Information Technology Intern
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Career Opportunities: Intern
Duty station: Monrovia (travels to the field when the need arises)
*** Recruitment for Internship
🚩 Vacancy Announcement n°: 206819
📢 Job Title: Information Technology (TEC) Intern
📌Type of Contract: Internship
➡️ Unit / Division: IT/ Administration
📍 Duty Station: Monrovia
➡️ Duration: 6 months (Renewable)
⏰ Closing date: Tuesday 10 January 2022, midnight (Liberia Time)
About WFP
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.
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What will you do in this position?
Under the direct supervision of the Head/OIC of TEC, the intern will be provided with close mentoring, guidance, and technical supervision. Performance planning and reviews as well as learning and development discussions will be key elements of the supervision. With the support of a comprehensive induction package and the assignment of a buddy/mentor, the intern should quickly become a productive member of the team. Specific responsibilities of the Intern include but are not limited to the following:
Why work with us?
➡️ Meaningful and impactful careers:
Our day-to-day work makes a difference in the lives of the people we serve
➡️ Continuous learning and training:
We provide learning tools for our staff and interns to continually develop their careers
➡️ Multicultural and stimulating work environment:
We encourage gender and cultural diversity to make our teams stronger
Join us to make a difference in Liberia!!
How can you make a difference?
In this position:
- Support the preparation/enhancement of training packages and presentations for different audiences on TEC key areas of work including SCOPE, Teams, One Drive, among others.
- Support day-to-day desk support to staff.
- Support monitoring and maintenance of IT/telecommunications infrastructure/systems.
- Support monitoring of IT/telecommunications equipment to identify faults/malfunction and push to address them.
- Support SCOPE registration, data management, utilization of SCOPE for distribution of entitlement to beneficiaries.
Deliverables:
- Selected presentations (number to be defined following on-boarding sessions) on various TEC-related areas.
- Desk support provided to staff as needed.
- Operations of IT/telecommunication continue without disruption.
- Required SCOPE activities implemented fully and promptly.
- Faulty/malfunctioning equipment identified and fixed.
- Facts and figures sheet for TEC prepared/updated and circulated each month to relevant staff.
- Any other deliverable will be defined as required
- Any other deliverable will be defined as required.
Learning Elements:
At the end of the assignment, the intern should:
- Have strong knowledge of WFP Technology Division (TEC) corporate regulations, rules, procedures, and tools, as well as TEC processes, procedures, and best practices in Country Offices.
- Have developed effective action management, customer services, reporting, and communication skills relevant to the TEC areas such as Desk Support to staff, beneficiary registration and management through SCOPE, and monitoring and maintenance of IT infrastructure.
- Have a general understanding of WFP overall operations and activities in the country office, region, as well as Headquarters.
To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have for..
Experience:
Education:
- Be a recent graduate from an undergraduate or graduate programme (within six months prior to the application to the internship programme) from a recognized university and have attended classes in the last 12 months of enrolment in the university.
Knowledge & Skills
- Capacity to learn fast from documentation and experience.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Good ability to work with a computer/laptop running the Microsoft Windows operating system, to work in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, and to learn other Windows-based applications such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, etc.
Language: Fluency (level C) in English language.
Before you apply…
All employment/internship 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.
Only Liberian Nationals are eligible to apply for this position.
