Programme Assistant GIS - Jerusalem - SC L5

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  • Added Date: Monday, 07 July 2025
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS20 July 2025-23:59-GMT+02:00 Israel Time (Jerusalem)

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WHY JOIN WFP?

  • WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

  • 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 the 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.

  • We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

    Job Title: Programme Assistant- GIS

    Grade: SC5

    Type of contract: Service Contract

    Duration: 12 Months

    Renewal of contract: Subject to WFP needs, staff performance and the availability of funds

    Duty Station: East Jerusalem

    This vacancy announcement is for Palestinian nationals.

    ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

    WFP, through its dual mandate in humanitarian and development, provides life-saving food assistance to the most vulnerable and food insecure non-refugee Palestinians and works to safeguard livelihoods, build resilience, and reconstitute food systems in vulnerable areas. WFP also lends its technical expertise to support national institutions by strengthening their capacities in responding to shocks and building an inclusive social safety net.

    To further strengthen the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, WFP is providing climate-smart agricultural assets such as hydroponics and wicking beds to households to increase their calorie intake and enable them to generate income. WFP also scaled up its resilience-building activities to include greenhouses, vegetable farms, sheep, poultry, and technical and vocational trainings for youth and people with disabilities. These projects reduce peopleโ€™s vulnerability to external shocks, serve as a safety net, and support livelihoods.

    In response to the urgent needs of Palestine, where protracted conflict and economic stagnation have led to widespread food insecurity, WFP delivers life-saving food assistance to the most vulnerable non-refugee Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. To address the ongoing crisis, WFP also focuses on strengthening livelihoods through resilience-building projects such as climate-smart agriculture and vocational training. Additionally, WFP supports national institutions by enhancing their capacity to respond to shocks and build inclusive social safety nets. By extending its systems to humanitarian and development partners, WFP contributes to broader efforts within the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.

    BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

    The context in the West Bank and Gaza has changed significantly due to the ongoing conflict, affecting food security and the food supply chain across different geographical locations. For instance, the Northern Governorate of Gaza is under a strict siege, resulting in severe food insecurity that is distinct from other areas in the Gaza Strip. This situation creates significant challenges in food availability and accessibility, impacting the food security status of the population and WFP operations differently across various locations.

    The need to demonstrate the linkages between food security indicators, food supply data, and WFP operations data across these different locations has become critical. This integration is essential to enable knowledge-based planning and decision-making and to model food security determinants and test different scenarios for their implications on food security.

    The Geographical Information System (GIS) Unit within VAM is continuously gathering data and updating georeferenced information to ensure that WFP is ready to create detailed cartography as well as spatial analyses of the areas of interest in order to support humanitarian emergency response.

    The GIS Assistant will be responsible for integrating food security outcome indicators data and food supply chain data into geographic maps for Gaza and the West Bank. This role aims to enhance WFP's capacity to conduct spatial risk analysis, develop GIS models and projections, and automate related processes. The GIS Assistant will also integrate maps used in IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) analyses to provide a comprehensive view of food security in Gaza.

    Main duties and responsibilities

    Under the overall guidance of the Head of VAM Unit, working under the direct supervision of the National VAM Officer and collaborating with all colleagues within the VAM Unit, the Programme Assistant will mainly be in charge of managing the production of maps and related data layers and will have the following specific duties and responsibilities:

    Key responsibilities:

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