Reporting and Information Management Officer

Organizational Context

The World Food Programme (WFP) is a leading humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives and improving livelihoods by providing food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to enhance nutrition and build resilience. WFP Kenya's country office focuses on integrating corporate concerns like nutrition, gender equality, and environmental sustainability into its programmes. The office strengthens data collection, analysis, and knowledge management to track how resilience investments reduce humanitarian needs and expand WFP's impact.

Job Purpose

The UN Volunteer will support reporting, information management, and communications activities across WFP Kenya operations, working under the guidance of the Reporting and Information Management Team Lead and in close collaboration with programme, partnerships, and communications teams. This role is crucial for enhancing the country office's capacity in data collection, analysis, and knowledge management, ensuring alignment with national systems. The position contributes to tracking and measuring the impact of resilience investments, aiming to reduce humanitarian requirements and expand WFP's reach beyond direct implementation.

Responsibilities

The UN Volunteer will provide comprehensive support in reporting, information management, and communication. This includes drafting, editing, and consolidating various reporting products such as situation updates, programme briefs, and donor materials, while ensuring alignment with WFP standards. The role involves organizing, managing, and disseminating programme information, maintaining information systems, and contributing to knowledge management by documenting lessons learned. Additionally, the volunteer will support content development for human-interest stories, field stories, and other communication materials, ensuring adherence to humanitarian communication principles. Coordination with programme, field, and technical teams, as well as UN agencies and the Resident Coordinator's Office, is essential for gathering information and aligning communication efforts. The volunteer will also support knowledge sharing initiatives within the team.

Work Experience

A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience is required. Desirable experience includes communications, reporting, content development, information management, drafting donor visibility content, and familiarity with humanitarian or UN work environments. Experience in stakeholder coordination and knowledge management is advantageous. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite is essential, with familiarity in digital communication tools being a plus.

Skills

Key competencies include integrity, collaboration, commitment, humanity, and inclusion. Essential skills encompass strong communication, storytelling, editing, content development, information management, coordination, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge management. The role also requires organizational skills, attention to detail, research and analytical thinking, adaptability, teamwork, initiative, professionalism, time management, and problem-solving abilities. Familiarity with humanitarian principles and cross-cultural collaboration is important.

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