Internship - UN System Booking Hub
Management Services Division
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is a highly prestigious, reputable and 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.
The Management Services Division (MSD) at HQ is a division comprised of over 200 colleagues across Rome, UAE & India. The HQ division supports WFP’s 18,000 humanitarians and is represented by 3,200 functional focal points present throughout all of WFP’s offices. Within WFP, Management Services colleagues play an integral role in keeping WFP operations and programmes running smoothly and cost-efficiently, even in the toughest conditions, so the focus can remain on WFP’s core mandate of serving our beneficiaries.
Our global service portfolio for WFP is focused on enabling operations and providing a duty of care to WFP’s workforce. This includes providing infrastructure and emergency response capacity through sophisticated engineering services, light fleet management, delivering and maintaining the most fit-for-purpose facilities, measuring and reducing our environmental impact, managing our pool of assets, providing travel services for WFP employees, and humanitarian accommodation - with administration field support available in all these areas.
MSD is the strategic Business Partner that Enables WFP’s workforce and operations by driving performance with duty of care, sustainability, and innovation. Considering this, the UN System Booking Hub is a Global Share Service (GSS) designed to support UN organizations and the wider humanitarian community in accessing and managing essential operational services that facilitate coordinated field operations and emergency response. The platform provides a centralized, digital solution that integrates both customer-facing and back-office services across a range of service lines, including accommodation, mobility, facilities management and medical services. By leveraging digital innovation and fostering inter-agency collaboration, the UN System Booking Hub expands access to shared services, enhances service quality and efficiency, promoting harmonized service delivery across the UN system.
The team sist within the MSDB - Shared Services & Business Development branch and the intern will be an integrated part of the team, bringing his/her knowledge and interest to the role, a passion for customer-oriented support, digital tools and innovative ideas to the table in various areas of business development.