Monitoring Intern

Organizational Context

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace and prosperity. WFP uses food assistance to support people recovering from conflict, disasters, and climate change impacts. The organization values diversity, inclusion, and a high-performing workforce committed to its mission.

Job Purpose

The Monitoring Intern will support the Regional Monitoring Advisor in enhancing data management and reporting capabilities within WFP's regional office. This role involves assisting Country Offices in meeting monitoring requirements and donor expectations by integrating, analyzing, and visualizing monitoring data. Key responsibilities include supporting the migration to a new data management system, contributing to regional trend analysis dashboards, and ensuring data quality through regular checks and cleaning. The intern will also help develop country-specific dashboards and archive monitoring datasets. This internship offers a valuable opportunity to gain practical experience in data analysis, visualization, and humanitarian monitoring within a leading international organization, contributing directly to WFP's mission of saving lives and changing lives.

Responsibilities

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity. WFP utilizes food assistance to aid people recovering from conflict, disasters, and climate change impacts. The organization emphasizes diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities, encouraging applications from all qualified candidates regardless of background. WFP is committed to investing in its employees' personal and professional development through various training, coaching, and mentorship programs, alongside internal mobility opportunities. A career at WFP offers the chance to work globally with passionate colleagues to deliver effective humanitarian assistance to millions. The role involves supporting Country Offices in meeting monitoring requirements and donor expectations, focusing on integrating monitoring data and reporting through analysis and dashboards. Key responsibilities include migrating to new data management systems, developing regional and country-specific monitoring dashboards, analyzing and interpreting monitoring data, ensuring data quality, and archiving monitoring datasets. The position also requires coordinating the cleaning and standardization of the Monitoring Regional Library and performing other related monitoring tasks as needed. Deliverables include designing and publishing monitoring dashboards, contributing to a regional trend analysis dashboard, archiving data for closing offices, implementing data quality checks, and standardizing regional filing systems.

Work Experience

Applicants must be Master's students or recent graduates (within six months) in fields such as Public Policy, Development Studies, International Relations, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences, or Business Administration. Proficiency in English is required, with knowledge of another UN language being an asset. Strong MS Office skills are necessary, and Tableau proficiency is desirable.

Skills

Data analysis, Reporting, Data management, Dashboard development, Data quality checks, Trend analysis, MS Office proficiency, English proficiency, UN language proficiency (asset), Tableau (desirable)

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