COMET Business Analyst Consultant

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 23 September 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)
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.
ABOUT WFP The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
To learn more about WFP, visit our website: and follow us on social media to keep up with our latest news: YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.
WHY JOIN WFP? 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).

JOB TITLE : COMET Business Analyst Consultant
TYPE OF CONTRACT : Consultant (CST I)
UNIT/DIVISION : PRGM-C (Programme Monitoring and Reporting Service – Corporate Monitoring & Reporting unit) / PRG Division
DUTY STATION (City, Country) : Rome, Italy
DURATION : 6 months
ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNEMENT: The PRG Programme Monitoring and Reporting Service (PRGM) serves as WFP's functional lead for monitoring, corporate reporting (including COMET), and Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) at the global level. Based at Rome Headquarters with outposted regional teams, PRGM provides global services that ensure robust monitoring and reporting practices across WFP operations. Effective support to Country Offices is critical to uphold accountability, drive continuous improvement, and maintain the integrity of WFP's monitoring and reporting functions.
PRGM sets corporate frameworks, standards, and methodologies, and supports Country Offices in planning and implementing monitoring strategies through guidance, tools, and field support. It also facilitates reporting of monitoring findings to internal and external stakeholders, reinforcing transparency and accountability through COMET. The unit also provides guidance and supports the field among others, in ensuring that COMET data for Country Strategic Plan design, planning, implementation and reporting is entered correctly and timely. COMET data serves the measurement and analysis of planning, programme performance, informing decision-making, corporate reporting and generating data for other analyses and evaluations.
WFP maintains several programme and budget planning processes across different systems and tools, including the Country Portfolio Needs (CPN), Management Plan (MP), Implementation Plan (IP), and Country Office Management Plan (COMP). While detailed beneficiary requirements and operational planning data are maintained in COMET through the CPN process, key implementation planning information continues to be collected through separate offline tools, creating duplication of effort for Country Offices, and limiting visibility for programme performance analysis and decision-making. The current planning architecture also creates data gaps between planning products, reducing the ability to consistently analyse programme coverage, assistance intensity, prioritization decisions, and resource-based implementation plans.
To address these challenges, PRGM is leading an initiative to integrate Implementation beneficiary data entry function into COMET through the development of a one-year Implementation Planning snapshot based on CPN data and the integration o