Business Support Assistant

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.

As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty.

In 2020, WFP assisted 115.5 million people – the largest number since 2012 – in 84 countries.
For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.

WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations. Two-thirds of our work is in conflict-affected countries where people are three times more likely to be undernourished than those living in countries without conflict.

In emergencies, WFP is often first on the scene, providing food assistance to the victims of war, civil conflict, drought, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, crop failures and natural disasters. When the emergency subsides, WFP helps communities rebuild shattered lives and livelihoods. We
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work to strengthen the resilience of people and communities affected by protracted crises by applying a development lens in our humanitarian response.

WFP development projects focus on nutrition, especially for mothers and children, addressing malnutrition from the earliest stages through programmes targeting the first 1,000 days from conception to a child’s second birthday, and later through school meals.

In Egypt, WFP is committed to supporting the Government’s priorities towards the achievement of the SDGs. WFP’s current five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) is designed in a way to fully support Egypt’s vision 2030 and ensure food and nutrition security for all Egyptians, as enshrined in both the Constitution and the country’s commitment to the Global Sustainable Development Agenda.
The CSP focuses on five interrelated thematic areas:
• Support the refugees and migrants through food assistance and resilience building
• Improve the nutritional status of Egyptians with a focus on Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women and infants under two years of age
• Support and complement the Government’s social protection programs
• Support resilience of vulnerable smallholder farmers and Bedouin communities in Up- per Egypt and frontier Governorates; and
• Provide capacity strengthening to the Government and support South-South coopera- tion between Egypt and neighbouring countries.

As part of WFP Egypt CSP for 2023-2028, WFP is implementing it’s humanitarian response to refugees as well as resilience building activities to refugees and host community members. Through its "One Refugee Policy" WFP targets vulnerable refugees irrespective of nationality with cash-based transfers to ensure they can meet their essential food needs throughout the year. WFP’s approach to food security is two-pronged; it first ensures access to basic food needs for vulnerable populations through immediate support, and secondly, it addresses long- term resilience building for future self-reliance. The UN Volunteer will support the ongoing programmes for refugee and crisis-affected people.

Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Crisis Response Unit, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
• Assist the distribution of e-cards at the site and ensure proper distribution of entitlements and verify appropriate entitlements are distributed and provide feedback to field officers and others on the distribution.
• Report periodically to the WFP programme officer/associate on relevant events regarding food/cash management, distribution, and other related issues.
• Identify any apparent issues in the programme and report them to the appropriate personnel.
• Support in responding to inquiries/complains from community feedback mechanism (CFM) channels.
• Ensure appropriate messages are being updated and communicated with refugees through the CFM.
• Revise the card log and send it to finance.
• Initiate and process administrative actions such as those found in human resources, travel, procurement, and ICT.
• Coordinate and arrange facilities for meetings and workshops.
• Organize and assist travel arrangements in line with administrative rules and procedures.
• Other tasks as requested.