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Job Description
Consultant Health & Wellness | World Food Programme
The Tone:
This is a Junior International Consultant role for the World Food Programme, located remotely in Cairo, Egypt. The World Food Programme is the largest humanitarian organization globally, dedicated to saving lives and building peace through food assistance. This role is vital for strengthening employee wellness and enhancing Duty of Care by systematically leveraging data to inform decision-making, monitor trends, and assess intervention effectiveness, ultimately improving staff health and wellbeing and optimizing resource allocation.
The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Consultant
• Location: Remote – Cairo
• Team: MENAEERO, Wellness
• Mission: To strengthen the use of data visualization and analytics to improve staff health and wellbeing and optimize resource allocation for wellness initiatives.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word), database management
What You’ll Actually Do
• Data Management: Maintain and continuously improve the sick leave dashboard and the Wellness Knowledge Management Hub, ensuring data accuracy and enhancing visualization for decision-making at all levels.
• Health Trend Analysis: Provide global, regional, and country office level trend analysis to identify emerging health risks and priority areas for intervention.
• Programme Evaluation: Analyze data from wellness campaigns and initiatives to measure effectiveness, staff engagement, and provide recommendations for programme design and targeting.
• Survey Interpretation: Support data analysis and interpretation of the upcoming Global Health Survey to identify key health trends, risk factors, and staff needs for actionable interventions.
• Research & Alerting: Conduct targeted research on priority health topics, assess cost-effectiveness of wellness interventions, and monitor public health threats affecting WFP personnel and operations.
The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor Degree in medicine, pharmacy, public health, nursing, or a related field.
• Experience: Two years of postgraduate professional experience in public health, health emergency preparedness and response, disaster management, and/or pandemic prevention and control.
• Skills: Excellent oral and written English communication, drafting, formulation, and reporting skills; strong interpersonal skills, cultural sensitivity, and collaborative work ability; solid computer literacy, including proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word) and familiarity with database management.
• Bonus: Experience working in limited resource contexts, demonstrated capability in effective coordination and building strong partnerships; familiarity with community engagement tools in health and humanitarian emergencies; intermediate knowledge of a second official UN language or WFP working language.