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About the Role

WFP Volunteer with the Private Partnership Team in the New York Office. This role involves providing general administrative and scheduling support, scoping events, researching potential partners, and developing follow-up systems. The volunteer will gain practical experience in humanitarian coordination, event management, and partner engagement.

Responsibilities

• Provide general admin and scheduling support, including follow-up from meetings and events, and preparations for upcoming visits, travel, meetings, and events.
• Scope events and fora for a yearly strategic engagement calendar for the USA market, including connecting dots.
• Research and map bundlers, aggregators, and transformational partners, focusing on new partners and sectors not yet tapped by the UN or WFP, including AI.
• Research matching and thematic fund approaches, including governance, structure, funding, aims, and relate them to US tax code provisions.
• Research informal coalitions, their workings, and potential learnings for WFP.
• Support prospecting High Net Worth individuals, corporates, and family offices in the American market.
• Develop a stronger follow-up system using Salesforce.
• Support connecting the dots between meetings, events, follow-up, and senior leadership engagement.
• Perform other research, administrative, and organizational duties as required.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree or enrollment in a degree program.
• Positive, ‘can-do’ attitude and a willingness to learn, engage, and problem-solve.
• Demonstrated interest in WFP and its mission.
• Experience beyond humanitarian issues (e.g., financial, marketing, business, culture, advertising) is a plus.
• Open mind to finding new ways of engaging and broadening partnerships across the USA to benefit WFP.
• Fluent in English.
• Competency in other WFP official and working languages is an asset.

Location

• New York office

Work Type

• Voluntary Assignment
• 6 months

Education Level

• Bachelors degree or enrollment in degree programme

About the Company

• The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters, and the impact of climate change.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across various country, regional, and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
• All employment 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.