Internship – Asset Creation and Livelihoods – Programme and Humanitarian Div., HQ Rome, Italy
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Internship – Asset Creation and Livelihoods Intern
Programme and Humanitarian Division (PROR-L)
WFP HQ Rome, Italy
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. We are currently seeking to fill an intern position in the Livelihoods, Asset creation and Resilience Unit of the Programme and Humanitarian Division, based in Rome, Italy.
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 shocks. WFP’s asset creation programmes address immediate food needs through cash, voucher or food transfers, while at the same time they build or rehabilitate productive household and community infrastructure, as well as promote livelihood practices and agricultural techniques that will improve long-term food security and resilience.
Since 2013, asset creation programmes have helped millions of people each year across more than 50 countries to bring hundreds of thousands of hectares of degraded land back into productive use, plant thousands of hectares of forests, and build scores of wells, ponds and feeder roads. Asset creation and skills development programmes have also been instrumental in improving communities’ livelihoods through trainings, for example on context-relevant income generation activities and agricultural practices curricula.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Title of Post: Internship
- Supervisor: Policy Programme Officer, PROR-L
- Unit: Livelihoods, Asset creation and Resilience Unit, PROR-L
- Country: Italy
- Duty Station: Rome
- Duration of internship: 6 months
- Expected Start Date: asap
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Data collection and analysis: collect and analyze data from Annual Project Reports (APRs) or other sources to provide insights and inform reports or communication material on asset creation and livelihoods skills development.
- Knowledge management: Support team members in managing and maintaining the Team’s knowledge management platforms (Teamwork Space/Teams), focusing in particular on Livelihoods and Skills Development programmes, and support the revision efforts of the Asset Creation Programme Guidance Manual.
- Liaising with WFP offices and partners: Support team members in setting up regular and occasional meetings with WFP’s RBx, COs and other partners and writing note for the records for such meetings.
- Communications: Support team members in liasing with the PROR communication team, provide relevant material and wording for specific communication material.
- FFA evidence and material stocktake: Stocktake evaluations, good practices, fact sheets and briefs, and other pieces of evidence available in WFP/externally, which demonstrate positive outcomes and impact of FFA/asset creation programmes.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate programme from a recognized university OR recently graduated from an undergraduate or graduate programme (within six months prior to the application to the internship programme) from a recognized university;
- University course attendance in the past 12 months.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Previous experience with communications, knowledge management, research/study development, reviews and/or database management.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher, Outlook).
- Good communication skills (written and oral).
- Good analytical skills.
WORKING LANGUAGES
Excellent written and spoken English is required (proficiency/level C).
Proficiency in Arabic, French and Spanish are desirable but not required.
SUPERVISION (Level/Methods of Supervision)
Under the direct supervision of the Asset Creation and Livelihoods Team Lead in the PROR-L Unit, the incumbent will be provided with close mentoring, guidance, and technical supervision. Performance planning and reviews as well as learning and development discussions will be elemental part of the supervision.
S/he will work closely with the other team members of the specific Team, as well as interact with other members within PROR-L and with the Smallholder Agriculture and Market Support Unit (PROR-F) unit in the service. Frequent interactions with other units within the programme division, the Management Service Engineering Unit (MSDE), Regional Bureaux (RBx) and Country Offices (COs) are expected.
TRAINING COMPONENTS
Throughout their assignment WFP interns have access to an industry leading learning platform, weLearn. Depending on opportunities and availability of funds, he/she may participate in WFP workshops or seminars, as appropriate.
LEARNING ELEMENTS
At the end of the assignment, the Intern should:
- Have a good understanding of WFP’s asset creation and livelihood skills development programmes, supporting the food security of millions of people every year by rehabilitating landscapes, improving natural resource management, and building small scale infrastructure and skills.
- Have a general understanding of what resilience building means within WFP and what are the key priorities for the humanitarian and development sector to address recurrent crisis.
- Have a broad understanding of the work of an action-oriented UN organization such as WFP, its key corporate processes and main longer term development
- Have experienced working as part of a multi-cultural team including field-based colleagues.
- Be acquainted to the challenges and opportunities of interacting and working with multiple country offices and regional bureaux.
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
- VA Reference no: 554060
- Closing Date: 15 March 2023 at 11:59pm Rome time
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- Interns receive a monthly stipend from WFP up to the maximum amount of US$1000 per month depending on the duty station of assignment.
- WFP is not responsible for living expenses, arrangements for accommodation, necessary visas and related costs.
- WFP will reimburse travel ticket for candidates who are nationals of developing countries and are pursuing their studies in their home country.
- WFP will recognize candidates’ educational credentials from recognised institutions that have been certified by competent international or national authorities such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) or Ministries of Education.
- Candidates who bear any of the following relations to WFP staff members are not eligible to apply: sons, daughters, brothers or sisters.
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