Data Analyst â APP
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
28 August 2025-23:59-GMT01:00 Central European Time (Rome)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).
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JOB TITLES: Data Analyst APP
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Consultant
UNIT/DIVISION: Data and Systems/APP-RD
DUTY STATION (City Country): Italy Rome
DURATION:
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
WFP country offices across the world deliver Cash-Based transfers (APP) to people in need working in partnership with Financial Service Providers (FSPs) that include banks and mobile money operators. Cash assistance can also be delivered through WFPs own platform SCOPE. One of WFPs corporate objectives is to increasingly deliver assistance through digital means providing greater accountability and becoming more efficient and user-friendly for the people we serve.
The CASHboard is a central data analytics tool that the APP Team built to centrally receive store process and analyse digital operational data for the purpose of promoting accountability controls and making APP reporting and programming more efficient. The CASHboard consists of multiple dashboards containing user-friendly data visualizations using the Tableau server web interface that allows for data comparisons across countries regions and time. Data from WFPs six corporate systems is extracted cleaned and loaded onto the CASHboard daily. When data on APP operations becomes available in the central system known as the Data Lake the CASHboard will align the data structure with the new corporate repository and pull the dataset directly for it.
To help CASHboard grow and ensure its stability as the amount of people who use it increases the APP Division is recruiting a Data Analyst to be part of its Data Reporting and Analytics team. The Data Analyst would perform joint tasks for the CASHboard and the Data Reporting and Analytics team as required.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead the design implementation and global roll-out of APP data visualization making available the key outputs of data analysis and sectorial assessments to WFP decision- makers.
Technical oversight of the development of APP dashboards/workbooks working with other analysts and supervising external contractors particularly on the information architecture and responsiveness improvement of the CASHboard
Author professional reports information dashboards and presentations to different audiences internal and external with detailed analytical observations supported by data evidence adopting clear and tactful language due to the sensitive content.
Provide expert advice to APP staff and stakeholders on how to interpret data and analyze results using statistical techniques.
Locate define and lead the implementation of new process improvement opportunities.
Introduce methodologies and standard operating procedures to perform regular data cleaning mapping data organization and analysis setting up regular reporting.
Perform trend analysis to promote programme effectiveness.
Present analytical results to business stakeholders WFP senior management and external audiences.
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Oversee the definition of technical specifications to data engineers to implement regular data transformation pipelines for data cleaning reconciliation and anomaly checks.
Collaborate with APP experts and stakeholders to ensure consistent and accurate programme information in all internal and external communications.
Lead activities with APP stakeholders to understand the requirements and feasibility for new data analytics and visualizations.
Perform any other duties as required by the Data Reporting and Analytics Team.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education: A bachelors/masters in data science Statistics Computer Science or Economics.
Skills & Knowledge
Languages:
Extensive experience (9 years) working with large data sets and summarizing data for business.
Extensive experience (9 years) in storing data and retrieving information from various platforms.
Strong experience with data warehousing data hub and visualization tools (i.e. Tableau DOTs SAP business Intelligence) and setting up dashboards.
Excellent ability to capture and analyze required data.
Strong ability to craft analysis independently.
Mature judgement. Experience in working in a multicultural environment.
Ability to communicate with senior management and stakeholders.
Familiarity with WFP corporate data and systems (WINGS COMET SCOPE ORACLE PIPELINE Management Plan data) is desirable.
English (fluent). Any other UN languages a plus.
Certified by Hiring Manager (name/title) & signature):
Data Analyst and Reporting Officer
........................................................................................................................ Date: 24 July 2025
Accepted by Short-term/Consultancy contract holder (name & signature):
Date: Mark Gordon Director APP-R
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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
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
