2 November 2024-23:59-GMT+02:00 South Africa Standard Time (Johannesburg)

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

• A disease spread model, which simulates realistic disease transmission during plausible outbreak scenarios (filovirus modelling);
• The disease spread model, specific to each of the covered pathogens, are used to generate a large pool of plausible epidemic scenarios of various frequencies and severities, known as the event catalogs; and
• The output from the simulation of epidemic scenarios provides a comprehensive database that enables risk analytics such as estimations of human (infections; hospitalizations; deaths) and financial losses.

• Visualize historical outbreaks and epidemics event for filovirus (Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease) and meningitis in Africa.
• Visualize countries most at risk for the emergence of filovirus and meningitis events.
• Display the probabilities of experiencing filovirus outbreaks and meningitis epidemics of various sizes in any given year.
• Display losses associated with filovirus outbreaks in terms of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths; and visualized average annual losses.
• Display losses associated with meningitis epidemics in terms of number of districts in alert and number of districts in epidemics; and visualized average annual losses.
• Calculate and visualize the potential disease burden (e.g., DALYs) and the economic losses.
• Calculate and visualize the potential benefits of early outbreak intervention and rapid containment: e.g., reduced disease burden (cases and deaths averted); reduced direct cost of outbreak response (health systems cost-savings); reduced indirect cost of illness (households cost-savings); reduced secondary effects on the economy (sustained investments).
• Estimate the amount of medical countermeasures or other health systems interventions that may be needed under different potential scenarios.

• Knowledge of front-end development technologies.
• Knowledge of wireframe tools.
• Proficiency in design software.
• Ability to manage projects and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.

• We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
• Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
• Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
• Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
• Please contact us at

  global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org

  in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified