World Food Programme: Junior Professional Officer Programme
Junior Professional Officers are young professionals (under the age of 35) who are selected by their governments through a rigorous recruitment process to work for WFP. The government pays the JPO
Listing Details
Organization Name
World Food Programme
Organization Mandate
WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. It aims to: - Save lives in refugee crises and other emergencies - Improve nutrition and quality of life of world's most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives - Enable development by (a) helping people build assets that benefit them directly; (b) promoting the self-reliance of poor people and communities
Address
Via C.G.Viola 68, Rome, Italy
Address 2
Parco dei Medici, 148
Telephone
(39) 06-65131
Non-profit organization?
No
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Burkina Faso
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- n Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Congo (Republic of)
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- France
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel and the West Bank and Gaza
- Italy
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Korea - South
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Peru
- Philippines
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Duration
6-12 months, 12 months+
Age (max)
35
Price range
n/a
Price incluces
Accommodation, Airfare, Insurance
Application process and requirements
Applicants must be from countries participating in the scheme. For Canada, this programme is run by the Canadian International Development Agency.
Language
English
Student status required?
No
Qualifications required
Graduate Degree,Undergraduate Degree