Internship – Asset Creation, Livelihoods and Regenerative Practices, Climat

at  World Food Programme

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

24 November 2024-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)
WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DIVISION

The most vulnerable and food insecure people live in fragile, resource-scarce and degraded environments, in areas that are prone to climate disasters and exposed to frequent and heterogeneous shocks. At the same time, on top of growing displaced populations, food insecurity is increasingly becoming an urban phenomenon, with more and more food insecure people living in urban areas, without direct access to land or natural resources.
Across these contexts, WFP’s main activities to address communities’ and individual’s long term food security and resilience, especially in the context of climate change, have been the Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) and Food Assistance for Training (FFT) programmes. Both interventions can address immediate food security needs through cash, voucher or food transfers. At the same time, FFA builds or rehabilitate productive household and community infrastructures, while promoting regenerative practices and techniques. FFT supports vulnerable people with the needed technical skills to access market-driven income opportunities.
Since 2013 such programmes have helped millions of people each year across more than 50 countries. FFA has brought hundreds of thousands of hectares of degraded land back into productive use, planted thousands of hectares of forests, and built scores of wells, ponds and feeder roads. FFT has been instrumental in improving communities’ -and especially women’s- income access through technical and vocational trainings productive equipment, access to financial capital and products, market linkages, and job placement support.
WFP’s Asset Creation Livelihoods and Regenerative Practices Team, within the Climate and Resilience Service (PPGR) would like to provide the opportunity to two motivated and proactive individuals graduating, or that have recently graduated to be exposed to and directly contribute to the challenging yet rewarding work of the FFA and FFT workstreams. One intern will be focusing on FFA and the other one on FFT.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Be currently enrolled in an undergraduate programme (for example, Bachelor’s degree) from a recognized university and have completed at least two years of the programme; OR
• Be currently enrolled in a graduate programme (for example, Master degree); OR
• Be a recent graduate from an undergraduate or graduate programme (within six months prior to the application to the internship programme);
• Classes attendance in the last 12 months of enrolment in a recognized university.
• Excellent written and spoken English is required (proficiency/level C). Working knowledge of another official UN language (French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian plus Portuguese) is an asset.

• Data collection and analysis: collect and analyze data from Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and Annual Country Reports (ACRs), Decentralized Evaluations, studiesor other sources to provide insights and inform reports or communication material on asset creation and livelihoods skills development.
• Technical and Fundraising support: support the drafting of infotechs, guidance, strategies and PGMs , concept notes, proposals, articles, guidance and other technical and promotion materials
• Knowledge management: Support the Knowledge Management Focal point in the Team in managing and maintaining the Team’s knowledge management platforms (Teamwork Space, Teams, WFP.go, Go.docs and Doc360), focusing in particular on FFA and FFT programmes, and support the finalization of the FFT manual or the revision efforts of the FFA Manual.
• Liaising with WFP offices and partners: Support team members in setting up regular and occasional meetings and organize webinars with WFP’s RBx, COs and other partners and writing note for the records for such meetings, regularly updating the contact information for CO and RB focal points.
• Communications: Support team members in liaising with the PPGR communication team, provide relevant material and wording for specific communication material.
• FFA and FFT evidence and advocacy material stock take: Stock take evaluations, good practices, fact sheets and briefs, and other pieces of evidence available in WFP/externally, which demonstrate positive outcomes and impact of FFA/FFT progammes.