UN World Food Programme Kenya - Vunerability Assessment & Mapping Intern Jobs

UN World Food Programme Kenya - Vulnerability Assessment & Mapping Intern Jobs

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.

Organizational Context

The Regional Bureau of East and Central Africa, located in Nairobi provides strategic and policy guidance as well as technical support to WFP operations and activities in nine countries: Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan, Djibouti and Uganda.

We are currently seeking to fill the position of a VAM Intern based in the Programme Unit of the Regional Bureau, Nairobi.

The Vulnerability, Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit currently has 2 full-time staff (both national staff), in addition to the Head of the Unit, who leads VAM as well as M&E.

The staff have skills in a wide range of areas including food security assessments, analysis and monitoring, markets analysis, use of integrated food security phase classification (IPC), GIS and database management, and resilience analysis using various tools/methodologies.

The unit continues to support country offices (COs) in undertaking regular food security assessments and analysis to inform program designs and operations and resilience analysis to support the design of durable and sustainable solutions for the myriad problems posed by climate change in the region.

Besides, the unit actively supports regional platforms such as the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (under IGAD) to undertake regional analysis on food security and climate related risks in the region.

Inevitably, simultaneous demands coming from country offices for support, and from regional platforms, continue to outstretch the available human resource within the unit.

To be able to effectively support these activities, assistance in needed in these range of activities.

More importantly, involvement in these activities will offer the intern an excellent opportunity to develop and hone his/her skills in food security analysis in a complex ecosystem as the Horn of Africa.

Standard Minimum Qualifications