Intern - Smallholder Agricultural Market Support Team, Programme Division - Rome, Italy

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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).

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DIVISION

Support to smallholder farmers and agricultural markets (SAMS) is a critical element to end hunger and achieve food security and reduce humanitarian needs. In the past years, WFP increasingly consolidated its support to smallholder farmers under the Smallholder Agricultural Market Support (SAMS) framework. The SAMS team, within the Climate and Resilience Service (PRGR), provides strategic and technical support and guidance to Country Offices (COs) and Regional Offices (ROs) to design and implement programmes that facilitate smallholder farmers' access to markets, contributing to the development of resilient agri-food value chains.Under the direct supervision of the SAMS Programme Policy Officer, the incumbent will provide technical support on knowledge and data management in coordination with staff from the Climate and Resilience service (PRGR) team, ROs and COs. The incumbent will support the SAMS team in capturing, creating, managing and sharing the knowledge, data and stories created around SAMS programmatic area.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Type of assignment: Internship
Number of available positions: 1
Country of assignment: Italy
City of assignment: Rome
Hiring Unit: Climate and Resilience Service
Supervisor: SAMS Programme Policy Officer
Working arrangement: In person
Duration of assignment: 6 months
Expected Starting Date: January 2027

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Programme Guidance: Support the maintenance and dissemination of the SAMS programme guidance manual and accompanying tools, hosted in the WFP Programme Guidance Manual (PGM) platform.
Capacity strengthening: Support the organization of webinars and training sessions to train country and regional staff on the revised SAMS guidance and tools.
Knowledge Management and Corporate Reporting: Support the team in mapping SAMS interventions in the field, through review of 2025 Annual Country Reports and consolidation of information in a global matrix, to support analysis and country briefs.
Support the 2026 Annual Country Reports exercise, by contributing to ad-hoc technical review to requesting countries.
Support Eastern and Southern Africa Region SAMS portfolio review, based on past achievements and 2026 plans.
Support the regular management of SAMS and PHL-related contents on WFP’s knowledge management platforms (e.g. WFPgo, PGM, GoDocs, Viva Engage Community, SAMS KM platform).
Communication products: Support the update and/or development of communication and advocacy products (factsheets, infotech, briefs, reports, country success stories etc.).
Liaising with WFP offices and partners: Support team members in setting up regular and occasional meetings and/or webinars with ROs, COs and other partners and in developing presentations and/or writing note for the r