Data Entry Assistant

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Overview

Support data entry for social safety nets programs

You have:

• Prior experience in data entry preferred, especially in social protection.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and web browsing.
• Knowledge of humanitarian aid programs.

Contract

This is a UNV National Youth contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Youth contracts.

Assisting more than 90 million people in 123 countries and territories each year, the World Food Program (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies partnering with governments, and providing common services that allow the entire humanitarian community to save lives in emergencies and build the resilience of food insecure people and communities. 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.

Lebanon currently hosts the largest per capital population of Syrian refugees in the region and worldwide, with over 1 million registered Syrian refugees. In response to this large number of refugees, WFP works to support approximately 700,000 people with regular food assistance using its e-card systems. Program implementation is supported by substantial analytical research, including annual vulnerability assessments of Syrian refugees, market and financial assessments, targeting and validation exercises, and monitoring and evaluation. WFP also supports Lebanon’s safety net program for the poorest Lebanese, the National Poverty Targeting Programme (NPTP), through the e-card system and a package of technical assistance to strengthen Government capacity to effectively implement the program. As the Syrian conflict persists, and due to the current economic crisis in Lebanon, effort is ongoing to scale up this operation while strengthening the quality of the existing e-cards system to make it more adaptable and flexible to the needs of the population WFP serves. Strengthening partnerships with Government, local entities, and donors is also part of WFP Lebanon Country Office’s programme strategy. To know more about WFP’s mission, please check the below video: https://www.facebook.com/WorldFoodProgramme/videos/10154930622760178

ESSN Background information: The impending economic crisis is having far-reaching and disastrous consequences on households’ economic well-being in Lebanon. There are estimates that a sizeable contraction of the Lebanese GDP in real terms in 2020-21 with US$ GDP/ capita falling by around 40 percent. The social impact of the crisis, which is already dire, could rapidly become catastrophic; more than half of the population is likely below the national poverty line and at least 22% are in extreme (food) poverty. In this context, the government, and other stakeholders, among which is WFP, are developing the Emergency social safety nets (ESSN) project which will provide cash transfers to extreme poor and vulnerable Lebanese populations affected by the economic and COVID-19 crises. The ESSN aims to build a sustainable national social safety net (SSN) system in Lebanon. The ESSN will scale-up and enhance the Government of Lebanon’s (GOL) National Poverty Targeting Program (NPTP), which is the GOL’s main social assistance program that provides benefits to poor and vulnerable Lebanese households including e-card food vouchers, and education and health benefits.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Programme Associate or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV National UN Youth Volunteer will:

• Replicate forms from one social programme to another, and by replicate forms we mean transferring data from excel based file into an official governmental platform (data entry task) support activities related to the Emergency social safety nets, • Perform other related duties as required.

• Professionalism • Integrity • Teamwork and respect for diversity • Commitment to continuous learning • Communication • Flexibility • Genuine commitment towards the principles of voluntary engagement

the field of data entry in the social protection field is preferable.

• Humanitarian aid programs knowledge • Proficiency in Microsoft office and Web Browsing

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. This position is based in Beirut WFP country office. National UN Volunteers are part of the malicious insurance plan. National UN Volunteers are expected to be culturally sensitive and adjust to the prevailing culture and traditions.

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