DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

13 January 2025-23:59-GMT+02:00 Eastern European Standard Time (Cairo)

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• 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: Programme Associate (Data Analyst)
Type Of Contract: Service contract (SC,L6)
Unit/Division: Programme
Duty Station (City, Country): Cairo/Egypt
Duration: 12 Months

Background and Purpose of the Assignment:
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading Humanitarian Organization fighting hunger and changing lives worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. In Egypt, WFP is committed to supporting the Government’s priorities towards the achievement of the SDGs. WFP’s current five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) is designed in a way to fully support Egypt’s Vision 2030 and ensure food and nutrition security for all Egyptians, as enshrined in both the Constitution and the country’s commitment to the Global Sustainable Development Agenda.

The CSP focuses on five interrelated thematic areas:
• Support and complement the Government’s social protection programs.
• Support the refugees and migrants through food assistance and resilience building.
• Improve the nutritional status of Egyptians with a focus on Pregnant and Lactating Women and infants under two years of age.
• Support the resilience of vulnerable smallholder farmers and Bedouin communities in Upper Egypt and frontier Governorates.
• Provide capacity strengthening to the Government and support South-South cooperation between Egypt and neighbouring countries.

Job Purpose:
The holder of this position will be part of a dynamic team and work in close collaboration with other teams in the country office and mainly responsible for the following:
• Processing and analyzing data using a range of tools and methodologies
• Supporting the generation of strategic insights and enabling the delivery of services to beneficiaries.
• Providing data management support for WFP cash programmes & data analysis reporting.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
The Data Analyst will work within the Programme Team in WFP Egypt Country Office in support of its Cash-Based Transfer operations implementing the following:

1. Collect and clean data from primary or secondary sources to ensure the accuracy and reliability of databases and data systems in alignment with established guidelines, standards and processes.
2. Provide feedback to system sponsors for continuous improvements to data quality, system performance, and adherence to standards.
3. Identify, analyze, and interpret data using statistical methods and basic machine learning techniques to inform reliable data-driven models.
4. Contribute to developing and utilizing data quality monitoring tools to improve accuracy, consistency, and adherence to best practices in data management.
5. Develop reports, dashboards, or other data visualization tools to effectively summarize findings and convey information to inform decision-making.
6. Ensure compliance with WFP’s data governance, privacy, and security policies, safeguard sensitive data, and maintain ethical standards in data usage.
7. Map data flows and existing systems within WFP CO on beneficiary information (identities, enrolment, payment, reconciliation, and monitoring) and with external databases.
8. Establish and maintain secured data repositories.
9. Secure data-sharing platforms that allow uploading and accessing beneficiary information from various sources and receiving reports from partners and financial service providers.
10. Reconcile and report beneficiaries’ data including defining access and user roles.
11. Generate reports, including Monthly Payment List Memos, Reload Memos, Reconciliation Memos, and any other reports based on programmes’ needs.
12. Assess deduplication needs (for both internal and external/government lists) based on existing data and processes.
13. Support in other data analysis tasks for the vulnerability-based targeting data collection, data management and data verification exercises.
14. Support the roll-out of data management initiatives to improve, streamline, and harmonize the flow of operational information dashboards including mapping of data sources and users’ needs.

Core competencies expected for the job:

Programme Lifecycle &Food Assistance
Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.

Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher)
Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.

Emergency/transitional Programming
Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high-quality emergency programmes.

Broad Knowledge of Specialized Areas
Understands technical concepts data and their relevance to food assistance programmes.

Required Experiences/skills for entry of the role:

• Demonstrated expertise in foundational concepts of data manipulation Language and analysis, including data structures and statistical methods
• Comprehensive experience across the data life cycle, from data collection and wrangling to analysis, visualization, deployment, monitoring, and reporting.
• Proficiency in relational databases (e.g., SQL) and programming languages such as Python or R.
• Ability to perform quality assurance of data analysis outputs and to assess data accuracy and consistency by performing data validation.
• Proven project management capabilities, including planning, execution, and monitoring.
• Experience in the design, set-up, and implementation of data systems.
• Proven capacity to support data and digital strategies in complex operational environments.
• Database design, configuration, performance and support in a production environment
• Build Products Using HTML/CSS/JS and Other Front-End Technologies
• Code and Deploy Applications in a Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser Environment
• Document Project Build and Maintenance
• Familiar with Development and Debugging Tools for Cross-Browser Issues
• Follow and Implement Industry Accepted Best Practices and Tools
• Proven excellent MS skills.

Qualifications & Experience Required:

Education: University degree in Information Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or related field.
Experience: Six years of progressively responsible experience in data analysis & management. Previous working experience in a development or humanitarian organization will be an asset.
Languages: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Arabic.

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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

WFP is dedicated to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our recruitment process is inclusively crafted to welcome candidates of all backgrounds, celebrating diversity and ensuring a respectful environment for all. We aim for an accessible and fair recruitment journey. Should you need any reasonable accommodations or have accessibility concerns, please reach out to us confidentially at global.inclusion@wfp.org. Our DEI team is here to ensure your full participation in our recruitment process.

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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
• Please contact us at global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org 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.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements