Writing for Global Surge Coordination Unit

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The United Nations 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.

The Emergency Operations Division (EME) supports WFP’s Regional Bureaus (RBs), Country Offices (COs), and partners to prepare and respond to current and future emergencies in a rapidly changing humanitarian environment. EME provides a field-focused, service-oriented, steering and convening role focusing on forward-looking preparedness and support to emergencies to ensure a swift, coordinated, and integrated response. In particular, the ability to timely deploy surge staff with the required operational experience and technical skills remains a critical factor for effective emergency response.

The Global Surge Coordination Unit (GSCU) within EME identifies, upskills, and deploys emergency response staff in support of life-saving operations where required. It is responsible for managing the process of identifying and deploying personnel in response to staffing requests, leveraging a pool of qualified candidates. The GSCU also maintains Standby Partnerships with governments and NGOs to field technical experts when needed. It also holds the Surge Learning team which capacitates staff through a curated learning journey that ensures those deployed to have the right skills to make an impact.

The online volunteer who will support with writing/editing is expected to support the team remotely. Reporting to the Global Business Transformation Officer, the Online Volunteer will support specifically the creation of content for the video game content to use their skills and talents to create meaningful, impactful, and engaging content that informs entertains, and inspires readers.

The selected Online Volunteer is expected to deliver a professional, client-focused service, partnering with managers to implement solutions in line with WFP corporate priorities. The Online Volunteer will gain knowledge and experience in building content creation for video games, including SOPs, and documentation standardization.

The Global Surge Coordination Unit (GSCU) is looking for one online volunteer to support the team in developing content for the surge digitalization team. The selected candidate will report to the Business Transformation Officer and work closely with colleagues in the digitalization team, GSCU, and other colleagues in the organization to collaboratively work towards common goals.

The selected online volunteer is expected to:

• Content developing for one project & the volunteer will be task for conducting research and providing the team with information. • Support editing and proofreading & may be asked to review, and edit content produced previously each 2 – 3 documents approximately 4 – 5 pages. • Work closely with relevant counterparts across GSCU to ensure consistency and accuracy of messaging.

The candidate should least have one year of experience for most positions. Candidate should be familiar with carrying out research and assigned topics and transforming that information into a cohesive piece for audience consumption. Candidate should be comfortable with creating content based on assignment briefs and style guides. They should have proven experience delivering high-quality work and keeping to deadlines. In addition, they should be able to take editorial feedback and use it to refine their work. Minimum a bachelor’s degree in journalism, communication, writing and standardization or other relevant fields.