World Food Programme
Last updated 2 August 2026
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Where it posts vacancies
What it hires
- Logistics, supply chain and aviation professionals (its operational signature)
- Programme officers for emergency food assistance and resilience work
- Nutrition specialists and food security/vulnerability analysts
- Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) profiles
- Finance, HR and other enabling functions in large country operations
Contract types
FTA (international staff), Service Contract (the locally recruited backbone, banded SC levels, no international entitlements), consultancies and special service agreements.
Headquarters and footprint
Rome HQ (part of the Rome-based cluster with FAO and IFAD); one of the largest field footprints in the system, concentrated in emergency and food-insecure operations.
Before you apply
Portals, contract names and recruitment routes change. Verify against the organisation’s own pages before relying on anything here: www.wfp.org/careers · www.wfp.org/careers/job-openings. This entry was last verified 2026-06.
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