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About WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme 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.

Why Join WFP in Somalia

The World Food Programme provides food assistance for nutrition, livelihoods, and relief through the hard work of more than 500 employees who contribute to make Somalia hunger free in close partnership with local partners

What will you do?

• Participate in and facilitate delivery of programme operations, including learning based on agreed and approved Country and Area Office Plans
• Based on existing standard operating procedures and WFP policies, participate in and facilitate beneficiary selection and engagement activities
• Contribute to beneficiary data management (SCOPE) including conducting beneficiary enrolments, and suspensions where required / approved, as well as follow up with CPs & Transfer Management Team (TMT) on deduplication analysis and verifications
• Perform data cross checks, data entry, data quality assessments, and data cleaning tasks as requested
• Review and compiling of Cooperating Partners’ reports (weekly)
• Conduct field visits, generating reports (back to office reports), and directly or indirectly providing guidance to cooperating partners’ reports
• Maintain and update tracking sheets (FLA, Programme activities, CP Invoicing, Enrollment, etc)
• Undertake any other tasks required to support the programme operations

Do you meet the minimum requirements?

The Internship Programme is open to Somali female candidates who meet the following criteria:

• Completed an undergraduate or graduate degree programme (e.g., a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree) at a recognized university, in the area of in the area of, Nutrition, Public health, Social Science or Social Development .
• Candidates must have completed at least the first degree in the last 6 months.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English and Somali

Are you Competent for this Job? Do you have

• Desire to learn about and develop key skills in the field of Programme functions.
• Flexible work style and approach based on client needs.
• Cultural sensitivity.
• Team player and problem solver.
• Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills; high attention to details.
• Ability to think, plan, and execute on multiple projects simultaneously in an organized way.
• Technology savvy: ability to think out-of-the box and to come up with innovative ideas.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office package, particularly of Excel and PowerPoint

Terms and Conditions

Contract Duration 8 Months

Application Deadline: 27th July 2022

WFP does not charge any application fees to candidates.

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