WFP Beirut Country Office – Database Assistant SC4

WFP Lebanon encourages female candidates and people with disabilities to apply.

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 does not charge a fee or request bank details at any stage of the recruitment process.

As an inclusive employer, WFP is committed to providing a supportive recruitment process for individuals with disabilities. Please contact us at [email protected] (and copying in [email protected]) to advise us the type of support and reasonable adjustments you may require at this stage. A member of the reasonable accommodation team will contact you to confidentially discuss your needs.

Position deadline:

This position will close on 14 January 2024, 11:59 PM Rome time.

Terms and Conditions:

• WFP offers a competitive benefits package including salary, various types of leaves including maternity and paternity, medical and life insurances, provision of breastfeeding rooms for new parents, and various wellness platforms.
• WFP Lebanon offers flexible working hours schedule upon prior approval.
• Our premises are accessible, and we are committed to accommodate to any required reasonable accessible needs to remove barriers in the workplace.
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Organizational Background:

Assisting more than 115.5 million people in 120 + countries each year, the World Food Program (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.

WFP Lebanon provides humanitarian assistance to over 2 million vulnerable persons for food and other essential needs through cash-based transfers and in-kind food. WFP Lebanon also provides food assistance in the form of snacks and fresh food to school aged students and promotes resilient livelihoods and sustainable food systems. In addition to direct assistance to the most food insecure and vulnerable people, WFP also supports government institutions, partners, and other entities to strengthen their capacity to deliver social assistance.

To know more about WFP’s mission, please check the below video:
https://www.facebook.com/WorldFoodProgramme/videos/10154930622760178/

Key Responsibilities (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

Within the assigned unit and delegated authority, the database associate will be responsible for the following duties:

• Support the development of databases and tools for the data needs of the country office and field offices and adhere to the best practices of database development standards.
• Provide accurate and timely reports from the database to the units.
• Contribute to the documentation of the current and future database systems.
• Assist in migrating the data from the current database to the corporate system and vice versa.
• Based on the information/reports received from the different units and sources, prepare reports to be sent to other units/sub-offices and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to the design of database models and schemas to support data storage and retrieval.
• Contribute to the plan and deliver continuous improvement to data integration solutions, through the application of data management best practices in combination with data technology.
• Develop and improve ETLs
• Apply data sanity checks and deduplication on the database to ensure data quality.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in data engineering.
• Optimize data processing pipelines for performance and scalability

MinimumQualifications:

Education: Completion of high school degree. Bachelor’s program in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field is preferable.

Experience: At least four (4) years in database management, data engineering, software development or any related work.

Language: Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Arabic.

Desired Experiences for entry into the role:

• An understanding of UN systems, experience with database development using SQL Server, and familiarity with data manipulation using SQL are desired.
• Experience writing data manipulation scripts in Python is a plus.
• The ability to contribute to data design as part of a team and experience with git-flow is preferred.

WFP Leadership Framework: Common Standards of Behaviour

• Leads by Example with Integrity
• Upholds WFP values, principles, and standards
• Respects others and values diversity
• Stays focused and calm under pressure
• Demonstrates humility and a willingness to learn
• Delivers results for maximum impact
• Delegates appropriately
• Adapts readily to change
• Is inclusive and collaborative
• Gives timely and constructive feedback
• Builds and shares new perspective
• Communicates and fulfils WFP’s vision
• Embraces curiosity and new ways of doing things
• Analyses and evaluates data
• Considers the impact of decisions
• Builds partnerships
• Collaborates to deliver common objectives
• Drives Results and Delivers on Commitments
• Fosters Inclusive and Collaborative
• Applies Strategic Thinking
• Builds and Maintains Sustainable Partnerships