jupiter Notebook dbt lambda Python/pandasTableau dashboards
Ability to capture requirements translate them into insights and adapt writingstyle to a variety of audiences
Be service-oriented coordinating multiple activities for both external and internalstakeholders
Pay excellent attention to detail and understand the implications and nuances ofcommunications strategies and formats;
Ability to plan and organize work with reasonable supervision;
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
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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.
Employment Type
Full-Time
